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Old fella said to me the other night "I don't see very well. I have vernacular disorganization" what's really funny though is that I knew what he meant.

Move on and broaden your horizons. Your tele unit sounds like a comfortable old shoe. Think of how it feels to have something new in your wardrobe. Think of this new ER job as that.

I've been a working nurse for 40 years and am still doing new stuff every day

When I worked in the prison it always amused me that the big mean brutes with the multiple tattoos were the ones that fainted when a blood test was done

Here's one from my mother. An old man should never sleep with his grandchild because he will sap the energy right out of him.

In September I will have been working as a nurse for 40 years. We certainly never had gloves for patient care back then. As a student in CSR I had to wash the intact used surgeon's gloves, dry 'em, powder 'em and rewrap and sterilize them for reuse. I have had my hands in some of the scariest bodily fluids and never thought twice about it. However, the idea of lying in the tub of suction bottle contents really is a turn-off for me!

I'd like to know who the great mastermind was that made the call bell, the TV remote and the bed controller all one unit!!! If I had a nickle for the number of times I've answered an attempt at a TV channel change...or a bed adjustment, I'd be a rich woman today.

One time I was working in a prison where the written word is often outside the inmate's grasp. I had done an assessment for complaints of hematuria and asked the inmate for a urine sample. He wrote a formal complaint (grievance) stating that to do a lab test without an MD order was operating outside my "bounces"..........yes, us tiggers will operate outside our bounces.

How about the signs and symptoms of angina. Easy to teach, lots to say, and many seniors have no clue about the symptoms

I live in Quebec, and 13 miles from my house is Newport Vermont, where I work. There is an acute care hospital with a 6 bed ICU, several nursing homes in a 20 mile radius, a large prison with a 25 member nursing staff, a large home health agency that serves a 60 to 70 mile radius. Plenty of jobs available. Much higher pay than working in Canada.

59, working full time, and lovin' it. Never gonna quit. Each day is so unique.

"There were tears in the eyes of those nurses for a woman who was not their family, not their friend....but who might have been. There were prayers going up for you and your sister, her friend, boyfriend and family that you might not have heard--but they were said. There were people who were in that room who will never forget how hard they fought for her life. Because they cared." Angioplasty That was so beautifully said. I have been that nurse in the ER. I have held the unclaimed when they died and prayed for them and their families. I held them in my heart, in my memory, stroked and held their hand. Working in the ER allows you to become the best friend of the trauma patient. You don't forget them. The unclaimed trauma patient becomes a part of the trauma team's family. I wish I could have put it as beautifully as you.

Hey, I just tried, and I'm not there either. Came up with a "no matches found":saint: Must mean I'm too good for them????:chuckle :chuckle

When I worked in CCU a patient had a standby bag of D5W with Epiniephrine. It was labelled with a red sticker that Epi had been added. All patients in CCU not on IV had a lock, with a standby bag of plain D5W. All plain bags were also labeled with a red sticker and the date the bag was hung. (Only good for 24 hours) At any rate, my patient went into CHF and needed some lasix IV push. The nurse giving the lasix ASSUMED it was a dated bag of plain D5W, and used the bag to flush the IV lasix. She was not looking at the monitor, nor the patient. She was looking at the wide open drip rate that she intended to run for 30 seconds or so. I returned from lunch and saw the monitor showed an extemely rapid SVT. As I rushed over to the bedside it was apparrent the patient was unresponsive. I immediately recognized the cause, and shut off the flow. A code was called. The patient survived without ill-effects. This was a very horrible experience for all concerned. We stopped dating IV bags with red labels. I have never initiated a bedside IV bag since then without first reading the label. Another nurse I know hung a bag of NS for irrigation as an IV of NS. The bag was clearly labelled by the manufacturer in red print on the bag instead of black print, and she said she wondered why it was red, but never bothered to check. There were no ill-effects to the patient. A frequent med error made by the patient is to over use Timoptic drops. Timoptic (Isoptin) is the sam drug as verapamil and over use will cause heart block. I can't even begin to say how often I have seen patients needing temporary pacemakers to deal with this self administered drug error.