No Stars In My Eyes

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

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    How to deal with +++needy and loud pts

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

    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

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

    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?

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

    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!

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

    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?

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

    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!

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

    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 Stars In My Eyes replied to Mtb97's topic in Nursing Humor

    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?

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

    OOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH EEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
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    What's your nursing kryptonite?

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

    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?

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

    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

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

    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

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

    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!

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

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

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

    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! :)

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to butterfly134's topic in General Students

    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

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

    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

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

    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

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

    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?

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

    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...

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to JDougRN's topic in Emergency

    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...

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to JDougRN's topic in Emergency

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

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to JDougRN's topic in Emergency

    EEEeeeeeuuuuuuuwwwwww! OMG!
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    Stupidest comlaint of the night award...

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to JDougRN's topic in Emergency

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

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to JDougRN's topic in Emergency

    Yeah, what ,
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    Nursing or Cursing?

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

    Thanks! I agree! Actually, though, I meant nurses are always responsible for cleaning up in a much wider sense. And I guess I was thinking of it in a negative sense, as in trying to work with and make...