No Stars In My Eyes

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

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    Please don't call me Dude

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

    I don't think the ma'am/sir thing is offensive. It's just that I felt young, still a 'girl'...ie I was unmarried and responsible to no-one but myself. I felt foot-loose and fancy free. (Didn't get...
  2. No Stars In My Eyes

    Please don't call me Dude

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

    ...or that the speaker is being
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    Help! I look young!

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to hella_RN's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    A sister of a friend was extremely petite and young looking. When she married a guy who was 6'4" and they were out and about, she was often mistaken for his daughter, though they were the same age....
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    Please don't call me Dude

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

    A simple way for me to deal with it is to ask what the person wants me to call them. I am sparing with the ma'am/sir, never use an endearment unless my patient is a long term (PD case) and we have...
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    Why so many 3-11 jobs at nursing homes?

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

    I worked 3-11 for YEARS, but that was when we had a charge nurse, ward clerk, med nurse (me), and sufficient # of aides....ie plenty of staffing. Way different from
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    Please don't call me Dude

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

    Gads, I know exactly what you mean!. Hate it when called "sweetie" by someone 45 years younger than me. But hit the ceiling ,bristling, the first time my new (at the time) husband made the mistake of...
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    You will all probably hate me for this

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

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    Win $100! June 2015 Caption Contest

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe V's topic in News, Announcements

    Well, supposedly, it lowers onto our head, and then 30 seconds later it has rearranged our thought processes; the results desired by Admin. is that we emerge reprogrammed as Stepford
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    BE HONEST! What part of your job do you hate?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Cheers_G's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    It's good to have punctuation,
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    My Fibro

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Guest219794's topic in General Nursing

    Everywhere more than any place
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    My Fibro

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Guest219794's topic in General Nursing

    Is 'Self-Righteous Stoicism" a diagnosis? "Better/Tougher/Smarter/Stronger-Than-You
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    BE HONEST! What part of your job do you hate?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Cheers_G's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I'll give you a BIG ​AMEN on that
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    BE HONEST! What part of your job do you hate?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Cheers_G's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    The part of my job I hate the most is: The last thirty minutes of a private duty must-staff case, on a snowy day. I just chew out the insides of my cheeks while praying that my relief show up and I...
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    Help! I look young!

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to hella_RN's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Oh, I am sooooo guilty! I was looking through the Sunday paper a few weeks ago and ran across an ad for a new FNP that was joining a certain practice, and when I looked at her photo, the FIRST thing I...
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    My Fibro

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Guest219794's topic in General Nursing

    Every time I see the title of this thread, that song by the Knack(s?) "M-m-m-m-m-my Sharona..." runs through m-m-m-my mind. And, yes, it IS "my"
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    If you want to work in psych you must be crazy yourself...

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Msmedic68w's topic in Psychiatric

    Years ago when I was still a relatively new (4 yrs in) nurse, I floated to pass meds 3-11 on a med-surg unit in a small hospital . We received an admit from the ER, a poor fellow in his late 40's,...
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    If you want to work in psych you must be crazy yourself...

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Msmedic68w's topic in Psychiatric

    The way I've always heard it said, it pertains to nurses who have been working Psych for a long, long time, and it is used as an explanation for peculiarities of some COB's. Like, the COB does or...
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    Oh no!.....

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to scrubsrn24's topic in School

    Anybody remember getting out of school the week before Memorial Day and not going back again until the week after Labor
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    My Fibro

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Guest219794's topic in General Nursing

    I may "have" something, but I don't want it to be "mine". If I "got" something, I don't necessarily want it. I am not inviting it to camp out, here! I am very careful not​ to say "my" or "mine"...
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    Meds and a G-T patient

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to buggybum96's topic in Patient Medications

    Didn't work on my pt's clogged
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    Meds and a G-T patient

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to buggybum96's topic in Patient Medications

    So, this isn't about technique, however I just have to add this hard earned information: Do NOT ever, ever, ever give cough medicine via GT without first clearing the tube of all formula, and follow...
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    Does this make me really horrible?

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

    Go back to the original post + you'll see the
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    What's the meanest thing a patient has said to you?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to fangirl's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Oh, many's the time I would've LOVED to have a LeRoy and a Matteo to back me up in certain patient experiences! That is just PRICELESS! Thanks for the belly
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    bon

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to butterfly1983's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Gives new meaning to the expression "He bought the pharm", doesn't it? Old MacDonald had a pharm, e-i-e-i-o And on that pharm he had some drugs, e-i-e-i-o With some Morphine here, Dilaudid there, here...
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    Unwanted 'diagnosis'!

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

    My first impression is he was going to try to sell you some herbs and/or his services as an herbalist/healer......all for a nice honkin' hunk of