RetiredTooSoon

RetiredTooSoon specializes in Retired OR nurse/Tissue bank technician.

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1. The dumbest thing you've ever heard...

   RetiredTooSoon replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   True. Forty-four weeks is much different than 50. I questioned the likelihood of the doctors being accurate, but apparently the one was well known for being able to judge EDC within 3-4 days, a...

2. The dumbest thing you've ever heard...

   RetiredTooSoon replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   I managed to get necrotizing fasciitis from a dental visit. I had a drainage tube trying to empty a seroma on my leg and it was time for my annual dental check-up. They'd asked if I'd had surgery,...

3. The dumbest thing you've ever heard...

   RetiredTooSoon replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   My grandmother said it was from peeing on the side of the road, not the middle. And pimples on your tongue were caused by telling a

4. The dumbest thing you've ever heard...

   RetiredTooSoon replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   While oral sex was not required, home care nurses helping para/quad patients here were told that part of their expected duties may be helping their patients with sexual needs, including assisting with...

5. You Know You Are a Nurse When...

   RetiredTooSoon replied to ParvulusPuella's topic in Nursing Humor

   You know you are a nurse when: -Discussing dismemberment over a gourmet meal seems perfectly acceptable to you. -The phone rings at home and you answer as if you were at work (Operating Room, Retired...

6. The dumbest thing you've ever heard...

   RetiredTooSoon replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   An ICU nurse I know had a family from China whose wife/mother attempted suicide by hanging and was now brain dead. The doctors talked to them about organ donation, turning of the respirator, etc, but...

7. The dumbest thing you've ever heard...

   RetiredTooSoon replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   My mom was pregnant 44 weeks with me. She had two doctors confirm the EDC, based on dates and belly size. I baked for so long, I was dysmature-I'd started to shrink d/t the beginnings of placental...

8. Can student administer medication without RN supervision?

   RetiredTooSoon replied to AnneN's topic in General Students

   As a first year student, we had to be directly supervised the first three times we gave medications in each form (oral, IV, IM, sc). If all went well, we could give medications without direct...

9. Do you bag your bodies naked?

   RetiredTooSoon replied to mama_d's topic in General Nursing

   When I was a student in the early 90s, we bagged our deceased patients naked. It was a case of "we've always done it this way"-probably a leftover from when patients were shrouded, not bagged. It...

10. Medical words that make you cringe.

    RetiredTooSoon replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Students

    Agreed. I don't like "passed away" either; I prefer either the reality-'he/she died' or, if a euphemism is required, 'transferred to the Eternal Care

11. What does your username mean?

    RetiredTooSoon replied to LifesAJourney's topic in Nursing Humor

    I had to leave nursing (and all work) due to illness in 2000, hence

12. *Vent* RN's make toast?!?!?!

    RetiredTooSoon replied to WickedRedRN's topic in General Nursing

    You work ICU and there are patients well enough to eat toast, nevermind other foods? I can't think of more than one ICU patient ever that's been able to consume more than clear

13. At my boiling point...you are NOT a Nurse...of ANY kind!!!!

    RetiredTooSoon replied to nursehunnie's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    The term 'nurse' is not a protected term, but 'registered nurse' is in many provinces and states. If they call themselves a nurse and you challenge them, "A registered nurse?" and they answer in the...

14. How do you sign?

    RetiredTooSoon replied to Mashira's topic in General Nursing

    For regular charting, I would sign RtSoon, RN. On formal correspondence like resume cover letters or other letters where my nursing education was relevant to what I was writing about, I'd sign,...

15. Clients? Are they no longer patients?

    RetiredTooSoon replied to bassadict69's topic in General Students

    They were already clients when I started nursing school in 1991-or at least, that was about when the move started to make the change. My one instructor refused to use the word client, snorting,...