Jamesdotter

Jamesdotter

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  1. How to get physically/nutritionally fit for nursing!

    Jamesdotter replied to alphafe's topic in General Nursing

    When I worked at a facility that had an onsite gym I found that most of the nurses I worked with had school age children and felt they had to get home after their shift. I honestly don't know the...

  2. How to get physically/nutritionally fit for nursing!

    Jamesdotter replied to alphafe's topic in General Nursing

    What Tweety said. Also try to get some exercise--several times a week. I really agree that the stress we all deal with on the job contributes to poor nutritional choices. It's so much easier to...

  3. new BSN in postpartum nights?

    Jamesdotter replied to SpecFuz's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I worked on med-surg for about 3 years after graduation, then went to OB. I assure you that after 20+ years in OB (mostly postpartum), I don't really remember much from med-surg and what I do...

  4. 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

    Jamesdotter replied to NewWestNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Next time take a tongue blade and see if you can cut the "clot". If you can't it ain't a

  5. warning..long rant..nurse skills in question!

    Jamesdotter replied to okie2's topic in General Nursing

    Ten years or so ago I had day surgery for a hernia repair. The next morning I woke to abdominal pain (I mean I had a really awful bellyache!). I called the advice nurse and said "I had a hernia...

  6. Stupid Intern Tricks

    Jamesdotter replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Cardiac

    Can I add a couple of "Stupid 2nd yr resident" tricks? Both of these occurred in the 1970s, but I don't think things have changed that much. I don't know why "Mary Smith" was admitted to L&D, but...

  7. Private schools in the West Coast?

    Jamesdotter replied to cherilynski's topic in Nursing Career

    "Actually Linfield is in McMinnville" Oops. So it

  8. Funny things you have said but wish you didn't

    Jamesdotter replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    I accosted a man with a full black beard at the nurses' station one o'dark thirty, asking what he was doing there in the middle of the night (this was in the days before families stayed and stayed and...

  9. Strep throat

    Jamesdotter replied to hittme123's topic in General Nursing

    "What's that dance called?" St. Vitus' Dance, aka Sydenham's

  10. Your Unit Secretary

    Jamesdotter replied to CCU NRS's topic in General Nursing

    The very best unit secretary I ever worked with (over 30 years ago) was the former head nurse of the unit I worked on. How weird is that? She had developed a chronic illness and was unable to...

  11. Your Unit Secretary

    Jamesdotter replied to CCU NRS's topic in General Nursing

    The very best unit secretary I ever worked with (over 30 years ago) was the former head nurse of the unit I worked on. How weird is that? She had developed a chronic illness and was unable to...

  12. Are the elderly taking too many drugs?

    Jamesdotter replied to payday's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Five years ago, my 85 yo mil called me to tell me that she'd taken ALL her digoxin because she was worthless and there was nothing left for her. She would have died, too, except she had a pacemaker....

  13. old skills that we do not use anymore

    Jamesdotter replied to sassykitkatt's topic in General Nursing

    BOILING stainless steel equipment (bedpans, washbasins, even lady partsl speculums). I was a student at the

  14. T-Shirt Slogans

    Jamesdotter replied to nursebedlam's topic in Nursing Humor

    How about my favorite T-shirt slogan:"Over what hill? Where? When?? I don't remember any hill!" Then there's "Old Age and Treachery will always overcome Youth and

  15. My dental hyginenist was surprised that I was an RN.

    Jamesdotter replied to Jo Anne -OLD's topic in General Nursing

    I think I may have posted about this before--we lost an excellent RN from our unit because of the way she was treated in our clinic when she went in for treatment. G. is Mexican; didn't come to the...

  16. Could be fun

    Jamesdotter replied to Farkinott's topic in Nursing Humor

    Nothwesterner here--I didn't get the Bud Adams reference, can anyone help me? (I'm particularly interested because that's the name of my good friend and colleague's husband! He, however, is a...

  17. old skills that we do not use anymore

    Jamesdotter replied to sassykitkatt's topic in General Nursing

    We must have had the same instructors! And wasn't it hard at first to get used to wearing gloves for

  18. old skills that we do not use anymore

    Jamesdotter replied to sassykitkatt's topic in General Nursing

    Palpate the radial pulse as you release the pressure. That will give you a systolic. If there's anything else, I'd like to hear it

  19. Private schools in the West Coast?

    Jamesdotter replied to cherilynski's topic in Nursing Career

    In Oregon: Linfield College in Forest Grove--clinicals in Portland at Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital; University of Portland in Portland, clinicals at Providence St Vincent and (I think) Providence...

  20. Has a patient ever described a Near Death Experience to you?

    Jamesdotter replied to LadyMadonna's topic in General Nursing

    My mother-in-law described an experience similar to that of CCU NRS' aunt, also after surgery (might have been a hysterectomy,

  21. Are you on pay when giving or recieving report?

    Jamesdotter replied to oldhag's topic in General Nursing

    We are not paid for our meal times (30 minutes), and are expected to get through report in the 30 min overlap. This has been true in every hospital where I've worked. Our breaks are on company time,...

  22. old skills that we do not use anymore

    Jamesdotter replied to sassykitkatt's topic in General Nursing

    Resterilizing urinary catheters (the head of central supply kept trying to culture something out of them but never succeeded. They finally went to disposable when it became more expensive to redo...

  23. Can you belive this???!!!

    Jamesdotter replied to sharann's topic in General Nursing

    Pertussis? Is either of you

  24. Don't Play a Numbers Game, Experts Say, Just Eat Your Vegetables

    Jamesdotter replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in General Nursing

    There was a period when it seemed as though all the preeclamptic patients had one thing in common; they didn't like vegetables. I don't think that's necessarily true, but I still wonder if there is...

  25. Night shift nurses...How many hours of sleep do you get?

    Jamesdotter replied to lpnin03's topic in General Nursing

    When I worked nights (about 15 years of nights, all told) I was getting about 5 hours of sleep. I later developed breast cancer (in remission now) and type 2 diabetes--both implicated in being...