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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    Grey's Anatomy Premier!!! + How to Contact Show Creators

    FranEMTnurse replied to miya's topic in General Nursing

    The docs in your parents' generation probably made house calls too. You don't even hear of such a thing happening anymore. I had a couple home visits from a doc for medical care when I was a
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    Grey's Anatomy Premier!!! + How to Contact Show Creators

    FranEMTnurse replied to miya's topic in General Nursing

    Aren't most of them magnet hospitals
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    Grey's Anatomy Premier!!! + How to Contact Show Creators

    FranEMTnurse replied to miya's topic in General Nursing

    The more episodes of this show that I watch (Yeah, I'm hooked) the more convinced I have become it is a show about docs for docs and the public; not nurses. And as far as the ventricle puncture goes,...
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    Grey's Anatomy Premier!!! + How to Contact Show Creators

    FranEMTnurse replied to miya's topic in General Nursing

    Here's one gal who does. Have you watched their newest one. "Untold Stories of the ER?" It's
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    We Need Her

    FranEMTnurse posted a topic in Nursing Humor

    THIS TAKES A LITTLE BIT TO READ, BUT WELL WORTH IT. The Rambo Granny of Melbourne, Australia Gun-toting granny Ava Estelle, 81, was so ticked-off when two thugs raped her 18-year-old granddaughter...
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    We Need Her

    FranEMTnurse replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    My grandma would have done it too, Steph. She weighed 98 pounds and wore a size 4 1/2 shoe, but she wasn't afraid of anything. She and my grandfather raised chickens, and one night, a commotion out in...
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    What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    FranEMTnurse replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: You go
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    Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    FranEMTnurse replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    Or the ER nurse who told me, "Oh it's probably just swelling from his roadrash." After I reported my assessment findings of a young boy who came in with a fractured nose, wriist, and possible...
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    Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    FranEMTnurse replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: ruby, you rock girl. these are great!:rotfl: i was told a gross joke not so long ago that has traumatized ever since, and i can't get it out of my mind. when someone just...
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    Random Acts of Lunacy

    FranEMTnurse replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    :rotfl: :rotfl:
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    Random Acts of Lunacy

    FranEMTnurse posted a topic in Nursing Humor

    After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Beltway had escaped. Not wanting to admit his...
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    Signs

    FranEMTnurse posted a topic in Nursing Humor

    sign over a gynecologist's office: "dr. jones, at your cervix." in a podiatrist's office: "time wounds all heels" on a septic tank truck in oregon: yesterday's meals on wheels on a septic tank truck...
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    Grey's Anatomy Premier!!! + How to Contact Show Creators

    FranEMTnurse replied to miya's topic in General Nursing

    True, but I sure loved the way that gal put the guys in their places. She stopped them dead in their tracks. Tickled me
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    Grey's Anatomy Premier!!! + How to Contact Show Creators

    FranEMTnurse replied to miya's topic in General Nursing

    You may be right Steph, but I didn't get it that way due to what the interns were saying. One told the others a couple times that the staff had no intention of helping her. They just brought her here...
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    Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    FranEMTnurse replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    That is a funny one. Did anyone watch Untold Stories in The ER last noc on TLC at 9 PM? What a hoot one of the stories was. I loved it. There was a doc there who was :uhoh21: afraid of bugs. A...
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    Grey's Anatomy Premier!!! + How to Contact Show Creators

    FranEMTnurse replied to miya's topic in General Nursing

    I agree. The second time I watched the show was last Sunday night, and they actually had a veteran nurse as a patient with pancreatic cancer, and she was well recognized, well known, and very well...
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    Being called a nurse is offensive??????

    FranEMTnurse replied to ErinRNBSN's topic in General Nursing

    I have been my php's patient since 1997, and last Friday was when he actually verified what I was telling him was true. I guess it just shows sometimes it takes several years for something to sink...
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    National Slap Your Co-worker Day, a joke

    FranEMTnurse replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    Here ya go, honey. Ya know I'm always happy to
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    National Slap Your Co-worker Day, a joke

    FranEMTnurse replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Love your remark,
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    Are Your End-of-Life Wishes Clear?

    FranEMTnurse replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    This is exactly one of the reasons I live alone. I want to die here; not in a hospital, and preferably die in my sleep when nobody is
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    What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    FranEMTnurse replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    It's a wonder she didn't get toxic shock
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    Grey's Anatomy Premier!!! + How to Contact Show Creators

    FranEMTnurse replied to miya's topic in General Nursing

    how true!!! i felt the same way when i was a school bus driver several years ago when the simpsons show portrayed the school bus driver as an idiot who allowed anything, and who smoked and listened...
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    Are Your End-of-Life Wishes Clear?

    FranEMTnurse replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    They certainlly are, Brian. I know how important that is. My oldest daughter is my power of attorney, and both she and my other daughter have a copy of my living will, my doctor has one in my file,...
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    Grey's Anatomy Premier!!! + How to Contact Show Creators

    FranEMTnurse replied to miya's topic in General Nursing

    I watched Strong Medicine on PAX instead. It's much more to my liking, and the show includes doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, administrators, and even a free clinic. Definitely a well-rounded...
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    Warning...Don't Eat Chicken Sandwiches

    FranEMTnurse posted a topic in Nursing Humor

    a little boy and a little girl attended the same school and became friends. every day they would sit together to eat their lunch. they discovered that they both brought chicken sandwiches every day!...