No Stars In My Eyes

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

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    Implement a RADICAL IDEA! "Medical plan of care."

    I think it'd be cool, but my brain and tongue would get all tangled up trying NOT to say what has been sort of automatic all these years. Though once I called a doc and told him what was going on with...
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    How to deal with +++needy and loud pts

    Anyone "old" enough to remember TEAM CONFERENCES ? When ALL departments involved meet about a specific patient to discuss and plan and problem-solve? Both patients are TOO MUCH for one person to have...
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    Weirdest, funniest, grossest male teenager pt. Stories

    The OP's 'name' was Mtb97... ..Could stand for 'Mischevious teenage boy' , and 9+7=16 !!!!!! So, there ya
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    What's your nursing kryptonite?

    I agree, having dementia patients constantly clustering around you, especially at the med-cart, can be rather unnerving even if they are being 'sweet', as mentioned by an earlier poster. And they all...
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    Low Census...and LOVING IT!

    It's beyond me why anyone would think LTC is easy! The next to the last sentence of your post, when I c/o same, earned this statement from a DON: "That's the reality of things today." Well, that still...
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    What's your nursing kryptonite?

    Had a friend who 'forgot' she had a tampon in.....when she went to the doc about the odor problem and he discovered and removed the tampon which had been there two weeks+; well, she said they ALL...
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    Low Census...and LOVING IT!

    Besides which, just because census is down, thereby possibly creating a wobble in the business wheels, doesn't mean you can't ENJOY THE BEJEEBERS out of the easing up of the pressure. It doesn't...
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    Weirdest, funniest, grossest male teenager pt. Stories

    No-no-no-no! I certainly don't mean anything about creep-o, perv stuff; because I never took the OP's thread that way in the first place! And people do change over the course of their life; I can...
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    What's your nursing kryptonite?

    OOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH EEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
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    What's your nursing kryptonite?

    The maggots at least are cleaning the dead stuff off! What I don't like are leeches on ME! I know the lab-grown leeches do good stuff for wounds that need'em....but when I was young we used to go...
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    Older nurses jealous of new young nurses?

    Here's how I dealt with it when I was a Newbie, and how I deal with it now that I am WELL-(!) weathered : Consider thr source, take what you need, and then let all....ALL....the rest of it go; grease...
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    Weirdest, funniest, grossest male teenager pt. Stories

    Remove the gender equation and just be a NURSE with a w/f/g/ teenager
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    Weirdest, funniest, grossest male teenager pt. Stories

    That's 'cause you're only 23.Alot of things you don't find funny now will change over the years. Don't say "No, it won't" or "Not about that".Talk to me in 30
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    Low Census...and LOVING IT!

    That's a good
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    Saw my first dead body in the hospital

    I've gone through a lot of things with my professional personae in place. That's not unfeeling. I do great in a code, but after it's over, I shake like a leaf, regardless of the success or...
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    the good times - your thoughts! :)

    When I was in nursing school and we first started studying the systems of the body, separately, the teacher told us to not worry if, at first, things didn't always make sense because at some point we...
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    Saw my first dead body in the hospital

    As a student on peds clinical rotation I had to hold a child still for a lumbar pucture; apparently I did this very well . Over the course of those weeks at this large teaching hospital, that fact was...
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    Saw my first dead body in the hospital

    I also saw my first dead body at age 19 when I was an NA in a nursing home. When I came on duty at 3 PM I was told my favorite patient, "Mary" had just died. The charge nurse I worked with and admired...
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    Funny ways little kids describe how babies are born

    When my niece was little (3) her dad's friend and his dog came over to visit. She said "Your dog is bleeding from her butt." The guy said something to the effect that she probably sat on a sharp...
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    When did you decide nursing was for you?

    When I flunked out if community college for non-attendance and my mother let me come back home, before we got home she showed me the jobs classifieds in which she had circled 4 jobs.....and...
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    Stupidest comlaint of the night award...

    I am waiting to hear this one myself. Can you do a careplan without a nursing diagnosis? C'mon! All I can come up with is 'auricular
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    Stupidest comlaint of the night award...

    Seems to me that.......well, maybe we ought not to go there. Never
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    Stupidest comlaint of the night award...

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    Stupidest comlaint of the night award...

    mean ol' mr.
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    Stupidest comlaint of the night award...

    Yeah, what ,