Davey Do

Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years)

Overcome fear by seeing the funny yet ridiculous side of every situation.- Edgar Cayce

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    Yellow Submarine

    We often discuss another's behavior when we don't understand the rationale behind their actions. Even if we can find no rational reason for the behavior, if we can another who has a consensual...
  2. This is an oft discussed subject, cookie. I would encourage you to put your "NETY" in the Search option and you will come up with a virtual plethora of threads and
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    What is up with the level of entitlement?

    There really is something to that, subee! As a young adolescent, I raised mice as pets and to make a little money selling them to pet shops. I had, at one time, 108 mice. I built cages for them...
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    MS assessment

    That is interesting, helloChristy. The assessments we did gave options of Full ROM or Limited ROM. Elevated or Dependent sounds as though there is a case of edema. Perhaps others leave it blank...
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    LPN role on a medical surgical unit?

    Hi jakrob! I live in the metro east St. Louis area of Illinois and my medical nurse wife Belinda worked med surg for over a decade, and now works in IMU. From what I understand, LPNs can do just...
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    C diff infection control in Independent Living

    Your feeling of being uncomfortable is well-founded, Stacy. Some facilities are required to have a nurse employed if any type of nursing care is provided for the residents. If so, there should be...
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    Simon

    I was looking for pics of a cat for an art project when I stumbled upon the story of Simon, the only cat to ever win the highest honor for animal military gallantry:...
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    Huge Zoom Mistake....Nurse Instructors Caught!

    Well, at least they're
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    So Sick Of Rudeness At Work

    Back in the '90's I supervised a methadone clinic and would work a shift every other Saturday so the regular nurse could have two full weekends off a month. The clinic was closed on Sundays. One...
  10. One of my favs is what a supervisor said to me when he instructed me to perform a task for which I didn't care. He said, "You don't have to like it. You only have to do
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    So Sick Of Rudeness At Work

    I got a kick out of your post, missnursingstudent! You hooked me with "Like, the patient could have been coding, you don’t know why I paged yet". A seasoned childcare worker I worked with at...
  12. Life isn't fair. Back in the 70's, Johnny Carson said, "Life would be fair if Elvis was still alive and all the impersonators were
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    Challenge

    That's where I started, as you can see from my initial sketches: If an idea just minutely interest me, I'll at least do something with it. Years ago, I believed if I didn't have a total...
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    Challenge

    Thank you! It was fun making it out of a used tin foil baking sheet Belinda was going to throw away, some regular and baked clay, and paint! I got up at 0430 this morning to make it after...
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    How to adjust working on different floors everyday?

    I'm retired now, DribbleKing, but for 9 1/2 years, I worked all five psych units at Wrongway. Sometimes, in the days of 8 hour shifts, I worked as many as five units in five MN shifts. The only...
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    Nurses make me sick

    Thanks for the plug,
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    Nurses make me sick

    They're not a pretty sight. I've seen one up close and
  18. If there's anything that I can do, Hoosier, I'll be right next door. In Illinois. I'll be thinking of
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    Challenge

    You know, nursel, I don't believe I ever did that one, and I found the loose association interesting, in fact, it's my stock in trade. Whenever I come up with something I consider unique or...
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    Challenge

    If you haven't seen it on the Nurses Make Me Sick thread, here is the GIF that you inspired,
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    Nurses make me sick

    Please. Allow me,
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    Challenge

    Well, it wasn't a video, but I did make an image of a Flying Fruit Basket image, editing an airplane and a fruit basket, some time ago. Sadly, when I purged some of my files, it was one I deleted....
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    Nurses make me sick

    How about a session in the Argument
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    General Nursing Melting Pot

    Yes Melissa... Thank you. I'll be sure to tell what her you said about her when she wakes up to feed. You got that right! They took my pic back in 1986 at Weed Rover Township Hospital...
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    General Nursing Melting Pot

    1. Couldn't think of her name, but I read some of her articles. 8. Right right right. Lorie Brown's name escaped me. 19. Thank you. That was one of the last pics taken of me at Wrongway upon...