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  1. OMG! This waiting room!!!

    zamboni replied to zamboni's topic in General Nursing

    Ruh roh! The guy three seats down from me? Apparently his significant other thinks he's having an affair. It's awesome to sit here and listen to him trying to quietly defend himself! I wonder who...

  2. OMG! This waiting room!!!

    zamboni replied to zamboni's topic in General Nursing

    Awesome! The little old couple? Well, he got up and went to go pee or something. While he's gone, one of her friends showed up. They left. he just walked in to find them gone and started asking me...

  3. Lazor hair removal

    zamboni replied to iluvivt's topic in General Nursing

    I have light skin and dark hair, and laser hair removal didn't do squat for me. Upper lip and bikini line. It was way more painful than I expected (not the treatments so much, but the inflammed...

  4. Firefighter/Paramedic switching to nursing..

    zamboni replied to FireM3dic432's topic in General Nursing

    I've been a paramedic for 17 years, and got my RN this year. It's been fun switching over to my new role in the ER, and I know that my experience has pulled my (and my patient's) butt out of a bind...

  5. Echo Heron

    zamboni replied to Tippy-ta-ta's topic in General Nursing

    Me too. I've read my copies until they're falling apart and the spines are held together by tape...and I still break them out again when I need a little reminder why I do this. And as many times as...

  6. What would make you say "I could never do that"

    zamboni replied to PICNICRN's topic in General Nursing

    Eyeballs for me too. In all my years as a paramedic and my almost year as an ER RN, I can confidently say that the only time I have ever gone pale and woozy was on a particularly nasty eye injury...

  7. EMS services, EMTALA, self-pay accounts

    zamboni replied to RN1204's topic in General Nursing

    I just got off shift, so I'm gonna go sleep on this for a while. :wink2: I'm really interested in this scenario. I think a lot hinges on the contract the EMS service has with the hospital...and I...

  8. EMS services, EMTALA, self-pay accounts

    zamboni replied to RN1204's topic in General Nursing

    Ok, I'm still stuck on the hospital picking up the tab for a patient requested transfer, but not for higher levels (I guess you are too). That seems totally back-***-wards. The sending hospital has...

  9. Patients son who is a MD violating HIPPA & is just a jerk!

    zamboni replied to Manatee111's topic in General Nursing

    Is the patient competent and alert/oriented? If so, does him being POA hold any weight yet? I thought POA only kicked in if the patient wasn't competent to make their own

  10. Med-error & down n the dumps

    zamboni replied to Advocate1's topic in General Nursing

    i hope she's not still kicking herself. (psstt...this happened in january)

  11. ER Pet Peeves

    zamboni replied to ERERER's topic in Emergency

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  12. Let's play I Remember When.....

    zamboni replied to RNSue's topic in General Nursing

    What a fun thread! I love hearing about how things were done in previous eras. While I was reading it, I had the thought, "What will I do or what skill will I perform tonight that will be considered...

  13. Body Worlds

    zamboni replied to missingunc's topic in General Nursing

    I saw it in both Houston and Dallas, and would go see it again if I had the chance. It was an incredible experience! In Houston, I went with some friends from nursing school. Apparently, they...

  14. How can an adult leave a child in a hot car?

    zamboni replied to Patrick57's topic in General Nursing

    I've been kinda pushing an idea long the same lines...only I suggest that the parent put their purse/briefcase/laptop bag in the backseat with the baby. Either idea works to help with...

  15. Tcc Nursing

    zamboni replied to livinlife1257's topic in Texas Nursing

    Someone taught me a trick to getting into classes that usually fill up the fastest. There's a date a couple of weeks after registration where you have to have paid your tuition or have made...

  16. From NY to TX

    zamboni replied to starbucksnurse's topic in Texas Nursing

    The pros: Much lower cost of living than NY Milder winters (if that means anything to you) Tex-Mex food No state income tax Wide open spaces The cons: It's not New York Seriously, when I saw your...

  17. is it hard going back to school as a single parent or wait

    zamboni replied to sincere1782's topic in General Nursing

    I went through a very intensive 18 month paramedic program when my son was two years old as a single parent. It was tough, but it can be done. I was in a position where I HAD to do it...I had...

  18. Do I let this nurse take the blame...?

    zamboni posted a topic in General Nursing

    ...or do I point out that the doc may have screwed up too, and risk breaking the faith a patient has in their doctor? Situation...on another (nonmedical) board I post on, one of the posters related a...

  19. stupid things you've said

    zamboni replied to monkeymedic's topic in General Nursing

    LOL! What's the old saying? "When talking to supervisors or patients, if it felt good saying it...it was probably the wrong thing to

  20. Do I let this nurse take the blame...?

    zamboni replied to zamboni's topic in General Nursing

    I totally understand what you're saying, and I appreciate it. And I guess that's what I'm asking. I'm comfortable that all I did was give a basic A&P example, that anyone who has a decent...

  21. most enjoyable nursing books for pleasure / films

    zamboni replied to aussiemags's topic in General Nursing

    I'm so glad to see other Echo Heron fans! I first read "Condition Critical" many moons ago, almost by accident, and immediately went and found "Intensive Care". Heron's books have been a huge...

  22. Licking One's Fingers When Passing Out Papers

    zamboni replied to Karynica, RN's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah...but the germs that can live on paper (charts) can get passed into someone's mouth. :wink2: Seriously, there's really nothing that grosses me out. But I can't help but stare when I watch a doc...

  23. Left ED job due to unsafe staffing...

    zamboni replied to kmoonshine's topic in Emergency

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  24. i got a needle stick today need prayer

    zamboni replied to texas_lvn's topic in General Nursing

    I hope your new job is replacing the other nurse! She sounds like a trainwreck! Keeping you in my

  25. Do You Use a PDA at Work?

    zamboni replied to Absolutely13's topic in General Nursing

    I bought my PDA when I was in school, and I'm still using it in practice (although I plan to replace it with an iPhone soon). I did it simply because I was tired of lugging heavy books to class and...