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  1. Medical Abbreviation Font Solution

    SoCalCrafter replied to michaeljbuckner's topic in General Students

    Mac users rejoice! (PC users can do this too!) I went into System Preferences, and Word preferences, and Pages preferences, and in autocorrected typed in the hex codes for "with" "without" and "after"...

  2. Medical Abbreviation Font Solution

    SoCalCrafter replied to michaeljbuckner's topic in General Students

    Any ideas for the Mac user? I've been searching the internet and the only thing I have found is to use Microsoft Word and then insert the "overbar" symbols using the Equation Editor, which takes way...

  3. Slow nurse response time is a danger to pt health

    SoCalCrafter posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

    While my Granny was on the hospital I noticed that all if her nurses take nearly fifteen minutes to respond to any call. While sitting with her through the night she began violently vomiting. I...

  4. What's your nursing kryptonite?

    SoCalCrafter replied to ktliz's topic in General Nursing

    Oh I have to hear this one... Did pt. give a reason for not

  5. Slow nurse response time is a danger to pt health

    SoCalCrafter replied to SoCalCrafter's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I am making no more replies to this thread; if I wanted to be bashed I would take up kick boxing. I have called the hospital and talked to someone. They have had "several speed related complaints"...

  6. Slow nurse response time is a danger to pt health

    SoCalCrafter replied to SoCalCrafter's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    When a person is wrong: they should admit it. I admit it was wrong to pass judgment on this nurse, that is only for God to do. But she was slow, and in my mind, slow response to a potentially serious...

  7. Slow nurse response time is a danger to pt health

    SoCalCrafter replied to SoCalCrafter's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    She stopped vomiting, what else was I supposed to do? Was I supposed to track down the nurse and say "oh by the way she stopped, thanks for not showing up" If she was in serious danger, I would have...

  8. Slow nurse response time is a danger to pt health

    SoCalCrafter replied to SoCalCrafter's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Thankfully the vomiting stopped about 2 minutes after I made the call. When the nurse finally did show up my Granny couldn't help but laugh when she asked if the vomiting had stopped. "Alotta good it...

  9. Slow nurse response time is a danger to pt health

    SoCalCrafter replied to SoCalCrafter's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    We were on a Cardiology CCU, (not a stepdown unit) thats why when she started vomiting I was ****** no one showed up, and the CNA (who was on FaceBook, sitting all but fifteen feet away from Granny's...

  10. Slow nurse response time is a danger to pt health

    SoCalCrafter replied to SoCalCrafter's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Her blood pressure was something absolutely ridiculously high (unfortunately I was exhausted at the time and I don't remember the exact numbers) and she takes both the meds at home on a regular basis....

  11. Slow nurse response time is a danger to pt health

    SoCalCrafter replied to SoCalCrafter's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Thank you for responding so politely, trust me, its

  12. Slow nurse response time is a danger to pt health

    SoCalCrafter replied to SoCalCrafter's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I'm sorry if I crossed any lines or upset anyone. I was worried, annoyed, scared for the life of my Granny, and thought I would get some advice from a place I know I could get some real-life answers...

  13. Slow nurse response time is a danger to pt health

    SoCalCrafter replied to SoCalCrafter's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Unfortunately not, I'm going to school to be a MA. And I know to "some" nurses I'm the lowest form of medical staff there is; but hey, gimme some credit, at least I've got my foot in the door to be a...

  14. No Names....I'm just Saying That .....

    SoCalCrafter replied to RNdiva505's topic in General Nursing

    I've had this problem, but not in nursing. I was a lead cashier and my store manger would walk up to the front of the store (His office with camera's was in the back of the store) and tell me I need...

  15. MA looking to further education... options?

    SoCalCrafter replied to SoCalCrafter's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Great news. A friend gave me the tuition to go to the Medical Assistant class. :) I start Sept. 14th! I'm so

  16. MA looking to further education... options?

    SoCalCrafter posted a topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    So in January I'll be a Certified Medical Assistant. But I'm looking for more. I'm tired of being chewed out because I'm not a "nurse." (FEEL FREE TO SKIP THIS RANTING PART) :oornt: Where as my...

  17. MA looking to further education... options?

    SoCalCrafter replied to SoCalCrafter's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Thank you for your input! I unfortunately couldn't make it into the school I wanted to go to (no funding) and will have to go for my LVN lic. at the community college instead since the Fed Gov't will...

  18. curious...hemophobia anyone?

    SoCalCrafter replied to melamin's topic in General Nursing

    That right there is what makes me sick. Barf=yuck. I haven't started nursing school yet, but I am going in full knowing that blood and barf are my two weaknesses. Let me rephrase that, needles and...

  19. Favorite Dr or Nurse Name

    SoCalCrafter replied to sethmctenn's topic in Nursing Humor

    Let me guess, he worked in oncology or

  20. Favorite Dr or Nurse Name

    SoCalCrafter replied to sethmctenn's topic in Nursing Humor

    Let me guess, he worked in cardiology? The "love"

  21. Favorite Dr or Nurse Name

    SoCalCrafter replied to sethmctenn's topic in Nursing Humor

    If I heard Dr. Doctor over the intercom I would start singing "Doctor doctor, gimme the news! I got bad case, o' lovin' you!"as I danced down the hallway and into the breakroom like an 80's video...

  22. Soft scrubs for a tall skinny male=don't exist

    SoCalCrafter replied to phosophorus's topic in Men in Nursing

    Thank you for this! I'm tall (6' barefoot) and super-skinny! (28"waist) I have ridiculously long legs (36' inseam) and can never find anything that makes me does look like I'm wearing a

  23. Is engraving bad?

    SoCalCrafter replied to bombom's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    People who are stupid enough to steal probably can't read to begin with , so your name engraving won't detour them, but it will give you a MUCH greater chance at getting it back if the thief is...

  24. Funny things patients say !

    SoCalCrafter replied to TAM's topic in Nursing Humor

    I laughed when I read this, then remember my friend good friend who works at a casino. When the gamblers treat her really really badly (and I mean she puts up with a lot of bs before she gets upset)...

  25. Funny things patients say !

    SoCalCrafter replied to TAM's topic in Nursing Humor

    Best funny actually never came from a patient of mine, it came from my father and his nurse after his appendectomy-gone-wrong. (long story short: partial appendix rupture and massive adhesions) After...