No Stars In My Eyes

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

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    What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    Geeeezzz, Pug, nothin' like "gettin' into your
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    This "us" vs "them" mentality....

    :yeah:ABSOLUTELY! BRAVO! YES!
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    What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    i've never heard this one before! cool
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    Insomnia

    I'm doing a little better sleep-wise since I posted here previously (June). I've never heard of elevil being given for sleep, 'least i don't think I have. It just amazes me how many people have...
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    What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    "Great big gobs of greasy grimey gopher guts...." We're having flashbacks
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    What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    :hhmth::hhmth::hhmth::hhmth::hhmth: Thank you for being so totally off your
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    What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
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    501 ways to know you've been on allnurses.com too long!

    223 a.) sleeping pill 224 a.) inspite of blurring vision; close one eye and keep reading with the
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    remember when...

    JBudd-- Yes to all of that! And no dispoable kits for
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    What's your nursing kryptonite?

    DEAL! It's not a kryptonite, but I don't like doing male cathterizations; I am also hopelessly inept at venipuncture. I used to do trade-offs when I worked HH, I'd take the trachs + ostomies,and my...
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    You Can't Be a Nurse Without Love

    The doc/surgeon loved his job, too, though his perception of what was going on outside of himself was a bit cloudy. He loved being able to step in and discern what was required; he loved being able to...
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    remember when...

    Sorbisan,,,,that's that white, thin porous stuff made with a seaweed base? When I was in Home Health, the co. rep came to demo Sorbisan for us so we could request orders from the doc. The thing we...
  14. "You are enough of an adult (32 y.o.) to refer to that portion of your anatomy as a member, you don't have to call it 'my dangler". ( All I could think of at the time was that country (?) song :...
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    Why did you pick your username?

    .....because Lemonjello and La-a were already
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    What's your nursing kryptonite?

    I hate the crunching sound of a chest-tube insertion through
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    What's your nursing kryptonite?

    The girl I was teamed up with for med/surg clinicals had an awful habit of making awful faces....without even knowing it!She'd WINCE while she was giving a shot. I'd have to whisper, " M____, your...
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    What's your nursing kryptonite?

    NOTHING?????
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    Nurses protest at HCA Largo Medical Center

    Of course, because the nurse(s) are always the ones to take all the blame. It's your classic ethical dilemma: do I put my "all" into the job, tyring to improve things as best I can, and risk my...
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    VENT ! Well they won !I am quiting

    ".....& you deserve it!" WTH is that supposed to mean? Awfully quick to call a judgement on something about which you know very little. You ought to rein in that attitude a
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    What do you do on the drive to work?

    Oh, I am old. I've never heard of any of the stuff you mentioned. But I'm not so old I don't appreciate the rattling, ear-stripping aspect............. it's why I have some nerve-damage...
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    What do you do on the drive to work?

    Yup, there are days when I pray the whole
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    My Nursing Career In Six Words

    "what the heck is that smell?"
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    What's your nursing kryptonite?

    I envision 'guests' reading this post and responding: :eek:LOVES COLOSTOMIES!????
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    What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    War stories, after the fact, are half the