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I was a travel nurse up and down the coast of Cali for several years and the further north I went the better the rate of pay. Also I did per diem registry in San Diego for several years and I will tell you, you basically have to be available for ever...

Believe me, this is NOT the behavior you would expect from recruitors. What company are you guys with? I am with AMN and have also travelled with Access and RN Network and I have never been spoken to that way. Even when I am being a dick, they a...

The first time I heard a nurse refer to the "SOB" in rom 12, I got a litttle upset.... till I learned it was short of breath. Had to learn new terminology and acronyms when I became a nurse.

I have a recurring nightmare that I have patients in my bedroom and I can't wake up enough to take care of them. Sometimes I wake up from this dream, and I literally search my room trying to find them. I too have the dream of having a pt that I eith...

Saw this one on an old VW van: O to 60 MPH in 20 min

I don't know if you know what rhubarb smells like, but that's what dopamine smells like....

:jester:1) Maybe some dig stim would be good 2) When did you last poop? 3) Have you been able to pass gas? 4) Pleasantly confused 5) Just a little prick now, ok? 6) This won't hurt a bit... 7) Oh man, that was the biggest poop I ever saw! 8) no, you ...

I think Bradleau is a little confused- he apparently thinks it is OK to laugh at patients, and that he never makes mistakes so therefore it is OK to be harsh in his judgement of someone who is having the same struggles that we ALL did when new to thi...

Wow! You are very harsh in your judgement there Giga. And, maybe in the 5-7 minutes you spend charting, you may not realize you are missing some critical assessment details. Computer charting hasn't been around very long and these older nurses rem...

My word! I had the same experience!!! I had a pt that was post op CABG, doing great and was delined, extubated, and planned to TX to tele the next am. Gave him ambien and 45 min later, he was stark raving CRAZY!!!!! He had hold of his chest tubes ...

I had a friend that had received a homeless pt as an admit from the ER. I offered assistance bathing the pt as he was exceedingly odiferous; and, from experience, I knew moral support was required for this particular bath. So, as we are cleansing h...

I would have to agree with the previous comments.... If what you have infusing only works when not stimulating the pt, let the MD know and try to get prn orders to cover the linen changes, suctioning, etc. But, of course, during the moment that the...

Unless your patient cannot tolerate a turn to one side or the other, you need to be turning them side to side. If they are (and I am talking ICU patients) intubated and sedated, and the potential of pooling and pressure is a definite issue, (I am so...

Most ICUs will give you two patients, even with numerous drips. Time management will come to you, it just takes (how ironic) ----TIME. We have all been through this as new grads. Hang in there you will get it.... it becomes easier as TIME goes b...

By the way, I would like to take offense on your behalf on what Seasoned Nurse class of 1977 said (because it came off sounding a bit harsh), but I have to agree with all that she said. Listen to the wisdom of a very experienced RN, and take heart, ...

I had a somewhat similar experience....as a new grad I worked at a hospital that the nurses took pride in "eating the young". I received little or no instruction and was sent to "critical care classes" which consisted of sitting in a room, reading a...

Adenosine is usually only used to determine what the actual rhythm is, and because of the transient 2-5 second asystole and sense of "impending doom" that it causes patients, we only use it if necessary. So your critical thinking- from my persp...

I worked with a nurse whose friend's little daughter was being pottty trained. When this little teeny tiny girl came out of the bathroom (she had had a successful trip to the restroom) she raised her fists in a winning "warrior" manner and said, "Po...

OK, we have an ER doc here in town by the name of Dr Kills.

I worked with an old "hippy" kind of nurse, who didn't wear underpants under his scrubs, I found this out when he was performing CPR and his scrubs came untied (string caught on the bedrail) and down they came! (Roomful of people all saw more than th...

I was at Payless shoes one day in Wichita KS (13 yrs ago) and I swear to God, I heard a lady call to her daughter, "CLitoris, Clitoris, come look at these shoes."

I called a resident in the middle of the night for HTN probs, and he ordered 5 mg IV pork, and started snoring over the phone. Another time, I paged the resident on call to come pronounce my patient, so while I was waiting for him, another residen...

Okay, this is not so much a mistake as a funny story about myself- yes I am tattling on me.... When I was a new grad, I was very naive to the things of the world... I had a sheltered life and had no idea the crazy shenanagins people do to themself ...

Oh yeah, I forgot the lotion thing, I buy lotion every time I go to the store. Can't get enuf of it. I have 5 bottles on my bedside table. 3 in my purse. 4 in my car. I am a nut, but there are many like me.

I play with my boyfriend's veins all the time. Don't even realise I am doing it. I also fell asleep on the toilet at work one day (In my defense, I was new to night shift and having a hard time resting enuf during the day because I had a toddler at...