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  1. How do you know if you are doing a good job?

    tiggerforhim replied to twokidsmom,rn's topic in General Nursing

    When your patients are alive at the end of the

  2. What's a Flu Buddy?

    tiggerforhim replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The Stand,

  3. H.R.3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009

    tiggerforhim replied to StatBlues's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Actually, I didn't have much of a problem, if it helps get catch terrorists. We are at war, you

  4. White House offers information on proposes health care reform

    tiggerforhim replied to canigraduate's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Well, the tactics being used are definitely reminiscent of Stalinist Russia. You do realize that the political assassinations/mass murders were aided and abetted by tactics like this - informing on...

  5. H.R.3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009

    tiggerforhim replied to StatBlues's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Here's the actual text from the blog page: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Facts...ubborn-Things/ Halfway down the page: There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there,...

  6. White House offers information on proposes health care reform

    tiggerforhim replied to canigraduate's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Facts-Are-Stubborn-Things/ Halfway down the page: There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances...

  7. Tossing Your Cookies...

    tiggerforhim replied to JasmDasm's topic in General Nursing

    Massive lactulose stool when I was in my first trimester...makes me wince thinking of

  8. Please Send Good Vibes my Way!

    tiggerforhim replied to SuesquatchRN's topic in General Nursing

    Hugs and prayers for you! God

  9. How about your favorite Old Wives Tales related to health?

    tiggerforhim replied to NurseyTonyaLPN's topic in Nursing Humor

    Well, when I was in Kazakstan, a former Soviet Republic, the old babushkas (grandmas) would have a fit if they saw me sitting on the steps of a building or the floor, as they told me I'd never have...

  10. Stupid Nurse Trick... Don't try this at home... or work!

    tiggerforhim replied to TXRN02's topic in Nursing Humor

    Try pushing your patient into the shower in one of those PVC shower chairs that's also a bedside commode, giving them the shower, and then realizing you can't move the chair because the pan underneath...

  11. ALF issues, please help

    tiggerforhim replied to nurturer's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Well, it's nice to think of the patient's rights, but the previous poster is right. If the residents were allowed to lie in bed all day, not eat, and only use their wheelchair, in no time they would...

  12. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    tiggerforhim replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    Or spend some "quality time" with your man....happened to me after putting on my hands....WE know better

  13. migraine faker at the ED!

    tiggerforhim replied to z's playa's topic in Emergency

    Um, Tom, Caucasians (sp?) CAN be sicklers, it's just much more prominent in the African American world. Speaking as a former peds nurse and one who currently works with sicklers, I can say with...

  14. Nurses who smoke marijuana

    tiggerforhim replied to e4c5's topic in General Nursing

    Excuse me, just because YOU indulge in the above said behaviour, don't put that on the rest of us! I really hate the 'shame the hypocrite back' attitude. I have my own issues (doesn't everyone?) but...

  15. Worst doctors orders ever received

    tiggerforhim replied to jenfromjersey's topic in Emergency

    Saw this order a lot on the ortho floor post knee/hip

  16. Large hospital and specialize or small hospital and cross train?

    tiggerforhim replied to applelady's topic in General Nursing

    You've got great opportunities either way. However, and this is my opinion based on my personal experience, cross-training is a great way to get a wide variety of experience that will allow you to...

  17. I'm going to probably open a can of worms here, but I want your opinion

    tiggerforhim replied to dspring's topic in Emergency

    Look, in an emergency, with everything else we have to do/remember, if the patient does not tell me about, I'm not going to worry about it. Even if it's not an emergency, I'm probably not going to...

  18. I can't do this anymore...(VERY VERY LONG)

    tiggerforhim replied to Penelope_Pitstop's topic in General Nursing

    Heh. You go, girl!!! My mom (who has a wonderful tendency to blurt truth out in a very insulting way) told me " You're so much nicer now you're not on night shift!" Yikes. Well, I got to the point...

  19. My Story / Mayo Clinic

    tiggerforhim replied to buffscotty's topic in Nursing Career

    Excuse me. Any place can have unprofessional people, no matter where you go or which organization you work for. As a former Mayo nurse, I have to say that at least at the Minnesota campus, which is...

  20. Ways I have heard Metoprolol pronounced...by medical personnel.

    tiggerforhim replied to stillpressingon's topic in General Nursing

    Just FYI - Orientate (while driving me crazy too, like STATs, arrrgh) is actually the British english version of our word orient. Don't ask me how it got started in

  21. Ways I have heard Metoprolol pronounced...by medical personnel.

    tiggerforhim replied to stillpressingon's topic in General Nursing

    My crazy psych professor for general psych (college) pronounced acetylcholine as assy-TOO-ka-lene! Drove me nuts! She also vaccumed her house naked (don't ask how I know), would tell her classes...

  22. Funny patient names by nurses

    tiggerforhim replied to Kidrn911's topic in Emergency

    Great great something or other (aunt or grandmother) named Lamiddy

  23. MORPHINE and Dying Patients

    tiggerforhim replied to constantlylearning's topic in General Nursing

    The point is, if the patient had been getting it Q3, then your not giving it very likely would plunge them into a withdrawal syndrome, and then at the 6 hour mark, they would need even more medication...

  24. MORPHINE and Dying Patients

    tiggerforhim replied to constantlylearning's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you. I'm not slamming suespet, but please, please, please, give the meds! I also work with a population with chronic pain (RA, SLE, MS) and when they tell me of the pain, and the crying and...

  25. MORPHINE and Dying Patients

    tiggerforhim replied to constantlylearning's topic in General Nursing

    Amen sister! I have worked with a pediatric population who also (the little ones) cannot always communicate their issues, so I gave them regular doses of meds to relieve their pain, even though they...