Jamesdotter

Jamesdotter

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  1. The retro nurse's outfit has returned

    Jamesdotter replied to cicatrixx15's topic in General Nursing

    I agree, although I'm not sure I have any put-in since I've

  2. nursing caps

    Jamesdotter replied to biker nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Or if it falls off, which mine did with some regularity (I have fine, thin hair and our caps were the kind that perch on the top of the head, held on with a couple of bobby pins). It never fell into...

  3. Littmann Stethoscopes~Need advice

    Jamesdotter replied to CrazierThanYou's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Just remember to guard it carefully and don't lend it to anyone--especially

  4. Favorite Dr or Nurse Name

    Jamesdotter replied to sethmctenn's topic in Nursing Humor

    Dr. Cutter

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

    Jamesdotter replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    I voted "yes" I don't particularly like the bill that they ended up with, but as others have said, something has to be done (preferably instead of paying the CEOs of the insurance companies obscene...

  6. Doctors perform induction and then C/S on non-pregnant woman

    Jamesdotter replied to klone's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I'm reminded of a time when we had a patient come in for a c/section for I've forgotten what reason (possible contracted pelvis, maybe?). This was in the 1970s, so the first-year resident ordered...

  7. Favorite Dr or Nurse Name

    Jamesdotter replied to sethmctenn's topic in Nursing Humor

    My mother's surgeon--Dr. Boyles Not a medical person, but in Boring, Oregon, there was for a short time one "Elder Dull", pastor of the local SDA

  8. Male DON (Director of Nursing)

    Jamesdotter replied to pilot833's topic in Men in Nursing

    Hi, Pilot--the current dean of the school of nursing that I attended (many years ago) is a male RN. There don't seem to be too many obstacles to anyone who is willing to work

  9. Do you identify yourself as a nurse when you or your family are a patient?

    Jamesdotter replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    I marked "never", but that doesn't mean that the staff doesn't find out. My family has a bad habit of "outing"

  10. when did they stop wearing those cute nurses caps?

    Jamesdotter replied to johnnyDoGood's topic in General Nursing

    For some reason I no longer remember, I wanted a cape (ours were full length and gray with a red lining). My mother (who graduated in 1926) told me I'd never use it. She was right. I did however,...

  11. when did they stop wearing those cute nurses caps?

    Jamesdotter replied to johnnyDoGood's topic in General Nursing

    I quit wearing mine in the "70s when I worked OB and we used the old-fashioned fetoscopes. You had to take off your cap to use it. We would conveniently "forget" to put the cap back on. Mine now...

  12. Charting Bloopers

    Jamesdotter replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    A colleague once told me of an order to "watch patient" (said patient was in congestive heart failure). As she said, "I had 30 patients that night with one aid. I watched him run down the hall, out...

  13. Food is my Drug of Choice

    Jamesdotter replied to Nurs0706's topic in General Nursing

    And after you've eaten it, you ask yourself "why?", because it really didn't taste all that wonderful! You all might enjoy this: STRESS FULL Each of us, psychiatrists say, handles stress in his own...

  14. So who do nurses marry or have as civil partners???

    Jamesdotter replied to snoopy29's topic in General Nursing

    Mine was a bureaucrat in human services (for the state) before he retired. When we met and married, though, he was still working the job he'd had all through college--as a security guard. I always...

  15. Things nursing school FAILED to tell us

    Jamesdotter replied to Debbie_LPN's topic in Nursing Humor

    I guess we were luckier--our med-surg instructor who explained hospital hierarchy to the class finished her explanation this way "**** runs downhill!" The maintenance man who was working in the...

  16. Who is the Anti-Union Network?

    Jamesdotter replied to herring_RN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    "Brainwashed" Oh, please... And it's amazing that all that stuff is Obama's when he's only been in office a year and inherited a huge deficit, two wars and the party of "no" to keep him from...

  17. Why did you retire or become inactive?

    Jamesdotter replied to dlatimer's topic in Retired Nurses

    I was 65 and tired and dh had been retired for 3

  18. Who came up with the idea of 12 HOUR SHIFTS?

    Jamesdotter replied to Epona's topic in General Nursing

    When my mother was an RN in the early 1940's, many of her nurse colleagues "went to war" and the remaining staff was working--you guessed it--12 hour shifts. There were also untrained or rather...

  19. Saying No

    Jamesdotter replied to tolerantgirl's topic in General Nursing

    Or as a colleague of mine was known to say, "No, but thank you for thinking of

  20. I'm probably nuts for asking, but....

    Jamesdotter replied to d'cm's topic in General Nursing

    Former smoker, former republican. Non-partisan, but registered democrat so I can vote in the

  21. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    Jamesdotter replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    I do respectfully beg to differ. "Orient" is preferred usage in the US, but in the UK, I believe that "orientate" is preferred. The word has been addressed several times in this thread, but I suspect...

  22. Who else has passed out?

    Jamesdotter replied to Nightingale11's topic in General Nursing

    The one and only time was when I was an aid, before I started nursing school. I was invited to watch a twin delivery (the mom was cool with my being there). The first twin's birth was fascinating,...

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

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

    I was having my doctor order a FBG about once a year, too, because 4 of my father's sisters were type 2. Well, I was a little overweight and a few years back the doc did diagnose me with type 2--I...

  24. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    Jamesdotter replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    I find it a little grating when people say "walah" instead of "voila" (there it is) or"voici" (here it is). And I almost flunked my single semester of

  25. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    Jamesdotter replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    Somewhere back in the 80-some pages of this thread sontimeter (it's a French pronunciation--why do some people use it?? I dunno) and orientate (that's proper in Great Britain and I think Canada)...