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We had someone had charted on a prior visit an allergic reaction of "thong swelling" instead of tongue swelling. ?

not only do you bet on your drunken ER pt's blood alcohol, but they bet too. "I think I'm 400" LOL

I feel very unconfidate about graduation, like I really don't know what I'm doing. I know what I'm being taught and I have gotten an excellent referral from my instructor (he works in the ICU), but I have all these doubts, like what should I do if a...

When you start to dial 9 to get an outside line when you're at home. When you're home phone rings and you answer _________ER, this is __________, How may I help you, lol. You've ever signed your checks ___________________________, RN Lol, not that I ...

I worked at a teaching hospital on the Surgical Floor and one of my good friends is an intern there. One night a patient saw a mouse run under her bed, so joking around we call Rachel (the intern) and she wrote a note saying: " Contacted by nursing ...

I can calculate urine output by just listening. LOL, I do this all the time, I have gotton great at glancing at the urine in a commode or a plain foley bag and can tell exactly how much is in there. MD's look at you funny when you glance and say 125 ...

I have a question. I was at work yesterday and I heard a nurse from the IV team (we have a team that does IV's and hangs blood... from 7am to 11pm) give a pt her phone number. Has anyone ever done this? I've had a couple pt that I've been close with...

My first clinical instructor was amazing (if she wasn't I may of quit) and she said that the first day of clinical that when we became nurses to remember what it was like to be students because as she put it "we're eating our young" and that that att...

I wouldn't neccessarily say that, I live in Upstate New York and out BOCES runs a program, where for about $100 bucks and 30 days you can be a phlebotomist and I have known some nurses that are amazing at drawing blood and some phlebotomists (nurses ...

Oh yes, we were taught that none of the sheet could have the seams touching the pt, nor could it have WRINKLES, we had to make sure that the sheets and blankets were completely flat because that will irritate the skin, we also had to make special "fo...

LOL, I'm 21 and that's my favorite thing to do, or lay in the tub with a book. It's not fiction but it's a really good read. "Intensive Care" by Echo Heron, she got her RN in the late 70's and I read it everytime nursing school is getting me down, gi...

As I'm reading these posts I'm laughing, I learned some of this stuff in my LPN year. We learned to make a bed with 2 flat sheets (hospital corners and all), lol, haven't even had to use that knowledge. To take part in the graduation ceromonies we no...

Reminds me of my great-gramma who didn't die until 96, used to eat Limberger (spelled wrong) cheese and a bowl of ice cream every day. She used to sit at the table at night and eat a spoonful of ice cream then give a spoonful to the dog to lick off, ...

Can I ask why you would want to douche with Betadine???

we had a pt trasfered up from ER and the MD wrote, please bathe pt on admission (that's how nasty she was) and she was only 14!

When you open your book bag to look for a pen and you have 100 alcohol pads, 5 syringes, 4x4s, an abd pad, hand lotion.... all from the hospital. (I just looked in my bag, lol) when you have one book that weighs 9 lbs by itself. when you go in your ...

Just a suggestion, and you probable don't want to go back to that job if that's the way they treat you. But I live in Upstate New York, and I know that when things have gotten bad and not knowing who to call, my family has called our Senator. In our ...

Replace the housekeeping staff and have the nursing staff do all of the cleaning between patients. Don't forget we'll get rid of all those aides as well. Instead of nursing staff, we just have the nursing students do all the dirty work. OH, yeah, t...

This was my first semester in my second year, I had an older lady in for angina and so she was on bedrest, only up to bedside comode, so she asks me to clean her teeth, so I take them out, I'm all gloved and take them in the bathroom, lay the washclo...

13. Accidents in the back seat cause kids. Don't I know it. LOL

i'm sure he (my instructor) doesn't regret this, but once i had to give a im shot to a pt who was somewhat confused. we walk in and the pt tells us that someone came in this morning and gave him a shot for his brain. well, i'm biting my lip and sh...