No Stars In My Eyes

Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN

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    Nurses' Week

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to ruby_jane's topic in School

    Just love the giant bandaid, that's
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    I'm finally able to stop antidepressant!

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to jrbl77's topic in Health, Stress Management

    If you can do it safely and you are moving through and managing your life from a different and better place now, more power to
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    Pill packets suck

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Emergent's topic in Patient Medications

    I'm with you there, it is obscenely time-wasting! I 'flunked out' of LTC med passes; I have arthritic thumbs and needed two thumbs to push a pill out of the bubble-pack cards. I watched one young...
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    Patients Say the Darnedest Things

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    I just laughed until I choked when I read this one! I don't want to say, "I'd like to see that happen," but . . . Nah, it's still
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    Patients Say the Darnedest Things

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    A 90-something PD patient said, as she was just about to fall asleep, "Don't worry about that supper we had tonight, honey, the meat wasn't spoiled after
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    Patients Say the Darnedest Things

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    I've posted this anecdote on other threads, but it is really worth trotting out again: Was working in a doctor's office, a son brought in his mom. I was doing my little conversational thing as I got...
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    Why do patients.....?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to ArrowRN's topic in Nursing Humor

    My mother did not have to use eyedrops, but one New Year's Eve, per her request, I tried to put mascara on her lashes . . . SIX times! She really tried to keep her eye wide open and look up at the...
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    Patients Say the Darnedest Things

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    Damn
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    Patients Say the Darnedest Things

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    Tried to help a very elderly old man to slide off the exam table; I did not know he had no underwear on and the paper protector had slid over so his bare bottom was on bare steel. Sweat had formed...
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    Patients Say the Darnedest Things

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    When I was doing weekend HH visits I had to go to a small house with small windows and no A/C, to take care of a bedbound patient with multiple bedsores, a foley, chronic constipation, and because he...
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    Patients Say the Darnedest Things

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    It is truly amazing how many 90+ y. o. ladies go into labor and are about to give
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    Patients Say the Darnedest Things

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    This post is soooo true, and I have heard just those very words I don't know how many times in all my years in the biz. Good grief! And, inevitably . .
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    Patients Say the Darnedest Things

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    My PD patient, 95 and intermittently 'with it'...was watching TV. I was doing a crossword puzzle and not paying attention to the TV. Out of the blue (to me anyway) she asked, "Do I have mesothelioma?"...
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    How would you react? Body odor discussion.

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Nurse-rachet1's topic in General Nursing

    I keep thinking that it is entirely possible that woman/patient, in an elevator or in the checkout line at the supermarket, surely must have heard some 3 year old proclaim loudly to an embarrassed...
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    Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    That is simultaneously hysterical and
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    How would you react? Body odor discussion.

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Nurse-rachet1's topic in General Nursing

    Jeeezzz, ya know, there is a lot in this world that is legitimately offensive, but the trickle-down effect is that some people now tend to use being offended as a way of life. They jump at a chance to...
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    Lice suicide!

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to SaltineQueen's topic in School

    Fascinating and funny thread! But now my scalp is very itchy! And it won't quit! I feel the need to alter my screen name for this one post, just to clarify the fact that I have NO LICE IN MY
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    Why do patients.....?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to ArrowRN's topic in Nursing Humor

    The way things go these days, I'm happy to have become completely UNfacilitized! The only meds I deal with are my own...all 5 of them, 3 in AM's and 2 in PM's. I don't fuss, question, spit out, hide...
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    What was it like to be a nurse in the 1980s

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to fatrabbit's topic in General Nursing

    Pretty much anything in this post of sweetpealuvr's was virtually the same for me, even though I was a 1971 grad of a hospital nsg program. With regards to the bed-linen changes: We had no fitted...
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    Pet Peeve Friday

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to SaltineQueen's topic in School

    People who talk down to others, especially to children. I have a family member who has always been supercilious and pompous, who talks down. STILL, all these years later, I would love to kick that...
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    Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    I threw a metal chart at the solar plexus of an resident once. Big Teaching Hospital. And me a Rent-a-Nurse-staffing-plug on the 3-11 shift. A young woman had come in with headaches of unknown...
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    Pet Peeve Friday

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to SaltineQueen's topic in School

    You know, slips could be pretty darn "pet peevy". For instance wayward or broken straps, and . . .STATIC
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    Pet Peeve Friday

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to SaltineQueen's topic in School

    Yeah, and if you insist on wearing thong panties, you can be sure you'll be picking them out of you butt-crack, also! How attractive! Remember when we used to worry about our ​SLIPS
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    Pet Peeve Friday

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to SaltineQueen's topic in School

    Enforce a Mandatory Naked Day at all schools. The trauma of that day should suffice to many as a good reason to NOT "let it alllll hand
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    Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    Working a 'fresh' spinal-cord and burns rehab floor (before there was ever an acute rehab facility); patient was a 70 y.o. man in a w/c, who had received multiple skin grafts for burns over 65% of his...