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  1. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Notice in the 1970's clip it is a nurse offering the "laughing gas" to the woman in labor. Now for the COB query: how many recall using a fetal stethoscope or Pinard

  2. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Problem with knots is that some nurses either via previous military training or perhaps Boy or Girl Scouts made them so the next person couldn't untie. Then what usually happened is the entire sheet...

  3. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    What's a chat about the old days without a few visuals? *LOL* L&D 1950's Notice nurse stands dead in front of camera blocking total view of patient for modesty and privacy. L&D 1970's Only...

  4. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Before Chux came along and or were widely stocked draw sheets were made up with a type of rubber pad or sheet sandwiched

  5. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Hence the term "trained nurse" referring to graduates of nursing

  6. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Phisohex for surgical scrub and L&D, maternity and

  7. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Insane amount of rules and regulations that governed nurses and UAPs to the point places often resembled a boarding school or convent. Got Betadine or something on your uniform? Permission was sought...

  8. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Had actually never heard of "Cascara" until rather recently. Was watching an old "film noir" movie staring Lucille Ball (The Dark Corner), and the stuff was mentioned. Rhamnus purshiana -

  9. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe have missed something but Esme12 normally joins into these sort of threads. Or maybe I shouldn't

  10. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Remember rotating bed linen when supplies were tight. This as in the laundry was closed, and bended knee wouldn't get you anything from another

  11. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    For those up on their apothecary dosage calculations: Morphine hydrochloride ¼ grain Cocaine hydrochloride 1/6 grain Alcohol 90% 30 minims Syrup 60 minims Chloroform water to ½ fl. oz....

  12. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Only recall ever tying knots on bottom sheets is for patients who moved about so much that even the most tightest mitered corners didn't work. You'd make the bed and in an hour or so it would be a...

  13. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Totally left out going to get your hair "done" or doing your wash and set at

  14. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Nice for some people! *LOL* Recall when it was slow the supervisors came up with "busy work" for the nurses and UAPs. Things like cleaning, organizing or whatever the nurses station, linen closets,...

  15. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Knowing what we know today, dangerous as heck; but sounds so good! *LOL* BROMPTON'S COCKTAILBrompton's Cocktail is now obsolete and should not be used. It was introduced in the 1920s at the Brompton...

  16. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Ahh, good ole Sani-White. Known and loved (or hated) by nurses and or mothers of toddlers for ages. If you wore these: Or these: Or maybe these: Then you used this: Guess there is a point to...

  17. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Student nurse Susan Petty sure got around! Peds burn unit, teaching children, playing with children while they got their "sun" exposure. History in Photos: Nurse Training Interesting things from this...

  18. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    No conversation about "the old days" would be complete without including the various Roman Catholic facilities. Sadly so many of them are gone (like Saint Vincent's here in NYC), but their legacy...

  19. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Great story! However feel so bad that the poor woman should have spent her last hours on this earth that way. Am not blaming you or anyone else, just makes me

  20. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Guess the picture regarding the old Roosevelt Hospital program would be nice.

  21. School help

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Kevinthenurse's topic in New York Nursing

    If the persons who told you that BMCC won't accept you with such low grade in math is one with authority to do so; there is your answer. Make tracks and find another program. At this stage you are no...

  22. Failed out of nursing school. Do I have a fair chance of getting into another?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Keisha2017's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Oh I don't know. The College of Staten Island ADN (a CUNY school) has had pretty much the same pre-nursing sequence with a minimum GPA of 2.5 for decades (since the 1980's at least). College of...

  23. Colleagues who hate patients

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Some of you must be very young, as this sort thing is *NOT* new in nursing. Pick your group and there have (and still are) nurses that cannot be bothered and will make it known to God and the world....

  24. Colleagues who hate patients

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You have and had persons who don't like children becoming teachers. Females with little compassion and or humility along with not liking children or whatever became nuns/sisters. So there is quite a...

  25. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Original nurses "uniform" from Florence Nightingale's time onwards was based on that of servants/maids. That is some sort of dress made from a plain patterned but sturdy material (checks, stripes,...