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    where to !!!! USA OR Canada

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

    Okay.... 1) Apologies sent to paddi by the moderator staff 2) madeleine put on moderation until she learns some manners 3) thread re-opened for discussion Let the party continue! Oops, that was...
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    where to !!!! USA OR Canada

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

    Locking this thread, pending moderator discussion. Also wondering why professionals have to be so rude to each
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    Canadian Politics -- I hate myself

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

    Just a reminder to members that solicitation and advertising are strictly forbidden on this board. Therefore, I have had to edit Jaycee's post. Discussing the pros/cons of the different parties is...
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    Funniest injury you have ever seen.....

    Jay-Jay replied to MrsWampthang's topic in Emergency

    This one made the Darwin Awards. A couple of men were driving in their truck at night on a poorly lit country road, when the lights quit working. It was a blown fuse. One of them got the idea of...
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    Funniest injury you have ever seen.....

    Jay-Jay replied to MrsWampthang's topic in Emergency

    We had a guy on homecare last Christmas, who was on IV antibiotics and BID dressing changes. He'd caught his member in his zipper! I also nursed a cop who'd cut his hand on a broken mug while doing...
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    What Would Cause A Rough, Red Tongue?

    Jay-Jay posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have an elderly pt. with failure to thrive, CHF, and a compression fracture of a cervical vertebrae. Her breath is really, really foul (fecal odour) and her lips are cracked and chapped to the...
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    What Would Cause A Rough, Red Tongue?

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

    Bleahhh! No, don't think she's a stool eater. She's not demented, just depressed! I'll see if the family doc. will consider B12 injections for her. God knows, we've tried almost everything
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    Bear Wanders Through Hospital in Virginia

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

    Are you talking about the incident where a family with a small dog was pulled over by police, and they begged to be allowed to secure their dog, which had gotten loose, without a leash? The officers...
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    Bear Wanders Through Hospital in Virginia

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

    They shoot patients and staff members as
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    IV in AC

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

    Both times I've needed contrast media for a CT study, they started the IV in my hand or wrist. The hand hurt like you wouldn't believe...I yelled as the media was being injected! So, they don't...
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    Help Feels like ice water

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

    Hmmm....might possibly be MS! I thought of that when I first read your post, because a friend of ours who has MS was constantly complaining of her legs feeling cold. THEN I spotted THIS thread:...
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    IV in AC

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

    Nope. Most commonly in the community, our abx. patients have cellulitis. Their PCP sends them to ER, they get one or two quick doses of Ancef, and are d/c home with a saline lock, and orders for Ancef...
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    Personnal lives or reckless?

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

    OUCH! That's giving me an unpleasant flashback to MY last time up on a horse! For the first time EVER in all my years of riding, I got hung up in the stirrup leather (probably because I was trying to...
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    IV in AC

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

    As a homecare nurse, I find that patients being discharged home with saline locks in situ generally have them in the hand. Now, THAT is a lousy place for an IV for a patient who's up and about!...
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    Any takers? Supressed sexual frustrations of husbands of Nurses...

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

    Now WAIT ONE COTTON PICKIN' MINUTE!!! I CLEARLY remember this thread, because it was so weird (the authors of the book are clearly not playing with a full deck, or have some twisted sexual...
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    Do you have a heart?

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

    Nursemike, one thing to remember about elderly females.....see cartoon for details! :D Your instructor probably told you to search for the apical pulse around or below the left nipple, right? He/she...
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    Hieroglyphics Translator

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

    My thoughts, too! Will it help translate doctor's chicken
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    Nurses, Smoking, I have to say it

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

    Time to give the dead horse a decent burial, okay?
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    Personnal lives or reckless?

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

    As one who has ridden a great deal in the past (and has the scars to show for it!) I can well understand the previous posts. I would love to go back to it, but I found I don't bounce as well as I did...
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    Grounds for Formal Complaint about MD??

    Jay-Jay posted a topic in General Nursing

    Okay, I'm going to TRY to state this objectively, though I am still STEAMING mad! :angryfire :angryfire My husband was booked for an angiogram last January. He wanted to cancel it, but the...
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    Grounds for Formal Complaint about MD??

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

    The doctor who did the angio SHARES office space with her, so he had access to all of my husband's records. And my husband had a pacemaker inserted, because his heart would pause for too long between...
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    advice from nurses for a new physician

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

    Gwenith, that was BEAUTIFUL! Where did you get it??
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    5 worse things a patient can do ...

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

    Back when I was fininshing my pregrad, had a patient come in with COPD/chest pain, possibly pneumonia (don't recall details exactly.) Of course, she was a smoker. After Ventolin q. 4 h. around the...
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    PDAs in HH

    Jay-Jay replied to sndrca's topic in Home Health

    Scott, there have been many, many threads about PDA's/Palm pilots posted in the forums in recent months. Suggest you try doing a search on the topic, and post in one of those threads if you still...
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    Grounds for Formal Complaint about MD??

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

    I agree 100 percent! She did offer to get him in with her partner. Actually, I like her partner. He was at another hospital where I used to do agency assignments, and he had a good reputation with...