grace90

grace90 LPN, LVN

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  1. Patient is a famous star

    grace90 replied to Lara911's topic in Nursing Humor

    Chauncey Billups, Rick Hamilton, any Detroit Pistons player...,

  2. Do you use filtered needles for Im injections

    grace90 replied to ceen's topic in Emergency

    In nursing school I jabbed myself in the middle finger with a filter needle, and it immediately swelled up into a nice-sized hematoma and it hurt like a SOB. It was our first skills session at the...

  3. Wiping Butt...

    grace90 replied to Chicagoan's topic in General Nursing

    40% of my time is spent wiping a patient's rear end, 40% is spent wiping a doctor's rear end and 20% of my time is spent wiping the previous shift's rear end honestly, peri care, poop, pee, is not a...

  4. can you be a mom and nurse?

    grace90 replied to perhisia's topic in Nursing Career

    I'm a mom of a mentally impaired 8 yo boy, and 2 girls ages 7 and 5. I work 3-12's a week on nights. My hubby has his own business that he can bend around my sleep/work schedule, so the kids get...

  5. Stress! How do you releive it?

    grace90 replied to AnnieOaklyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Reading funny threads on here Watching funny cartoons/comedy shows/etc on TV Hanging out with my kids and hubby Cooking/baking Making coworkers laugh Imagining myself giving a wedgie to my most...

  6. Please Help

    grace90 replied to bnehls's topic in General Nursing

    Whichever college route you choose, go for it, good luck, and welcome to

  7. Nurses with ADD/ADHD?

    grace90 replied to Metron's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I'm not diagnosed with ADD/ADHD but good golley I swear I got it. If another nurse is giving oral report near where I'm sitting getting report, I am constantly tuning in to them. I get easily...

  8. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    grace90 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    Hey, Gompers, it's 11 am EST right now and I'm thinking and prayin' for you and the baby! Oops, sorry, psoted this after I saw the psot about keeping the thread on

  9. Your Favorite one liner used with patients

    grace90 replied to scaredofshots's topic in Nursing Humor

    Oh, man, did you have me rolling with that one! I'm gonna have to remember that! Some one-liners I use on patients- "Is there anything else I can get you, besides sleep?" when I have to do a...

  10. Charting Bloopers

    grace90 replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    The other night on the surgical floor, I had one patient that was s/p self-inflicted abd. GSW and another one that was in a for a bowel obstruction which was resolving without surgical intervention...

  11. Describe your last day at work in 50 words or less !?

    grace90 replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    rehab unit lom s/p hip fx hx pros ca dementia, can't pee, coude insert met resistance bleeding:uhoh21: , called urology came in 1 am couldn't insert coude either, bedside cystoscope, urethral...

  12. Your Favorite one liner used with patients

    grace90 replied to scaredofshots's topic in Nursing Humor

    Awwww.... that's kinda

  13. "I don't want to do bed side nursing"...SAY WHAT!

    grace90 replied to lauralassie's topic in General Nursing

    No offense, but I'd rather clean C-Diff, GI bleed and pee puddles for 12 hours. Kudos to anyone who can hack

  14. What have other nurses done that have freaked you out?

    grace90 replied to texas_lvn's topic in General Nursing

    Last night on Tele, another nurse, that I graduated with, had a very hypotensive pt in with something like pyelonephritis. I mean, SBP was 50-60's. The admitting doc didn't want to do anything but...

  15. What do nurses really think of CNAs?

    grace90 replied to ccyrrus's topic in General Nursing

    The CNA I worked with last night 7p-11p on Tele was awesome!!!!! I had a septic, unresponsive LOL who needed turning q2h. I'm used to having to initiate turnings myself, but this gal was on top of it...

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

    grace90 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Right out of nursing school, still on orientation, I orientated one night with a nurse who has a severe case of "RN-too-posh-to-wash-itis":trout: :monkeydance: . We got a new admission early in the...

  17. Wisconsin Nurse being charged with criminal neglect

    grace90 replied to psalm_55's topic in General Nursing

    oh, quit bein' a troll, we all make mistakes including you, and yes i will remember my 5

  18. Wisconsin Nurse being charged with criminal neglect

    grace90 replied to psalm_55's topic in General Nursing

    So when will doctors start being prosecuted for *their* errors? If this becomes the norm, I'll learn how to hang drywall and join my husband's business where the worst mistake I could make is to...

  19. Your Worst Mistake

    grace90 replied to aurora_borealis's topic in General Nursing

    -titrated a heparin drip 100 units too high, lpn caught it, i reported it to doc who did not chew my head off thankfully, pt was ok -gave the wrong meds several times in LTC as a new lpn- major reason...

  20. The difference between Nurses and Respiratory Therapist...

    grace90 replied to Coloradogrl's topic in Nursing Humor

    Last night the RT was in a pt room with me when she, meaning the pt, coughed up a big ol yellow/green thick creamy sticky phlegm wad. I cringed, the RT grinned.

  21. Which emoticons do you find the most amusing?

    grace90 replied to cjog's topic in Nursing Humor

    :smilecoffeeIlovecof

  22. Stupid Nurse Trick... Don't try this at home... or work!

    grace90 replied to TXRN02's topic in Nursing Humor

    I pushed the earpieces into my ears real hard and quick once, the metal tubing went through the plastic earpiece and into my ear and perforated my eardrum. If that wasn't bad enough, I blew it off and...

  23. What's special about male nurses?

    grace90 replied to GBS_Fan's topic in General Nursing

    One night when I floated to the tele floor, the tele tech was male, and on his break he came out to the desk. The female nurses proceeded to make a bunch of reverse-sexist jokes and sexual comments. I...

  24. What have other nurses done that have freaked you out?

    grace90 replied to texas_lvn's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, thank goodness! I'm glad I'm not the only one who's made a Mucomyst mess. :rotfl:

  25. What's special about male nurses?

    grace90 replied to GBS_Fan's topic in General Nursing

    Bingo! That seems to be what I've noticed,