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

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

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 can't help but laugh, and I reply "Yes that is a bu...

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 pee-pie!"

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 I'm sure there are more...

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 guidelines. It is a *!% free-for-all here, because...

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 could make decent money with insurance, get tuiti...

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

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. I don't know what's worse, that or when they are ...

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! DIDN'T YOU KNOW WE CAN ALL HARDLY WAIT TO BE SUED?? I ...

*******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. This is a woman in her MOST VULNERABLE POSITION E...

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? Also I think you are asking who obtains "informed ...

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 others when my kids are all grown. As for the whole wor...

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 going home with mom. What happens after they go home, ...

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 can be hung on a wall? My trick when I was first sta...

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 into labor, you went into labor. If you had been IN l...

-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 pumps or duramorph spinals - by the time they went h...

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 in the NI field would give me specifics on your ed...

I hadn't been doing L&D for *too* long, but long enough that THIS shouldn't have happened.... Multip, 9 cm for a loooong time (an hour or 2 I think), I was turning her this way and that trying to figure out why I couldn't get that last bit of ...

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 who call with questions at 2 am about a condition ...

Thanks Mariah - that was very helpful!

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

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 that I am NOT to be awakened when I am sleeping u...

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 lot of reasons - teen mom, financial problems, unst...

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