Something I failed to make clear was that I was talking about a nurse refusing to assist when she worked in a place where assisting was the standard. If you feel like it's murder, or if it violates...
This may be a very inflammatory opinion--who am I kidding, it IS inflammatory--but I think as nurses, as soon as we accepted the responsibility to be nurses, we gave up the right to decide who gets...
You like cod tongues. You even know what cod tongues are. Purity is your brand at home. You put 'lasses on your toutons. You call everyone "b'y", even little old ladies. You know what GBS stands for....
Muwah ha ha! I am one of semester three's nursing instructors. Watch out! No seriously, WCC is one of the best programs around. We consistently score tops in Nursing Boards, local institutions are...
I worked at UMMC for 16 years. I liked it, but it depended on the unit and the head nurse. We used to have a terrible problem with being mandated, but that's calmed down now. I have to disagree...
This is more of a nursing instructor blooper: I was checking charting when I see the student has charted "Neg Homan's x 1" I read her the riot act about "A pt's got two legs, it should be neg x 2,...
I lived in a place once (fishing village) where everyone in the village wore the same pattern sweater. When I asked why, they explained it was so that if we drowned, they'd be able to id our bodies...
Unless the NG is connected to sxn.... I don't know--I'm a nursing instructor and if I saw "give po" on someone with an NG tube, I'd assume we gave it via NG. That's how he gets the rest of his...
I've been a nurse since '86 and I have a million gross stories. One of my favourites was a few years ago, a patient whose labour was being induced with Cervidil tape (applied directly to the cervix)...