babsrich42

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1. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

   babsrich42 replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

   I am a nursing student working as a tech in a medical ICU. My pet peevs may seem silly to some but these things irk me just the same. If I am bathing a patient, and you come in to help, or tell me something, or bring me something, or for any other r...

2. What do you bring home with you?

   babsrich42 replied to Stitchie's topic in General Nursing

   I bring home most of the stuff mentioned daily, empty my pockets on the table, and load them up the next day with all intentions of leaving the said stuff at work.....only to find that this is a vicious cycle. But the good news is you can count on m...

3. Nurses who smoke

   babsrich42 replied to Fivestar22's topic in Safety

   Wow! Seems as tho everyone has an opinion. And I do as well, so let me voice mine now. I am 6 months into being an ex-smoker. I have many friends who smoke and many who do not. I can see both sides of this issue. And the way I see it, we could ...

4. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

   babsrich42 replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

   ohhh here's a yucky one......I and a fellow nurse was giving a female patient a bath and changing linens. The patient was on the vent and really sedated so me and the nurse was talking about what we did the weekend before. Well, we go to trun the p...