sharpeimom

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    Interracial marriage and physiology..this is for a paper

    sharpeimom replied to nvsmom's topic in General Nursing

    this is the very same thought i was trying to articulate through my sleep-fogged brain last night as i typed by last response. some people get certain ideas in their heads and they never seem to get...
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    Interracial marriage and physiology..this is for a paper

    sharpeimom replied to nvsmom's topic in General Nursing

    not quite sure what your prof had in mind but, friends of ours had premarital genetic counseling and were told that he carried the sickle cell gene and she happened to carry the tay sachs gene (sp.?)...
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    sharpeimom replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    i've always looked much much younger than i am (still do at almost 61) and when i was just starting out it was a swift pain! one time, after many repeat questions by the same family, got fed up and...
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    When Is Enough Enough?

    sharpeimom replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    i don't know how any caring family member can wish prolonged suffering on anyone they profess to love or care about. my husband and i both have medical (in addition to financial) poas that direct the...
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    What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    sharpeimom replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    when i was doing my psych rotation as a student nurse, part ofit was at a va neuro/psych hospital. one day, i was assigned to an older man who had a great many problems. in the middle of my day, i was...
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    Confess! Whats the craziest force of habit you've done in the "Real World"

    sharpeimom replied to vhern246's topic in Nursing Humor

    some of my "sins": signing rn after my name on a check, tax return, yw membership card, church collection envelope. lusting over fantastic veins. asking my husband when he and the dog come in after...
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    Biggest Misconception about nurses you've heard

    sharpeimom replied to dinah77's topic in General Nursing

    i get totally grossed out if someone blows his nose really really hard in a restaurant while i'm eating. in fact, mucous in general gets to
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    Biggest Misconception about nurses you've heard

    sharpeimom replied to dinah77's topic in General Nursing

    sometimes the best response is what i used to call the look. you know the one i mean. the same one your mother used to give you when you were a defiant teenager and got difficult or said something...
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    Biggest Misconception about nurses you've heard

    sharpeimom replied to dinah77's topic in General Nursing

    we must have! i was in my early thirties and feeling very grown-up and i ended up calling my mom who lived over 1000 miles away and she flew right in to take care of
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    Biggest Misconception about nurses you've heard

    sharpeimom replied to dinah77's topic in General Nursing

    "are you absolutely positive it's pneumonia? have you seen a doctor?" "yes! i did and it is pneumonia." [/i] "well, if you do happen to feel better this afternoon, could you maybe do half a shift?"...
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    Please help with situation

    sharpeimom replied to quistis's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    do you feel you are being singled out? i worked in one private psych facility that had an unreasonable (i thought) absence policy. no matter what caused you to miss or what illness you had, or why you...
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    Biggest Misconception about nurses you've heard

    sharpeimom replied to dinah77's topic in General Nursing

    this one is pretty dated, but here goes anyway... when i told some people who had been friends with my parents when they were alive that i planned to quit my editing job and return to school to become...
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    What do you do when you come across a...

    sharpeimom replied to Despareux's topic in General Nursing

    don't assume either way. i wasn't making a moral judgement when i said i absolutely do not drink. i had an alcoholic grandfather and several alcoholic aunts and uncles plus a couple of cousins. while...
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    What do you do when you come across a...

    sharpeimom replied to Despareux's topic in General Nursing

    as has been stated above, the op is not a mandated reporter. also: 1. for years i used a fluoride-based dental rinse that had a surprising amount of etoh in it,since it was designed for young...
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    Do some patients deserve special treatment?

    sharpeimom replied to CNL2B's topic in General Nursing

    sometimes (often?) patients have absolutely no idea what their options are when they need medical care. we tend to become child-like when we are hospitalized. when i was hospitalized six years ago...
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    Do some patients deserve special treatment?

    sharpeimom replied to CNL2B's topic in General Nursing

    i suspect that neither this patient or his family is going to be very pleased with much of anything anyone in the current hospital does. i agree that transfer to a different hospital is best. i will...
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    Do some patients deserve special treatment?

    sharpeimom replied to CNL2B's topic in General Nursing

    how would you feel had the patient and his family not been so difficult? is that coloring your feeling that this patient does not deserve going the extra
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    Quirky Habits?

    sharpeimom replied to dorisc1981's topic in General Nursing

    as the wife of a man with ocd that inteferes with and affects every aspect of his life (and consequently mine) i can assure you that ocd exsists!! it is very very real and takes much love, patience,...
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    Are You a Member of the allnurses.com Grammar Police?

    sharpeimom replied to PacoUSA's topic in Nursing Humor

    my southern-reared soft spoken husband married a dam= yankee and we pronounce many words very very differently. mostly we either accept our regional differences as part of our individual charm, but...
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    Questions about DNP's

    sharpeimom replied to 4-yroldmentality's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    i'm not a dnp, but do have a bsn, as well as a msn in nursing. i took that route not to rake in more dough, as cardionurse suggests, but, rather, to become a more fully prepared nurse. i didn't know...
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    sharpeimom replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    and sometimes we laugh simply because if we didn't laugh we'd
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    sharpeimom replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    it's more naive, and the idealistic uninformed, never been deep in the trenches kind of remark that only a wide-eyed prenursing student or a nursing student not too far into her schooling would make....
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    Are You a Member of the allnurses.com Grammar Police?

    sharpeimom replied to PacoUSA's topic in Nursing Humor

    problems with that theory: spell checker systems frequently don't distinguish between synonyms,homonyms, or antonyms. you won't always be allowed to use your computer, so you won't have access to...
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    Are You a Member of the allnurses.com Grammar Police?

    sharpeimom replied to PacoUSA's topic in Nursing Humor

    it bugs me when someone says "proceed to go to bed..." instead of "i went to bed.":eek: don't proceed. just do whatever it
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    What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    sharpeimom replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    that's certainly not a valid reason to call ems or for an er visit, but about 10 years ago, a great big spider bit me on my left armpit and it didn't itch. it itched! i couldn't use any deodorant...