No Stars In My Eyes

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

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    Day 7: 2016 Nurses Week Caption Contest

    Nurse: You know that old commercial "Does she or doesn't she? -- Only her hairdresser knows for sure." ? Well, in your case now ​everyone
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    Day 7: 2016 Nurses Week Caption Contest

    Nurse: Oh-oh-oh! I saw something just like this on 'Weird Tales From the ER'!!! Patient: I have PARASITES crawling out of my hair
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    Let's Talk about you!

    Thank yew, Far'wyn. I would like to add one more thing: The entire time I was an LPN, 'they' were saying "LPN's are being phased out." It has taken my whole entire career to see this happening. It's...
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    Let's Talk about you!

    *1971 Grad LPN at a school connected w/ hospital near Boston. Decided I needed to go work at the biggest, scariest place I could, so I wouldn't be afraid in my new work, which turned out to be MGH....
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    4/23 WILTW: It turns out nurses do make the worst patients

    Oh, pish-tosh, Far'wyn! You can LOVE a Hobbit, but it doesn't mean you want your feet to look like their
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    4/23 WILTW: It turns out nurses do make the worst patients

    Yeah, Ixchel, I DREAD shoe shopping! (And bra shopping, too). I can't get shoes on line for several reasons. I can tell the very second I slip my foot into a shoe if the shank length isn't right...
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    4/23 WILTW: It turns out nurses do make the worst patients

    I know "used to" doesn't help, but one used to be able to buy compression knee-hi's in the same colors as scrubs: ceil, maroon, etc. I don't have to wear scrubs anymore, and I only have one pair of...
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    4/23 WILTW: It turns out nurses do make the worst patients

    Thank you! I will go hunt down a pair; my fav clogs are Clark's and I have worn them for years and years! And years! Now they are difficult to find, fashions changing as they do. But the Clark's you...
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    4/23 WILTW: It turns out nurses do make the worst patients

    I learned that a supportive shoe with an enclosed heel actually decreases some of my "splin-shint" or "shlin-spint" discomfort. I have been ​ wearing my much-loved slip-on clogs, however, if...
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    Jacob Rockstar-RN Psych Nurse Action Figure

    Something I posted elsewhere seems appropriate here; sorry I can not credit the poet/philosopher who wrote it: Inside out depends on which side you're inside or out of. My own thoughts sometimes...
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    Let's have some fun!

    You're the finger to my impaction, You provoke that further action. You're Go-Lightly before my test, You're the reason I make a mess. You're Versed that packs a wallop, The tiny cam'ra that finds NO...
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    4/23 WILTW: It turns out nurses do make the worst patients

    Reading through this thread, I have learned that I have lost much of my previous knowledge about nursing interventions and lab values: I have to look things up now as mostly it isn't applicable to my...
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    Could it really be?

    Truly a lie, because I can't hit a garden hose with a ten-penny nail!PP works the Psych Wards in Kansas and wears a small black dog (Toto) on his name
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    Jacob Rockstar-RN Psych Nurse Action Figure

    This was 'posta be in answer to the OldDude's "breaking out" imagery!, not Far'wyn's acquiescence. We're to visualize acne pustules? At least Far'wyn can relax to the imagery of 'expressing'
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    Let's have some fun!

    You're the lancet to my finger, You're a pain that often lingers. You're the corns upon my toes, The NG tube shoved up my nose. You're the stench smelled every day, Burnt popcorn from the
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    Could it really be?

    The prior poster wore colorful underpants beneath white uni pants, and you could clearly see the word "KISS" on her left buttock, and the word "MY" on her right
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    Jacob Rockstar-RN Psych Nurse Action Figure

    So the directional sign is BEHIND them? Are these guys a living example of practicing reverse
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    Jacob Rockstar-RN Psych Nurse Action Figure

    There's a Topic to stay
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    Jacob Rockstar-RN Psych Nurse Action Figure

    Have you ever watched "How It's Made"? Do you realize how MANY things which our lives depend upon are actually constructed with GLUE! Cars? yep. Airplanes? yep. the list goes on and on. Tangentially...
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    Jacob Rockstar-RN Psych Nurse Action Figure

    Don't get mad at OldDude! He is obviously under the influence of Blue Collar In Concert, On Tour, or On the Road...Next, he'll be claiming that they call him "Tater Tot"...because he was a dangerous...
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    What was it like to be a nurse in the 1980s

    Just found this thread, and no time to read through right now, ratz! But I've enjoyed what I did get to read, so I will be
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    What is wrong with parents?

    Ah, but you are mean to their school
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    Do you disclose AN to coworkers

    Hmn, Cattz, that's not how I meant it, though. I'm not a black and white thinker at all, and there's room for lots of different hues of gray. Must be the artist in me. Except-- don't mean to be...
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    Do you disclose AN to coworkers

    I know right now you may not believe it, but oh YES, I certainly can be. I have been known to wither with mere words, succinctly and plainly and truthfully spoken. I'm even better on the page; I've...
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    Do you disclose AN to coworkers

    I intimidated them because they didn't intimidate me! And because I'm " a mean moto-scooter an' a bad