goats'r'us ASN, RN

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    would this be useful?

    goshenc1, i googled 'knit baby hats' and the first page that came up was a big list of links to different patterns. a lot of them are funny hats (watermelon hats/cupcake hats/viking hats) but there...
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    24 weeker - how bad is it?

    I was being a bit silly with the 'starts university' bit. what I'm really asking is in terms of survival, rather than appearance of
  3. goats'r'us

    would this be useful?

    good response, duly noted, will make bigger hats and steer clear of the fluro wools :) I'm actually really glad you said the bit about the colours, I get really bored with baby colours and would have...
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    Where have you found missing countable items?

    not really a countable item, but here's a scary one that's stuck with me.. before i started theatre nursing i was on a plastics ward, and i had this lovely woman who had had an abdominoplasty two...
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    Craziest Thing You Saw a Surgeon Do.

    i think i just peed a
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    3 types of shifts

    VivaLasViejas, i cannot believe how completely unprofessional and uncaring you are. No wonder people are complaining - have you, for one second, considered this doctor's needs? how upsetting is must...
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    24 weeker - how bad is it?

    again, thanks for the information, and the mixture of cold realism and promising anecdotes. together they give me a nicely rounded picture of how things are. baby is now onto day 4 on the outside,...
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    24 weeker - how bad is it?

    I can now add that she tips the scales at a mighty 680g (1 1/2 pounds to you imperials), and I've decided this is pretty good for a girl of her development. well, it's better than
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    24 weeker - how bad is it?

    thanks all for your information, bleak(ish) as it is. BabyRN, no, I'm not in the US, I'm in Australia. my friend is also in Australia but on the other coast, so I don't get to see her much at all and...
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    Oh, the Q is silent...

    I'm a showoff, and I love big words :) Personal favourites include pancreaticoduodenectomy, cholangeopancreatography, fundoplication, cardiomyotomy, thymoma and thoracoscopy. but please, someone tell...
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    What do you do on the drive to work?

    I only have a 10 minute drive. I listen to the same, impossibly perky it's-too-early-to-be-this-happy songs (including one in German, to which I know all the words but haven't a clue what they mean)...
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    Wired Jaw :( Food Ideas Please

    ooh, that sucks! the good news is you can still eat pretty much anything.. the bad news is the presentation's not great. for iron, protien and popeye's forearms, try cooking some broccoli, spinach,...
  13. have a sense of humour.
  14. ok, time for my story. it's not as graphically gross as a lot of the stuff on here, but it really turned my stomach thinking about it. I was a brand newie working on a rehab ward. It was mostly full...
  15. I don't get what's so gross about this. as long as it's legal and consentual.. I mean, it wouldn't float my boat, but it's just sex.. people have anal sex and oral sex and hand sex and foot sex and...
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    What grosses YOU out?

    sputum. I work in theatres, and the sound of a big goober rattling around in a tube while we're extubating makes me so physically nauseous that I have to turn away. for those of you who don't know the...
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    uniform scrubs with embroidered "RN" offensive?

    I don't understand what part of this is meant to be
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    I didn't know I was pregnant?

    it definitely can happen, and not just because the girl's in denial of just really dumb (though I'd guess that the 'honestly didn't have a clue' scenarios are outweighed by the 'gee, so that's why...
  19. [quote=hecallsmeDuchess; *my first attempt at ranting, will hopefully get better at it someday* it was ok for a first effort. don't worry, with practice comes
  20. I'm terribly sorry that you've been waiting all day and all night for your TOP. I understand how upset you are, and how much you wanted this baby, and I feel truly awful for the delays and false...
  21. I'd also like to say "look, everyone here thinks your surgeon is a jerk, and studies have shown a correlation between tension in the theatre and poor patient outcomes. just thought you should know...
  22. I've been chipping away at this thread for a few days now, and to celebrate, I'm posting my own 'what I wish I could tell my patient'.. -lady, I work in theatre with your surgeon every day, and if I...
  23. sorry, re. My above post: I just thought of a third option. is there something in your life that is incredibly frustrating that you can't vent about, so you're taking your frustration out on those...
  24. sigh. you've read the posts, become offended, reprimanded the posters, been corrected, continued to reprimand the posters, been corrected by a moderator, and still continue the cycle if read-be...
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    ever feel like you 'know too much'?

    my sister's having her first baby, and in a new incarnation of the nursing school phenomenon where you have every symptom you're learning about and a runny nose is a csf leak, not the sniffles, I'm...