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Thanks for the comments. I made the hats with white felt and black ribbon. I spiked a 1" styrofoam ball with green floral stem, wrapped the ball in green floral tape, then hot-glued the hat on the ball.

Every year the hospital where I work has a Nursing Clinical Advancement Banquet. This year I was called upon to assist with decorations. I searched high and low on the internet for ideas of something "Nursy" without success. As I was driving home one evening, an idea popped into my head and when I arrived home, I quickly drew a sketch of my idea. I purchased items from a local craft store to create my idea for a "Nursy" yet elegant table center piece. Hopefully the attachments of the pictures uploaded okay.

Years ago when I was doing clinicals for school, I came across this plaque hanging on the wall of an inpatient unit with a list of hospital jobs and their job roles (ie, Housekeeping, Respiratory Therapy, Nursing Assistant, Nurse, Physician, etc). The list was humorusly worded and ended with the Nurse ultimately being the one in charge. I can't remember which hospital I saw this or what the name of the "Poem" was. Does anyone know anything about this and how I can find it? I would greatly appreciate any help. Thank you.

There was a doctor at the hospital where I work named Dr. Desvigne. We pronounced it Devine, but he corrected us with da-veen. Cute, he was devine.

I did have elderly female patient complain that her Susie was hurting.

Eeewww!!!

I had a male patient he had his left nut removed. My daughter's best friend's mother calls her breasts her 'girls.' Have also heard lady parts referred to as 'wooch.'

How 'bout: flatter than pi$$ on a board?

How about when someone starts talking about something that has absolutely nothing to do with the current discussion: "What's that got to do with the price of tea in China?"

For those of you who have teens, you've probably heard this one: "Build a bridge and get over it."

"Blinded by the light..." don't remember what group sings it. (night shift nurse)

I've been working med-surg for past 10 years, and I love it. The patients consist of all those patients that have had surgery that need to stay overnight postop or longer with the exception of those on a heart monitor. That's the surgical part of med-surg. Medical patients are those with pneumonia, abd pain and n/v, wound infections, impactions (severe constipation), comfort care awaiting hospice, patients that need to be medically evaluated prior to nursing home placement, elderly with decreased LOC, patients with low Hgb (from Dr.'s office) that need blood transfusions, etc., etc.

Here's some for you: SUPPORT (Elizabeth Foley) Friends in your life are like pillars on your porch: sometimes they hold you up and sometimes they lean on you. COMMUNICATION (Jimi Hendrix) Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. ENDURANCE (Malcolm Forbes) Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. RESOLUTION (Jimmy Dean) I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. PURPOSE (Marie O'Conner) It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised; the mosquito is swatted. INTERDEPENDENCE (Peter De Vries) We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through. Hope you like these.:)

I have a funny story... I was taking care of this lil old lady, diabetic, bilateral AKA, HOH, and confused. She had really long fingernails that were curling over and embedding in the pads of her fingertips. Since she was diabetic, I did not feel comfortable clipping her fingernails and asked her attending physician about consulting someone to clip her nails. The attending consulted a podiatrist who was consulted frequently for clipping diabetic toenails. When the podiatrist arrived to the unit, he asked for the nurse taking care of this patient --- me. He instructed me on the supplies he needed and to meet him at the patient's bedside. When I arrived to the patient's room with the requested supplied, the podiatrist was talking the patient, introducting himself, explaining that he was going to clip her nails. I stood the side ready to provide assistance if needed. The podiatrist walked to the foot of the patient's bed and whipped back the covers on the left side. I saw that he noted her left AKA and simultaneously realized that he thought he was there to clip her toenails. I did not inform him of this mistaken assumption and watched to see how it would play out, grinning. He looked up at me, whipped the covers back over her left AKA, and proceeded around to the other side of the bed, then whipped back the covers on the right side. When he saw the right AKA, he looked at me (I was grinning so hugely and trying valiantly to keep from laughing out loud. He was probably wondering what I found so amusing.), and he asked me if this was the right patient he was consulted on to clip her nails. I informed him that she was, and that he was consulted to clip her fingernails, not her toenails. He whipped the covers back over her right side and informed me that he is a podiatrist and does not clip fingernails. I requested that he please look at her fingernails. He assessed her fingernails, and then he clipped them. That occurred many years ago, but even now when I run into this physician we share a smile over that.

At the hospital where I work, surgeons will consult a hospitalist or a medical physician for medical management of their patients while in the hospital. One physician that is frequently consulted for medical management prefers to be called via his cell phone rather than a pager, answering service, or office phone. There was a new nurse working our unit that admitted a patient from surgery and had a list of home meds that needed reordered. She asked the unit secretary to please page the medical consult. The secretary informed this nurse that that physician requests that he be contacted through his cell phone. The new nurse then began opening cabinets and pulling out drawers at the nurse's station. When the secretary asked her what she was looking for, the nurse replied, "I'm looking for his cell phone.":lol2:

Maybe It Was Peas He Was Saving For Later. Ha! Ha!