No Stars In My Eyes

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

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    Being a Hostage to Your Bladder

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

    Water, heck! Give me two cups of coffee and I can fill multiple specimen cups to the brim every twenty minutes for two
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    for those who work 12 hour shifts, how long is your lunch break?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to mee9mee9's topic in General Nursing

    Doing a 12 hour private duty in the home, you don't get breaks; no one to relieve you. I bring my meals and eat with my patient. You can get a little 'quiet time' if they nap, but it's not a break per...
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    Capstone confusion.. help!

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to PaigeAlayne's topic in General Students

    Thanks, suni, for saying exactly what I was thinking as I read this
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    Should urine catheterization hurt?

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

    Some women have a difficult-to-locate meatus, or multiple little folds that 'pretend' to be the meatus; the excavating to locate that little booger visually can be VERY intrusive. Having someone...
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    Denying Death As A Society

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

    Previously my husband hasn't wanted to discuss Advanced Directives, Living Will, and DNR status. But one of my patients (dementia, Alzheimer's) was shanghied by his POA (lawyer) into changing his DNR...
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    Denying Death As A Society

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

    My mother told her doc once, "If God sees fit to call me, you'll NOT argue with
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    Have you started antidepressants since becoming a nurse?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Nola009's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Marshall, you are right. My sister has suggested I give up sugar, then maybe I won't need extra medicine. Yuh, uh, okay, thanks. If only it was really that
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    Do you lie when they ask, "how long?"

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to delphine22's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I say, "For-E-V-E-R !" and roll my eyes. It's the truth: 44 or so years; so sometimes I say, "I've been in the business for over half my life!" Or, "I've been taking care of people since I was...
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    Denying Death As A Society

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

    qaqueen, if i could 'like' this 100 x, I
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    Do you clean bedpans or throw them out?

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

    I signed out a peri-skin product to a patient once, only to find out there was a 300% mark-up in the price of it if it was purchased through the hospital instead of at a drugstore. Something may be...
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    Do you clean bedpans or throw them out?

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

    What? Patients in other specialties DON'T PEE OR POOP?!? Wait just a darn minute! I want my money back! I want a re-count! Nobody ever told me about
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    Do you clean bedpans or throw them out?

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

    OMG! Can't feature carrying across the unit an overly full fracture pan, covered, so you can't see if the urine is about to sploosh
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    Denying Death As A Society

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

    I personally truly believe that dying will be the easiest thing any of us will ever have to do......it's the 'gittin' there' that's the hard
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    Do you clean bedpans or throw them out?

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

    Don't the plastic pans get charged to the patients? I've never seen or heard of the paper mache kind! Yeah, I trained in the day of metal bedpans and no gloves ever used for anything except sterile...
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    charge nurse keeps making cna's put residents in danger

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Ninagrace44's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Isn't there a policy regarding lift patients? Your butt is the one that would be in a sling if something were to happen to either you or the patient when transferring free-style! "She told me to"...
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    Should I call off?

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

    I've seen facilities that have signs posted on all the outside doors NOT to enter if you have certain symptoms; yet these are the same places that get bent out of shape if any of the staff calls in...
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    Can having absence seizures prevent becoming a nurse anesthetist

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

    Wouldn't want you as a CRNA, myself, if I was on the
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    Taking NCLEX Jan 7th

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to RunnerRN2015's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I forgot to add the part about walking bare-foot in the snow for five
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    Taking NCLEX Jan 7th

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to RunnerRN2015's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Wow! I am an oldie-but-goodie who took my boards back in the day when it was #2 pencils and filling in those damn little ovals for TWO DAYS of morning and afternoon sessions lasting 4 hrs each. I...
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    Opinion on using the word "retarded"?

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

    Where I grew up around Boston, (50's, 60's, 70's) it was 'queer' that was used as a pejorative, instead of 'gay'. We had to tell my mom she should refer to us kids as "ODD ducks" instead of "queer...
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    Tolerance and acceptace of gay nurses and patients

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to anon456's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    When I graduated in 1971 my first job was at a huge city hospital, and the head nurse, a supervisor and three other staff members were openly gay and it was never an issue. In 1974 a coworker at a...
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    What constitutes a "fall" at your facility?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to mmc51264's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Imminently
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    What constitutes a "fall" at your facility?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to mmc51264's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    So funny to have a Doctor's Order for that!! But pretty smart move to bypass the stupidity
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    What constitutes a "fall" at your facility?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to mmc51264's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Sounds like they need to have a document titled, "COULD Have Been A Fall; Covering Our
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    Complaining about your employer, loudly, at nurses' station

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

    Poe-tay-toe / Poe-tah-toe......s'funny how a thread goes 90 degrees sideways over semantics. Don't get me wrong, I have my trigger words, too; so if it was something that tripped my trigger,I'd be...