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  1. Highest nursing salary

    mari31666 replied to Nursebarebari's topic in General Nursing

    i started at 31 an hr plus night differential. we get for experience also. we have to pay co payments for our insurance and pay for parking. we have no food options on the night shift and are lucky...

  2. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    mari31666 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    i thought i only heard those kind of things in new

  3. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    mari31666 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    :trout: How about: Never bring your new "baby mama" to your old "baby mama's" delivery. or your two pregnant girlfriends to the same labor and delivery unit on the same night at the same time....

  4. Duties of OB nurses (and others) Please feel free to add!

    mari31666 replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Ob/Gyn

    we do circulate and scrub for c/s, d&c, d&e and cerclage removals. we all do recovery room also. we are required to have BCLS. the circulator also does baby care, but peds is always at...

  5. Duties of OB nurses (and others) Please feel free to add!

    mari31666 replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Ob/Gyn

    we get scrub and circulate orientation when sign on. did two weeks just scrubbing. the nurse educator who worked for many years on l & d did mine. talk about hell. my facility has 3 ors on...

  6. Duties of OB nurses (and others) Please feel free to add!

    mari31666 replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Ob/Gyn

    i forgot translator. i'm in brooklyn ny. we got them

  7. Duties of OB nurses (and others) Please feel free to add!

    mari31666 replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Ob/Gyn

    we circulate, scrub and do newborn care. as well as do all the ward clerk duties, do our own peri care and transfer our patients (cuz it's easier than hearing the techs tut and whine because you ask)...

  8. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    mari31666 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    the other day i was assigned to recovery in labor and delivery so i got a repeat c/s that came in contracting. it seems to be that each time i get my hair done i end up circulating in the OR. so i...

  9. What Gets to You??

    mari31666 replied to mshooha's topic in Emergency

    in labor and delivery we see a lot of blood, body fluids and poop. i deal with it. i just hate counting the bloody laps from a c/section in the O/R when you circulate. and scrub in on a section...

  10. Non-viable baby, born alive -parent won't hold him, what do you do?

    mari31666 replied to enfermeraSG's topic in Ob/Gyn

    i just want to let you know that where i work we don't have policies about such things. usaully the parents hold their baby past the point of death. the other night i was covering another nurses...

  11. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    mari31666 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    someone i know called me up and told me she had a tampon stuck up there and wanted my opinion of what to do (i work l&d) i stopped laughing after about 5 mins and asked her since when was it...

  12. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    mari31666 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    when i was a student (but also an lpn) my partner (also an lpn) got this 85 yr old female from a nursing home. we had to give her bed bath. she had so much skin and dirt and scaly silver crud in...

  13. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    mari31666 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    this one is really nasty. i got a full term fetal demise. diabetic mom non compliant go go dancer, who was given so much education on her one and only visit her chart looked like a book. she never...

  14. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    mari31666 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    i have always thought this to be an urban legend it's just too horrible. i had a young pt with a breech fetal demise 30 something weeks. the aunt terrified her by telling her about having a breech...

  15. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    mari31666 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    can't tell you how many times in 1 yr i have been baptized by amniotic fluid and a few times meconium. this is the main reason i dont wear my own scrubs. i usually tell them how i like them but...

  16. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    mari31666 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    i'm sorry but that is just way to nasty even for the most seasoned

  17. You know its going to be a bad shift when...

    mari31666 replied to Adam D. RN2005's topic in Nursing Humor

    love hugs and kisses to all. this was the first night i've been off and was able to be awake. damn 12 hr shifts. lol thanks for all the laughs. may our shoes make us walk on

  18. You know its going to be a bad shift when...

    mari31666 replied to Adam D. RN2005's topic in Nursing Humor

    i wonder why that always is? i work in l &d and we always have a crazy busy night. i also work in assisted living with mid-late stage alzheimers and they always seem to refuse...

  19. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    mari31666 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    you definitely can do a specialty without med surg experience as had been the rule in days past. i must admit it's difficult being new and doing specialty. and you do get a lot of "med surg"...

  20. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    mari31666 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

  21. Non-viable baby, born alive -parent won't hold him, what do you do?

    mari31666 replied to enfermeraSG's topic in Ob/Gyn

    i still cry. sometimes it helps the parents/family and sometimes just me or my co-worker, who is crying along side

  22. Non-viable baby, born alive -parent won't hold him, what do you do?

    mari31666 replied to enfermeraSG's topic in Ob/Gyn

    don't get me wrong, we have a bereavement process, box, pictures baptismal on request, we ask if they want to hold and we try to make the baby look as comfortable and baby like as we can. sometimes...

  23. funniest thing you saw a nurse do.......

    mari31666 replied to cre8tivRN's topic in General Nursing

    HYSTERICAL!!!

  24. Non-viable baby, born alive -parent won't hold him, what do you do?

    mari31666 replied to enfermeraSG's topic in Ob/Gyn

    it's tough no matter how you look at it. i've had 8 fetal demises in 1 yr since being hired (fair huh) i did see one 23 or so wk in the utility room that was not my patient. the tech and i were...

  25. You know you've been a nurse for way too long when...

    mari31666 replied to jalvino1's topic in General Nursing

    you've been a nurse too long when you recognize yourself in at least half of these posts. thanks for the laughs. and i've only been an rn 1 yr lpn for 3 and i have to stop myself everytime i sign...