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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  1. FranEMTnurse

    Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Wonder where the assistant went to school.:rotfl:
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    Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    Sounds like a co-worker I had several years ago. She emptied a full bedpan out the bathroom window as the DON was walking toward the main entrance. I would NOT have wanted to be in her shoes that
  3. FranEMTnurse

    Only In America!!

    Only in America ... can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance. Only in America ... are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink. Only in America ... do drugstores make...
  4. Yes, rotting flesh definitely does stink terribly, but the maggots were there to help debride the wound. I think the worst smell I experienced was on a man who I don't know when he had a bath the last...
  5. Perfect
  6. And to think Memorial Day weekend is upon
  7. Peace in the Storm This is a story that best expresses how I felt in my out of body experience on the fateful day that nearly ended my life. That day was the day the hospital staff struggled to...
  8. I have 2 favorites; ER, Trauma, Life in the ER, and Untold Stories from the ER, actual stories told by the doctors who experienced them. Grey's Anatomy is getting more humurous, though. But first of...
  9. When I was in nursing school, there was an LPN (as far as I know she's still there) who used to down new RNs saying things like, "Oh that new RN has only book knowledge, but here in the actual...
  10. FranEMTnurse

    Funny things you have said but wish you didn't

    When I'm in my silly mood, I sometimes answer the phone with, "Fearless Fanny's House of Pleasure. How may I help you today?" After I say that, there's usually silence on the other
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    Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    Aaaaah, such memories; the spontaneous ones are the best!!! I once had a girl on my bus who asked me what a womb (pronounced like bomb) was. I laughed soo hard I nearly peed my pants. Now I pee them...
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    Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    Nope never saw it. Never heard of that term either, but just by the message, I knew it was a member. I was just thought it was a funny name, and I couldn'r resist asking about it just to see what the...
  13. Well, I watched the TV show "House," and that show is just about as good as nothing. It's soooo boring. It made me feel like I was a medical student sitting in a class problem solving, and the teacher...
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    Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: What's a
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    Are Your End-of-Life Wishes Clear?

    Me too girlfriend. The more the merrier. They can even drink the hard stuff if they want to. I won't mind. Heh, they wouldn't hear me anyway. But my Laurel, who is my Power of Attorney told me they...
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    Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    Well pickles (by the way, I like your name:D )he was probably laughing at your cherry red
  17. :biggringi Yep, good thing yer mouth wasn't open honey, or you would remember and probably gag every time someone mentions the word, childbirth to you for the rest of your
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    Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Oh am I ever glad I didn't take the Nurse Practitioner's advice to go to Philly to git a green vine in my virginny. I took the Gynechologist's advice, and got a stirrup...
  19. Heh heh! :chuckle Excellent point,
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    Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    Make sure you tell the young intern not to use decadron when he's preparing to intubate you. Otherwise, when you are told very embarassing stories of the things you have done and said, you will not...
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    Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Wonder if it tickled her.:rotfl: :rotfl:
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    Warm Milk

    A 98-year old Mother Superior from Ireland was dying. The nuns gathered around her bed trying to make her last journey comfortable. They gave her some warm milk to drink but she refused. Then one...
  23. If she does, I wanna go
  24. Although very rare in this present age, it's awesome that they still do it where you work, Steph. My hat is off to them for
  25. That's true. Sometimes the appearance of being stuck up is actually because the person is timid, and has nothing to do with