TDub

TDub MSN, EdD

OB, critical care, hospice, farm/industr

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  1. Non-Nurses calling themselves a Nurse

    And remember, "medical assistant" may not mean CMA. I would have felt a lot better if those two dingdongs were CMAs; they would have had medical training and supervision (and most likely wouldn't have...
  2. Non-Nurses calling themselves a Nurse

    Follow up: I went back to the plastic surgeon's office and told the office manager I didn't have the time right now to sue them. However, my revenge was going to be that I took this episode and made...
  3. Non-Nurses calling themselves a Nurse

    My mother had a cyst on her finger removed and afterward it looked pretty infected to me. I took her back to the office and asked the nurse, (as in "the nurse will see you now") what she thought. "Oh...
  4. He said what??

    Has to be a good "hoppy" beer, not the light American bleah beer. Something to do with the grains, which would tie in with the
  5. What company do you use?

    You read my mind. Share the wealth,
  6. Per Diem Nursing Agency

    This is funny--I just did a search on this very topic and would have written the exact question. I need more hours at more money (and who doesn't?). I'm starting grad school in the fall and my...
  7. Non-Nurses calling themselves a Nurse

    Somewhat in the same vein: Vet techs who call themselves "nurses". When you get a college degree in animal nursing, either a AD, BS, MS or a PhD and pass a nationally applied exam, have a Board of...
  8. Share Your Saying

    Found a good one the other day: "I'm gonna do X iffn it harelips the
  9. At first I thought the aide had the BM.
  10. Share Your Saying

    My mom (from TN) used to say, "I bet that went over like a t*rd in a
  11. I once called a man "Eddie" all day int he delivery room, due to the fact the pregnant lady had "Eddie" tattooed on her inner thigh. By the end of the day I realized he was getting less and less...
  12. Doctors' Hell

    We wanted to strangle someone, just not
  13. Doctors' Hell

    No, sorry to say. We stopped what we were doing, stood up and looked attentive. We said, "Yes, sir." My class was the last class to get caps and wear them. I personally loved the cap and still wish we...
  14. Let's see, I have performed the following stupid nurse's tricks: * drank an entire pot of caffienated coffee while studying and spent the day on the toilet groaning instead of studying. *the next...
  15. Nursing School Bloopers

    Classy, real
  16. Doctors' Hell

    i'm so old i remember when we did get them coffee and stand up when they came in the
  17. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    Hmm, I suspect my mother must believe that, because all 5 of us have "fallen" off a couch or a bed before a year old.
  18. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    Is there some folk wisdom about falling before you are a year
  19. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    ala W.C. Fields: "Ah yeeees, the old pork-chop-in-the-underwear gambit, ah,
  20. Wow, our nursing school allows two flunks and then you're out and can never come back. Has no one talked to this
  21. Your Favorite one liner used with patients

    For ladies puttering along in labour: "Ok, I'm going to go our in the hall and do my 'Dilation Dance'". Then I usually do a few steps to amuse
  22. That's a legit
  23. hee hee "bad boy" hee
  24. Years ago, a patient called out over the intercom/call bell system to ask if you could hear the baby cry when he was inside (i.e., before the infant was born) We stifled our giggles and started to...
  25. Oh my goodness, that actually made me gag out loud. A