No Stars In My Eyes

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

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    The Dreaded Annual JCAHO Survey

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

    Haven't had to deal with those clip-board wielding folks for a long, long time. Thank God. Private duty allows me a lovely little circle of peace in that regard. I remember the fever pitch of nerves...
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    Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

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

    This afternoon, my 95 y.o. private duty patient with dementia asked me "Would you marry me?" I said, "WHAT?" She repeated it. I said, "Um, well, considering I'm a woman who has been married to the...
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    Funny & Cute Things Our Demented Patients Say

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

    I have a 95 y.o. patient who often thinks I am her mother or aunt. Once she thought I was her husband! The other day, another patient stopped in her doorway. Knowing he frequently cruised around...
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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

    I was told I spent too much time with the patients, that the job was not one of patient care, per se. Good Lord! Why do most of us go into nursing? But they were right in that respect; your 'job' is...
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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

    It's a hell of an ethical dilemma, I know; I was there once myself. I used to wonder how the other 'med' nurses (We had NO ward clerks) actually had time to do the med passes, CBG's, PRN's, phone...
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    Does drinking more water make you thirstier?

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

    Huh! Goes to show you, everyone's different; When I want to allay nausea I can lay on my left side and that dials it down considerably. Best wishes on finding a GI guy! Mine was my first doc-hero,...
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    Does drinking more water make you thirstier?

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

    Danger, Will Robinson, Danger! Aspiration Pending! ( If this makes no sense to you, I'm a lot older than
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    Does drinking more water make you thirstier?

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

    Ya gotta do what ya gotta do. If I were in the same position, I'd be taking prescription stuff, if the OTC wasn't helping. I would also keep a small, plastic-bag lined wastebasket right at the...
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    Does drinking more water make you thirstier?

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

    Holy Christmas!!!!! Waking up to puke has got to be just plain AWFUL! I read somewhere that more water was supposed to help reflux, another one of the reasons I tried switching to just water....
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    Does drinking more water make you thirstier?

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

    Yeah, I run a good blood glucose, always within normal range.The thirst doesn't happen all the time. The other day when I decided it would be a good thing to delete sugar and sugared drinks from my...
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    Does drinking more water make you thirstier?

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

    I think neither low sodium nor low glucose is a problem for me:eek: But when I am thirsty-thirsty, I do have a tendency to try to quench that thirst by drinking too much too fast. I believe it could...
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    Does drinking more water make you thirstier?

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

    YIKES! Good info. Again,
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    Does drinking more water make you thirstier?

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

    WOW! Thanks! This was really helpful!!!! I am, while not HAPPY to hear others have experienced this, at least relieved to feel not so 'crazy'! Y'all are
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    Funniest/strangest dementia patient stories

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Angie O'Plasty's topic in Nursing Humor

    My PDN pt. was eating her lunch and watching TV; I was perusing a catalog. She leaned over and tapped me on the knee and said, "Do you realize you're reading that magazine backwards?" I said, "Do...
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    why nursing is a mess. three simple facts

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

    I remember when nsg. dx. first started; real nose-pickin' language: A Potential for Deficit in Skin Integrity. They said it helped make things clearer. But the thing is, all you had to do was look in...
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    Lack of basic care--appalling!

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to kool-aide, RN's topic in General Nursing

    I wax nostalgic for the day when we had an RN, an LPN, and two aides for 25 patients on a med-surg floor for the 3-11 shift. At 8 PM we all did evening rounds, each of us had patient assignments. We...
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    Lack of basic care--appalling!

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to kool-aide, RN's topic in General Nursing

    Back in the mid-80's I worked at a hospital and we had a sad, sad case admitted; it was a young man, essentially veg'd, who had been sooooo neglected at his nsg. home, that he had multiple decubiti....
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    How many residents is too many for one nurse?

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

    No interviews to any applications. Working as a CNA thru an agency. Have gone thru severe depression and just now stabilizing on new meds. Will make one more stab at applying at a few more places....
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    How many residents is too many for one nurse?

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

    An LTC was my ruin and I will NEVER EVER work in one
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    Verbal, Written Warnings and Termination

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

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    Funniest/strangest dementia patient stories

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Angie O'Plasty's topic in Nursing Humor

    I had a patient once who would use the same liquid medicine on his diabetic foot wounds as he would use on his CATTLE.....As I recall, it had iodine and colloidal silver in it, among a few other...
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

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

    "GO to hell"..?! This IS hell. You know how I know that? YOU are
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    Favorite Dr or Nurse Name

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

    Dr. Sniff.......a
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    Weirdest, funniest, grossest male teenager pt. Stories

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Mtb97's topic in Nursing Humor

    BTL....WOW! And if it were me I'd never want to go fishing again, either! What a spectacular
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    Things you'd LOVE to tell coworkers...and get away with it!

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to General E. Speaking, RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Or under the desk at the nurses