No Stars In My Eyes

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

Member
  • Content

    5,660
  • Visitors

    64,772
  • Followers

    12
  • Likes

    11,720

All Content by No Stars In My Eyes

  1. No Stars In My Eyes

    Medpass at mealtime a dignity issue?

    !!!! This actually sounds
  2. No Stars In My Eyes

    Nursing or Cursing?

    Nurses are always responsible for cleaning up. I'm not being snide, but what do you
  3. No Stars In My Eyes

    Medpass at mealtime a dignity issue?

    I am so glad to hear someone else say all this! Add also the fact that some, well, alot of the patients have some kind of difficulty taking meds or are really difficult to give meds to; that can eat...
  4. No Stars In My Eyes

    Medpass at mealtime a dignity issue?

    Jehosophats! This doesn't sound like it would make anything EASIER! It sounds like you'd be pinging around like that little ball in a pinball machine.Ding-ding-ding! TILT! It must've been an awful...
  5. No Stars In My Eyes

    Weekend Only Nurse?

    NNNNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH! Everybody know that nurses'll work like oxen all the time, for a pittance; and to have a personal life? Whaddya need that
  6. No Stars In My Eyes

    How many residents is too many for one nurse?

    OMG-OMG-OMG! Bless you heart, your legs and your very busy brain! (I know about the rolling eyes, for I am a note-leaver, too. YA HAFTA! Otherwise you don't feel like you've got everything covered!) I...
  7. No Stars In My Eyes

    Weekend Only Nurse?

    What continually amazes me is they keep pumping out nurses and talking about the "nursing shortage" and yet ssooooo many of us can't find jobs and short staffing seems to be rampant. The wires are...
  8. No Stars In My Eyes

    Funniest/strangest dementia patient stories

    Last P.M. Rounds before going home, 98 y.o. woman stirs and murmurs something....I said 'what?'.....She replied, 'Don't lose any sleep tonight, honey, there was nothing wrong with the meat after...
  9. Get a Medic Alert bracelet or pendant; and carry a note from your physician, which you have had copied and shrunken in size and laminated. You can do the same for some text which explains the basics...
  10. No Stars In My Eyes

    I feel like a fool

    Yay! Hurray! Hurrah! Way-to-go! I'm proud of you! And I, for some reason, feel exceptionally
  11. No Stars In My Eyes

    I feel like a fool

    Pleeeease tell us you are out of there and didn't go back. (praying for you, your nerves, your guts and your extreme relief.) Remember: NO
  12. No Stars In My Eyes

    I feel like a fool

    Yes! Quit,quit,quit,quit!
  13. No Stars In My Eyes

    Weekend Only Nurse?

    I prefer weekends fulltime, BECAUSE the population is out there doing everything. I like weekdays off when everyone else is working, because I don't have to battle the crowds.I'm not anti-social, just...
  14. No Stars In My Eyes

    Funny things patients say !

    mommywithplenty---As a 0p/0g....allow me to say :
  15. No Stars In My Eyes

    Nurse suicide follows infant tragedy

    From post by DoGoodThenGo: Everyone is demanding perfection in nurses when it comes to meds, but few are thinking about any sort of support or systems to allow a nurse whom has made a "honest" mistake...
  16. No Stars In My Eyes

    How many residents is too many for one nurse?

    EGAD, people! It's worse out there than I thought it was! Don't you feel, sometimes, like Lucy Ricardo at the candy-packing conveyer belt?!!!!? And the supervisor comes to check and says, "You're...
  17. No Stars In My Eyes

    your favourite??

    I like other nurses who like to, and are good at, starting IV's 'cause I can't hit a vein the size of a garden hose! I'll trade you for trach care or a LOL w/ dementia who needs to be cathed but can't...
  18. No Stars In My Eyes

    Should I feel bad?

    Once a lady went down into her cellar and brought up her silver for me to polish! She was afraid I might have a minute or two when I was sitting . There WAS one of us who DID polish it, but it warnt...
  19. No Stars In My Eyes

    why dont i care like i should?

    I agree. I used to think I was a little too distant on the inside, but I've come to realize that everything is all a part of life, and I have an ability to accept things that others cannot, those who...
  20. No Stars In My Eyes

    your favourite??

    I like gatting a really crabby, difficult patient and after a while I can get them to relax and trust.........and laugh; I love to get them
  21. No Stars In My Eyes

    That Feeling

    Those are the kinds of things that warm our hearts. Wonderful feeling! Good
  22. No Stars In My Eyes

    How many residents is too many for one nurse?

    Sure, on a 'good' night it might seem do-able. But being between the rock and the hard place is a typical ethical dilemma in nursing. We think we 'should' be able to do it; we think if we can just...
  23. No Stars In My Eyes

    Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

    'Nanny' was yelling in her room; she said, "the damn choir is in my closet rehearsing again" No choir, no tv, no
  24. No Stars In My Eyes

    when and how do you know if your employer turned you into the BON?

    Yeah, me, too; they suspected me of diverting a medication of one patient to another patient............yet they never tested that other patient ( and they never tested me either) They also said I...
  25. No Stars In My Eyes

    Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

    Well, a real indication of her tolerance was that she sat up TALKING to her room-mate for several hours after she had 'the works'. It's my opinion that although she was in for 'back-pain', she was...