No Stars In My Eyes

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

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    The Official I Hate School Thread

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

    Which leaves me to
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    Jacob Rockstar-RN Psych Nurse Action Figure

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

    Oooh, those "complete and unabridged" paper backs....you'd find them in the thrift store with the "good" pages dog-eared for quick reference. You know, the "racy" parts (HA!) with the heaving bosoms...
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    Jacob Rockstar-RN Psych Nurse Action Figure

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

    Somebody should start a go-fund-me account for poor Eleanor so she can hire a housemaid! Or maybe hire the Dog Whisperer to train the kids! That'd make a good show and I'll bet they'd pay her fairly...
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    The Official I Hate School Thread

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

    I used to live in a small apt. w/ 3 cats. If any one of them used the box I would immediately scoop the poop out......sooo, they got to where they didn't even bother trying to bury it because I guess...
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    The Official I Hate School Thread

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

    I have a dog for whom the Thundershirt did nothing. He was on 0.5 mg Xanax BID for years, then later we tried Trazadone instead. The Xanax worked faster; the Trazadone better over a long period of...
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    Do nurse managers and recruiters actually listen when an employee gives a verbal referral

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

    Got a job for a friend at same place I worked; not too many months later, she was caught diverting injectable stuff and giving herself an IM in the bathroom at work. I felt super-dumb for referring...
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    Valedictorian caught cheating

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

    The incentive to cheat might be that she couldn't stand receiving anything LESS than an "A" and for this particular test she wasn't certain of getting
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    Valedictorian caught cheating

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

    I'd go to graduation just to see what happens! I think not applauding her is a good idea; chatting amongst yourselves during her speech. I'm not much on "BOO"-ing, but I'm not above a really nice,...
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    I've Been Gone Awhile...Advice Please on Getting My Groove Back

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

    My goodness, you've been through so much! I wish I had some help to offer to you. I just wanted to acknowledge your struggles and tell you I am sorry you had to go through all of that. You do sound...
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    Zombie Apocalypse: WWND?

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

    Oh, yeah, "The Second After' spooked the crap out of me.....and I live near, and work nearer, to the location where the plot of the book took place. Although it wouldn't necessarily make me survive...
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    3:00 a.m. victory

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

    Nuthin' like that JOB satisfaction! By the way, I thought that picture was absolutely
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    How did your employer recognize Nurse's Day?

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

    After reading of the astonishing generosity of all our employers, I am beginning to feel like many of us are treated like "red-headed step-children".....no offense to actual
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    When did this trend start??

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to mmc51264's topic in General Nursing

    Read this in the newspaper today: According to the Omaha World-Herald in Omaha, Nebraska: Reversing an earlier decision prohibiting 'bling' @ graduation ceremonies, Omaha Public Schools allowed a...
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    Liking members at AN

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

    Read a lot more than I respond to on the yellow side. Like to read the specialties, etc., just because I find things out of my realm interesting and like learning about new things. Also appreciate...
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    Win $100! May 2015 Caption Contest

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

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    When did this trend start??

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to mmc51264's topic in General Nursing

    Waiting to see the "Carmen Miranda" mortarboard with a cornucopia of
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    Is anything at your work that puzzles you

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

    I guess that is so nobody will sneak 'street drugs' into the
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    if you suck at nursing interviews, clap your hands!

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

    Reckon that's why I didn't see you in the Miss Whatever contest this year. I swear, the last one of those Miss America-type contests.that I saw, the contestant was trying to think quickly to answer...
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    I am starting to love wound care - am I nuts?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to hppygr8ful's topic in General Nursing

    This is pretty disgusting, given what we know now about wound care.....but in the sixties it was not uncommon at a particular facility, for the bedsores to be the size of a dishplate! Now, they were...
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    Is anything at your work that puzzles you

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

    I never understood how, if a person was supposed to be "on-call" (non-nursing person who acts as a CSR) they are not available, especially around shift change.....for call-ins or no-shows..... We had...
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    I am starting to love wound care - am I nuts?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to hppygr8ful's topic in General Nursing

    You, now, you are a little
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    Bedpan? Why not a Poise pad?

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

    This is
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    I am starting to love wound care - am I nuts?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to hppygr8ful's topic in General Nursing

    When I did Home Health visits on the weekends, those wound care visits were the one's I liked best. And I was vain enough to love it when the patients always told me that the dsgs I did were the most...
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    Help! I have to precept a new grad who already knows it all....but not really.

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to GOMER-RN's topic in General Nursing

    Not just in new grads! I worked a PDN case with a woman who was 70-ish, she was a CNA who did night shift.....and I recall several times when she drew herself up to her full height and proclaimed to...
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    Women's Prison

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Shuggahs's topic in Correctional

    Before I discovered AN, I didn't even know there was such a thing as corrections nursing! I'd be interested in reading more of your impressions as you start into this new line of work. Hope it works...