No Stars In My Eyes

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  1. No Stars In My Eyes

    Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

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

    Somewhere north-ish of Cape Ann, 30+ miles north of Boston and maybe 40 min from NH state
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    Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

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

    My nephew's name is, per his parents, spelled with an "ly" at the end, instead of the correct way, with "ley". I always say to him, "How are you, my little adverb?" (Even though he is now 6'4"
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    Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

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

    Also not a pronunciation, but the commercial for the new blood-thinner where you don't have to have freq. blood checks; Guy in the commercial saying he wondered "if I dug deeper I could find something...
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    Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

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

    Hahahahaha, good
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    Nurses req. to be CNA's before becoming a Nurse?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Phoenix16, RN's topic in General Nursing

    I would just like to say that many LTC's already have a revolving door especially for CNA's. I worked at one place in particular that I saw excellent, hard-working, strong and determined CNA's wrung...
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    Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

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

    My step-dgt. used to ask my mother to say the number 44. My mom was born and raised just south of Boston and pronounced it "fawty-foah". That tickled my step dgt so much. However SHE talks with such a...
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    Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

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

    Yeah, everybody know that; just like it only takes 15 minutes to sign up for that insurance they advertise on TV. It's still fun. I am amazed by the fluidity between the ear, the brain, and the...
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    Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

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

    Here in the South there is phrase/word and I have no clue of the etiology for it: "T-Mortal-Hell" There is no "T" in Hell! (Probably no water either!) In context it might be something...
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    Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

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

    My Finnish Nana pronounced manger (as in 'away in a..') with a hard G. :) My mother could not say 'Macon' (Georgia); even though I told her it is pronounced just like bacon, she still pronounced it...
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    People really need to stop coming into nursing

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

    (permit me a brief moment to grumble: "Philippians" is a book in the Bible. The people of the Philippines are not called
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    An Irrelevant Observation

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

    "Me, Me, Oh pick Meeeee! I have splinter in my toe and I can't stop sneezing. It must be somethin' terrible, because my step-grandmother's sister-in-law's dogs' original owner knew someone this...
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    An Irrelevant Observation

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

    Oh! I thought we were just being irrelevant in general, and not just talking about where the hoi polloi swarm during the night. I've seen it, too, entire families camping out in the waiting room;...
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    Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

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

    A little Old-World European fellow used to say "dumpbeling" for tumbling....as in the little drunken bees were "dumpbeling " around in his hand (they were drunken from the fermented sugar-water in the...
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    Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

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

    I grew up in eastern Mass. where it was
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    Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

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

    How about
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    Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

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

    mitten or kitten where t's are silent! And if someone was 'impacted', they better have a bruise or a dent, or be 'stove-up' in their bowels! Impactful is for folks who don't know the difference...
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    Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

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

    When I have a patient who is resistant to briefs or 'pull-ups", as in "I don't need those things!"..... I sometimes refer to them as "just-in-case pants". For some reason that is more acceptable to...
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    Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

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

    I had a patient once who referred to a DESK as a DEST.
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    How many graduates were in your graduating class?

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

    1971, hospital based nsg. program; started with 79, of which 32 graduated Sorry, but I have to brag, I graduated 2nd in my class I only say this because I was not a particularly 'good' student in HS,...
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    An Irrelevant Observation

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

    I am so happy to be "Springing Ahead" one hour on Saturday night. That means the clocks and my dogs' stomachs will be in agreement. They don't do well with being told "It"s too early; too early!...
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    People really need to stop coming into nursing

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

    jaykalkyn-- Come back when you graduate and find yourself in a "that's just the way it is" job. Knowing that is the way of the world "everywhere" is no help. We already KNOW that. Decent staffing...
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    People really need to stop coming into nursing

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

    I'm going for my PhN....A Doctorate in
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    Where there is smoke ... there is usually a cigarette

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

    Wondering.....when pot is decriminalized, will the folks jailed for being caught with pot and paraphernalia or just caught while smoking it (ie, not a dealer) be released from jail? S'gonna be an...
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    An Irrelevant Observation

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

    I believe it used to be referred to as "people watching". Least that's my take on
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    Will this affect my license.

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

    Ah, the old "Paybacks-are-hell" school of nsg.