Marie_LPN, RN LPN, RN

I use rain/farm boots with my arch supports for ACLs.

Where i work, it'll get me a small raise.

I've always been told not to work. Well, hell, who's going to buy my food, pay the mortgage, etc? Sheesh.

That's the way VA is.

If being great at math was a requirement, i would have been up the creek, sans paddle.

And the ones that scare me the most are the ones that have been doing that job for at least 10 years, but you only know they've done this for that long, because they SAID so, it wasn't OBVIOUS:icon_roll

The us vs. them attitudes from some people. I'm talking about the tech vs. nurse crap. The job(s) are stressful enough without the i'm-better/more-educated/more-trained-to-do-XYZ crap. Everyone's got a job, everyone's role is important. The whole ...

We get more reactions from the Chloraprep and mastisol than the chloraprep and benzoin.

Sometimes the red flag waves, other times it's joined by bells and whistles.

Getting out of town at least once a month for a weekend.

Not fired, kicked out of a room once, because i asked that the conversation go away from raunch, since the pt. was MAC and was hearing all of this. Got kicked out for "being a prude." While i waiting for my relief, surgeon kept saying to get out, i...

Creating and selling jewelry, and doing the pre-ops at a local office.

Wrapped in a blanket, halfway laying on them sometimes.

Some people's belly buttons hold more crap than a toilet, and we don't wanna ask how long it's been there. Sometimes you can just look at one and you can tell 2 Q-tips won't cut it (i.e. it looks like a 'line' because it is stuck shut.). Also i've n...

Ortho and vascular

We've gotten quite a bit of this happening with our general surgery pts.

A Jacob's tenaculum gets the "point" across w/ the risk of contaminating yourself, though....

Inside.

It would be nice if people didn't use their personal feelings, opinions, and beliefs about abortion to influence someone else's job!!!!:stoneFor those that are choosing to do so, IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU.

It's your job, it's your decision. Whether I can sleep at night has nothing to do with your job. If that's where you want to work, that's your choice. No one else should attempt to influence you one way or the other.

I don't like it, but it ain't the end of the world.

I'll be the one, walking around in nothing but my slippers, raising heck with the staff.

Oh, for Pete's sake.....

Drug addict or not, i'm hearing of a LOT more cases of people dying as a result of no insurance. We had a pt. about a year ago who died of a systemic infection. The infection started from an abccessed tooth. Guess why he never got the tooth taken ...

Nope.