TheGooch

TheGooch

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  1. Elopement (a personal story and a plea)

    TheGooch replied to Here.I.Stand's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    What a sad story. Breaks my heart reading it. My LO was in a secure locked unit and you need code to unlock the door. In the rare cases when someone did manage to open the door the alarm would sound...

  2. Racial Refusals In Nursing

    TheGooch replied to TheCommuter's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    IMO a person can't be all that sick if their main concern is not liking the sex or skin color of the person that is treating

  3. Taking dying patient home with children - what are your thoughts?

    TheGooch replied to tokebi's topic in Pediatric

    Well, I'm sorry but some families have no other choice but to put their LO in a nursing

  4. Slanderous rumor mongers in the workplace

    TheGooch replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    That reminds me of an episode of Andy Griffith where they accused Aunt Bea and her friends of being gossipy. But the men, NOOOOOOO they NEVER gossiped. By the end of the episode turns out they were...

  5. How to be a polite patient/family member

    TheGooch replied to Semolina's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    LOL-yeah that sounds so familiar. When my grandfather died she made such a scene at the funeral-tried to throw herself in the grave and yelled "I'm coming to join you Ralph!". Granted they were...

  6. How to be a polite patient/family member

    TheGooch replied to Semolina's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Some people are just that way though.They need to be the center of attention. I had strabismus surgery last year. My Dad, who knew he had cataracts for a long time before that, decided he was going to...

  7. Patient Families

    TheGooch replied to 1fastRN's topic in Emergency

    Maybe he has a crystal

  8. Mice on unit

    TheGooch replied to sistrmoon's topic in General Nursing

    Don't bats carry

  9. Getting used to gore?

    TheGooch replied to mhy12784's topic in Operating Room

    Look on Youtube for the gory ones. That should do

  10. Suicide Risk Assessment

    TheGooch replied to Anna Flaxis's topic in Emergency

    That one fits into the PEOPLE ASK THE DUMBEST QUESTIONS Category on

  11. Fat nurses

    TheGooch replied to questions1025's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    There was a hospital in Texas that was refusing to hire anyone with a BMI over 35. Wonder if they still do

  12. Calling patients and/or co-workers "honey" or "hon"

    TheGooch replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    My name is Susan and when asked by medical professionals what my preferred name is I've said Sue. has it worked?

  13. Calling patients and/or co-workers "honey" or "hon"

    TheGooch replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    My Mom was called Miss Mary by several medical professionals while she was alive but I was never called Miss "Gooch" until recently. My neighbor is in the military and she calls me that all the time...

  14. Unsafe, possibly illegal situation at my workplace

    TheGooch replied to Rivalicious's topic in General Nursing

    Why not contact the state and ask them instead of asking

  15. Medical Pedicure?

    TheGooch replied to Glycerine82's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

    Foot surgery sucks. I've had it on both feet. I hope you find out what it is so you get some relief. BTW:I wouldn't go to a salon either after watching a segment on them on the ABC news last night....

  16. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    TheGooch replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    You'll have to share them-I love a good ghost

  17. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    TheGooch replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    I think the dead are always with us. My Mom has visited me a couple of times in my dreams-she said she was in heaven but she missed me. I also believe they are there when you pass to help you get to...

  18. Electronic cigarettes (E-cigs)

    TheGooch replied to JackStrawRN's topic in Patient Education

    yes. She is a moron as are most people in

  19. Calling patients and/or co-workers "honey" or "hon"

    TheGooch replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    That happened every time I had my surgery but my preferred name was never used-always the longer formal

  20. Calling patients and/or co-workers "honey" or "hon"

    TheGooch replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    True. I know when I went to school they said never to address a patient like that because it is demeaning. So it makes me wonder why people in the healthcare field do it since it is being taught in...

  21. Calling patients and/or co-workers "honey" or "hon"

    TheGooch replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I watch Worst Cooks in America and one of the contestants called Anne Burrell "Boo". She quickly set him straight about doing that, lol. I had an MA at my doctor's appointment call me "sweetie"...

  22. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    TheGooch replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    This one was REALLY a good

  23. Residents....

    TheGooch replied to mwlude's topic in Emergency

    The wrong way IV stick by the 3 medical students is what did it for me not the freezing up residents. Bad enough when a nurse has trouble but at least she is putting it in the right way when she...

  24. venting time

    TheGooch replied to dsherman's topic in Emergency

    How sad. Makes me think of that Pat Benatar song "Hell is for children". Who knows what might have happened to the child if you hadn't intervened. You did a good

  25. Residents....

    TheGooch replied to mwlude's topic in Emergency

    After reading these I'm NEVER going to a teaching hospital. I know they have to start somewhere but not when it's my life at stake. Good thing nurses know what they're