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  1. How draw blood?

    sevensonnets replied to stan0509's topic in General Nursing

    Phlebotomy guy strikes

  2. Linguistic Pet Peeves

    sevensonnets replied to Jedrnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Abbnurse, I couldn't think of a word to describe making a question out of every sentence. Upspeak is it! Thank

  3. Linguistic Pet Peeves

    sevensonnets replied to Jedrnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Not linguistic exactly but I hate the current trend of young people to rise up at the end of every sentence, making a statement into a question. I'm going to hang out with my friends (frunds) tonight?...

  4. Linguistic Pet Peeves

    sevensonnets replied to Jedrnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Then there's bring vs. take. If your child is ill bring him to the doctor annoys the heck out of

  5. Linguistic Pet Peeves

    sevensonnets replied to Jedrnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Yall is a contraction for you all, always directed to more than one person. I'd rather hear yall than You guys especially when one is referring to a group of ladies. And don't get me started on it's...

  6. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    sevensonnets replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    A very long time ago I was taking care of a 102 year old lady who got knocked down by the elevator door at the nursing home and broke her hip. She was totally alert and oriented. She had 5 daughters,...

  7. Nurses don't know the lab

    sevensonnets replied to ezpzpizzi's topic in General Nursing

    To the person who suggested shadowing lab techs: Good Lord, don't we have enough to do already??? If that trend gets started we'll be shadowing dietary or housekeeping next! Nurses have come a long...

  8. Wrongway Regional Medical Center

    sevensonnets replied to Davey Do's topic in Nursing Humor

    Or you could dress them each one in 2 very padded snowsuits with attached mittens a la A Christmas Story and it wouldn't matter if they fell over because they wouldn't get hurt and they couldn't get...

  9. What type of soap do you use?

    sevensonnets replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Nursing

    I like anything Aveeno, the body wash, bar soap and lotion. They're unscented and don't make me itchy like other products

  10. You know you've been a nurse too long when...

    sevensonnets replied to wooh's topic in Nursing Humor

    When you know at least 16 different descriptive terms for a

  11. How old is too old to safely practice?

    sevensonnets replied to traumaRUs's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Ms. Shellie, you are correct. It is a socialistic mindset that wants to weed out the older folks, so now older nurses should be tested for competency and evaluated for early onset Alzheimer's. Part of...

  12. When housekeeping...

    sevensonnets replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

    We had an Xray transporter who didn't think she got a quick enough response to a request to put the patient back in bed so she pushed the code button. She KNEW what she was doing. Earned herself 3...

  13. Reasons patients turn on their call light

    sevensonnets replied to diamondp17's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    And then sometimes it's not even the patient hitting the call light every 5 minutes but the visitors. Seriously, you have 15 precious minutes to visit in CVICU and you're going to spend it calling the...

  14. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    sevensonnets replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    I had a patient who actually was the mother of one of my coworkers. Her blood sugar got really low one night and she told her husband "I think I need some sugar," whereupon he leaned over and gave her...

  15. Some days.......

    sevensonnets replied to roser13's topic in General Nursing

    Tara, your 'extremely careful' 'almost methodical' word choices led you to say something extremely hurtful to another human being, but you do not seem penitent. You should have apologized to Roser but...

  16. Some days.......

    sevensonnets replied to roser13's topic in General Nursing

    Roser, if there was any snark or rudeness here, it was definitely NOT on your part. Algebra 101 is the easiest and most reliable way of calculating dosages and that's all that needed to be said. How...

  17. That one random nugget of information from nursing school that you've never forgotten..

    sevensonnets replied to blah_blah_blah's topic in General Nursing

    Always look at the patient first, never the

  18. If you could pick up and go..

    sevensonnets replied to Libby1987's topic in General Nursing

    I would definitely want to go to either Utah or Idaho, someplace with

  19. Nursing Calculations

    sevensonnets replied to Cmmc911's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    All the drug (nursing) calculations I've ever had to do have required good old basic Algebra 101. Nothing complicated about it and it's easy to learn or review if you need

  20. Bad rep?

    sevensonnets replied to ToriAneal's topic in General Nursing

    Logank622 you are a very wise

  21. How old is too old to safely practice?

    sevensonnets replied to traumaRUs's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    And thus will begin the campaign to prove that most older (and experienced) nurses have some form of dementia and physical impairment and are unfit to practice. We older nurses have been in the...

  22. Old nurses eating young

    sevensonnets replied to YesYesRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    In the first place, older nurses are not OLD nurses. I am older and continue to practice critical care nursing quite well, thank you very much, after 36 years. In the second place, "old nurses eating...

  23. Murphy's Laws of Nursing | Life of a Nurse

    sevensonnets replied to Roy Fokker's topic in Nursing Humor

    If you ever dare utter the name of the worst patient you've ever had to take care of in your entire nursing career, ER calls for you to take report on that very patient. 5 minutes later she will...

  24. Most Embarassing Nursing Moments

    sevensonnets replied to Jessiedog's topic in Nursing Humor

    A long long time ago I was called in late in the morning to work orthopedics (somebody got sick and had to go home). I was rushing around to get everybody set up for their baths so I could start am...

  25. How old is too old to safely practice?

    sevensonnets replied to traumaRUs's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I had a dear friend who practiced nursing till she was 82. She could work circles around all us younger