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I would not wear the button either! Our institute.........I can just see the button thing happening here...it would be just my luck! At our facility, the 8 year old daughter of the infection control nurse made up a poster of 8 hands with hole punches of different colors on them, with the caption "for every minute you spend in a patients room, your hands contract 16 bacteria, wash your hands!" They have plastered these stupid posters everywhere. I cant stand it! It's like saying...............uh, duh! :smackingf

PRESCOTT, ARIZONA RING A BELL?????

Ha Ha very funny. I'm sure you have some odd behaviors that you would like to share with the rest of us??????

When you hear your IV pump ringing just as you come on shift, and you go into the room, only to find it sucking air. When you go to put a new bag up, it still thought there was at least 200+cc left in the old bag. Why do they do it? It doesnt take a rocket scientist to hang a new bag and punch in 1000 volume to be delivered!!!!!!!!

Okay, I thought of another... I often keep running tabs of I/O's of myself and the kids quietly to myself in my head. OOOOOOHHHHHHH, I need to take a vacation! :chuckle

As a nurse, and I guess a germaphobe at times, and just generally weird.....I have picked up on a few of my own rediculous behaviors that I guess I have managed to obtain through the years. 1. If drinking from a large open glass on the nurses unit. I cover the glass with a paper towel, put a straw through the top, and bend the straw not up, but down towards the ground..................why..........well, everybody knows germs fall from the sky and into things...like straws.... :chuckle 2. When opening a new can of pop, I wash it under the sink of running water, and then take a paper towel, all smushed up to a point, and go around the rim of the top of the can to get the dirt off, then open it and drink it. 3. I don't let food touch each other on my plate, and I only eat one thing at a time on my plate. I always finish one thing, and then move onto the next. Anybody else share in this weirdness????????????????? :rotfl:

As a new nurse in a tele unit years ago, I thought that I would be helpful in watering the nice plants that we had on a shelf above the tele monitors and computers. Well, little did I know that evening shift had done the same, and the gallon of water I so blissfully gave the plants promptly overflowed when I took off to lunch. The water flowed so much down the counter and over the sides, that the water leaked into the computers and shorted out 3 monitors and computer hard drives. When I came back, the supervisor, charge nurses, engineering, and housekeeping department were all circled around the computers. The were busily changing out computers and refiguring them, as we had at least 20 patients on continuous tele. Needless to say, there was a sign the next day next to the plants stating: Do Not Water the Plants! Charge Nurse to do on M-W-F only!

Hi everybody. I am going to venture out nov. 1st to california for travel nursing. My first assignment................ :yelclap: Any day now I am going to be getting a couple calls from 2 prospective hospitals in Thousand Oaks, and San Jose. On the telephone interview, is there certain questions you ask about how a traveler works there? example....am i expected to float, is there orientation to the hospital, ect. ect. Any help would be great!

When you are shopping in Walmart or the grocery store and you hear the "beep...beep" before an over head announcement that sounds exactly like your code blue alarm bell at the hospital, and you stop your cart or tilt your head to listen for the "code blue announcement" to come, only to hear...... "clean up,.......isle 5" :chuckle

Somehow the public forgets about us "night-shifters", I think the especially the family just thinks little fairys come in at night to take care of their loved one. As evidenced by...... numerous cards that only list the day shift people, candy boxes for "the day shift", and patients and family that say...."oh boy, that nurse the other day.....mary so-and-so was really nice" I cant stand that- I am a night shift worker, and we work just as hard as the day shift......just because we dont carry long conversations with the patients and families for hours on end to allow for healing sleep to occur.....doesnt mean we dont exist. Oh, I love the people that also think we come to work, see the patients and then go to sleep ourselves. What is the public thinking????? Ok, I am done ranting. :)

I had PIH with both of my pregnancies. And I can guarantee that both babies are from the same father- my husband. I had asked the doctor and NP about PIH and what causes it. Her exact answer......"That's the million dollar question, If we knew why it started, and why in some people, and why with some pregnancies and not others........ we'd be millionaires!" So from her standpoint, there is no real definitive answer. We can only surmise......my weight? I was mildly obese at 200 pounds when i conceived both times and gained about 35-40 pounds with each. I got at least 2+ edema halfway up my calfs by the end. She also told me that if you have PIH the first time, most likely you will have it with each consecutive pregnancy. That's all I can offer. :)

thank goodness the patient was sedated enough not to respond to it at all.

I just love it!!!!!!! this just cracks me up! :rotfl:

My last hospital had those locator badges. We were all issued one. It kept track of everywhere you went and how long you were there. It kept the log for years. Believe me your "big brother" is watching. But you have to wear it, in order for it to do it. I never wore it, and kept it in my locker. In icu, it came to our unit too. Which we thought was weird for a 10 bed circular unit, but they said that it was to help locate the nurses at a glance. Uh, hello.....all you have to do is look in the room, or yell out for a certain nurse. I dont believe in it, i think it is a bunch of cr*p. You will know, there has to be antennas in the ceiling, and they cant be hidden in order for it to catch the signal. They look like the spokes of a wheel hanging from the ceiling. Now we have moved and i work at another hospital, but get this, they just installed cameras all over the d*mn building. What is going on here.....?????

I thought of another time.... We had a nurse with a bad back and some sciatic pain. And when it got too bad, she would go and lay on the floor in the break room for a while to see if it would help. Well one night, the respiratory therapist went into the breakroom and was watching tv, which was pretty loud, and she apparently followed into that room and layed onto the floor. When he was done watching the video on the tv he turned around to leave the room, when he saw her on the floor with her eyes closed, and yelled at the top of his lungs....."OMG, ARE YOU OKAY?,,,,,,HELP, I NEED HELP IN HERE!!!!!!!" All of us came rushing in to see what had happened, as she was explaining to him why she lays on the floor. :wink2: