Ethel

Ethel

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  1. Why a C-Section?

    Ethel replied to edj02's topic in Ob/Gyn

    in the hospital where i work c-sections account for about 80% of deliveries due to the large amount of patients who are hiv pos. they unofficial statistics in some antenatal clinics are as high as...

  2. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    Ethel replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    I had a friend who was a student and he worked on the geriatric ward. He used to take great pleasure in "helping" the patients eat their sweets etc. until one day........... one of the patients had...

  3. Why did you take up nursing? What's your story?

    Ethel replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    :uhoh21: at 17 nearly 18 all I wanted to do was work for the Prison Dept. but they would not have me until I was 18 and that would take 3months in my family you don't stay at home after completing...

  4. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    Ethel replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    In my time in the OR I have seen a condom been removed from the bladder. Also had to remove an olive oil bottle from the rectum and a Coke litre bottle from the lady parts (pt was told it was an...

  5. Wearing scrubs in public...

    Ethel replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in General Nursing

    :uhoh21: Why would anyone want to wear scrubs other then in areas where they are prescribed uniform???? They are comfortable but oh so ugly and shapeless:uhoh3:. I don't know if your scrubs are...

  6. comfy shoes

    Ethel replied to analiezel's topic in General Nursing

    Green Cross shoes are the most comfortable I have ever worn and they come in so many different styles that even the most conservative boss would be happy and those of us who enjoy things a little more...

  7. comfy shoes

    Ethel replied to analiezel's topic in General Nursing

    I went to the z-coil website and I can't believe that anyone would want to wear shoes like that on duty. :uhoh21: They are truely do not look like something my boss would allow me to wear at work. I...

  8. Injections- still pull back?

    Ethel replied to angelbyte's topic in General Nursing

    :uhoh21: I was once on the receiving end of an IM injection which the person forgot to pull back. I was thus given the whole 100mg of Pethidine ivi which resulted in me having a respiratory arrest and...

  9. Shocked and angry. Need new job.

    Ethel replied to jrring1019's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Well that refers then to at least 1/4 adult patients in our hospital and there is no special unit for them. They are nursed in our normal med\surg

  10. Shocked and angry. Need new job.

    Ethel replied to jrring1019's topic in Ob/Gyn

    What are Bariatric patients I have never heard of the term. Maybe in South Africa we call them something

  11. What does your screenname mean?

    Ethel replied to PMHNP10's topic in General Nursing

    Mine comes from a certain aneasthetist who calls all the females patients and staff Ethel if he can't remember your name. So is you don't know mine I also respond to names like Susan, Mavis, Nurse or...

  12. Nurses wearing white

    Ethel replied to rnmaven's topic in General Nursing

    I really enjoyed wearing my white uniform when I worked on the wards. In our hospital the uniform issued is so impractical apart from the scrubs worn in OT and ER, but as we don't pay for our uniform...

  13. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    Ethel replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    My story happened on my first day. The Rn taking me on a round was busy explaining how you get a nasogastric tube to drain by milking it ever tried..... with that the patient said she was not feeling...

  14. Night Nurses-Pts think we sleep?

    Ethel replied to dosamigos76's topic in General Nursing

    In some hospitals I know the staff write up observations etc. at 19h00 at night and then at about 22h00 they all go to sleep. As my relatives have been is such hospitals. Dr in certain State hospitals...

  15. Do I LOOK Like A Nurse To You?

    Ethel replied to Haunted's topic in General Nursing

    Dear Haunted It is ok if people don't think you look like a nurse out of uniform but when the hospital you work for gives you a uniform that makes you look like the office staff then all your patients...

  16. Clothing under scrubs in OR

    Ethel replied to qbfan413's topic in Operating Room

    It is so nice to meet someone else who does not freeeeeeze in OR. The policy in our OR is no exposed clothing but it is not really enforced. We also have OR jackets for use if

  17. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    Ethel replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    New Years day 19h30. Complaint: "Sr. I have had this cold for three weeks and now I can't take it any more. Please can you help

  18. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    Ethel replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    New Years day 19h30. Complaint: "Sr. I have had this cold for three weeks and now I can't take it any more. Please can you help

  19. Infection control in the workplace advice needed

    Ethel replied to sbic56's topic in Infectious Disease

    We use a product called surfacide on our trollies but I have seen one of our Dr's spray it on a cloth and clean the phone as he does not like

  20. What about breaks?

    Ethel replied to avahsmiles's topic in General Nursing

    Not if you worked in OR.:rotfl: No eating while you are scrubbed Ha Ha. You will become unsterile. "Sorry sir we did not leave a swab in your wound only my

  21. What about breaks?

    Ethel replied to avahsmiles's topic in General Nursing

    I know that feeling. Our non-shift workers and agency staff get their lunch deducted off their time, but as we work 42hours including lunch we don't. If the staff who have their lunch time deducted...

  22. What about breaks?

    Ethel replied to avahsmiles's topic in General Nursing

    In our OR we get 20min tea in the morning, half hour lunch and 15min tea in the afternoon that is for an 8hour day. On a 12hour shift we get 1 hour for lunch and the same tea

  23. Flu shots for inmates

    Ethel replied to CCHP-RN's topic in Correctional

    I was shocked as you were to see that inmates are having the vaccine and nursing staff in many hospital will not be having. I thought it only happened in South Africa where prisoners had more rights...

  24. Foreign Objects in Body Cavities

    Ethel replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    Only heard of roaches and moths in ears. They have to be removed under GA in bits and

  25. Foreign Objects in Body Cavities

    Ethel replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    My favourite story from OR is the guy who had to have the fb surgically removed from his rectum and it was still vibrating the surgeon was so surprised he asked the scrub sister to check what...