FranEMTnurse CNA, LPN, EMT-I

LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor.

I have always loved to help people feel better, and is why I became an EMT and an LPN in 1997

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    Decadron uses?

    FranEMTnurse replied to henrysmom's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    oh yes!! i was on the stuff once. it made me have a whole new personality when i needed it too. it seems to give you the personality opposite of your real one. i'm allergic to prednisone. i told that...
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    What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    FranEMTnurse replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    I'm currently living in a hospice care assisted living facility. I have lived her 21 months. During that time I have experienced my call bell being rung. When the help appeared, I would tell them I...
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    What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    FranEMTnurse replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Mine was. I watched the nurse empty it in the graduate. Maybe there was some partially digested blood in it to make it look like that. Anyway, my physician confirmed I definitely was going into kidney...
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    What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    FranEMTnurse replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    My most recent one was produced by me. I vomited about 21/2 litres of partially digested blood all over the X Ray tech, her uniform, the machine, myself, and all over my bed. Then when my kidneys...
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    What Diagnosis Did your First Patient in Clinicals Have?

    FranEMTnurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    Mine was a woman with a severe case of cellulitis in her good leg. It was ulcerated, and wet to dry dressings were applied. The reason I say; "Her good leg," is because her bad leg was one with skin...
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    What Diagnosis Did your First Patient in Clinicals Have?

    FranEMTnurse replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks all for clearing these up for me, and Sabby, I spelled it right. Look at the whole word again. I spelled anascera. It's just the a is in bold
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    OMG.Do Nursing students really practice on eachother??

    FranEMTnurse replied to AspiringNurse7's topic in General Nursing

    I think that practicing on a dummy is nothing like the real thing :) How true. I was used to giving injections. I had pygmy goats that I had to inject at different
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    Why. Why, oh Why?

    FranEMTnurse posted a topic in Nursing Humor

    do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are going dead? duh? why do banks charge a fee on "insufficient funds" when they know there is not enough money? why does someone...
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    Why. Why, oh Why?

    FranEMTnurse replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    You have no idea how much I enjoy giving you guys a laugh or a chuckle. Humor is definitely good medicine, especially when we are stressed, and we all need
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    What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    FranEMTnurse replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    I've got to get in on this one, but not tonite. It's past my bedtime already.
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    OMG.Do Nursing students really practice on eachother??

    FranEMTnurse replied to AspiringNurse7's topic in General Nursing

    When I was in school, our class practiced suctioning, head to toe assessment, bed baths, the vital signs, and simulated blood draws, and injections.. I also had a classmate who had a husband who let...
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    What Diagnosis Did your First Patient in Clinicals Have?

    FranEMTnurse replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in General Nursing

    My second patient is the one I remember the most. Her name was Mary. She was postmenopausal, but suddenly got her period. She had not seen a physician in 30 years. But knowing that was not normal, she...
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    What Diagnosis Did your First Patient in Clinicals Have?

    FranEMTnurse replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Curious, did she have chest
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    What Diagnosis Did your First Patient in Clinicals Have?

    FranEMTnurse replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in General Nursing

    All I know is it's a lack of something in the body. What is it
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    What Diagnosis Did your First Patient in Clinicals Have?

    FranEMTnurse replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I have endstage COPD with CHF and was in renal failure my last serious hospitalization, but that was about 18 months ago now, and is the longest period I have been able to stay out of the hospital...
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    What Diagnosis Did your First Patient in Clinicals Have?

    FranEMTnurse replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in General Nursing

    This really isn't funny. I heard a story a few years ago about a couple who got divorced a few months after they got married because her husband's member was too large for her, and he hurt her every...
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    What Diagnosis Did your First Patient in Clinicals Have?

    FranEMTnurse replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in General Nursing

    :rotfl:The pleasure is all mine,
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    What Diagnosis Did your First Patient in Clinicals Have?

    FranEMTnurse replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in General Nursing

    :rotfl:Did you want to run and hide? This reminds me of something my youngest sister told me not so long ago. She's now in her 30s, and has been a CNA a few years, but she said; "You know, I'm still a...
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    What Diagnosis Did your First Patient in Clinicals Have?

    FranEMTnurse replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in General Nursing

    :rotfl::roll:rotfl::yeah:Do you know if he survived? If he did, I wonder if he still rides
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    What Diagnosis Did your First Patient in Clinicals Have?

    FranEMTnurse replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in General Nursing

    :lol2:I bet you were really relieved. It's funny just thinking about that
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    need help with bereavement committee

    FranEMTnurse replied to oupedsrn's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    if you want to hear god laugh, tell him your plans. humor is like a rubber sword. you can make your point without drawing blood. i love this
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    What Was your Biggest Surprise When you Became a Nurse?

    FranEMTnurse posted a topic in Nursing Humor

    I ain't the way the book teaches at all. Patients can surprise you, shock you, and make you laugh. The awesomeness of viewed surgery. How much doctors yell at
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    Happily Addicted to allnurses.com

    FranEMTnurse replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    Me too. When I was a child, I didn't do much except get picked on, was sick most of the time, was beaten, abused in other ways, and worked worked worked. When I was a young adult, I joined a church...
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    Please take my "Where do all the All-Nurses members Live" Poll

    FranEMTnurse replied to txspadequeenRN's topic in General Nursing

    I just added
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    Ways to Know you're Addicted to Allnurses

    FranEMTnurse posted a topic in Nursing Humor

    You feel closer to them than you do your own family. You can't wait to turn on your computer to see what new posts and who posted them are. You go to the humor forum after you've had a bad day. You...