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Does any of your friends or neighbors or whoever asked you why you had to study since what you do is to giving pills.............. ARGGG!!!

Here's a little story.... One night, I get to my locker before work and the lights are all out in the section where my locker is. So I go to security because I need to get to my locker (and open the lock!) and I don't have a flashlight. So the guy at...

I work in ICU and our nightshift staff changed up to 60% in the last two years. So much for having the reputation of being the best team in the hospital!! So now, the headnurse refuses transfers if you have a post in another departement or another s...

My point exactly. And I really don't have any problem with people who are sick or in pain or having a hard time or need some time off for uncontrolable reasons (kid is sick, etc...). It's when there is no other reason than "I don't want to work toda...

How about 24 needles into to penis... talk about body piercing!!!

Even if it's her right to take sick days, since they are paid for, some people think that they "have to" take them, almost like an obligation... whenever, whatever. That's what's bothering me. It affects all the departement when someone is missing b...

Absolutely hilarious! I'm laughing like crazy in here!

Some female patient might feel inconfortable with having a cath inserted by a man... Thought, from experience, it doesn't happen very often that someone actually refuse (can't remember any event). But we try anyway to have those procedures (cath, pre...

It started last year, just to try, you know... And I got addicted... Then was forced into rehab (to computer for months!!!!!) Then, I just got a glimpse at the board, and there I was. Relapsing. Some things are just hard to get over!!!

Just so you don't think Canada is heaven!! I work in Montreal (Quebec) and this patient might very well not have been one on one. And yes, we make rounds everyday, and no we don't have electronic charting! Althought, I think this patient might have ...

We have a "code brown" for ...well.. that brown thing! We also use vitamine H (Haldol). We have to test every new patient for multi-resistant bacterias (nasal for MRSA and anal for ERV), we call them the "welcome tests".

I received an anatomy Atlas (by Netter, it's the best) and a medical dictionnary that I both still use very often ... and I graduated 11 years ago.

Was this supposed to be supportive??????????????????? Or is your your life really that bad...

A post by JeannieM about her dreams made me think of this. I often wake up crying after a night sleep, for no reasons, I don't even remember dreaming... I can feel sadness thought. I can cry like that, sobbing almost, for minutes. Then, I'm OK. Like...

I used to dream about untangling i/v's! (I work in ICU, lots and lots of i/v's for one patient!!) Now, I rarely dream about my work. What's more frustrating than come back to work only to work in your dreams again...

I think the fact that we see some incredible things (we do, don't we?!), that must affect the way we see life... and laughs. I think I can laugh now about things I would not have found funny before being a nurse. Exemple: I thought everybody at bedsi...

One of my biggest laugh at work was when one of my co-worker tried to push some pectin (yes, we do that to supposedly reduced diarrhea ) into a duodenal feeding tube. Pectin being, well, thick... and duo-fed tube being tiny tiny... guess what happen...

My point exactly!!! Sometimes it seems it's just an excuse for not getting a DNR. "Chemical code", we call that "simili code".

Tricky subject... I'm surprised at the reactions... I would never be able to do it personally. Even if I think for some really really extreme cases dead could be a sentence. I understand the "logic" behind it, but I don't like the feel of it. And I d...

Nice thread... Mr. M. had a devastating case of strepto infection. He had numerous surgeries. At the end, all the flesh and muscles from his bottocks and a good part of his thighs was remove, his rectum also, so he had a colostomy too. He had ALL the...

Victoria, you're an amazing person. Thanks for this board to make us meet such great people! Keep on! We're all with you and very proud to be.

Mattsmom, unfortunatly, it was an ICU situation, with a trauma patient that has just been admitted with a tiny tiny little paragraph of prescription from ER. He was 21, had multiple fractures, was unconscious, was bleeding, well, you get the picture....

If you never heard of MD's trying to ripe each other, you're lucky!! Surgeons are the worst. Nursing: cannibalistic profession? Some say it's because it's a women's world (sorry guys!). All this progress over the years didn't make us stop speak be...

I agree, don't let it all fall on your shoulder alone, and discuss a plan before it happens again. But then, when it does happen, it's you on the phone with him. Do you think another doc would let him talk to him that way without responding? We are a...

Don't you just feel like telling some patients (and their love ones...) that the "H" stands for HOSPITAL not HOTEL or HONOLULU or HARASS-ME or HAREM or HOOKER or HOUSEKEEPING... And thank God for Diprivan!!!