nursejenrad

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1. What do you HATE to do at work?

   nursejenrad replied to mickeymouse1205's topic in General Nursing

   My jail is EXACTLY the same! We have 1,200 inmates and we see the same ones over and over and over!! It makes me want to scream- AHHHH!!!! They drug seek allright, but for anything and everything. Vicodin is the strongest thing we carry and we gi...

2. What do you HATE to do at work?

   nursejenrad replied to mickeymouse1205's topic in General Nursing

   I forgot about toenails!!! I hate that too- Major gross-out!

3. What do you HATE to do at work?

   nursejenrad replied to mickeymouse1205's topic in General Nursing

   Its very funny to read what you all hate. Gee.... I hate lots of things. I must pick one and the winner is????? suctioning. Thank goodness we have no suctioning where I work. I have had to suction only enough times to know to avoid it at all cos...

4. Offered job at prison

   nursejenrad replied to tmalone's topic in Correctional

   I work in a county jail and I imagine it is much different then a prison but overall I really like jail nursing. I hear prison nursing tends to have inmates that are much more stable, as county nursing- we see it all. It is never boring and everyo...

5. Disturb you to see a tongue pierced?

   nursejenrad replied to mario_ragucci's topic in General Nursing

   Okay fergus51, lets hear it.

6. Disturb you to see a tongue pierced?

   nursejenrad replied to mario_ragucci's topic in General Nursing

   I also have a small diamond in my nose and I admit that I was nervous that my patients may look at me funny or say something. The cool thing is that the only comments I have heard, are good ones. The older generation folks have given the compliment...

7. You Know You're a Nurse When...

   nursejenrad replied to Brownms46's topic in Humor

   For Halloween 2002 I dressed my oldest (12 year old Jacob) in a homemade costume-(I was in the middle of Flu shot season) I made pants, shirt and a pointy hat out of bio-hazard bags, strapped a sharps container (new-duh!) on his back like a backpack...

8. Most Embarassing Moment

   nursejenrad replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Humor

   Heather, I think this made my whole day- I can so totally picture this and I had tears in my eyes reading this. Your cool! jen

9. Introductions:"New" and "Old" Students.

   nursejenrad replied to Love-A-Nurse's topic in General Students

   Congrats Marcy- I am 31 and trying for my BSN, hope I don't conk out- 3 boys of my own. Good luck and hang in there! jen

10. Scariest thing you have found

    nursejenrad replied to moonshadeau's topic in General Nursing

    Nystatin is used a antifungal, and is applied all over the affected area (The groin in this case) Nitro is a topical (it's in a tube in this case, can be in all sorts of other forms but the tube gave it away) and is measured out carefully for the tx...

11. Scariest thing you have found

    nursejenrad replied to moonshadeau's topic in General Nursing

    Another from the "Thank Goodnes I Walked in That Room" file, NA giving a pt a bed bath was to apply Nystatin to pts groin. She had a tube of NITRO in her hand! [/b] OMG! That would have been some bed bath!

12. EMT to RN?

    nursejenrad replied to FutureRNMichael's topic in General Nursing

    I went to LPN school in 1997-1998. Went to EMT school in 2003 and also got the IV and EKG Cert. I went to EMT school because I have always thought that was the job for me. The catch is that the pay is so low, and as an LPN I made 3x the money. I ...

13. Does YOUR licensing body give out your address?

    nursejenrad replied to nell's topic in General Nursing

    I'm in Colorado and our license says our name and city. No address- thank god, how stupid is that?

14. "Nurse Appreciation Week" gifts from employer

    nursejenrad replied to nurs4kids's topic in General Nursing

    Well, like most of you- we didn't get much. A box of chocolate, 1 box for each department. Not our own of course! A quick pep talk from the director. (WhooooHooooo!!!!!!) I will say that I laughed at a lot of replies and it's great that we CAN l...

15. Introductions:"New" and "Old" Students.

    nursejenrad replied to Love-A-Nurse's topic in General Students

    hi Sarah, I just smiled when I saw your post. it nice to see such happiness. Good luck! I am also getting my BSN, hang in there, it will all be worth it jen