theplugger

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1. Do you need to carry your personal cell phone while at work?

   theplugger replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

   :rolleyes:Slightly off topic, but now I AM feeling older than dirt...the metal detector??? I worked in a big city VA, Denver, and walked right through the main door and up to my floor, any time day...

2. Do you need to carry your personal cell phone while at work?

   theplugger replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

   Ditto to Tweety. I'm a retired RN, getting old as dirt, so in our day there wasn't any such thing as having a personal cell phone at work (or even at all, for that matter), and I did manage to...

3. Which nursing skills do you dread?

   theplugger replied to TigerGalLE's topic in General Nursing

   Cleaning up emesis, especially projectile and espcially GI bleed projectile....I'll gladly add those to your list. And with all those things listed it's imperative that one not make faces and make...

4. Share Your Saying

   theplugger replied to angelique777's topic in Nursing Humor

   One quote that quickly comes to mind (and often comes to mind) was from one of our instructors: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on

5. We Are Twisted?

   theplugger posted a topic in Nursing Humor

   As a retired RN, this joke really hit my funny bone. Wait a minute! It IS a joke, isn't it?? Did you hear about the nurse who died and went straight to hell? It took her two weeks to realize she...

6. What was IV tubing made of before the invention of plastics?

   theplugger replied to sunnyjohn's topic in General Nursing

   Hopefully someone here will be able to tell you more about current ECT procedure since I haven't been in Psych nursing for umpteen years, but I do know they don't use it nearly so often since the...

7. What was IV tubing made of before the invention of plastics?

   theplugger replied to sunnyjohn's topic in General Nursing

   This thread has really taken me back to both the amusing and the amazing! What I remember about paraldehyde was not the IV method, but we used to have to mix it in some juice in a glass...right, NOT...