No Stars In My Eyes

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

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    Should high absenteeism be cause to be fired?

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

    My agency just eliminated PTO........AND DELETED the PTO hours already earned! I had 67 hours earned PTO because I actually postponed a planned vacation to help them out during holidays and management...
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    Me... Me... Me: A Sense of Entitlement

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe V's topic in Nurses Rock

    Besides which, after you've been in the profession longer, you also will feel 'entitled' to gripe and vent There are a LOT of completely legitimate things to complain about in the field today, and I'm...
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    Me... Me... Me: A Sense of Entitlement

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe V's topic in Nurses Rock

    Heh! This ain't no pity party! It's 'war stories' from the trenches! EVERY profession has to be able to squawk and laugh. Service to "The Public" can be extremely stressful and you have to find relief...
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    Me... Me... Me: A Sense of Entitlement

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe V's topic in Nurses Rock

    Got a MiL who is always convinced she's having an allergic reaction to something, or a heart problem, or that she "can't breathe". I don't think she feels entitled, exactly, but she is always...
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    Me... Me... Me: A Sense of Entitlement

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe V's topic in Nurses Rock

    Back in the mid-70's I answered a call for PRN meds at 8 PM, where the patient greeted me with a big smile and said very brightly, "I'll take 'the works', please." By which she meant: her...
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    Joint Commission had me for lunch.

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

    In my state, they now make an appearance on ALL shifts! No
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    What makes a COB crusty?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    How 'bout this one: Boss hires blood-kin to a pivotal position. Relative is inexperienced, immature, without the proper knowledge or inclination to gain needed knowledge, inept, unprofessional, and...
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    What makes a COB crusty?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    What makes a COB crusty? A lot of experience right from the get-go. Time. Trial by fire. Endurance. The fact that nursing care now is seldom patient oriented. That giving time to the patients who...
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    Came across this gem...

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to MECO28's topic in Nursing Humor

    I could hold an emesis basin for a patient and then turn around and have chop suey or chicken a la king, no problem. In nursing school during surgical clinicals, we discussed the procedure we had just...
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    Nurse Career Battery Test

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

    What on earth was in that test? I've never heard of
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    July 2014 Caption Contest: Win $100!

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

    She wouldn't have to rush so much if she'd taken the room in the
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    July 2014 Caption Contest: Win $100!

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

    To think it all started when we gave her that "Let's Play Nurse" kit for Christmas when she was 5 years
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    July 2014 Caption Contest: Win $100!

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

    It's hard to believe that in sixth grade she hated science
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    July 2014 Caption Contest: Win $100!

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

    Where did we go wrong? I can't understand her enthusiasm for the Cadaver
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    Why did you choose nursing?

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

    Though mom was an RN, I never thought of becoming a nurse. Don't know what I thought of becoming; possibly I didn't think about it at all. Well, I went to a community college and flunked out because I...
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    Embarrassing moments

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to ixchel's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Funny at the time: Someone had given a vegetative patient colite (go-lightly was what we always called it) via NG tube as a prep for the procedure to be done the next day. When the nurse went back to...
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    Have you ever puked/fainted/etc at work?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to 0.adamantite's topic in General Nursing

    That's got to be almost worse! What'd you do with it after it came up? Please don't say you swallowed! That makes me gag right here and
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    Have you ever puked/fainted/etc at work?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to 0.adamantite's topic in General Nursing

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    Have you ever puked/fainted/etc at work?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to 0.adamantite's topic in General Nursing

    Twice. First time as a student observing a procedure. The patient with her butt in the air, well 'padded' by Valium. Wished I could have had some when the doc started moving that proctoscope like a...
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    Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    CWP--that was a great story and a really inspired bit of humor! When I lived in Nashville for a while, I worked in a small hospital as a med nurse. One slow night I made a life-size cardboard guitar...
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    Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    There are so many pages to this thread that I don't know if I have posted this before or not. But here goes: I was the med nurse on a small med-surg unit on the 3-ll shift. My assignment, in addition...
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    Theme song to your Nursing career?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to sMoLsNurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    Zappa turned it down? Well, I couldn't imagine it as a M-o-I song anyway. I saw Zappa in concert in Boston in the ? mid-70's and it was kind of disappointing. He refused to do any of his old...
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    Theme song to your Nursing career?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to sMoLsNurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    This is an oldie, but so am I: I'm Willin' by Seatrain I've been whipped by the wind, Driven by the sea, Had my head stove-in, But I'm still on my feet, and I'm still......willin' ( this song has a...
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    Need expert advice on how to pass 39 patients' medication in a 2-hour time frame.

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

    When it is never possible to do the impossible, no matter how hard you try, it's time to bail out. NO job is worth what you have been trying to deal with. Take it from me, the voice of experience who...
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    Why do you visit allnurses.com?

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

    I can't remember how I found AN, but I believe I found the breakroom early on, so I kept coming back because I loved the hysterical humor of the quick-minded, smart, silly people who were posting. I...