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  1. Funny Nursing Related Stories

    adoyo replied to nursejanefw's topic in Nursing Humor

    I like to hear such crazy stories about nursing!! I once had the same encounter with an elder woman from theatre for an operation on the leg but ended up with a prolapsed uterus which I had also...

  2. NCLEX: How many times is enough?

    adoyo replied to PMHNP10's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    NCLEX sounds like a scare crow to some of the would be candidates and the anxiety that goes with it is possible to make one fail it!! Is there a curriculum for The NCLEX ? I have witnessed people...

  3. Stool sample for Micro class?????

    adoyo replied to RXtech's topic in General Students

    Eish!!! Some of the procedures people go through in the name of training leaves a lot to be desired!! I think the Proffessor / Tutor was rather mocking the trainees than training them. I wonder how...

  4. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    adoyo replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    :chuckle:chuckleI think that nobody can be perfect in 'sayin it correctly' though we should try our best to say it correctly when referring to medical terms. A coleague of mine was very happy to tell...

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

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

    And I wonder how people survived without clothes during Stone Age!!!1 People, we should b able to adapt to new technology and b flexible in changing our attittudes towards cellphone use at work! How r...

  6. Rumor of a six month 200K RN position in Iraq????

    adoyo replied to pdaddy's topic in General Nursing

    No, thanx!!! They can even treble that offer and add the same amount as contract allowance and I still will not nurse the idea of working in Iraq at present. Why? The risks involved r too many and I...

  7. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    adoyo replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    I cannot blame anybody for pronounciation of an English word if he/she is not English since several times I have been asked by an English Person to help spell an english word such as 'banana' as she...

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

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

    I have just remembered an episode when I once got trapped in the toilet at the administration block after I had just filed my Leave application form!! I had to use my cell phone to call our unit to...

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

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

    People do carry cellphones to work for various reasons and it depends on individual institutions to put policies against carrying them to work as they can easily distract one from concentrating in...

  10. Funny Names for Nurses

    adoyo replied to randomnamees's topic in Nursing Humor

    Thanx for Harry Peters which i am hearing for the first time to b meaning some part of the males since I have always known names like Dick and Joseph also to mean another part of the male anatomy!!...

  11. New nurse here...slapped today by patient.

    adoyo replied to Bonny619's topic in General Nursing

    As the saying goes: If a dog bites a man, it is no news, but if aman bites a dog, it is news that will hit the headlines!! The same applies to: When a patient hits a nurse, it is no news, but when a...

  12. New nurse here...slapped today by patient.

    adoyo replied to Bonny619's topic in General Nursing

    my advice is that u just go to a corner and pray for the patient!! why? because when a dog bites man, it is no news and when a man bites a dod it is news! when a pt hits a nurse, its no news but when...

  13. Do You Tell EVERYONE You Are a Nurse?

    adoyo replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

    I have been an RN for donkeys years and proud to be known as such. The only thing that I do not do is try to do charity work when I can avoid it. I always give reasons why I cannot do whatever someone...

  14. Dating co-workers

    adoyo replied to jerenemarie's topic in General Nursing

    Hahaa!! It is interesting how people manage to cope working with their dating colleagues!! I have witnessed very ugly scenes where dating colleagues working at the same unit come to do a shift...

  15. are all nurse shifts 8 hours or longer?

    adoyo replied to doublegregg's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Hello all nurses!! I am currently working at an EMI Unit where I double up as a Bums' Specialist!! I am not yet used to 13 hour shifts and that is why I have been out of this Forum for such a great...

  16. what do you all think about 12 hour shifts?

    adoyo replied to emmycRN's topic in General Nursing

    12 hour shifts drain me to death!! I am usually productive the whole morning upto around 4 pm ( that is a shift from 7.30 am to 20.30 hrs.] afterwhich I feel like retiring from nursing altogether and...

  17. Funny Names for Nurses

    adoyo replied to randomnamees's topic in Nursing Humor

    We workedwith a nurse named Sweet Memory!! I wonder how people survive with such names- funny, isn't

  18. Elective Cesareans/On Demand

    adoyo replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in Ob/Gyn

    After a thorough health education on the advantages and disadvantages of C/S vs Normal Labour, the mother to be should be given the chance to choose the method she wishes to use in having her baby. I...

  19. Funny Names for Nurses

    adoyo replied to randomnamees's topic in Nursing Humor

    We have a doctor in Obs and Gynae from Czechoslovakia called Svab,pronounced as'

  20. Funny Names for Nurses

    adoyo replied to randomnamees's topic in Nursing Humor

    A patient was passingby along the hospital corridors and saw a notice on the therapist door distorted; THE RAPIST AT WORK- meanig" Therapist at work" and she took off without being attended....