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ROFL!! I printed this for others to read (thank you, laugh) and someone said,"have they been following us around?" Thank you for the smiles!

I proudly wore mine at graduation but am VERY glad I never had to wear it again. My mother wore one and talked about the problem of keeping hers on. She would hairspray it every day after pinning it to her pinned up hair. But she also talked abou...

If I were like my pets........ I could sleep 22 hours a day, have my back rubbed (and maybe my tummy:D ) every night. Someone else would take care of me and clean up my messes and I could pay attention to them only if I particularly felt like it at ...

Anyone from West Texas will appreciate this one. Some of you may even know him. We have a doctor named Dusty Weathers. Not sure if his mother named him that but that is the name he practices under!

It really depends on the doctor. I have seen some of the gentlest care given by a male doc and some of the rudest treatment from a female doc. (Yes, am gender stereotyping). A lot of the patients here still listen to the male doc better (and ask...

Let's see - my grandmother and one aunt were medicine certified CNA's, my mom was an RN, and another aunt was an RN/Nurse Manager. But they weren't my biggest influences on my decision. I had surgery when I was 15. Quite nervous, and the nurse not...

I agree with P_RN. After this I am also glad I work for a place that has a written pay practice that has to be followed. Fairness for all!

Oh, I'd have to stay working at least a few shifts a month too! I enjoy nursing way too much to completely leave it. My co-workers have often overheard me saying that they'll probably have to make me quit before I'd ever retire.

I am very happy with being a nurse. Of course I have my good and not so good days but if I had to do it all over again, I would still be a nurse. Overall, I try to be a happy person. I have struggled at times with different things going on in my l...

Our facility put in the dress code that no facial piercing or tattooing is allowed period. Either take it out or don't bother coming to work. Same with blue, green, pink or purple hair. Also, no more than 2 visible piercings per ear. Haven't had a...

I have no direct experience with the injectors, just the results of the blown lines on the patients. Thankfully none that did worse than severe bruising but this is extremely bothersome as the reason some of these patients have lines other than peri...

THANKS :kiss Thank you , thank you, thank you for the canadianfavorites website! This will be even cheaper than shipping my favorites when I make trips home! Plus, after this summer, it will probably be quite a while before I get back to Alber...

We don't even get comp time here. Travelers have really helped out here because so much of the short shifts were nights. Try do some of those and then attend that mandatory leaders meeting the next day. But they are a HUGE budget eater and then you...

We had a patient with the first name Female. Thinking she had come in AKA, I asked what her name was and she pronounced it "femahlay". We had another woman named Clamidia. One of my co-workers swears (no pun intended as you will see in a minute) she...

I also notice vision perception changes with my migraines. I wasn't diagnosed until I started getting visual aura (loss of right sided vision then the squiggly lines) when I was seventeen but my doctor and I both believe I have had them since about ...

:kiss leesonlpn, thank you so much!!! I am traveling up to Alberta in a couple of months and think I will survive until then. :) :) :)

Real Smarties are chocolate for all those Americans who think they are those tart candies. Coffee Crisp YUM!! My sis sends me some every Christmas. I know some people in the States can get Old Dutch potato chips but I can't and that is a treat ev...

From Lubbock! Tech has a great law school and I have worked with 2 other nurses who's husbands went there. UMC is affiliated with Tech's School of Medicine and is a great place for nurses. They support nursing staff as able in this time of crunch. ...

I was very blessed! I was recruited at a job fair and naive as I was at the time, took the job and moved down to Texas from Alberta. I got a job at a fabulous hospital (where I still am 9 yrs later). Their nurse recruitment office took care of all ...

Go to http://www.orthopaedicnurse.org (yes I spelled it correctly). They have some good links and information. Also, start talking to the nurses once you start and they are usually a wealth of info, or can let you know what periodicals they get, ...

I left bedside nursing 2 years ago and can hardly wait to get back to the bedside. To be responsible for only 6-8 people (instead of 68) and to go home after my shift without a beeper and only work my scheduled shifts and have some weekends complete...

As an (Albertan) Canadian living in Texas - yes it is like Aggie jokes.:) I've lived here long enough to be able to say that with knowledge. These are funny! :chuckle :chuckle

All the best of luck to you !!! I wasn't accepted until the third time I applied. Not because I had a poor application. There were just the same type of way too many applying for the very few positions they had (something like 5:1). I got some of...

I wish we had opportunity for 10 hour shifts so we could have a little overlap on the busy parts of the day. We have a majority of 12 hour shifts and a few 8's available on the floors. It is very hard to find 3-11 staff so people leave at 3 and the...

Loved it! I've been a "displaced Canadian" for 9 years and these are so true. I have one for where I am now. Canadians are "going to" do something, not "fixin to" do it. :)