2ndgenerationnurse

floating the ER one night when a young man came in with his eyelid glued shut ;O( seems his wife would put his eye drops in for him at night and had her bottle of nail adhesive next to his eye drops!!! he wasn't very forgiving:angryfire , though his...

i beat all of you!!! i pay $804 a month! for a UPMC HMO plan, the ins. is for me, dh and kids. it has good coverage but it is sooooo high. it went up about $250 this year and now it is payed after taxes instead of before taxes like last year. :angr...

rotfl:roll have you heard the one about the guy at the golf course.... he was golfing all day when a funeral prosession came by and he stops and takes his hat off and remains still and silent as they proceed... his friends watch and afterward comment...

we are exposed to the sickest people in our world just as an expected part of the job... despite aseptic techniques, contact isolation and isolation when we know we need it, and our best efforts to wash, wash and wash again.... there is still extreme...

i like the idea of having a pair of gloves in my pocet, for quick use and leave them there for that, using the box for the usual needs, i think i will adopt that idea... it would've helped in my earlier situation i posted. has any one on this board c...

i think you are right, but hind sight is 20/20... also you may think about your hospital's rules a different way...you can't sue them for workman's comp etc if you get exposure when you don't follow their ideally written guide lines. we work in the r...

Krissy NY vbmenu_register("postmenu_801069", true); Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Age: 32 Posts: 52 Entire unit quarentined I have shared that I am a new CNA and began work at a new facility. I was on the second floor and then placed in an a...

------------------------------------------------- hospital bulletin: ------------------------------------------------- in an effort to hold the line on escalating medical costs, the hopital is reducing the number of bedpans now in use to o...

cold bedpan complaints!!! great point!!! lol:rotfl: :rotfl:

if it takes a badge and uniform for humankind to use common courtesy then lets hand them out at birth! (or is that what we get when we get our birthday suit? lol :chuckle ) why does the 'bad guy' set us off into such a generalization about our whole ...

Hospital ban for abusive patients search for this thread... in fact i'll go bump it so it will be new for today... it will give you all hope that a wave of standing against nurse abuse is coming. :)

never attribute malice to that which can easily be explained by stupidity..... or a bad day, or a distracted mind, or a brain burp, or...... we all have our stupid days when we just don't feel like the pleasantries of civilized life... so if you meet...

hey adidas99- to your signature "you can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose. " i have to tell you that after i had sinus surgery my ENT Dr. was cleaning my nose with his little suction tool and he was co...

i'm just not sure that any product is as good as the hospitals antibacterial stuff (am i wrong?)... and i am afraid most lotions will just hold on to bacteria in my work place... i have used my hospitals lotion product that is antibacterial but their...

how about what our job does to our hands! the cracking and stinging with each wash and the need for that instant soap when we are in a hurry or in a bad way... never enough lotion to mend them on the run either... i am always glad when i get my coup...

i lost my first baby, very bad Dr., went on the pill as a newly wed, and ended up diagnosed pregnant too late. it was the middle of the night and i had been told to go to bed and hope the labor pain passes, i held the tiny limp body of my child, face...

does the plumper do pillows? that wouldn't be too bad!:chuckle sorry couldn't resist!

i worked at methodist hosp of dyersburg my first 2 years of nursing. it was a good place to work but also a small community hosp, like yours. i worked on the geriatric/pediatric floor and in the nursery. i would go back there if i ever lived in the...

i asked my pt last night if he knew what year it is; he replied, "1999" to which i said, "no it is 2002" :chuckle may i adapt a saying my husband likes and say... when orrienting a confused pt make sure he is not equally needing to orrient you!:ro...

a month or so ago i walked into a confused pt's room to answer a ringing IV pump to find her pumping blood into her bed from her extracted central line site. she had pulled it out leaving it hanging on by it's suture and had lost quite a bit of bloo...

don't ever ask a woman when her baby is due unless she has told you she is pregnant first!:imbar nuff said!

i have had sooooo many skin tests but never possitive... but it always worries me b/c it is something we could be exposed to and not even know it... and be infected with and not know it, worse still!!!

how about home health? i found it to be a totaly different way of nursing, much more relaxed. you take one pt at a time and you almost feel like your own boss most of the time. also i have heard of several RN's going into pharmacutical (sp?) sales ...

i embarass my kids quite often... in fact they have a little book of inside family jokes, most of them are quotes of stupid things mom has said... here is just one such event.... remember when taco bell was giving those little dogs with purchase, the...

i call the day i got my total hysterectomy.. "the day i got all my worries removed" but i have four girls 23, 21, 18, 15..... pms time is not a fun time of the month in this house x4!!!! LOL:chuckle and then not! and then maybe some bickering:rotfl: ...