Jamesdotter

Jamesdotter

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  1. For Laffs - Take The Nurse's Cap Quiz

    Jamesdotter replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in Nursing Humor

    9 out of 10 I missed the one about 5

  2. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    Jamesdotter replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    I think it was my 7th grade teacher who always replied "Before the 'at'

  3. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    Jamesdotter replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    I may have written about this patient somewhere before... 80-year-old "Goldie" had a fractured femur and had been in traction for what seems like several weeks (this was many years ago). Often she'd...

  4. How is this possible? Being Diagnosed with type 1 Diabetes at 20

    Jamesdotter replied to Still Riding's topic in Diabetes, Endocrine Nursing

    With a family history of 4 paternal aunts, 2 brothers, and several cousins who are diabetic (mostly Type 2), I had my MD check my BG at least once a year. We caught it early and I, so far, have not...

  5. Weirdest, funniest, grossest male teenager pt. Stories

    Jamesdotter replied to Mtb97's topic in Nursing Humor

    I only remember 2 teen-age boys (there must have been others, but I spent most of my career in OB). The first was a 16-year-old type I diabetic. We were to get a blood sugar when he was having a...

  6. Speaking Of The Heat Wave - Hospitals Before Central Air Conditioning

    Jamesdotter replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in General Nursing

    We were still doing those things in the '50s (another County Hospital). Well, we did have a housekeeper. It would get up to 98 degrees at the nurses' station--at

  7. Anyone else not like Combat Hospital

    Jamesdotter replied to jones.rn's topic in Nursing Humor

    I watched one episode and decided to go back to reruns of MASH on

  8. So You Want To Become A Nurse?

    Jamesdotter replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in General Nursing

    We had plastic - in our hospital we used plastic for blood transfusions and rubber tubing for most other IVs. At County, where I was, foleys drained into a glass jug on the floor, Wangensteen...

  9. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    Jamesdotter replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    My brother, a (now retired) nuclear chemist, always insisted that it should be spelled

  10. old skills that we do not use anymore

    Jamesdotter replied to sassykitkatt's topic in General Nursing

    Thirty-plus years ago they were occasionally used for pre-term labor. The patients would get terribly hung-over--it was a miserable experience for them, worse than mag

  11. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    Jamesdotter replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    Good

  12. What does your username mean?

    Jamesdotter replied to LifesAJourney's topic in Nursing Humor

    I was looking for something fairly neutral and came up with "James" (my dad) and "dotter" a sort of (Scandinavian, I think) play on

  13. Are You a Member of the allnurses.com Grammar Police?

    Jamesdotter replied to PacoUSA's topic in Nursing Humor

    does he also say "warsh" as my mid-western-born husband did? it took about 30 years, but i finally got him to say

  14. How does your unit handle daylight savings time?

    Jamesdotter replied to PhilaBSNstudent's topic in General Nursing

    I've retired now, but in our facility (under a union contract) we were paid for 8 hours in the spring and 9 hours in the fall. The only rationale I can think of for the 8 hours pay in the spring was...

  15. Do your hospitals have bed bug problems?

    Jamesdotter replied to happy2learn's topic in General Nursing

    When my parents lost their home in the Great Depression, they moved their small family into a shack that was infested with bedbugs--they even found them in the walls. Mom said they got rid of them by...

  16. What have other nurses done that have freaked you out?

    Jamesdotter replied to texas_lvn's topic in General Nursing

    Amen. I agree

  17. Going to Nursing School at an Older Age

    Jamesdotter replied to AmaurosisFugax's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I haven't read all 14 (!) pages of this thread, but my reaction when I read the OP's post was that while many of the 20's drop out because it wasn't what they expected, the more mature student...

  18. would anyone like to share their story of why chose to be OB nurse? (nursing studnet)

    Jamesdotter replied to laina chow's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I didn't even consider OB until I applied to work at a small (less than 100 beds) hospital and that was where the opening was. I discovered that I loved it and continued to work at that hospital and...

  19. Female catheter oop's that hurts me! And I am not female!

    Jamesdotter replied to jamistlc's topic in Nursing Humor

    The most unusual one I ever saw had the urethra above (superior to) the privy parts. I couldn't believe my

  20. tricks played on new JR doctors!

    Jamesdotter replied to scaryclairy's topic in Nursing Humor

    On quiet days in L&D, the nurses used to cover the white board with 6 or 7 "train-wrecks". A gravida 13, a multiple pregnancy with pre-eclampsia, a 13-year-old, and a bunch of others--I can't...

  21. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    Jamesdotter replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    How long ago was the chloroform incident? About 1968, I think. The doc might have been old enough to have been practicing in 1933. He was probably somewhere in his

  22. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    Jamesdotter replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Like the one who, when hospitalized for back pain, was given a shot of (I think it was) trilafon. It was very painful, and he never again ordered it for a patient, I'm happy to say. He was the same...

  23. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    Jamesdotter replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    Well, it's French, actually. But I'm not

  24. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    Jamesdotter replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    I always say them like that under my breath when I'm writing--it helps me spell them right. But out loud?

  25. Nurses, are you glad that Obamas Healthcare Bill Passed?

    Jamesdotter replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    So what is the young family who live next door to do after they have 1+ children and he then loses his job and "can't afford to have children"? She is pregnant and diabetic. She'd left her job with...