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  1. add your funny TRIAGE complaints from pts

    medsurgnurse replied to er nursing's topic in Emergency

    I think we have a winner of the absolute most ridiculous complaint contest! Did you tell them them "the laundry is down the street, this is a

  2. Help with LTC co-worker

    medsurgnurse replied to abooker's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Call the doctor, tell the doctor that the patient routinely refuses meds until 11pm. Get an order for these meds to be given at 11pm. Then do it. I assume you are 3-11 shift. It will make life easier....

  3. This has been really getting on my nerves lately...

    medsurgnurse replied to GregRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm from the South and I love it that I still sound Southern....while I sit here on "ma big ole stack a college degrees". Although when writing professionally, I can pull off sounding like the...

  4. Non-Nurses calling themselves a Nurse

    medsurgnurse replied to sarajasmine's topic in General Nursing

    So you don't have a problem with non-nurses calling themselves nurses, but it bugs you that those without formal education call themselves CMAs. That really strange. I willing to bet that after you...

  5. **nurses Who Eat Their Young Should Be Kicked To The Curb***

    medsurgnurse replied to suziesunshine's topic in General Nursing

    Bravo!! I agree generalizations about any race, religion or sexual orientation would not be tolerated. Why is is ok to generalize about older

  6. **nurses Who Eat Their Young Should Be Kicked To The Curb***

    medsurgnurse replied to suziesunshine's topic in General Nursing

    Your characterization of nurses who are "middle-aged, slovenly appearanced and without a signifcant other" was prejudicial and offensive. Since you feel that you are repeatedly assaulted by these...

  7. This has been really getting on my nerves lately...

    medsurgnurse replied to GregRN's topic in General Nursing

    Ok someone finally hit on the one that drives me insane. "I'm gonna get my RN." "get my RN" "get my RN" I want to run screaming from the room. This bothers me so much because this person speaking is...

  8. smallpox vaccine gone awry

    medsurgnurse replied to CRNI-ICU20's topic in General Nursing

    Unfortunately, Weaponized smallpox is not 'locked in a vault'. Tons of it were produced the Soviet Union. Literal tons not figurative. There is no accounting of this weaponized smallpox. There are...

  9. smallpox vaccine gone awry

    medsurgnurse replied to CRNI-ICU20's topic in General Nursing

    The vaccination site is to be covered with an occlusive dressing. If the dressing came loose or something the virus could have shed. Those with eczema shouldn't take or be exposed to anyone having...

  10. Pick up Malpractice! They went after my license.

    medsurgnurse replied to SuesquatchRN's topic in General Nursing

    In the newspaper the pond scum sucking lawyers are running ads "Have you been injured or mistreated at a VA or military hospital, if so call us. POND SCUM LAWYERS at 1-800-FOR-SCUM. " I let out a...

  11. phone calls no outsider would believe

    medsurgnurse replied to JBudd's topic in Emergency

    That was very kind of

  12. Worst visitors ever

    medsurgnurse replied to Laught3r's topic in Nursing Humor

    All of the post are stupid crazy. But yours scares me. Is everybody in you town on some roid rage or something. others have had stupid visitors yours are the most inpatient violent

  13. ER Patients

    medsurgnurse replied to vonxojn's topic in Emergency

    because if they would have stayed home they can't win the lawsuit lottery when the the pre-teen daughter actually has a complication or

  14. Funniest Complaint on Press Ganey Scores

    medsurgnurse replied to nursebrandie28's topic in General Nursing

    Are you serious? Do you ever get the DVD players back? I mean if people will steal stupid stuff ( we had thread going about that a long, long time ago) they will steal a DVD in a

  15. Working with the gossip queens.....

    medsurgnurse replied to Elaine_RN's topic in General Nursing

    It's not rather funny, it's positively brilliant. I only wish I had the guts to pull it off. I have shared before that my peer review said 'she doesn't socialize with co-workers.' Because I refrained...

  16. gloves to spike a bag

    medsurgnurse replied to vickynurse's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    yes. yes.

  17. license to breed

    medsurgnurse posted a topic in Emergency

    ER nurses can understand the frustrations of dealing with children placed in harms way by the adults who are supposed to be the caregivers. This doesn't tell the whole story. I read the original more...

  18. When nurses disagree about pain management...

    medsurgnurse replied to flashpoint's topic in General Nursing

    Just what I was thinking. Let her "turn you in" for what giving an ordered medication

  19. "Funny Codes"?

    medsurgnurse replied to burn out's topic in General Nursing

    I heard paged overhead "Code Blue at the Morgue. Code Blue at the Morgue." I said "oh sh*t somebody brought a live one down to the morgue." Turns out a hospital employee fell unconscious in the morgue...

  20. Call yourself a nurse?

    medsurgnurse replied to kittagirl's topic in General Nursing

    Off the topic but after the recent death of Anna Nicole Smith. The media were reporting that a nurse was in the room when she died. (I guess this nurse failed to notice that her patient had STOPPED...

  21. Protect your profession...

    medsurgnurse replied to markdanurse's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I agree. Other professions are continuely advancing themselves as a profession and getting the respect. Nursing stubbornly refuses to advance the educational requirement. I started as an ADN nurse so...

  22. "You're gonna need to learn Spanish...."

    medsurgnurse replied to smkiya's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you. I am not anywhere near a border. But have had a recent surge of spanish speaking population in my community. I was so full of compassion trying to communicate with this non-english speaking...

  23. I really, really feel like calling it quits

    medsurgnurse replied to shining_star28463's topic in General Nursing

    Get a b/p cuff and practice on everybody. practice a head to toe assessment on a family member until you know the steps by heart just like you know your alphabet. You can do it. Really shine. If they...

  24. Posters that are not nurses

    medsurgnurse replied to Cattitude's topic in General Nursing

  25. Terrifying Article

    medsurgnurse replied to TrudyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Women doctors don't want to be on call, That's the most ridiculus thing I've ever heard