Jamesdotter

Jamesdotter

Women's health & post-partum

Member

  • Content

    464

  • Visitors

    9,250

  • Followers

    0

  • Likes

    21

All Content by Jamesdotter

  1. Let's play I Remember When.....

    Jamesdotter replied to RNSue's topic in General Nursing

    I graduated in 1961 and remember most of the things mentioned. Also, I remember 7-bed and 9-bed wards, women or men only floors (county hospital), No tvs and No phones. You could really do a lot of...

  2. Help! How do you stay awake on drive home after night shift?

    Jamesdotter replied to neetnik461's topic in General Nursing

    When I worked nights, my commute was about half of what yours is. After dozing off and bumping the back of a Pepsi truck(!) hard enough to dent a fender, I started to take another route home--one...

  3. Breast is best, but watch out for the allergies

    Jamesdotter replied to gwenith's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I attended a lecture several years ago that touched on this subject. The speaker (who had a history of allergies and who had breast fed her children for a year or so each) posited that a mother with a...

  4. Oxygen questions

    Jamesdotter replied to CoffeeRTC's topic in General Nursing

    "Oximizer Pendant Disposable Oxygen-Conserving Device (Code #P-201). It has a little bladder-like thing under your chin that acts as a reservoir so it actually allows you to absorb more of the oxygen...

  5. How many miles do you drive to work each day?

    Jamesdotter replied to nurse2b2007SC's topic in General Nursing

    I'm retired now, but my commute (for 30 years) was 10 miles each way. I car-pooled whenever I could arrange it, and put the money I saved in a

  6. Share Your Saying

    Jamesdotter replied to angelique777's topic in Nursing Humor

    I ran across a new one recently: "I'm treating my diabetes right. I want to die with my feet

  7. Losing confidence in new job b/c of IV insertion?

    Jamesdotter replied to moliuchick's topic in General Nursing

    What worked for me (I was lousy at IV starts): My institution had a video that we were to view when we started doing IVs (prior to that we had an IV team). I watched it several times. Then, before I...

  8. Reminiscing

    Jamesdotter replied to knockandhello's topic in General Nursing

    Nope. I got quite good at applying breast binders. (The secret seems to be in compressing the nipples.) Wasn't so good with Scultetus binders, maybe because we didn't use them much on OB. If

  9. Reminiscing

    Jamesdotter replied to knockandhello's topic in General Nursing

    What is clysis? Hypodermoclysis: The injection of fluids (usually NS) into the subcutaneous tissues to supply the body with liquids. I've given it in the thighs; have seen it given in the back....

  10. Reminiscing

    Jamesdotter replied to knockandhello's topic in General Nursing

    I remember a lot of these things, too. How about washing, mending and resterilizing latex gloves? Packing and sterilizing our own surgery and delivery linen packs. Someone has already mentioned...

  11. Most Memorable Patient

    Jamesdotter replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    I guess my most memorable patient was "Goldie" whom I met in the 1960s. (I think I may have mentioned her on some other thread). She was in her 80s, hospitalized with a fracture in the shaft of her...

  12. How many Nurse jobs have you had?

    Jamesdotter replied to johnson0424's topic in General Nursing

    Seven--6 in the first 8 years after graduation, then 30 years in the last

  13. Family members as patients on your unit

    Jamesdotter replied to KAW1962's topic in General Nursing

    Forty years ago (good grief! Has it been that long?) my dh had a chole and was placed on my floor BECAUSE I worked there. It wasn't a total success--it was a urology floor and someone kept putting...

  14. As a patient, do you disclose your qualifications?

    Jamesdotter replied to lisalau's topic in General Nursing

    I rarely mention that I'm a nurse, but it's on my records (I've been a member of the same HMO for 30 years) and if the staff doesn't notice it, one of my family usually blabs. Like one of the other...

  15. Lost instruments..........

    Jamesdotter replied to staceyp413's topic in Operating Room

    Does any of you remember the "hippy" days? We were suddenly missing instruments on the OB floor (mostly Kellys and the like). We discovered that one of the students was working in a volunteer clinic...

  16. is the nclex too easy?

    Jamesdotter replied to traumahawk99's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Back in the day... When I took the licensing exam, it was 6 individual tests over a day and a half. Everyone from my school passed; of the other nursing schools in the city, I think perhaps 5 or 6...

  17. Unique quitting tips?

    Jamesdotter replied to elizabells's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I quit "cold turkey" when I found out I was pregnant. My dh also quit cold turkey 12 years later when his MD told him he was developing emphysema. Now, 25 years further on, he is on medication and...

  18. Why did YOU choose OB nursing?

    Jamesdotter replied to tabbeycatt's topic in Ob/Gyn

    OB nursing sort of chose me. When my husband was transferred to a new town, I applied at the (only) hospital where the sole available position was OB--on nights, of course. I discovered I loved it...

  19. scrub tops for maternal/newborn nursing?

    Jamesdotter replied to MIA-RN1's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I pretty much avoided tops with babies and related designs because we were in a level 3 hospital and saw a lot of demises, relatively speaking. We also cared for a number of GYN pts on occasion,...

  20. Alternative meds? You'll never believe this one!!

    Jamesdotter replied to darla80's topic in Nursing Humor

    This wasn't exactly an alternative med, but.. I once had a patient who came in jaundiced and really sick. He brought his own spring water from home and insisted on drinking it--he didn't consider the...

  21. Where to start?

    Jamesdotter replied to paprika88's topic in Oregon Nursing

    Woodburn is near Salem. Check out Chemeketa Community College in Salem (http://www.chemeketa.edu) for their policies on LPN to RN. Other schools are Clackamas Community College in Oregon City,...

  22. Regional differences in OB terminology ....

    Jamesdotter replied to Selke's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Regarding birth certificates--5 years ago or so (I assume it hasn't changed) we could have both parents sign an affidavit EACH IN THE PRESENCE OF THE OTHER while the mom was still in the hospital. We...

  23. Patches left in public

    Jamesdotter replied to amgo24's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I agree, except... any concerned parent, nurse or not, who recognized the patch for what it potentially was would do the same thing that the writer did; report it to a responsible

  24. how long is your commute?

    Jamesdotter replied to The Bell Jar's topic in General Nursing

    My commute was 10 miles. But my carpool started 10 miles farther out (they drove, I bought

  25. Silly Question about podiatist (med advice not needed)

    Jamesdotter replied to GeriatricSunshine's topic in General Nursing

    That's exactly how the podiatrist did mine (about 5 years