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  1. Doctors Say the Darnedest Things

    sevensonnets replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    Pulmonologist made half his rounds then took off down the hall in a hurry. My coworker started running after him yelling " Dr. H don't leave I need to ask you a question!" He goes, "Well you'll have...

  2. Patients Say the Darnedest Things

    sevensonnets replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    Nurse, that nicotine patch you put on two hours ago fell

  3. Fill In The Blank...

    sevensonnets replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    Can you call the doctor and get me something else ordered for pain? I'm still hurting really bad. Nurse: No, I can't. You had IV Dilaudid 3 1/2 minutes

  4. Patients Say the Darnedest Things

    sevensonnets replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    Once I worked 7A/7P, although I'm days. My patient had several antibiotics to be hung, which I could do fairly easily by the light from the hall. She never once woke up. I tiptoe in with the final ABX...

  5. Patients Say the Darnedest Things

    sevensonnets replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    I was admitting a lady who had a very extensive list of ailments. She started reading off all her surgeries and stated she'd had her prostate removed. I said No maam you did not. She says, "How in the...

  6. Favorite Motivational Quote

    sevensonnets replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    For those times when you think I just can't do this another day: If you eat a live frog every morning, nothing worse can happen to you all day. Mark

  7. Patients Say the Darnedest Things

    sevensonnets replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    I entered my 95 year old patient's room one morning and said, "Mrs. Smith, do you know what today is?" She said, "I hope it's not my d***n birthday again!" I didn't know little old ladies talked like...

  8. Patients Say the Darnedest Things

    sevensonnets replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    We had a patient who had just been extubated, and he kept grabbing at my arm and pulling me towards him. I said what do you want? He said, "A Big Buford from

  9. The good ole days of nursing...share your stories!

    sevensonnets replied to NurseLife88's topic in General Nursing

    They weren't necessarily the good old days. I started out in a small private hospital 38 years ago. One of our GI docs thought he was god and got treated like one. The GI floor belonged to him. No...

  10. The good ole days of nursing...share your stories!

    sevensonnets replied to NurseLife88's topic in General Nursing

    To me the very best thing about the old days of nursing is that you did your eight hours, recorded report, picked up your purse and you were out of there by

  11. The good ole days of nursing...share your stories!

    sevensonnets replied to NurseLife88's topic in General Nursing

    That is so beautiful Annintenn! I'm a BSN not a diploma grad but I came along in that era when patient care and comfort were our number one and only

  12. The good ole days of nursing...share your stories!

    sevensonnets replied to NurseLife88's topic in General Nursing

    Oh yes, the days of pelvic traction, Demerol 50mg and Phenergan 25 mg IM q 4 hours prn. Valium IM q 4 hours prn back spasms. Forget the prn part. You just brought it every 4 hours because you knew...

  13. The good ole days of nursing...share your stories!

    sevensonnets replied to NurseLife88's topic in General Nursing

    I still wear my pin. After 38 years fastening it on is as much a part of the morning routine as brushing my teeth. Only lost it one time. I cried! Finally found it in the pocket of my scrubs. It had...

  14. Allnurses needs nurses

    sevensonnets replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I totally agree with you

  15. Best MD note

    sevensonnets replied to beckster_01's topic in Nursing Humor

    Physician's note: "Patient states she has eaten the fork off her dinner tray. Will do stat xrays and transfer to psych

  16. Dealing with a dirty old man

    sevensonnets replied to BookishBelle's topic in General Nursing

    A coworker once had a patient on the vent who kept trying to pinch her breast while she was suctioning him. Not once but every time she suctioned him. Once day he grabbed her and she told him three...

  17. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    sevensonnets replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    Oh the days of the precordial thump! I kept having to thump this older gentleman, and the last time he opened his eyes and goes, "Lady, what the devil do you keep hitting me

  18. Unreasonable requests

    sevensonnets replied to emmafrancis's topic in General Nursing

    The most frequent request I get is for more chairs. Uh, well, no because we only have one chair per room here in CVI, so the rest of you can just march back out to the waiting room and get comfy. The...

  19. Manipulating Glucometer?

    sevensonnets replied to lreddick's topic in General Nursing

    To somehow manipulate the glucometer she'd have to have access to it. Did you leave it at the bedside so that she was able to tamper with

  20. Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    sevensonnets replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    I'm about to hurt myself you guys reading these stories! I guess I can tell this one in mixed company....had a puppy that liked to raid the clothes basket. I got to work one morning, one of those days...

  21. Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    sevensonnets replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    This was a long time ago and nursing was much different back then. I was asked to come in on my off day and work orthopedics, although I'm a CVI nurse. Got there after breakfast and had to run to...

  22. Why do patients.....?

    sevensonnets replied to ArrowRN's topic in Nursing Humor

    Or when they absolutely do not want that little white pill today because (fill in the blank) it makes me feel funny, or it makes my feet tingle, or my neighbor told me her cousin took it and died. So...

  23. Ever experience violence at work???

    sevensonnets replied to aoguagha's topic in General Nursing

    But there are many of us who have never seen or experienced workplace violence. I have not seen it in 37 years working in a Catholic hospital because any situation with the potential to escalate to...

  24. Ever experience violence at work???

    sevensonnets replied to aoguagha's topic in General Nursing

    I got punched in the face once by a guy that was way overdue for

  25. Weird meeting with manager

    sevensonnets replied to amzyRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Ruby is correct. You must always follow the 5 rights of administering meds that you were taught in nursing school. If you follow them diligently you can't go wrong. And by the way there is no pain so...