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    What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    RedWeasel replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    I just posted one on this topic...I hope it helps...When it happened it REALLY helped me....I am sorry for your loss...I have been
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    What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    RedWeasel replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    how sad.. this is not the same thing, i know...but the day after tgiving 2005 we had to put our 11 year old dog to sleep and i had been off the few days before with him...he seemed to get better and I...
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    What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    RedWeasel replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    we also have stories from pts at night who say there are little kids running in and out of their rooms and spilling their water and taking their call lights...These are CVA pts and dont have their...
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    What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    RedWeasel replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    Okay so I work in rehab too, we have a storage room and this one nurse was in there (there is a sink and mirror) next to a drink machine, she was getting a drink of water from the faucet and sortof...
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    Your Favorite one liner used with patients

    RedWeasel replied to scaredofshots's topic in Nursing Humor

    cute! I like the one with the rodeo cowboy and I worked at an H. Inn aloooong time
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    uniforms

    RedWeasel replied to steelersRN's topic in General Nursing

    At our hospital nurses have to wear some white at all times. White top coat and/or pants. CNAs must wear matching tops and bottoms in some green color (any green solid) or tan. And any type jacket...
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    Blood and such

    RedWeasel replied to 5418ujyyhbewbttberbr's topic in Nursing Career

    I thought that too when I started NS. But turned out never to be a problem. (although found out many of my class mates and I each got dizzy watching a bone marrow aspiration-not gross just I dont...
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    Plus Sized Nursing Students Come In..

    RedWeasel replied to JdNNurse2B's topic in General Students

    Any one looking up the word hypocrite wouldn't blame the book for being worn, it is the information it provides that is important. We are RESOURCES not
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    What color Stethoscope to buy?

    RedWeasel replied to 09RN's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    MY other thought is this=maybe it is just me but for the littmans,(0r any kind) why cant they make each end -weigh the same--mine is always sliding off on the one end because they are unbalanced. I...
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    What color Stethoscope to buy?

    RedWeasel replied to 09RN's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    OOOOH OOHH GET A DARK color-it wont show pen marks, neck dirt, grunge etc. Also I bought an orange littman with name engraved, but the lanyard with my name badge on it was black and the color rubbed...
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    Did you know you were failing??

    RedWeasel replied to mrod's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    My thought coming out was "There is no way on Gods green, blue, yellow, periwinkle, puce, plaid, pokadot earth that I passed that test." But. I
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    MRSA/gowns and gloves

    RedWeasel replied to BABY--RN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Well I just saw a doc go into an adult pts room with MRSA without washing hands in or out, no gloving up and touching the pt with bare hands. We are to always wear gloves into a MRSA room and gown for...
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    The Circumcision Discussion

    RedWeasel replied to jmspeach's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Nice! Or how bout cutting a finger off of a glove-may come off when they void but heck you got a glove full of fingers to
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    What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    RedWeasel replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    One time one of my pts had come back from a day pass. He was A&O but felt he could wait to get back to his room on the unit to empty his colostomy (maybe it was an ileostomy?) anyway, he shouldn't...
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    What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    RedWeasel replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    I know a fairly new nurse who was doing a bowel program on a pt. She inserted the supp and removed her gloves. The pt was a little anxious and asked her to do some dig stim before she left. She said...
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    What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    RedWeasel replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    I once was cathing a male and had just a slight bit of resistance so I remembered that is was normal and to raise him up a little bit to a more 90 degree angle. Went in fine but then (I have never had...
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    What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    RedWeasel replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    I was precepting and there was a young peds girl who was special needs, her mom swore by (i think it was mag cit or golytely-cant remember) to keep her reg'lar. She stated that it only takes an hour...
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    What brand/type of shoe should I get?

    RedWeasel replied to opal6779's topic in General Nursing

    Also I know it is a rare thing--- but the reason we had to have all leather shoes in nursing school was for the fact that if we dropped a needle (used or not) it would have a smaller chance of...
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    What brand/type of shoe should I get?

    RedWeasel replied to opal6779's topic in General Nursing

    I really like the Red Cross shoes from places like Jasco and Jack L Marcus-a lot of $ but part of the $ goes to the charity and the foot beds are verrrry comfy. Another girl got em and loves em
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    What nursing class at your school has the most failure rate?

    RedWeasel replied to msteresa97's topic in General Students

    we started with 60 and 15 graduated on time - I think our worst class was OB/MAT/ Of course we 15 that went on class to class had pp who had to retake classes join our group so we 15 always had new pp...
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    I cried in class today

    RedWeasel replied to JdNNurse2B's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I also couldnt manage well when they were taking pp out of new orleans and making pp leave their pets I had nightmares of these trusting animals wandering-unless tied up-wondering where their humans...
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    I cried in class today

    RedWeasel replied to JdNNurse2B's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    i wouldn't have come to class...it is so hard to believe something so strong and see others think of it just as if they were talking about taking out the trash, or whatever. You aint
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    Poll for those who have already taken NCLEX..

    RedWeasel replied to lpn2rnMay2005's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    81 ques Saunders Q&A review (not just the review) and nursing made easy Hesi -Did good on 2 days passed first
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    Autonomic Dysreflexia

    RedWeasel replied to proudmommielpn's topic in Rehabilitation

    I was off but one of my pts had their foley clamped for UA, and they never unclamped it. Dont think they will ever forget to do that again. And it HAD to happen to THAT pt you dont want it to happen...
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    You know you're a rehab nurse when:

    RedWeasel replied to mom and nurse's topic in Rehabilitation

    1) You tell your own family members to tuck their chin when swallowing. 2) You tell a pts family that since they are now pulling at their tubes and swearing as opposed to lethargic and silently...