djh123

djh123

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  1. Don't be an Autobot

    djh123 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    "Your call (light) is very important to us. While you wait for it to be responded to - very quickly, we assure you - please consider which enticing beverage you would like to enjoy next, or what...

  2. Don't be an Autobot

    djh123 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    This, and a few other things I've read on here (re: patient satisfaction surveys, for example) make me less resentful that I didn't get hired by a hospital. The world is going utterly

  3. Feeling VERY Incompetent

    djh123 replied to kyfitch's topic in General Nursing

    Whoah, whoah. You are DEFINITELY not the only person who feels like this in your current situation. Sure, there are people who are all fired up and feel like they can do anything, but some of them...

  4. For The Love Of All That Is Holy . . . .

    djh123 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    OK, true, on defiantly vs definitely ... you got me there, at least on the # of syllables. I guess it tricked my mind because the 'iant' seems much less than the 'inite' part ... but still vastly...

  5. For The Love Of All That Is Holy . . . .

    djh123 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    One more - but I could post hundreds, probably: I see people write 'defiantly' OFTEN, when they obviously mean 'definitely'. Defiantly has a totally different meaning, and not even the same number of...

  6. Can nurses do more for patients coming from ECFs with stage III pressure ulcers?

    djh123 replied to Axmann, RN, BSN, NREMT-B's topic in General Nursing

    Yes. And not to blame hospitals either, because as you say, there is good and bad care in all types of facilities, but in my LTC facility, I'm not exaggerating when I say that the worst pressure...

  7. Cx: C/2-3/-1????

    djh123 replied to yeonoh1's topic in Ob/Gyn

    R2D2?

  8. Can nurses do more for patients coming from ECFs with stage III pressure ulcers?

    djh123 replied to Axmann, RN, BSN, NREMT-B's topic in General Nursing

    Amen to some of y'all talking about how crazy it is (re: patient & staff ratios) in LTC facilities. In mine, we have few people who develop bad pressure ulcers, but yet another factor is that...

  9. January 2017 Caption Contest Top 8 - Select $100 Winner

    djh123 replied to Joe V's topic in News, Announcements

    "Bernice, you KNOW I'm not the type to slip psych drugs to myself, but ... some of the flowers look like they have faces. Faces! Or is it because I had to pull that extra shift? Bernice? Are you...

  10. What made you want to be a nurse?

    djh123 replied to MollyM99's topic in General Nursing

    "A Momentary Lapse of Reason", to use Pink Floyd's album title. :^) No, seriously ... it was due to both of my parents being on hospice (not at the same time), my brother's death from cancer, my own...

  11. January 2017 Caption Contest Top 8 - Select $100 Winner

    djh123 replied to Joe V's topic in News, Announcements

    Don't turn and look, but that new pt. of yours - Mr. Freenbean? - he's got his nose pressed against the window, looking at

  12. For The Love Of All That Is Holy . . . .

    djh123 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    Ha ha! That is hilarious. Here's another one I've seen often on here: someone asking for 'advise'. I have to say the same thing I said about 'then' vs. 'than' - listen to how you say it out loud!...

  13. January 2017 Caption Contest Top 8 - Select $100 Winner

    djh123 replied to Joe V's topic in News, Announcements

    What do you think goes faster? - the 30-minute lunch break we get, or the last 30 minutes before you have to leave home to come to work? They both seem to last about 5

  14. For The Love Of All That Is Holy . . . .

    djh123 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    I just had to comment on this one, because I hadn't even noticed until tonight that a sign at work notes that only kitchen personnel can go 'PASSED' a yellow line.

  15. For The Love Of All That Is Holy . . . .

    djh123 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    Something that cracked me up was a short piece on 'your' vs. 'you're', which we know that something like 90% of people seem to get wrong these days. Here the article (obviously) explained the...

  16. For The Love Of All That Is Holy . . . .

    djh123 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    I think it's the way the English say/write it, and it's become more accepted over here. But I might be

  17. You Know You're A Nurse If...

    djh123 replied to Joe V's topic in Nursing Humor

    I'm sure this one has been said MANY times already, but you look at someone's hands and think 'Wow - how easy would it be to put an IV in THOSE veins?!?'. Or this one: I just saw a woman's 'ID' on a...

  18. For The Love Of All That Is Holy . . . .

    djh123 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    Another one that drives me mad is using 'an' instead of and. Yeah, I understand 'n' instead of 'and' in a text, but there are people who use 'an' instead of 'and' in a lot of things other than...

  19. For The Love Of All That Is Holy . . . .

    djh123 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    Oh My God yes. Then instead of than is as inexplicable to me as the people who don't understand woman vs. women. How do you say it OUT LOUD? I've never heard anyone say 'he wuz bigger then me'. You...

  20. Getting around the 18 y.o requirement

    djh123 replied to npaar's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    It doesn't seem that way when you're 14 - or 24 - but life goes by very quickly. No disrespect whatsoever to your daughter, but even if she's very sharp, which she must be if she's in a community...

  21. For The Love Of All That Is Holy . . . .

    djh123 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    I have no idea what 'NETY' is, but I agree with you SO, so, so much. There are many, many other common errors that I could point out, but it's kind of been covered in another thread not long ago....

  22. ER rushing patients to the floor

    djh123 replied to freckles23's topic in General Nursing

    Similarly, in my LTC/rehab facility, sometimes we get someone that really isn't ready to be out of the hospital. So sometimes we have to send them back. Or sometimes we get them stabilized within a...

  23. What Do You Love About Nursing?

    djh123 replied to Allison007's topic in General Nursing

    Well, if you're still reading the comments, here are just a few thoughts. * Nursing school IS hard, is VERY time-consuming, and when they say you jump, you jump (6:40 am clinical? Lab time? Be at...

  24. Is 51 yrs old too old to start LVN school?

    djh123 replied to tperkins740's topic in General Students

    You're not too old. I got my BSN at 54. For me, at least: CONS: memory - if I had a dollar for every time in nursing school I thought 'How can I POSSIBLY REMEMBER ALL OF THAT?' I could eat least go...

  25. Yacker Tracker in the NICU ???

    djh123 replied to Bezoars's topic in General Nursing

    There is no limit to the stupid stuff that people will come up