Jamesdotter

Jamesdotter

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  1. new to the site

    Jamesdotter replied to nurseLori's topic in Oregon Nursing

    I will remember the day I found out for the rest of my life! (quote) My notification came in an envelope addressed to "Miss ---- ----, RN. Do they still do

  2. Nursing School Bloopers

    Jamesdotter replied to Jabber964's topic in Nursing Humor

    This one happened to my roommate. She was giving an iodine soln douche to a GYN patient. The douche can was metal with attached rubber tubing (a long time ago in a county hospital, needless to say)....

  3. When did we stop washing hair?

    Jamesdotter replied to LaNorteBellaRN's topic in General Nursing

    If your facility has volunteers, maybe they could do shampoos for patients. If they really want their volunteer service to make a difference, hair care has to be at least as important as passing...

  4. Flu shot facts

    Jamesdotter replied to Shotzie's topic in General Nursing

    Ever had the flu? When I did, I hurt all over--even the little muscles that raised the hairs on my body. That was over 40 years ago, but I NEVER want to go through that again. I have a flu shot...

  5. Do you have any allergies?

    Jamesdotter replied to roadfollies's topic in General Nursing

    "One of the patients on my unit somehow knows that she is allergic to cocaine" My cousin's husband was allergic to cocaine (had an anaphylactic reaction when they used it for an ENT procedure of some...

  6. Wierdest thing you've found in a bedside table?

    Jamesdotter replied to edouglas's topic in General Nursing

    Well, a little background. The patient, who was having a home birth with a lay midwife, came in with an arrest in labor (she'd been 8 cm for several hours). She delivered with a minimum of...

  7. "Son, they executed you"

    Jamesdotter replied to FZ1Tom's topic in Nursing Humor

    This reminds me of my experience with my second C/S. The anesthesiologist gave me a spinal and I was awake through the whole surgery, chatting with the anesth. about this and that. When I got the...

  8. Nursing diagnosis

    Jamesdotter replied to Guest26407's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I guess I was thinking of the "mute" part when I posted "alteration in parenting, potential" I, too, thought that the "death" part was a

  9. What's the hardest shift to work in?

    Jamesdotter replied to 91WhiskeyM6's topic in General Nursing

    For me it was evenings. I think that one's body chemistry or circadial rhythm or something of the sort dictates what one can tolerate. We've probably all known the nurse who absolutely couldn't work...

  10. Nursing diagnosis

    Jamesdotter replied to Guest26407's topic in Ob/Gyn

    ?alteration in parenting, actual or potential ??knowledge

  11. Opinion re: getting a new patient at the end of your shift

    Jamesdotter replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I worked on an OB/GYN floor--sometimes bed control wanted to send us a patient who was neither OB or GYN because we "had a bed" Yeah, we had a bed. Meanwhile L&D, a separate unit, had 3...

  12. English in Non-English Countries

    Jamesdotter replied to bedpan's topic in Nursing Humor

    I don't know where it was manufactured, but years ago I saw a fire extinguisher with the instructions for use "turn bottom up and

  13. Eczema Treatments

    Jamesdotter replied to prairiegirl's topic in General Nursing

    My mother used Campana Balm on my eczema when I was about 2--of course, that was more than 50 years

  14. Ha Ha...I had to share this with you!

    Jamesdotter replied to webbiedebbie's topic in General Nursing

    When I first started nursing, the hospital where I worked absorbed the cost over and above the amount that Blue Cross paid. How many years since that

  15. When a nurse floats to your unit........

    Jamesdotter replied to night owl's topic in General Nursing

    ALWAYS show the float or new agency where the bathroom

  16. Do nurses make bad patients?

    Jamesdotter replied to zacsmimi's topic in General Nursing

    >>I wish nurses would just treat me like everybody else and assume I haven't got a clue about looking after myself... I've always tried to do that with my MD & RN patients on OB. Other than...

  17. Job won't quit calling on my days off!!!!!

    Jamesdotter replied to jenny_g's topic in General Nursing

    Well, this isn't a new problem, is it? My mother (graduated l925, finally retired completely l974) used to leave the house to avoid taking those calls on her days off. And she was working full...

  18. What comments do you hear from OB's about birth plans?

    Jamesdotter replied to becca.utns's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I think our L&D staff has always been pretty open to birth plans, although they have been heard to say that the complications seemed to have a direct correlation with the length of the birth plan!...

  19. The fingernail police!!

    Jamesdotter replied to RN92's topic in General Nursing

    I've followed these threads about nails with some interest. When I took bacteriology in nsg school, we cultured our hands, before and after washing, with and without nail enamel (this was before the...

  20. The Big Squeeze

    Jamesdotter posted a topic in Nursing Humor

    For years and years they told me, Be careful of your breasts. Don't ever squeeze or bruise them. And give them monthly tests. So I heeded all their warnings, And protected them by law. Guarded...

  21. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Jamesdotter replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    > ALSO Epidermal when they mean epidural. Prone when they mean supine. Drives me nuts. Also the misuse and overuse of apostrophes, but that's not just a nursing pet

  22. Hospital RN/Will I ever grow to like it?

    Jamesdotter replied to Jill03RN's topic in General Nursing

    I think it's perfectly normal to dislike hospital nursing. I had a classmate (this was, of course about a hundred years ago, more or less) who hated, hated, HATED hospital nursing, even as a student....

  23. How do you deal w/a student you don't like?

    Jamesdotter replied to Fivestar22's topic in General Nursing

    Boy, this topic takes me back. I, too, had a clinical instructor from h--- I couldn't do anything right. The dean of the nursing school finally moved me to a different unit with a different...

  24. Youngest labor patient?

    Jamesdotter replied to RNLaborNurse4U's topic in Ob/Gyn

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  25. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Jamesdotter replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    >> I remember the night---The labor room nurse got a call from the floor nurse on the GYN floor that the triplet lady had ruptured her membranes and seemed to be in labor. This happened in July...