No Stars In My Eyes

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

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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...
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    Medpass at mealtime a dignity issue?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to GLORIAmunchkin72's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    !!!! This actually sounds
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    Nursing or Cursing?

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

    Nurses are always responsible for cleaning up. I'm not being snide, but what do you
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    Medpass at mealtime a dignity issue?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to GLORIAmunchkin72's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    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...
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    Medpass at mealtime a dignity issue?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to GLORIAmunchkin72's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    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...
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    Weekend Only Nurse?

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

    NNNNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH! Everybody know that nurses'll work like oxen all the time, for a pittance; and to have a personal life? Whaddya need that
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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

    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...
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    Weekend Only Nurse?

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

    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...
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    Funniest/strangest dementia patient stories

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

    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...
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    Advice Needed: Helping Nurses Recognize a Dangerous but Obscure Condition

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

    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...
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    I feel like a fool

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

    Yay! Hurray! Hurrah! Way-to-go! I'm proud of you! And I, for some reason, feel exceptionally
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    I feel like a fool

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

    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
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    I feel like a fool

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

    Yes! Quit,quit,quit,quit!
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    Weekend Only Nurse?

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

    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...
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    Funny things patients say !

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

    mommywithplenty---As a 0p/0g....allow me to say :
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    Nurse suicide follows infant tragedy

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to babyNP.'s topic in Nursing News

    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...
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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

    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...
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    your favourite??

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

    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...
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    Should I feel bad?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to PediLove2147's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    why dont i care like i should?

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

    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...
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    your favourite??

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

    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
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    That Feeling

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

    Those are the kinds of things that warm our hearts. Wonderful feeling! Good
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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

    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...
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    Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Nursing Humor

    'Nanny' was yelling in her room; she said, "the damn choir is in my closet rehearsing again" No choir, no tv, no
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    when and how do you know if your employer turned you into the BON?

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

    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...