Jessiedog

Jessiedog RN

Paediatrics, Orthopeodics, ENT, General

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  1. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    Jessiedog replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    OMG! You HAVE to be kidding me? As if there's not enough abdominal pressure with the pregnancy

  2. Funny things that pts say

    Jessiedog replied to jRN4now's topic in Nursing Humor

    Yes,....I found the funniest thing about nursing children wasn't always the children, but the dumb questions the parents

  3. Funny things you have said but wish you didn't

    Jessiedog replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    Amen!! Would have been extremely embarrassing otherwise. She was a lovely lady, too, and just loved to be able to care for her partner. We got to be quite good friends as he was a long-term patient,...

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

    Jessiedog replied to NurseyTonyaLPN's topic in Nursing Humor

    My grandma had a few theories about cheese that sound odd: 1)cheese makes you constipated 2)cheese makes your hair smell. I can cope with the first one, as in her era, a diet of bread and cheese was...

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

    Jessiedog replied to NurseyTonyaLPN's topic in Nursing Humor

    Yep, sure does work. We have used it in our paediatric ward, even prescried by the paediatricians. Works on the similar principle to lactulose, the high sugar content attracting water into the large...

  6. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    Jessiedog replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    In Australia, nurses are allowed to catheterize females, but not males, because of the potential of damaging the prostate. As a paediatric nurse I am allowed to catheterize male children. (logic??)...

  7. Whats the craziest or funniest thing you ever seen as a nurse?

    Jessiedog replied to pumpkin1984's topic in Nursing Humor

    EEEEEwwwwwww!!!

  8. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    Jessiedog replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    I have seen this one, even in Australia. VERY SAD Suicidal teenager tried to kill herself by drinking Draino. Ended up destroying her oesophagas and stomach, which were surgically removed. Spend the...

  9. Funny things that pts say

    Jessiedog replied to jRN4now's topic in Nursing Humor

    I think by the time recovery came, the pre-med had caught up with the anaesthetic, and he was sleeping like an angel!! Not a peep out of him. Mum and & I burst out laughing every time we...

  10. Funny things you have said but wish you didn't

    Jessiedog replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    Know where ya comin' from, sista! I've been caught that way SOOOO many times! The only time I WASN'T caught was because us nurses were all warned at shift change, that the 30 year-old lady helping...

  11. Welcome to the Forum - General Aussie Chat

    Jessiedog replied to gwenith's topic in Australia, New Zealand

    The one I did several years ago was in Melbourne, at Victoria University out near Sunshine. It required one day attendance per week for two semesters, and I came out with a Graduate Certificate in...

  12. I wanna be a DNR

    Jessiedog replied to Tweety's topic in Nursing Humor

    I would agree, I think DNR is the choice for me (In Oz we say NFR) I'm only 36 and have no desire to leave this life, but I do have a strong faith, and KNOW where I'm going when I leave this body. I...

  13. Things nursing school FAILED to tell us

    Jessiedog replied to Debbie_LPN's topic in Nursing Humor

    Also how not to cry when your 13 year-old patient with terminal lung & systemic disease asks you if he gets new lungs will he get better? I answered as truthfully as I could, saying "No, sweetie,...

  14. Things nursing school FAILED to tell us

    Jessiedog replied to Debbie_LPN's topic in Nursing Humor

    Hmmm.... where do you work? You seem to get the nice confused ones. I'm used to dealing with the strong, wiry, octopus-type confused

  15. Funny things that pts say

    Jessiedog replied to jRN4now's topic in Nursing Humor

    Sedated adults ARE fun. Sedated kids are hilarious!!! I've worked in a kids ward for 10 years, and being in the country, we did surgery as well as medical. Dealing with kids after they've had a...

  16. Welcome to the Forum - General Aussie Chat

    Jessiedog replied to gwenith's topic in Australia, New Zealand

    I'm so excited for you, Tina!! All that hard work does pay off in the end. I pray you get as much out of paediatric nursing as I have done. It became my specialty two years after graduation, and I...

  17. Most Embarassing Nursing Moments

    Jessiedog replied to Jessiedog's topic in Nursing Humor

    i had a similar experience in my firs year of nursing, back in 1992. this was before sterilizers were used on most floors to clean the pans. we had the old 'pan hopper', which flushed the liquid...

  18. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

    Jessiedog replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Nursing Humor

    One of the funniest reasons a confused patient used her call bed was that she'd lost something. Not so unusual, but what she'd lost was a pig!! Honest-to-God, she thought she'd seen pig run under...

  19. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    Jessiedog replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    Oh, yeah!! There were some days working on our orthopoedic ward when I spent more time in my confused patien't reality than I did in my own! I swear dementia's contagious, and it happens when you...

  20. Most Embarassing Nursing Moments

    Jessiedog replied to Jessiedog's topic in Nursing Humor

    GLAD TO SEE I'M NOT THE ONLY NURSE WHO'S WITNESSED THE IMPOSSIBLE. SORRY ABOUT THE UNFORTUNATE END TO YOUR EXPERIENCE, HAVING TO ARREST THAT

  21. Welcome to the Forum - General Aussie Chat

    Jessiedog replied to gwenith's topic in Australia, New Zealand

    glad to see there are other sane nurses around, who don't like the footy! Working on an orthopoedic ward I got to not like foot, or motor-bikes!! Too many unfortunate

  22. Tell me the Pros and Cons of Nursing

    Jessiedog replied to NurseBanana's topic in Nursing Career

    If you enjoy helping people, enjoy a challenge, and want a change, then nursing could be for you. I've nursed for 15 years, with a two-year break due to ill--health. I can't say I have loved every...

  23. Most Embarassing Nursing Moments

    Jessiedog replied to Jessiedog's topic in Nursing Humor

    so, the inevitable question........What did the tattoo you were flashing to the world

  24. Things nursing school FAILED to tell us

    Jessiedog replied to Debbie_LPN's topic in Nursing Humor

    EEEWwwwwww!!!! Imagine the calisthenics she'd have to perform to manage to get the tube into her mouth. Gotta be

  25. 10 things you say at work lay people could get arrested for

    Jessiedog replied to sharann's topic in Nursing Humor

    A few that come to mind after reading these tonight: A routine silly statement made by nurses when checking narcotics in our hospital was something like "And I'll drink the rest" when discarding...