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    Break room and refrigerators

    My personal pet peeve is when I go to use the microwave to heat water, and the person in there before me cooked FISH!! Like I want my coffee/tea whatever to taste like fish? Not really. It is a...
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    Public Service Announcement

    OUCH!! I hoped that helped! Truely, I feel for you, and, no, I haven't even done a "wimpy 8 hr shadow". I'm convinced. And it's too darn bad that the PTB don't get "it", and probably never
  3. Just like American-born and trained RNs--some are great, some are mediocre, but get the job done, some will drive you the rest of the way
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    Octuplets

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29163803
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    Octuplets

    I've gone thru the entire thread, and the one I keep thinking of when I hear her talk [to Ann Curry, et al] is: NARCISSIM!!! She said, "Yes, I had them all put in, they're mine." Looney
  6. #198: When you come home from work, your son (who likes dark rooms w/no ventilation), turns on the light, turns on the fan, and brings allnurses.com up on the monitor. If I'm really lucky, he gets...
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    Yes, I work full time!

    Comes under the heading of "For what reason do you need to know?". OR: NONE of your
  8. There are methods of reducing accents. Some speech pathologists work w/accents. There is a company, Lindamoodbell ( http://www.lindamoodbell.com/ ) uses a method based on "phonemic awareness" to...
  9. While no one should be treated rudely by anyone, sometimes the complaint is legitimate. I often have a hard time understanding folks w/accents @ drive-thrus. I think part of it may be that I think...
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    Volunteer Cuddling

    The level 3 unit @ which I used to work had a well-established cuddler program; there is always a long waiting list. The program is administered thru the Volunter Dep't. The prospective cuddler...
  11. If you get stuck w/this thankless task, you will definitely NOT open up a closed container that seems to "growing", nor will you want to clean it out for the owner. That's beyond disgusting. I'd...
  12. If I saw that sign on the unit fridge, esp if there had been recent problems, I'd grab a label and a marker, and mark my stuff. And I might start leaving marker and labels in my locker for easy...
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    How to prevent fleas coming to you?

    You definitely need to report the situation to housekeeping. Most hospitals have a "vector control" person who is tasked w/taking care of insects and rodents, etc., you should be able to access...
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    MCI RN scrubs (navy blue)

    Please wash after every clinical day. You can get a LOT of germs in those
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    A new watch??

    I don't like wearing a wrist watches @ work--I have a "lapel" watch. Same thing as pharmgirl mentioned--I don't want to scratch one of my babies, and I don't want to wash "around" my watch. Just...
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    This is really getting under my skin

    :yeahthat: :smackingf If she's calling herself a "nurse", but is not licensed, she's committing fraud. Report her. And her boss. Check w/your states BON. Any chance you can go get your sis and...
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    Fall from weighing scale

    Once upon a time, in the "bad" old days, if a kid had a major blowout (you know the kind, poop up his back all the way to his ears), the nurse would take him over to the sink and clean up the mess...
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    What's the deal with black?

    Clowns, balloons, and cartoons are VERY approriate in a pediatric setting. I would not like to have to wear all black scrubs, altho I have some black pants. I tend to prefer pastel prints...
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    Fall from weighing scale

    Why are they putting oil on the baby? Seems unnecessary--how do you get the leads to stick after that? We advise the parents not to use oils or powders on the babies skin, just diaper cream if...
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    Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    We had an incident a while back where a guy had been grabbed by a police dog, managed to pick this big German Shepard up, and jump himself and the dog off the bridge. He did not die. The dog was not...
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    No gifts from the Drs???

    I've never expected the docs to give us anything, nor do I expect to get them anything. The L&D nurses got a huge plasma TV from one of the OB docs one year. Their OR tech came over to our unit...
  22. I think it's this one: http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/walt_whitman/index.html#battlefield . Walt Whitman is buried across the street from my nursing school in a lovely, wooded old cemetery....
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    Nurses, where do you see yourself in 5-10 years?

    retired!!!!!!!
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    What are the smallest diapers available?

    Which did you
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    Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    When I was 5, my dad got orders, so we moved from CA to MD. That made me late for the start of school (1st grade). Already a bit disoriented, when the teacher called the roll, I said "here" @ my...