No Stars In My Eyes

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    What do you consider to be nursing's biggest setback?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to almost30's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    At the risk of beating a dead horse and stating the obvious, everybody is different. EVERYBODY! As many people as there are in the world, that's as many ways as there are of doing things. And oddly...
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    501 ways to know you've been on allnurses.com too long!

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

    You just signed in and three hours have passed in 30
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    What do you consider to be nursing's biggest setback?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to almost30's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    This is a little off-track, but one year for Nurse's Week, an agency I worked for gave us a xerox copy of a note thanking us for working so hard. That was it! I'm surprised they even thought to waste...
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    remember when....?

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

    Oh, yeah, I remember hooking those ladies into their 32 hook+eye foundation garments with the garters dangling down, and putting hose (nylons) OVER the supporthose...in JULY.....when the hospitals...
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    How do you "bond" with your patients?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to winter_green's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I recently went to a specialist doc appt, and the nurse spent more time looking at her computer screen; she left the exam room door open whie she was getting my history..anything I added that was by...
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    What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

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

    Oh, my, two more: Large boil between scrotum and rectum had burst and the resulting tunneling wound being packed BID (this was a home-health case)He had been discharged from the previous agency for...
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    What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

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

    The guy from a baaad car wreck who was bleeding-out from his rectum, Nine people rotating in groups of three, changing out as one-by-one we were overcome by the smell and sheer volumn of...
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    Who HATES the term MURSE?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to LuxCalidaNP's topic in Men in Nursing

    hey, squelcie, ya stole my thought before I got to the end of the posts to put in my two cents! Oh, Well! Here's my lame back-up suggestion: male nun = mun? (told ya it was
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    remember when....?

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

    Yikes, Blackcat99, there goes my fond remembrance of decent staffing ratios!How long did you work there? Were you nearly dead by the end of your shifts? I can't even begin to think how I would begin...
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    remember when....?

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

    Not ALLOWED to wear gloves unless you were doing a sterile procedure; poop, puke, didn't matter! Washed hands even more X just to get rid if the poop smells!...All bedpans were metal;and no disposable...
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    How do you "bond" with your patients?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to winter_green's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Bonding,connecting,establishing a rappport with the patient as an individual being,being friendly without going overboard ; I think we are essentially all in agreement even if the semantics are...
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    How do you "bond" with your patients?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to winter_green's topic in Ob/Gyn

    There's a difference between bonding and becoming friends. I can bond without getting tangled up in the patients personal life and business. I do know that when there's a blank-faced nurse who seems...
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    What do you consider to be nursing's biggest setback?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to almost30's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The Healthcare "INDUSTRY". ( Our art is all business now.) And multi-tasking your way through your 12 hour shift could be unsafe for your health and your nursing license. So, we've quit wearing...
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    Definitely made mistake, now paying for it...

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to 1996RN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm with you in spirit and can only offer that there are others of us here with you. The nsg. market pretty much tanks right now ; it's more like a nursing JOB shortage. I also have been searching and...
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    "How Can You Stand It?"

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

    Oh VIVA! Did someones toes REALLY fall of in your hand???????????It isn't funny, but it IS hysterical! The picture it made in my mind of someone standing there looking at the toe(s) held in the...
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    Letter from a Former Student

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to VickyRN's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    We had an instructor who kind of scared alot of us because she would show up at our clinical and crook her finger at one of us.....which meant she'd found someone/something that pertained to that...
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    Need help with LPN scope of practice

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to MelanieGa's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    call the board of nsg and ask for a
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    Verbal, Written Warnings and Termination

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    I guess I don't need to be coy; it wasn't ME they thought diverted, they assumed I gave one person's drug to another who didn't have it ordered, but who, I said repeatedly, DID need it. I think if...
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    Nurse suicide follows infant tragedy

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

    There but for the grace of God......Am Praying for both souls and both families. What a terrible tragedy for
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    Funny things patients say !

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

    HEY Turd Ferguson, you need to go over to the thread where everyone is explaining how/ why they came to use the:lol2: on-line sign-in name; my enquiring mind wants to
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    Favorite Dr or Nurse Name

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

    sometime back in the 30's (1930's) there was a chief if staff at a pediatrics hosp. whose name was Dr. Stork. Shoulda been an
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    Verbal, Written Warnings and Termination

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for your support and advice. I can't write here about the exact details because I don't want to lose my anonymity right now. But you can bet I wrote the whole thing up; the paper I had to...
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    The Struggle: When A Nurse Diverts

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Thunderwolf's topic in Psychiatric

    Years ago I helped a good friend get a job at the hospital where I worked. We were med nurses on the same floor, one worked east wing, one worked west wing; both of us worked from a large-ish med...
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    Whee! The People

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

    Something so funny AFTER the fact; I sure wouldn't want to handle all that! It's a good thing it takes all kinds of people to make the world go 'round. Me, I'm a "grunt" and happy with my status,...
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    Verbal, Written Warnings and Termination

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    LORD,LORD,LORD! I have read all the previous posts and it is really just so sickening! I have been in some similar hot water, but got reported to the nsg board. One incident in 40 yrs. and can't even...