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    Charting Bloopers

    Jay-Jay replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    No, no, the PATIENT was to carry out the order! Would have been an interesting sight to
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    Charting Bloopers

    Jay-Jay replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    I think it's posted elsewhere on this site: the physician couldn't think of the correct name for the incentive spirometer, so he wrote: suck balls
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    What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    Jay-Jay replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Uhhh...there's something I'm not getting here! Being a nurse, I gotta ask: by what route did the dentures wind up in the diaper??
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    What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    Jay-Jay replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Kayliegh, you're certainly right on about the laughter being a way of dealing with stress. Unfortunatley, not everyone understands that, especially non-nurses. I really don't recall what happened,...
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    What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    Jay-Jay replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    I was doing my clinical on a medical ward, and heard my preceptor yell for help. We had a patient in an isolation room who was very confused, suffering from gastro, and also had some antibiotic...
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    The Top 25 Witty Things to Say to Your

    Jay-Jay replied to Andy S.'s topic in Nursing Humor

    This reminds me: A lady in Australia won a radio contest for the most embarrassing story with the following: She had a gyne appointment for a routine pelvic exam and pap smear, and after getting the...
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    Charting Bloopers

    Jay-Jay replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    Uh, that's true, Lilli, but if you read a little further down the thread you would have found out the patient was a little old lady with SOB.... I loved the response to the above: "Maybe that explains...
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    Ontario Nursing Shortage

    Jay-Jay replied to Jay-Jay's topic in International Nursing

    Very good question, Iliana! Anyone have an
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    Difference between 22" and 27" stethoscope: Which is better?

    Jay-Jay replied to Rileycat's topic in General Nursing

    I have a serious hearing loss, so the electronic Littmann was the best option for me. I don't remember what the tubing length was, I just know that when I tried to look at the wall mounted BP...
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    10 things you say at work lay people could get arrested for

    Jay-Jay replied to sharann's topic in Nursing Humor

    I actually said this to a male patient today: Spread your buttocks and your legs so I can get this in! I was packing a pilonidal cyst at the
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    Gave pt the WRONG blood!

    Jay-Jay replied to codebluechic's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Codeblue, if it makes you feel any better, I got nailed TWICE for mistakes giving blood, and both times, someone else was at fault. Fortunatly, no one was hurt... The first time was my first time...
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    Any takers? Supressed sexual frustrations of husbands of Nurses...

    Jay-Jay replied to Chellyse's topic in General Nursing

    I just read the above, and I'm having hysterics! OMIGOD!! This is one sick puppy! Actually, my hubby said it does upset him a bit to think that I often see male patients naked, but these days it's...
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    NURSES WEEK ACTIVITIES

    Jay-Jay replied to -jt's topic in General Nursing

    LOL, leesonlpn!! Lots going on here. We're having a luncheon catered by Staff Association. During the luncheon, the various group practises will be presenting skits/poems/stories which highlight...
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    Breast Reduction

    Jay-Jay replied to BerryBear's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, can't speak for breast reductions, BUT I have 2 patients on my caseload right now who developed massive infections after a tummy tuck. One has a cavity in her abdomen about 4" across x 3" deep,...
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    44 days and not one day off.....

    Jay-Jay replied to J in MN's topic in General Nursing

    I read this somewhere recently (Ann Landers?)- "the only way someone can make a doormat out of you, is if you lie down." Mind, sometimes we do it to ourselves. I'm in community nursing, and we are...
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    who left this here?

    Jay-Jay replied to john privett's topic in Nursing Humor

    John, I'm rolling on the floor laughing, BUT, let me say this: I AM HAPPY, SO HAPPY I DON'T WORK WITH
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    Hey, what happened to topic "what really freaks you out?"

    Jay-Jay posted a topic in General Nursing

    What happened to the topic, "what really freaks you out?" Brian, did you pull it because we were getting too gross and disgusting? I thought it was rather therapeutic to talk about stuff like that....
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    Hey, what happened to topic "what really freaks you out?"

    Jay-Jay replied to Jay-Jay's topic in General Nursing

    DUUUHHH! That's what happens when you're browsing the web at 4 am. Sorry, guys, I'll toddle off to bed now, before i stick my foot in my mouth
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    I wanted to walk out with 1 day left before grad!!!

    Jay-Jay replied to Michelle_nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Welcome to nursing, Michelle! Don't worry, we ALL have days like that, it's part of the job, unfortunately. It will get better as you get more experience, and eventually you will have enough...
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    What would you do?

    Jay-Jay replied to buck227's topic in General Nursing

    Buck, I'm floored that your coworkers would be so petty. My understanding of incident reports is that they should be reserved for things such a med. errors, falls, etc., and other situations that...
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    LOUD MOUTHED AMERICANS!!!!

    Jay-Jay replied to LORA's topic in General Nursing

    As my late aunt used to say, "I love a good arg!" The amount of vitrol spewed by some of the posters on this site bothers me, too, BUT I think it is infinitely preferrable to apathy. If more nurses...
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    Why LPN??

    Jay-Jay replied to Q.'s topic in General Nursing

    As Tracey said, in Canada the term is RNA or, more recently, RPN. We also have HCA's (Health Care Aides) and PSW's (Personal Support Workers), but only RN's and RNA's are licensed and have to write...
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    What Freaks You Out?

    Jay-Jay replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    The post about pressure ulcers triggered a memory of a wound care seminar I attended last year. It was before lunch (thank god!) and the presenter was showing all these looovely slides of different...
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    Clinical Disaster!

    Jay-Jay replied to miaka's topic in General Nursing

    I'm posting this in memory of my best friend, the late Ev de Bruin. Ev was diabetic, and when it was almost time for me to have to do my first s.c. injection on a patient, she plunked her insulin...
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    What Freaks You Out?

    Jay-Jay replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Hi, Laura! Our landlord lives in Burlington, he's the minister at a church there, and his wife works as a nurse at St. Mike's in Toronto! Small world! Isn't it great being able to laugh about this...