grace90

grace90 LPN, LVN

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  1. Which nursing skills do you dread?

    grace90 replied to TigerGalLE's topic in General Nursing

    I hate inserting NG tubes- I've only successfully inserted maybe 4, the rest I had to get help with. One of the last times I did it, on the first attempt I'm pretty sure it went into his respiratory...

  2. Fear Factor, Nurse Style, Five Stunts... lol

    grace90 replied to NurCrystal22's topic in Nursing Humor

    Who can break open the most ampules in one minute without cutting

  3. Fear Factor, Nurse Style, Five Stunts... lol

    grace90 replied to NurCrystal22's topic in Nursing Humor

    Give ourselves IV Lopressor and see who can get the lowest blood pressure without passing out See who can run up the most flights of stairs carrying a double or triple IV pump in each hand Get a long...

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

    grace90 replied to TXRN02's topic in Nursing Humor

    I was doing the narc count with another nurse, and bent down to check the small refrigerator that holds a few meds. As I stood back up, I whacked my head on the metal narc cabinet door. I already had...

  5. Your personal delivery experience- what happened

    grace90 replied to DEB52's topic in Ob/Gyn

    #1 My older sister had her 4 kids at home, my brother and his wife had their 4 kids at home, and my oldest brother's wife had her first at home. We had minimal medical insurance when we first got...

  6. Your Gettin a Patient - The Doors Open and In Rolls Your Pt.

    grace90 replied to CarVsTree's topic in General Nursing

    TENS?

  7. Night Shift & Depression

    grace90 replied to Montessori Mommy's topic in General Nursing

    I agree! I've dealt with major persistant depression for most of my life, and when I started nightshift, it got worse and I nearly lost my job. I'm finally getting treatment for it and dealing with my...

  8. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    grace90 replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    Yesterday I was laying on my bed with my purring sleepy cat and started thinking about some Ghosthunters episodes and similar shows. All of a sudden my cat meowed, quit purring, and jumped up on a...

  9. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    grace90 replied to Severina's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Well said, Spydercat! Thank

  10. Sliding Scale Insulin

    grace90 replied to RN BSN 2009's topic in General Nursing

    At the hospital I work at, there is a standard scale with a low, medium and high level. Most patients use that scale. But occasionally we'll see a different scale. It's possible that the reason scale...

  11. Did I do the right thing? (long)

    grace90 replied to LilDKessler's topic in General Nursing

    If a nurse has a legitimate prescription and medical reason to carry the epi pen with her at all times she shouldn't get in trouble for having it in her

  12. Most Women Can Relate to this One. It Has Happened to Most of Us

    grace90 replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    Or a 6 and 5 yo girls in the stall with you while you try to change your pad without them seeing since they don't know about periods yet and the 6 year old is valiantly trying to keep the 5 yo from...

  13. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    grace90 replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    Hey, Greensister, you got me hooked! What happened after he got admitted into hospice?

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

    grace90 replied to TXRN02's topic in Nursing Humor

    I carried an ice pack and an IV bag into a patient room. Intending to hand her the ice pack so she could place it on her abdomen herself, I started to hand her the IV bag instead. We both had a good...

  15. Things nursing school FAILED to tell us

    grace90 replied to Debbie_LPN's topic in Nursing Humor

    I don't remember my instructor telling us that after 8 hours of listening to a crack addict tell you why she HAS to have more pain meds and having 2 doctors refuse 4 times to order more, that when she...

  16. Does Incentive Spirometer decrease a temp?

    grace90 replied to chenoaspirit's topic in General Nursing

    Hmmm.. scrolling through my subscribed threads and ran across this one. Don't have time to read all the replies again, but something just occured to me. Incentive spirometry helps patients to expand...

  17. Sweet Dreams, Baby! Tell us about your strange dreams r/t nursing

    grace90 replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    I had a dream that some kind of nasty crisis had hit my town, probably related to the Super Volcano show I'd been watching. People were flooding into the hospital and instead of the Operation...

  18. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    grace90 replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    Last night in a pt room I was giving her meds and discussing them with her when we heard a really loud bang in the bathroom. The bedpan was on the floor when it hadn't been just a few minutes ago. It...

  19. pacify or orientate? Alzheimers...

    grace90 replied to Lfransis's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Is that therapeutic anguish so good for them when they experience it 20 times a day or

  20. pacify or orientate? Alzheimers...

    grace90 replied to Lfransis's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I know this is an old post and an old thread and the dead beaten horse is decomposing:deadhorse, but this caught my eye. There is a lot of things we're not taught in nursing school. I think there's...

  21. Looking down on those who take lunch breaks???

    grace90 replied to mismissy69's topic in General Nursing

    When I used to work 8's on an ortho floor, I often got snide remarks for taking breaks, so for the first year or so I skipped 'em and I shudder to think how my thinking could very well have been...

  22. 501 ways to know you've been on allnurses.com too long!

    grace90 replied to Roy Fokker's topic in Nursing Humor

    #168 You have to pee like a racehorse, but you hold it for 20+ minutes while you read the newest allnurses.com

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

    grace90 replied to grace90's topic in Nursing Humor

    for punching out- Motley Crue 'Home Sweet Home'- "I'm on my way, I'm on my way, Home Sweet Home, Tonight, Tonight, I'm on my way, Oh set me free, Home Sweet Home" also reminds me of pts that have been...

  24. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    grace90 replied to Severina's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Hmmm... I don't remember having to answer any questions like that for taking the NCLEX. :deadhorse :deadhorse :deadhorse :deadhorse :deadhorse I know it's been said before, but if every nurse who...

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

    grace90 replied to grace90's topic in Nursing Humor

    We got anything you want...We got your