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rn500

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  1. Silly random nursing thoughts, one sentence, NO JUDGMENTAL FOLKS ALLOWED

    rn500 replied to wooh's topic in Nursing Humor

    I'm sorry you are in 4 point leather restraints sir, but I am not going to scratch your balls for

  2. Starting a PICC business

    rn500 replied to piccme's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    I am starting to think about this as well. Have you found any sites you could refer me to?

  3. Funny things that pts say

    rn500 replied to jRN4now's topic in Nursing Humor

    Man, mid-40's, ETOH detox in 4 point leather restraints. I come in to draw blood from his PICC line. He yells "Hey! Get me out of here! Get these things off of me! I can't even scratch my balls!" I...

  4. Guess the mispronounced medical term

    rn500 replied to EricJRN's topic in General Nursing

    I work in L&D in an inner city hospital, so you can imagine some of the stuff I hear.... My favorite was a woman who came in clutching her crotch yelling "Oh my pee-pie, my

  5. Duties of OB nurses (and others) Please feel free to add!

    rn500 replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I have a few duties to add: Waitress for family members Housekeeper Answering service (Dr Bigtime:"Call Dr Blowhard , and tell him I said...") (Dr Blowhard:"Let Dr Bigtime know that...") Data entry...

  6. Another Five Star Visitor Thread

    rn500 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    Oh man, it is nice to hear that we are not the only unit with this ridiculous crap going on! Well, not nice really... but you get my drift. I work in a large OB unit where we truly have NO visiting...

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

    rn500 replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    I had a kid to support as a single mom. I was killing myself working as a fast food asst. manager and making practically nothing, no insurance either. So I thought, hmmm... what would be a job where I...

  8. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

    rn500 replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Nursing Humor

    OH I SWEAR I WILL NEVER COMPLAIN AGAIN ABOUT MY OB PTS CALLING ME!! You guys are killing me here! OMG my sides

  9. What squicks you out?

    rn500 replied to elizabells's topic in General Nursing

    My "squick" is from back in my ER days: unattached or barely-attached body parts. Even the little stuff, like people who accidentally cut their finger off with a saw and bring it with them in a baggy....

  10. What do patients say that irks you?

    rn500 replied to NurseforPreggers's topic in Ob/Gyn

    My absolute favorite: (as I am about to give the demerol/nubain/morphine etc that the pt was just asking for) "Is it going to hurt the baby?" YES , THAT'S WHY WE GIVE IT!...

  11. Labor, birth and spectators

    rn500 replied to KRVRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    *******BIG BIG SIGH!!!****** Oh, this is so aggravating. How to explain to a man what labor and delivery is like? Even if they've seen a thousand of them, there is just no way to make them understand....

  12. RN Functions

    rn500 replied to nocturne716's topic in Emergency

    Alanpe- I think I understand what you are asking - if there is a bad reaction to something that we take the initiative to start without an order (like an IV), how do we explain that to the patient?...

  13. Having to work Holidays:(

    rn500 replied to altomga's topic in General Nursing

    I just want to let all of you with no small kids at home who have so kindly switched to work holidays for those of us who DO, that you are ever so much appreciated, and I plan to do the same for...

  14. Young, Unfit, Drug Addicted, etc. Mothers

    rn500 replied to alphafe's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Nurse Heather - as to your question, I find that in many cases, babies do go home with mothers who have tested positive for drug use. Apparently, that in itself is not a reason t keep a baby from...

  15. Vag exams

    rn500 replied to Nursesuzi's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Do you guys have one of those big square plastic guides that have all the dilatations on there, 1cm thru 10cm? It's like a flat, white and blue (at least ours were always white and blue) thing that...

  16. Vaginal exams: Forcing finger through cervix?

    rn500 replied to keeper's topic in Ob/Gyn

    From what you've told us, the second exam being so, shall we say "rigorous", was not necessary. For crying out loud, you were 37 weeks, so who cares if your inner os is dilated or not? If you went...

  17. old skills that we do not use anymore

    rn500 replied to sassykitkatt's topic in General Nursing

    -3-H enemas? (high, hot and hell of a lot!) Of course, that's not how they were ordered! -Enemas and shave preps for labor pts? -q4 hr IM Demerol injections for post c-section pts, rather than PCA...

  18. BS Comp Sci vs BS Info Tech?

    rn500 posted a topic in Nursing Informatics

    Hi - I apologize if this has been more thoroughly addressed here before, but I am a little overwhelmed by my NI research and I may have overlooked it! I was wondering if those here who presently work...

  19. Mandatory meetings and night shift

    rn500 replied to Blackcat99's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    This is fun! I work L&D - -Babies don't sleep -Moms don't sleep (the DADS seem to sleep okay however) -Laboring women don't sleep -emergency C-sections sleep for a while afterwards -Stupid people...

  20. BS Comp Sci vs BS Info Tech?

    rn500 replied to rn500's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Thanks Mariah - that was very

  21. Where is everyone from?

    rn500 replied to shllby1's topic in General Nursing

    Born and raised in Michigan, moved to Florida for 8 years, now back in MI (but want to go back to FL someday!).

  22. I'm sick of, sick of it, SICK OF IT!

    rn500 replied to night owl's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry to sound like a broken record, but this is worth repeating: -Ringer off in my room -"white noise" machine so I don't hear any phone NOT in my room -Children and husband have long been instructed...

  23. Postive UDS's What is your facilities policy?

    rn500 replied to cabbage patch rn's topic in Ob/Gyn

    That is truly a disgrace. Although frankly, in some places I have worked a social service consult accomplished about the same as doing nothing! At my present job, we do social service consults for a...

  24. Charge pay

    rn500 replied to ikimiwi's topic in Emergency

    We get a measly 1$ an hour extra. SO not worth the

  25. I lost my twins....can anyone help me?

    rn500 replied to OHmom2boys's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Kim, I am an OB nurse and I can reassure you that based on the events you described, there was not a thing you could have done. The fact is that premature labor is just not very well understood....