Hellllllo Nurse

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  1. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    :roll
  2. In One Sentence; if you weren't a nurse, you'd be a ________

    Professional "troll"
  3. Rhyme time...

    Many things the repubs have done strike me as obscene- That's one of the reasons I'm voting for
  4. pain in the ed

    Whenever I see the title of this thread, I keep equating it to the way a Brit might tell you that he came to the ed because he has a migraine; i.e. Nurse- "What brings you to the ER today?" Brit pt-...
  5. Rhyme time...

    Donating money to the candidate of your choice- Is one way to express your political
  6. Rhyme time...

    I just can't wait to vote; I'm in a big rush- But I will not cast my ballot for a "W", a shrub, or a
  7. Daughter #1 becomes RN - the torch is passed!

    How sweet! The story about the vet made me get all teary-eyed. Congrats to you and your daughter. I hope nursing is good to
  8. Nurses Are Most Admired

    Personally, I think it was a lighthearted, funny and well-written article. And I know you are intersted in my opinion- because I am a Nurse. You can admire me
  9. YOUR 3 hardest areas of nursing school

    I can relate. I recall one morning, in the last two months of RN school- I stayed up all noc working on my care plan, and printed up the final copy just in time to put on my uniform and drive to my...
  10. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    No matter how bowel obsessed you are, do not strip down naked in your back yard and have your husband (whom you met at a psych unit) give you an enema with a garden hose. Your neighbors will call the...
  11. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    :roll
  12. Medical Assistants in the office

    Lisa, Great post. I admire your attitude. I bet you're great to work
  13. Medical Assistants in the office

    Good post. I once had dealing on a job w/ an NP, whom I mistakenly called "doctor." He never corrected me. I think he liked it. I had several interactions w/ an MA who kept referring to herself as...
  14. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    A pt taught me not to believe a fortune teller/healer when she tells me you your diabetes is cured, because you slept with "special enchanted" leaves that she sold you taped to your forehead , just...
  15. Please help me with a decision

    By DH I was referring to dental hygiene. If I knew how nurses could work in dental health, I would be
  16. Psych Travel Nursing

    Thanks for the links, nurses! I'll pass this info on to my
  17. Please help me with a decision

    There are not many nursing jobs where I live. Took me quite a few months to find a half-way decent job. The "nursing shortage" has been proven to be a myth. Many nurses are leaving nursing to work in...
  18. Please help me with a decision

    This topic comes up over and over again. Usually, some arguments and disagreements come along with it. Some who are unhappy in nursing are accused of being negative, burnt out hags- "glass half empty"...
  19. What did SANTA bring YOU this year????

    I got- Another nurse figurine for my collection. Glass shelves and mirror backs for a vintage china cabinet I'm remodeling. Modular plug in stove burner unit for my JennAir oven. This way, I can have...
  20. Large man wound care

    zcarias- I feel for you. I've had plenty of pts like this in my time- even some really skinny, tiny ones who were just as difficult to turn and transfer as the big ones, r/t their manipulation of the...
  21. Question???

    Gateway Community College in Phoenix is good. I did not attend there, but my old A&P prof (an MD) left my school to teach there because of their great A&P lab facilities. Gateway nursing...
  22. Slaughterhouses, Mad Cows, and Public Health

    Well, I live near the plant this article talks about. Things are still done the same way. They are always advertising for OH nurses. The have three shifts of OH nurses. Mostly what the nurses do is...
  23. YOUR 3 hardest areas of nursing school

    I tell ya', I'll never do that
  24. Slaughterhouses, Mad Cows, and Public Health

    Yes, but- "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. " -George Santayana In light of recent events, I think this article is very
  25. Slaughterhouses, Mad Cows, and Public Health

    How right you are, Nurse Hardee. I worked at Brush-Wellman, a beryllium processing plant in the 1980s. Mostly, we made components for U.S. WMD. Several of my co-workers from those days are dead...