jollygreenRN

Before I medically retired this past year I was the house sup for a 220 bed level 2 trauma center. I have an ADN. It can be done, but you have to give respect where respect is due, listen to those in with more experience than you, but also know when ...

Why don't you ask the Nurse Manager yourself? Explain why you want to go over the "teaching moment" (thinking of becoming a HM as a career choice). You can learn more this way with immediate interaction with the HM. Just do it respectfully, asking if...

Here's hoping I can get this right. I've been an RN for over 18 yrs, now medically retired. I was a house manager for over half my career. The actions of the police were egregious and cast a shadow over all our rights. Start limiting rights for some,...

I leave the room muttering about having to go get some extra large gloves! (I'm 6'4", 250 lbs and regularly rip "large" gloves in half while trying to put them on.)

you can write down your patients major medical hx on your nurse's notes just using abbreviations, and you think it's great! Hmmm, let's see, IDDM II, HTN, COPD, CHF, GERD, CRF, R AKA, AND ON PD.:typing

"Just another day in Industrial Paradise!"

Med surg floor expect 6-7 patients with a CNA.

I was in the US Army. Active duty from Jan 83 to Feb 93. first enlistment was Morse Code Interceptor, second was Voice Intercept operator. If I told you what I really did, I'd have to killya....

TBAR- That boy ain't right. CTD- Circling the drain DRT- Dead right there. Nursing Challenge- You know the patient refered to....nasty, disrespectful, FMPS, want's any and all narcotic pain meds known to man on a q1 hr basis, and only by IV push........

Hmmm...let's see. 6 patients, one quiet, one drug seeker with attitudinal girlfriend, one hypermanic, one full code non responsive, two confused. IV's, PCAs accuchecks and TPN. Computers crashed. 2 codes on floor and fire alarm all at same time! One...

Always ask for a urojet if it is available at your facility. When you explain that you are going to "numb" the area, the patients become much less anxious and squirmy.

Oh, Jeez, nicknames for male genitalia:uhoh21: Never heard any:chuckle:rotfl: wood, woody, love stick, bat and balls, tackle, purple helmet warrior, heat seeking moisture missle, old man, one eyed trouser trout, trouser mouse, John Thomas, John Henry...

I think you did just fine. If she was abusing pain rx at home, and refusing same in the hospital, she should of at least had opiate detox orders. Sounds like she may have been going into withdrawl. As far as AMA goes, if pt is not with it enough to u...

It's a little known fact that many soldiers do wear panty hose when out on winter manouvers. Anything to keep hypothermia away. Those rice paddies in Korea get damn cold in the winter.

Do NOT have someone place a plastic swizzle stick inside your penis while tied up at the S&M party and then have it break off. It also confuses the nurses, who when you say you have pain, wonder whether you want pain meds, or are just enjoying th...

This is my second career, first was US Army for 12 years, German Linguist. East Germany went away and so did my job, I was offered retraining in Arabic!:uhoh21: After having just returned from Desert Storm in 90-91 (don't ask me WHY the Army needed G...

I don't think it is because you are a new grad, it is because noc shift positions are VERY hard to fill, and are usually the majority of open positions. I have worked straight nocs my entire nursing career, from NAC to RN and love it. All that "polit...

How about this one? "Patient has been living with her mother for the last 15 years, who is deceased."

Ok, here's mine.....WAAAY back when I was a noc shift cna working my way through Nursing School on an acute dementia/geri psych ward in a large hospital we had a male patient with dementia who was able to ambulate quite well. It was his day 3 with no...

Hmmm, maybe some camoflauge scrubs?:rotfl: I buy most of mine at Sear Outlet. Good quality scrubs for about 20 bucks a set. Unisex scrubs don't fit me. I need 3x tops (6'4" and 260lbs) but due to having a long torso, they are either too short, or the...

Long time lurker here. Nice to see this form. Hmmm. Nursing, from a male point of view. I give it two snaps! Jeez, I guess I'm dating myself, with the In Living Color reference.:uhoh21: Anywho, stuck up in the far upper right corner of the 48 states,...

I am grateful for what I have. What I am NOT grateful for is a government that continues to take and take from the fruits of my labor and WASTE it. :angryfire I give to charities to help people in other lands who need help, and I research those char...

Yep it's a crock. Boeing WILL eventually leave the Seattle area, and probably the US to go to either Brazil or Argentina, if the South American version of NAFTA goes through. I see people every day at work who don't have enough to get by, and all Gov...

Check with St Joseph's Hospital in Bellingham, WA. They have a LOT of Canadian nurses working there. Probably cheaper to hire, less back end Human Resources costs, plus they get a nurse with experience.