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  1. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    Fuzzy replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    I thought that it was the "the worms crawl in. The worms crawl out. The worms played pinnockle on your snout..."

  2. The last thing you want to hear when you get to work

    Fuzzy replied to Tait's topic in General Nursing

    It's bad when the doctor (DVM) meets you at the back door and says "I'm so glad that you are here. I cannot get an IV catheter in a big mixed breed dog". I get there and see a large dog flat out on...

  3. The last thing you want to hear when you get to work

    Fuzzy replied to Tait's topic in General Nursing

    I work for a vet so some of mine are going to be alittle bit different. "The Smith dog was dead in the cage this morning and Mrs. Smith is on the phone right now". "The doctor is going to be late"....

  4. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    Fuzzy replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Speaking of maggots, we had a rabbit come in last week infected with Cuterebra or rabbit bots. This poor creature had at least a dozen lesions. These maggots ar huge some are around 1" long. They...

  5. The dumbest thing you've ever heard...

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

    I was vaccinated for small pox in 1965. I scratched it off onto my leg one night while sleeping. I have a slight scar were it stayed that night. My mother had a knipchon fit about it and called the...

  6. The dumbest thing you've ever heard...

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

    I was readying the oxygen cage for a small dog in crisis. The gums were as blue as the background on this message. The client asks me what I was doing. I explained the process. Her reply, "Oh he's...

  7. Nurses,if it ok to be scared of the hospital ER?

    Fuzzy replied to nobody067's topic in General Nursing

    I'm frightened of doctor's offices and hospitals. This has been a long held childhood fear of mine. However this does not keep me from going when things are bad. I often tell the nurses that I act...

  8. Anyone ever have a famous person as a patient?

    Fuzzy replied to JRP1120, RN's topic in General Nursing

    We see quite a few famous artists, actors, athletes, and other celebs and their pets. We treat just like we would any other person. In fact the whole community seems to do so. I guess that's why so...

  9. the term "animal nurse"

    Fuzzy replied to Clarvina Streisand's topic in General Nursing

    Many Banfields call their "technicians" "pet nurses". Sadly most of their "pet nurses" do not have the training that credentialed technicians have. In fact, most have barely graduated high school....

  10. the term "animal nurse"

    Fuzzy replied to Clarvina Streisand's topic in General Nursing

    Wow a seven year old thread has been brought back to life. I'd like to say that things have changed dramatically in the veterinary profession but alas it has not. The only thing that has changed for...

  11. A Pre-nursing Student who believes...

    Fuzzy replied to digoe74's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    One of my classmates in vet tech school didn't like cats. He thought that they were evil and refused to work with them. One of the small animal instructors took him aside one day when he refused to...

  12. please help! quick baker act question.

    Fuzzy replied to LPNweezy's topic in Psychiatric

    I can tell you from experience if you aren't suicidal/homicidal when you leave you can get that way quickly when those bills start coming in. A person can incur several thousand dollars in bills for...

  13. What does your username mean?

    Fuzzy replied to LifesAJourney's topic in Nursing Humor

    I'm a veterinary technician. Not only am I covered in hair all the time, I'm "Fuzzy" in other areas also. Like when the client was picking the nipples off of her male dogs thinking that they were...

  14. 10 things you say at work lay people could get arrested for

    Fuzzy replied to sharann's topic in Nursing Humor

    I need to get pee from the pu$$y. Oh I really mean that I need to get urine from the cat.

  15. Any of you make excellent grades but suck at skills?

    Fuzzy replied to aem31's topic in General Students

    This is kind of a mind or matter method. Most skills are practiced in front of someone usually a student and/or the instructor. This is why many people with good grades have a hard time with skills....

  16. Clients? Are they no longer patients?

    Fuzzy replied to bassadict69's topic in General Students

    I have a different take on this as I work in veterinary medicine as a cetrified technician (CVT). When I was in school, I was taught that the animal was the patient and that the owner was the client....

  17. If you had to pick two careers/paid hobbies other than nursing...

    Fuzzy replied to AOx1's topic in General Nursing

    I would train and show dogs full time. I would also have a "harvest your own produce" farm.

  18. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

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

    "Lack of planning on your part is not an emergency on ours", told to the breeder that needed a health certificate on a puppy that she was flying out today. "No I will not sign a health for you. I...

  19. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

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

    Do not yell at me because the c-section on your barn cat cost $600. A spay would have been much, much cheaper. In fact there is a vet in the area that charges onlt $50 for one.

  20. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    Fuzzy replied to Severina's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I have learned that if you ask for help for a mental illness, that the likely hood of losing privledges, rights, and other parts of your life increases dramatically. I know (now) from reading this...

  21. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    Fuzzy replied to Severina's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    You aren't taking advantage of the system. The system is taking advantage of you. You have an illness just like a person with a bad back, diabetes, Crohn's disease or any other chronic illness....

  22. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    Fuzzy replied to Severina's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Yes the drugs can really make me fuzzy, tired and sometimes really squirrely. This is why I have a hard time taking them at the levels that the NP wants me to. I take trileptal, lamictal, and...

  23. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    Fuzzy replied to Severina's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I also have been diagnosed with left temporal lobe epilepsy. Believe me it can really screw up your moods. Since I have been diagnosed with epilepsy my mood disorder has changed from bipolar type 1...

  24. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    Fuzzy replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Yes it's true a litter of kittens and puppies can have many diferent fathers. In fact this is quite common in aniamls that are allowed to roam and reprooduce at will. This happens because each...

  25. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    Fuzzy replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    I just assisted in removing a 12 pound pus filled uterus from a 50 pound 8 year old dog. It was an open pyometria that could be smelled for miles. Green pus and blood dripping out of the vulva....