No Stars In My Eyes

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

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    I'm an LPN and I understand.

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

    Since my LPN school was attached to a hospital, we got tons of clinicals throughout the whole program. At a certain point in the program, the med-surg clinical instructor would come into a classroom...
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    Long hair unrestrained at work

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

    Gooselady, I had to laugh at the image of the long, long hair being removed from somewhere it had fallen. My hair is just a tad shy of waist length so I have had that experience many a time at home....
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    Accepting aging and disability

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

    So, yes to the documentation, but my plan is to do the eskimo death, essentially. Take some hoarded pills around midnight on the coldest night of the winter, put on a thin, wet nightgown, and when...
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    Long hair unrestrained at work

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

    Looked up the spin pins; wish there had been a few demonstration photos to show how to use
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    Soooo discouraged:( First Med Error

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to LuvTheNurse's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I had the right patient, the right med,but the wrong dose. My only excuse was there were three other nurses in the med room with me, hoo-hah-ing, carrying on humorously,and jabbering; must've done my...
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    I'm an LPN and I understand.

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

    I was an LPN for 40+ years and never aspired to be more. But I was excellent nurse within my scope of practice, PLUS I am summa cum laude and magna cum laude in connecting human to human even while...
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    Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Oh, thank
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    Long hair unrestrained at work

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

    Used to be "off the collar" was the rule. I have very long hair and always wear it back in a ponytail, but I am not in a hospital or LTC. Like one PP said, when I wear it down, people don't always...
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    What was your first post? Do you remember

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    I think the RN under whom I was taking a BoN mandated ($500) ethics course is the one who told me about AN. The timing would be about right. When it came time to appear before the BoN to get my...
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    I'm an LPN and I understand.

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

    Old fogey here, putting in my 2 cents. This, of course, will never happen, but "in the days" of true team nursing, there was room for all, we each worked a slightly different strata according to our...
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    Ask a question till reporting nurse can't answer one

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

    GAAAHHHH! I have to give report once in a while to someone who will interrupt me to tell me what was happening with the PD patient the last time she was on 2-3 nights before. Like it is even pertinent...
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    Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    andi-- You don't "introduce antibodies into the system". The vaccine 'provokes' the body just enough to cause it to form its own antibodies. You don't just 'have enough immunity', as it is not...
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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

    firstinfamily: re LTC's. . . ."the boomers do not want to be housed this way." Alright-alright-alright, and a big fat
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    The B word. Again!

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Esme12's topic in General Nursing

    12 degrees, winds at 35 mph, windchill minus 19. Not expecting snow until tomorrow, but nothing like everyone else is suffering, as no snow on the ground presently.(6 AM) Bundle
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    The B word. Again!

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Esme12's topic in General Nursing

    I would be happy with 72 degrees all the time, never any hotter, and I'd say that my preferred lowest low would be 50 degrees. Then most of the time I wouldn't have to wear a coat. Rain would be fine;...
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    Help me understand the stigma Acute Care Vs. "The Rest of Them"

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

    I thought LTC was awful because there are too many patients the nurse has to pass too many meds to, do treatments on, and the ungodly number of interruptions, plus the endless (and redundant) amount...
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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

    'There is no real future in bedside nursing" ???? Not everyone is working their way to a better, future job. While it's true there is "understaffing and high stress and back-breaking work", in spite...
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    Being a Hostage to Your Bladder

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

    Yeah, it really was an awful thing to do, but I have to admit that even now, all this time and these years later, thinking about it STILL makes me laugh. I guess I'm kind of horrible for that, but I...
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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

    There's no big wave of new grads trying to move me out of my position, that's for sure. Some students do work nights at PD for the times they can study while the patient sleeps. Usually, though, as...
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    The B word. Again!

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Esme12's topic in General Nursing

    I was thinking about y'all mentioning your dogs........I used to have one that, if he looked out the open back door and saw rain or snow, he'd not go out. He went right to the front door instead....
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    The B word. Again!

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Esme12's topic in General Nursing

    Hey, New Englanders, (specifically those North of Boston) was it in the late 70's or early 80's when the snow was so high, if you would've walked at its height, the telephone lines would be about...
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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

    Unless I have a dead rich relative I've never heard of before, or I win some kind of BIG bucks, yes, I will be working until I absolutely can not anymore. Lost most of our retirements (yea, both of...
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    Nursing Pins

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

    Gosh, now that you mention it, I'll have to ask my sister if she has any clue where my Mom's nursing school pin is! She graduated Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in
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    The B word. Again!

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Esme12's topic in General Nursing

    I grew up north of Boston, lived in Cambridge, and also out near Amherst. Used to never mind it when it snowed. Now I live down south and there are two reasons I DON'T like snow here: 1,) Barely...
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    Nursing Pins

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

    I used to wear my school pin (gold) on my ID/Name badge. Then added 5 yr., 10 yr, and 20 year pins (from my agency.) Well, then I found a pin at a flea market that looked like real school pin, silver...