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  1. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

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

    Thank you,

  2. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

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

    If anyone finds themselves in Philadelphia, P.A. with some spare time to kill check out the Museum of Nursing History at LaSalle University. Besides some very interesting period items from the early...

  3. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

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

    You are so

  4. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

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

    Yes, "laughing gas" is beginning to take hold again in the United States, especially L&D. Laughing Through Childbirth: Hospitals Offer Nitrous Oxide To Ease Labor Pains - Hartford

  5. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

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

    Don't think any posting now were practicing in 1906, but this vintage OB nursing manual is an interesting read. Makes the 1940's and 1940's seem almost like another era. Obstetrics for nurses -...

  6. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

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

    Giving a shout out and credit where it is due. The young student nurse pictured above is a Miss. Susan Petty of Lebanon, Pennsylvania who arrived in NYC to attend Columbia Presbyterian Hospital school...

  7. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

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

    Totally forgot about meal trays! Yes, if someone "expired", went home, the OR, was transferred or whatever their meal was up for grabs. Usually things like ice cream, Jello, soda and or a dessert went...

  8. So is there really a nursing shortage?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to VegGal's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly! When you hear places say there is a nursing "shortage" it often translates into an experienced nurse well seasoned in a particular specialty. Nursing employment market has become pretty...

  9. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

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

    Thanks guys! Am now schooled! Still seems awkward but guess as you all say once you got the technique down it came

  10. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

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

    As with so many other things just men (in this case doctors) to come up with something but not really have be around to deal with the consequences. Around-The-Clock Visiting Hours May Make Patients...

  11. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

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

    Recall an incident that happened many years ago now regarding "name" and "title" when answering telephone. Ward clerk was not at the nurses station and things were busy so neither were any of the...

  12. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

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

    How much do you want to bet patients are billed *way* more than $1/ea. for those plastic bed pans? Leaving aside other things mentioned the whole "bedside kit" is likely a profit center for...

  13. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

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

    State boards being given once or twice a year and some GNs worked themselves up into a frenzy almost to the point of becoming physically ill. It was a two day affair with pencils and paper only. Here...

  14. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

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

    A few more: Hospitals/facilities without air conditioning and used steam heating. Either way you often roasted to death or in the case of winter were freezing on certain shifts because the boilers...

  15. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

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

    Isolation care meant "dirty" and "clean". Those inside the room were "dirty" and passed things out (linen or whatever) out to the "clean" staff outside the door. Things were reversed for supplies with...

  16. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

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

    A few subtle things about this picture. Notice neither nurse is wearing any jewelry other than a wrist watch and their school pins (for the graduate nurse/instructor). Also while the instructor's face...

  17. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

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

    Not for nothing the way that student nurse is drawing syringe photo one posted above looks rather awkward. Am guessing no end of vials ended up hitting the floor. Why is she only holding the vial...

  18. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

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

    Aside from the apothecary system and conversions (which also has largely gone by the wayside), probably one of the biggest mine fields for nursing students in past was volume/time IV drop rates. Saw...

  19. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

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

    It really is a shame calculating drip rates and or "manual" IVs are going by the way side at so many schools. Suppose the argument could be made that "everyone" has electronic pumps now, but is that...

  20. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

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

    Years ago (well until the 1960's or 1950's) when housewives or laundries pretty much starched everything you'd refer to a guy who was uptight as "having starch in his shorts". *Shorts* being his...

  21. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

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

    You can still find Argo and Faultless boxed starch out there, along with Linit and Stayflo liquid. The latter is probably easier to find than the former. Check eBay as well since there always seems...

  22. Am I able to get into a program with these stats?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to kittygraamm's topic in New York Nursing

    I wouldn't retake anything just yet. First you need to decide where you are going to apply then understand how they calculate the required GPA for admission. If a program in question is only...

  23. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

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

    Horrible racket carts loaded with glass IV bottles made as they were being transported. AM, post BM care with real terry washcloths and those tiny bars of Ivory soap. Wheeling BP machines around from...

  24. NYP Acquiring NY Methodist? Any insight?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to bethanysinger's topic in New York Nursing

    West Brooklyn is the new money frontier. There are plenty of households with decent incomes and or health insurance who currently go to Manhattan or Long Island for care. That is one of the reasons...

  25. When did you last see a nurse wearing the old school garb?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    Last day of Saint Vincent's Hospital in Greenwich Village, NYC before it closed. A gradate of their nursing program wore her school cape, cap along with whites to mark the passing of now both the...