Jessiedog RN

I can remember a few of these, and thought we'd all get a laugh from sharing. My most, most, MOST horrible one was this: Working in a 60-bed nursing home, I was caring for a gentleman with terminal cancer. He was having the two-hourly S/C morphine,...

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 best policy is to honestly say Ï've never heard tha...

The difference between graduate nurses & experienced nurses. I saw this on a site recently, and almost pee'd myself laughing. No, I'm not trying to get at new nurses, after all, I WAS one not so long ago. Grad Nurse: Vomits when the patient v...

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 shattered on the floor. I sheepishly cleaned up. I c...

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. Bloody thing wouldn't move that well, so I pushe...

Good charting! Short, succinct, and relays the information needed.

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, and even the loss of sensation and then loss of mov...

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 shift??

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

: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 pants, shoes, hair all done, but my breasts bare and s...

I do both of these regularly!!!:chuckle Once, when filling out an entry form for a dog trial, I filled in Ruth Harvey, RN1. Hmmm........

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 them. I accepted this as a part of nursing, and d...

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 how he did it????

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 a lot that night!:smackingf

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

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, 'cos he was booked out, so took one who was free. ...

so did I - must be a 'nurse' thing!!!

Ooooohhh Yyyeeeeaaaahhhhhhhh.......This one is related to the comment "You're smart enough not to be a doctor" Sometimes its easier if the doctors let us to the diagnosing and prescibing, then just sign on the dotted line! :clown:

these are the ones i have personally done myself!!! worried yet? :no:

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

I've had so many dreams about nursing, I don't know where to start!! One that comes to mind is one night I was doing a "quick shift" (finish at 10.30pm, start again at 7.00am). I'd had a horrendous shift, with four pst-op patients at the same time,...

Me too! I reckon a good dose of clean dirt won't kill you. (usually) Not that I'm into eating out of the garbage can or anything, but kitchen benches and floors don't need to be sterile!' I tell my husband over and over that most commercial 'disinfe...

That was as far as the frailty went, though! Alicia had a temper like a tiger and was as feisty as they come. Being hospitalized for most of her life, us nurses at the kids' ward where her extended family. We knew her parents well, and her little bro...

thanks kessadawn. Tammy was certainly an interesting kid, and I really enjoyed looking after her. I even enjoyed the arguments, and miss them. I often wonder what she would look like now, and what job she might have gone in for. She certainly did...