AngelfireRN MSN, RN, APRN

The coach and I did reiterate that point to her, he even had the handbook pulled to show her. Her response was to flaunt off with "I have a copy of the handbook, THANK YOU!". Right before she slammed out of the office. You can't win.

Many moons ago when I was a school nurse, I had this happen. A little Kinder student was brought to me along with a baggie of these brown bottles with tops like nothing I had ever seen before. The labels were hand typed, which was also odd. As I was ...

Same. And woe betide the poor patient who tries the old 'they said all you have to do is call this number'. Same for the patient who calls because the pharmacy said a PA was needed but refuses to send it to me to complete. You know, the code key...

I had a manager once haul me into a meeting and accuse me of playing on facebook while in the bathroom because she 'was watching my green light (the 'online' indicator on Messenger?) and it lit up when I went in and off when I came out'. I lit her up...

Hi, my name is AngelfireRN, I'll be your nurse tonight. I am not a waitress, nor am I your slave. Yelling and hurling obscenities at me will not get you your pain meds any sooner than they are ordered. Nor will having your family member or ...

Urine. In a pickle jar. With pickle juice and seeds still in it. Told us ‘the lab could sort all that out’. My poor receptionist. I put her raise into effect the next pay period.

Just wondering if anyone else has experiences like this? I first noticed it when I was in nursing school, and we were orienting on the floor. We would go in a room with a patient, and I would smell this sicky-sweet odor, and around a week later,...

Back aeons ago, when I was a school nurse, they tried to tell me that being a 'Title I Aide' was part of my job description. I was expected to go into classrooms with children who were slow to read and help them with their reading. I was not allowed ...

I have about hit my limit today. I'd be very interested in hearing y'all's experiences with patients who come in spouting all manner of malarkey that makes about as much sense as a milk bucket under a bull. Case in point, a certain UTI patient who wa...

We have people call and request refills and then call back to see if they've been sent scant minutes later. We get the same reaction in equal parts when we say they'll be in by the end of the day and to call the pharmacy first to see if they have it ...

On the contrary, I practice in a very rural area where old wives tales abound as far as treatment. However, MOST of my people are open and receptive to my explaining why something is not so. Ignorance I can handle. Ignorance can be taught. Ridiculous...

Well, I once had one ask for a urinalysis and when it came back clear, she told me not to bother checking her ears. No UTI s/s, thought she had an otitis. Then she informed me that if you had 'infection anywhere in your body, it'd show in a UA.' Sill...

Yep, pretty much. I can handle ignorance, but the prolonged insistence of the validity, combined with the accusation of it being my fault that the person had a panic attack because I had the gall to prescribe an antibiotic...I think after about 20 mi...

It boggles my mind, I tend to attract a demographic that seems to thrive on it! Normally I shrug and go on, but this one has stuck with me for some reason. Probably because it was equal parts hilarious and maddening.

I had this happen to me once, same thing. A patient who was not accepted as a patient at the pain clinic I worked at literally Facebook stalked me and cut/copy/pasted a document together from various posts that of themselves, said nothing of import b...

That drove me bonkers, I had ones waiting in the hall when I'd get there in the morning that came straight to the health room from the car because "Mom said to come see you if I didn't feel good." Ofttimes the teacher didn't even know where they were...

I have had Moms hang out in my health room for up to an hour, asking me to repeatedly take temps on their LD (with 'autoimmune disease' of indeterminate title that wasn't listed on anything we had on file) because said LD had 'overdone it at the danc...

I no joke had one parent call and rip me a new one because her LD was 'allergic to cheese and tomatoes' and had eaten some the previous day at lunch and 'gotten a little sick'. You know, because I'm supposed to know this even though it's written abso...

Years ago, I started as a sub at a teensy little county school that had never had a nurse. Midway into the year, health forms were implemented and sent home. Prior to this, we had a 3X5 index card for each child, handwritten by the parent. These form...

I had a kinder dragged into my office once because he had 'a potato chip stuck between his teeth'. He refused to let me try to dislodge it and the teacher's aide who brought him just stood there like a bump on a log until I told her there wasn't much...

You take a breath, or you BREATHE. You take a bath or you BATHE. You palpate an abdomen, your heart will cause PALPITATIONS. If your prostate goes wonky, it can cause you to PROSTRATE yourself on the floor. And a personal fave, from the marketing com...

I lost count of how many times I got reamed by the principal over a parent calling, claiming maltreatment of their LD. I kept GOOD notes. I still have my notes. There was the one who came in complaining of his wrist hurting, no injury, no deformity, ...

I seriously had to sit on myself today to keep from literally ripping a patient a new orifice. I own my own clinic, and my hours are clearly posted on both sides of the main entrance door. I lock up 1/2 hour before lunch and 1/2 hour before closing, ...

I got this idea from a walk in clinic I worked at years ago. They did away with it after I had been there several months and it was a contributing factor to my leaving (I was a new nursing mom and getting home almost an hour later than usual was not ...

Thank you for your service, Trauma. My Daddy is a veteran as well.