moosemadness

When i was a fairly new nurse, i had a patient who had some serious GI issues from eating meat in Mexico at a little street vendor. Well he was snowed on narcotic pain med and had wrapped himself up in his IV line. I was trying to get his IV line from around his neck and went to slip it over his head when i caught his toupee w/ my fingers and the thing jumped up at me and I screamed and smashed it back down and caught the IV line under his toupee. His Princess wife just glared at me. I ran out the door to the utility room and laughed so hard i was crying and all the other nurses thought something was wrong till i told them... LOL.. I still laugh at that one.....:imbar

Well, I hope you passed. I took the NCLEX so long ago that it was still on paper and took 2 days to complete... 2 VERY LONG days. Plus you didn't get results till almost 2-3 months later. Try that on your nerves. Luckly I passed and I felt I had passed when I left. I wasn't a good test taker in school but for some reason, I felt good on my NCLEX and did pass. Now many moons later, I'm still in nursing. Good luck.

Sounds like to me there is more to it than nursing... thought about see a mental health doc???? Sounds like you need too, and it's ok, don't get me wrong, but explore this option.

How about: "when you ask me for a pen to use, even though there is one in the pen jar right in front of your face, don't just stick your hand out, stare at the order sheet and say 'pen!'. I'm NOT giving you my pen...... if you were to say 'do you have a pen i could borrow please', i would give you one. I don't let my kids or my husband talk to me like that, I'm sure as H*ll not going to let you........ by the way, Planon (spelling??).... don't be a kill joy, this is a FUN thread....... Keep em coming girls.....

That is too bad some one was like that, however, I get the opposite. I have been called cracker and have had patients only want AA or native American nurses or would only talk to the tech b/c she was AA or Native American. Its stupid really. It's so childish, we are all AMERICANS, if you were born in American, you're American. Who cares what color your skin is or how you talk. If you are a professional, treat your patients the same no matter what color they are.... then just ignore those other people. Maybe they just need a friend and don't know how to connect to you. I was raised in NC and have lived everywhere due to the military and people assume certain things b/c of my accent and b/c i'm from the south. Who cares..... We all eat fried chicken..... it's just the way life is/used to be... just like most Native Alaskans eat herring eggs. Just because they live there and that is how they were raised. Race will only be an issue if people keep making it an issue. I have people assume that b/c i'm white, that I voted for McCain b/c he's white, No..... I voted for him b/c I like what he stood for, not b/c he was white or Obama "black". If McCain was "black" I'd still voted for him and against Obama. If Condalessa Rice was running, I'd voted for her against McCain. People should just be people and forget all that mess. There is racism everywhere and that will be hard to get over. Not just in our culture but others too....... it doesn't matter where you live or what color you are, there are racist in EVERY country against MANY different people.....There has been racism since before Jesus........so my advice...... just ignore them and do your job the best you can and be as professional as possible and then you can hold your head up high.........

Ok you two (golyte and heavens nurse), play nice in the sand box. I actually enjoy reading peoples stories of what they have seen regarding a person dying, but you two need to drop it.

The native Alaskans will have a "pot Latch" celebration aprox 40 days after the funeral and it is a big time event. I'm not native Alaskan, but I lived there a little while and saw/heard about this. It was also a celebration of life.

I understand completely. I spent 7 hours in my kids room cleaning up and trying to get ready for new carpet to be installed at the end of the week. My room on the other hand is worse. There just isn't enough time in the day to be a Mom and a Nurse, so my house suffers. :chuckle

Has any female worked in a male prison? How/what did your husband think of that? What are the hours of prison nursing? Is it harder to be female in a male prison? Thanks

Oh my gosh, superglue to the "man" part. Too funny!!!! I'm still laughing

a 120 poung PUPPY!!!! Good grief. I had a lady come in er once, many moons ago when I worked there for about 4 months who had a false fingernail come off and wanted the doc to put it back on. No kidding

I have a new one, from yesterday. We were in a fetal distress situation and I'm trying to get an IV in the lady, and it went right in and all of a sudden I realized I had the IV started but forgot the fluids!!! So, i'm standing there smashed into a corner w/ this IV and feeling real stupid when the baby's head delivered and I was told never mind. I felt sooooooooo stupid.

When I was a brand new nurse, I was trying not to disturb this man who had some bad GI problems and had had lots of narcotic pain meds. I noticed he had somehow got his IV line wrapped around his neck in a way that didn't look safe, so as I go to pull the IV line over his head, his tupee came flying off at me, then I tried to put it back on and got the IV line Under the tupee (not sure I spelled that right, but...) you get the jist. Anyhow, i went to the diry laundry room and was laughing so hard i had tears in my eyes and all the seasoned nurses thought I was crying. When I finally was able to tell them they all laughted too.

Had two funny ones, First, a lady came in b/c her fake fingernail fell off and wanted the doc's to put it back on and second, a guy came in for a small, very small, bruise after getting blood drawn. (his wife made him he said)

my husband also gets "weirded out" when I start feeling his veins, can be watching t.v and playing w/ his veins and he just doesn't get why I like to feel them. (he lets me though....) however over the years i have gotten him to watch more t.v. shows that have true life event in them. He still won't watch "trauma: Life in the ER". But he's getting better w/ "The First 48". I love to gross him out.