grace90

grace90 LPN, LVN

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  1. I cringed on the inside

    grace90 replied to beachbum3's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like us. We have our occasional treats, but my kids love fruits and vegetables. Any fruit, corn on the cob, cucumbers, tomatoes, kale... It doesn't last long in our

  2. Nurse fired for calling police

    grace90 replied to Runman1914's topic in General Nursing

    This hospital would have had a huge lawsuit to deal with if a patient or bystanding visitor got injured due to this lady being allowed to continue to act like a tantruming toddler. If I had a family...

  3. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    grace90 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    Me,

  4. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    grace90 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    Oh....My!!!!! That's pretty much car surfing, or darn close to it, anyway. Sheesh!!!

  5. Strangest thing you've heard a co-worker or patient say?

    grace90 replied to SaraO'Hara's topic in Nursing Humor

    A while back I had a pt with multiple medical issues and many complications after a surgery. After he had been with us a while, he woke up one morning and told me he'd had a dream that God took all...

  6. "Your patient is SO rude!"

    grace90 replied to Megsd's topic in Nursing Humor

    Our lab has a nasty habit of deciding pts don't need certain labs drawn so they can make their job easier. I've had them draw stat labs over an hour after ordered despite multiple phone reminders, or...

  7. "Your patient is SO rude!"

    grace90 replied to Megsd's topic in Nursing Humor

    :lol_hitti:

  8. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    grace90 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    Only when they spit out something along the lines of "I pay your

  9. "Your patient is SO rude!"

    grace90 replied to Megsd's topic in Nursing Humor

    hmmmm..... must've been a new phlebotomist, wonder if she's ever had to draw a sedated, vented pt in

  10. Remains of 3600 former mental hospital patients found in Oregon State Hospital...

    grace90 replied to student456's topic in General Nursing

    I get a knot in my stomach thinking about how children like my mentally impaired son, 50-60 years ago, would have been abandoned into one of these institutions and never known love or a true

  11. Strangest thing you've heard a co-worker or patient say?

    grace90 replied to SaraO'Hara's topic in Nursing Humor

    To quote Beavis and Butthead, "What a dork!" This last week I was assigned to two early-40-somethings with AMI's. Sounds like the cardiologist has a serious case of cranial-anal inversion! (Actually,...

  12. Strangest thing you've heard a co-worker or patient say?

    grace90 replied to SaraO'Hara's topic in Nursing Humor

    Earlier this year, I thought I found a lump so while getting it checked out by my primary, she told me "You're too young to get cancer". HUH??!!??!!?? :smackingf: I'm 33!! I've worked enough shifts...

  13. Which nursing skills do you dread?

    grace90 replied to TigerGalLE's topic in General Nursing

    nasogastric tube insertion, i've had one so every time i put one down i feel the sensation in my own throat, and then have to yank it back out and have someone else do

  14. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    grace90 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Hey, don't feel stupid, that sounds like the beginnings of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, which is nothing to play with, and neither is a drug reaction that causes facial

  15. Song lyrics that remind you of nursing...

    grace90 replied to grace90's topic in Nursing Humor

    Yeah it was the Bangles. I like that

  16. Song lyrics that remind you of nursing...

    grace90 replied to grace90's topic in Nursing Humor

    Kiss This by Travis Tritt- great song to play on the way home from an aggravating shift or an unfair meeting with your

  17. Sickest you have ever been, and still expected to work.

    grace90 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    was an aide in a lousy, crappy LTC and roughly 7 mo pregnant, became nauseated and within a short time was puking in a garbage can while superbad diarrhea hit, i was flushed and could barely see...

  18. Funny things you have said but wish you didn't

    grace90 replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    I was in a pt's room and had just finished assessing him and as I was leaving, I poked my head in and said something along the lines of "Oh, BTW, often times during the night I poke my head in and...

  19. Define Nursing in 3 words

    grace90 replied to FutureNurseSaga's topic in General Nursing

    Ugh, not again!! This shift sucks! Analyze. Clear. Shock. the GOOD, the BAD, the UGLY :argue: Bath'n' Body Fluids Human's Worst Moments :stone Helping Pass Peacefully :redbeathe Humor Helps...

  20. Patients that are hospitalized because of a dare...

    grace90 replied to NsgChica's topic in General Nursing

    One man's stupidity is another man's job

  21. Patients that are hospitalized because of a dare...

    grace90 replied to NsgChica's topic in General Nursing

    eating a whole roll of toilet paper causing a bowel obstruction hanging off the back of a car rollerblading swallowing

  22. Things nursing school FAILED to tell us

    grace90 replied to Debbie_LPN's topic in Nursing Humor

    No

  23. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    grace90 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Shut up! to patients who know how to use a call light but prefer to yell, scream and

  24. Strange things found on (or in) a pt.

    grace90 replied to squeakykitty's topic in Emergency

    I think I saw that one on Untold Stories of the

  25. What overwhelms you the most? What did NS NOT prepare you for?

    grace90 replied to ReinventingMyselfAgain's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I precepted a student for 4 hours several months ago on the tele floor. She kept telling me her main goal was to learn and practice the charting. Whatever. We had a pt get dyspneic and go into CHF,...