No Stars, your honesty & humor is so refreshing.
BTW: I think it was a volleyball that bounced in between the old folks who are so absorbed in finding, cutting, and pasting cute & funny...
Davey Do replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing
I was written up 1 1/2 years after starting at Wrongway Regional Medical Center because two techs c/o me not making rounds to spell them. "No problem", I said, "All they needed to do was ask". I mean,...
A refreshing thread, JKL. From my point of view, your posts are well thought out and considered, making them enlightening & enjoyable reads.
Your "getting messages from the ether" reminded me...
I have composed and mailed my third pen pal letter and am basking in the ambulance.
Letter writing is such an enjoyable pursuit- the penning of words, the drawing of images, the stamping of ink...
Back in the mid 80's a Paramedic referred to me as a Let's Play Nurse, which really singed my shorts.
So, I became, according to that Paramedic, a Real Nurse.
But then, in the early 90's, an...
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Some of us are comfortable in chaos and no matter how high our desires to keep things clean, we always seem to drag in the dirt. It's a predisposed genetic personality thing, for I had...
Eleven years ago... 2013, I had been working at Wrongway Regional Medical Center for 10 years and had been in the field for over 30 years.
That was a year that was! My Dad died in June, older...
Nurses still wore whites back in the 80's when I became an LPN, and I really tried to fit in.
I went so far as to wear a white ball cap with my class pin on it:
Maybe...
Well, I'm 65 and retired from nursing at the age of 62 plus 13 & 1/2 months.
"Words of... encouragement". Hmmm... Lessee.
Nursing was a calling for me. I breathed, ate, and slept nursing...
Two errors in the above paragraphs, one being that there is 3/4 tank of $3.19/gallon in the Jeep. The other error is that it wasn't t the banjo connection that was leaking, it was a loose bleeder...
Thank you for asking about my '51 Chevy pickup, the Blue Funk, No Stars. Yes, I still have it and it sits outside if my garage looking like a grunge piece of art sculpture. I love grunge artwork....
While driving my Jeep home from an errand last April, I noted a funky feeling in the steering, so I pulled over and kicked the front tires. That seemed to remedy the situation, so I drove it home the...
I saw my first baby born in March 1983 as an LPN student and I still remember his name. I figured if I ever met him again, I would violate HIPAA, which didn't exist in those days, and say, "I saw you...
I have a theory, a premise, that says society is more impersonally phrenetic as a result of advances in communication technology.
Writing by hand is an act whereby we transfer thoughts and...
This scenario of a HIPAA violation is an oft discussed subject on this website. In this example, where patient protected information was compromised, there were ingredients for the possibility of a...