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  1. Subordinates

    sailordave replied to bollweevil's topic in General Nursing

    In some cases the only thing that truly separates a nuses assistant from an LPN or RN is money to attain the degree. My ex-wife attended college to become an RN and was working as a CNA. She had to...

  2. nurses from maintenance point of view

    sailordave replied to sailordave's topic in General Nursing

    And don't be afraid of the elevators. I use to do elevator/escalator repair. I'm terrified of escalators knowing what I know now. A hydraulic elevator (usually 2 or 3 floors) will not fall like in...

  3. nurses from maintenance point of view

    sailordave replied to sailordave's topic in General Nursing

    yep, that's what I meant by a big load. Something to consider is your refrigerator. Don't push it all the way up against the wall. That will block off much of the air flow for the condensor coils...

  4. nurses from maintenance point of view

    sailordave replied to sailordave's topic in General Nursing

    From a plumber's point of view our problem is almost always women. Tampons and maxipads do not go in the toilet. One female nurse in surgery is always clogging the toilet in the surgery nurse's...

  5. nurses from maintenance point of view

    sailordave replied to sailordave's topic in General Nursing

    I once had to help ER remove a wrought iron candle holder from a girl's finger. Took four of us to bend it back away from her finger. Because fishing is big around here a common ER problem is fish...

  6. nurses from maintenance point of view

    sailordave replied to sailordave's topic in General Nursing

    We had a floor closed for various reasons and it was discovered that a homeless man was living in one of those rooms. He was sleeping and showering there at night and hitting the town in the

  7. nurses from maintenance point of view

    sailordave replied to sailordave's topic in General Nursing

    ER story. Late one evening a man walked into the ER with a yellow boa constrictor wrapped around him and he held it's head tightly in his hand. It was his roommate's snake and it bit him while he...

  8. nurses from maintenance point of view

    sailordave replied to sailordave's topic in General Nursing

    I do miss being in the Navy but they won't take me back due to my shoulder injury which caused me to begin failing the fitness test which is why I was discharged. I think the biggest threat to a...

  9. nurses from maintenance point of view

    sailordave replied to sailordave's topic in General Nursing

    To tell the truth, I'm not maintenance. In our hospital maintenance and plant operations are separate. Maintenance leaves at 3:30pm and doesn't work on weekends. We in plant operations must do our...

  10. nurses from maintenance point of view

    sailordave replied to sailordave's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, could you do maintenance and housekeeping a favor. Could you let us know if there's a dead baby in the room before we go inside. I was called to repair the AC in Labor and delivery room. No one...

  11. nurses from maintenance point of view

    sailordave replied to sailordave's topic in General Nursing

    New guy got a trouble call. Request said, "water level in toilet is too high". He goes up to the room with a plunger and found nothing wrong with the patient's toilet. He asked the old man in the...

  12. nurses from maintenance point of view

    sailordave replied to sailordave's topic in General Nursing

    Something else that's bothered me and this comes from being a former patient and my wife being a former patient. It would be nice if after 9 or 10pm the floors staff would turn off most of the lights...

  13. nurses from maintenance point of view

    sailordave replied to sailordave's topic in General Nursing

    What I like most about computerized thermostats is we can set a minimum and maximum temperature and give the staff control of the thermostat. In one office we have the minimum at 68 and maximum at...

  14. nurses from maintenance point of view

    sailordave replied to sailordave's topic in General Nursing

    Some minor problems. Call bells and telephones. If a call bell or telephone is broken and you replace it with one from an empty room, please send a mainenance request letting us know it's broken and...

  15. nurses from maintenance point of view

    sailordave replied to sailordave's topic in General Nursing

    Our nurses station thermostats are not computerized. The floor staff have full control which is a problem. We have one nurse in particular who is always cold. She comes to work wearing longjohns...

  16. nurses from maintenance point of view

    sailordave replied to sailordave's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, this isn't a gripe about nurses cause almost everyone does this. When you walk up to the elevator, only press the button for the direction you're going. Don't press both the up and down...

  17. nurses from maintenance point of view

    sailordave replied to sailordave's topic in General Nursing

    I wish we still had the old handcrank beds. Pain in the butt for the staff but great for maintenance. Just a little lubrication or maybe replacing a shear pin and it was fixed. Oh, I just...

  18. nurses from maintenance point of view

    sailordave replied to sailordave's topic in General Nursing

    What I really like is setting up the education cart for TV/VCR/DVD. I love fooling with home theater electronics so I love it when peds or some other floor wants me to set this up. What I don't like...

  19. nurses from maintenance point of view

    sailordave replied to sailordave's topic in General Nursing

    I don't mind checking on beds. Most of the time it's a simple fix. But if it isn't then the patient has to be moved onto another bed so this bed can be repaired. I know it's a pain to move a...

  20. nurses from maintenance point of view

    sailordave replied to sailordave's topic in General Nursing

    thecommuter, I had the exact same problem on a different floor but with different enviroment. In the other situation the nurse did not curse me out and call me names like the one above did. The...

  21. nurses from maintenance point of view

    sailordave replied to sailordave's topic in General Nursing

    A more constructive point: Some valid reasons to call maintenance for a STAT call include overflowing toilet, leaking pipes (like a sink in a patient room), someone trapped in an elevator, smoke (bed...

  22. nurses from maintenance point of view

    sailordave replied to sailordave's topic in General Nursing

    racing-mom4, I see where you're coming from. I'm mostly venting from a bad day. That and having to deal with bad feet. Twisted my right ankle on limestone road and the inside tendon pulled and is...

  23. nurses from maintenance point of view

    sailordave replied to sailordave's topic in General Nursing

    I'm having a bad day with toilets. One was clogged up with soft-n-fresh wipes and the other with urine sample cups. We do get our funny moments and I do come across some nurses who have common...

  24. nurses from maintenance point of view

    sailordave replied to sailordave's topic in General Nursing

    On a funny note, this actually happened. Was paged to come to a floor. Nurse said, "Oh, I'm so glad you're here. How do you flush yogurt down the toilet?" I can't make this up. Another time I was...