Jessiedog RN

Jessiedog has 15 years experience as a RN and specializes in Paediatrics, Orthopeodics, ENT, General.

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1. Most Embarassing Nursing Moments

   Jessiedog replied to Jessiedog's topic in Nursing Humor

   Don't worry sweetie, it happens to all of us. You will NEVER know everything, and most nurses will be happy to help you out until you understand the lingo of your current specialty. I've found the...

2. Stupid Nurse Trick... Don't try this at home... or work!

   Jessiedog replied to TXRN02's topic in Nursing Humor

   As a new & very nervous grad nurse, I was assisting with putting in a thoracic tube on the ward. I was responsible for holding the local, which came in glass ampoules. I dropped one, and it...

3. Stupid Nurse Trick... Don't try this at home... or work!

   Jessiedog replied to TXRN02's topic in Nursing Humor

   One of my early codes, and I'd never pushed the Crash Cart before. Anyway, I was closest when the code went out, and adrenaline spurted. I grabbed that cart from the treatment room and barelled out....

4. Charting Bloopers

   Jessiedog replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

5. Charting Bloopers

   Jessiedog replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

   Good charting! Short, succinct, and relays the information

6. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

   Jessiedog replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

   Working several years ago in a rehab ward, we had one guy with a BKA due to poor circulation. The other foot wasn't faring so well, either. He'd ignored the warning signs of cool & dusky toes,...

7. Most Embarassing Nursing Moments

   Jessiedog replied to Jessiedog's topic in Nursing Humor

   Thank the Lord in Heaven, this is a situation I have not experienced!! How embarassing!! How did you cope with nursing him for the rest of the

8. Terms we will not admit to using

   Jessiedog replied to gwenith's topic in Nursing Humor

   We used to talk about a 'horrendoplasty'. This was an abdominal procedure that went horrendously wrong, with almost every complication you could name

9. Funny dreams about your job as a nurse

   Jessiedog replied to mondkmondk's topic in Nursing Humor

   :selfbonk:One of my recurring nursing dreams is SOOOO embarassing, that I have trouble at work because I keep remembering it !! I dream that I didn't put my uniform top on, and went to work with...

10. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    Jessiedog replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    I have to agree. When I started nursing, it was routine to posey people to anything. I remember one old man had TWO poseys on, one frontways and one backwards, because he was so good at getting out of...

11. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    Jessiedog replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    What is even more disturbing, is that we can ALL visualise this without trying too hard! So, who's in the worse state? The one person who did it, or the millions of us who can SEE IN OUR MIND'S EYE...

12. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    Jessiedog replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    Don't ignore the large label on the jug in the ward fridge that says "CAUTION: BOWEL PREP" and give your toddler a large drink while visiting Grandpa. The results will be nasty, and you will be awake...

13. Most Embarassing Nursing Moments

    Jessiedog replied to Jessiedog's topic in Nursing Humor

    Must be the old thing about viagra in nursing homes: keeps the old guys from rolling out of

14. How about your favorite Old Wives Tales related to health?

    Jessiedog replied to NurseyTonyaLPN's topic in Nursing Humor

    I have asthma, which is often exacerbated by an URTI. I go along to the Dr to get the certificate I need to stay off work for 2-3 days while I treat myself at home. I couldn't get to my usual GP,...

15. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    Jessiedog replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    It means you have the pre-requesites to last at your job. These being a cast-iron stomach, and a warped sense of