Bat Lady

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1. Pregnancy and Nursing School

   Bat Lady replied to hiya234's topic in General Students

   I went through an ADN program which included a lot of single moms and not a few who were married with kids. We all had our problems with sitters, illnesses, and everything that goes along with having...

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

   Bat Lady replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

   ^^^THIS^^^^ was a biggie in the area where I worked at one time. It was a smallish city with 2 hospitals. I worked in the smaller (private) now where I floated between ICU and ER. We fixed this...

3. Denying Death As A Society

   Bat Lady replied to Kyrshamarks's topic in General Nursing

   Wow. I have been on so many sides of this in my career. I've had two nursing home patients in different hospitals who were intubated against their wishes, one because the EMS in that community...

4. 0200 BP's - Dealing with Tired Rude Doctors

   Bat Lady replied to Jennifer in Cali's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   EXACTLY. Most of the hospitals I worked in (and that's been more than several, since I did travel nursing) had a standing order sheet that the doctors used, or the doctors themselves had standing...

5. My Burnout Story

   Bat Lady replied to jk2185's topic in Health, Stress Management

   This might be one reason for a phenomenon I saw quite a bit in the 90s....the movement back and forth from ICU to home health. Many ICU nurses (not all, by any means, for reasons which I will mention...

6. Dress Codes for School

   Bat Lady replied to kidzcare's topic in School

   My daughter went to a Catholic high school. When she started we bought 2 skirts, one in each style. They were also allowed to wear khaki or navy pants. They wore button-down shirts in blue, white, or...

7. Disturbing things that I heard Dr.s say in the Labor room

   Bat Lady replied to mamagui's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

   All of these comments, and more, are exactly why I left neonatal. I had to attend any birth that was considered "risky" or any C-section, and I heard a lot of these type comments from the docs. I also...

8. What's the funniest most unusual baby name?

   Bat Lady replied to nirvana1's topic in Nursing Humor

   One of my college professors was William A. Williams, and a popular TV announcer where I lived for many years was Bill (one assumes also William) Williams. When I worked neonatal, we had a baby girl...

9. What's the funniest most unusual baby name?

   Bat Lady replied to nirvana1's topic in Nursing Humor

   When I worked in the nursery we had a girl baby who was given the name "Chivas Aspen". It provoked many snickers as to how/where she might have been conceived. We also had sisters born about 8 months...

10. What's the funniest most unusual baby name?

    Bat Lady replied to nirvana1's topic in Nursing Humor

    "Melina" (pronounced the same) is a Greek name that means "honey". If you are old enough you might remember the actress Melina Mercouri. (And incidentally, "Melissa" means

11. Placed on Performance Improvement Plan - What should I do?

    Bat Lady replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I had a situation similar to yours and found it came from a co-worker who had come to the unit along with the manager and had taken a dislike to me on my first day because I was friendly with someone...

12. SNF/Rehab - I hate my job!

    Bat Lady replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    If you possibly can, stick it out at your job for one year. That one year always looks good on the resume. Start looking for a less stressful job because that will help you while you're earning that...

13. Aging Nurses - Where do we go?

    Bat Lady replied to TamDar429's topic in General Nursing

    I was 42 when I got out of nursing school and I felt like I was just hitting my stride when I turned 50. When my late ex and I separated I was 62 and that's when I became a travel nurse. I noticed...

14. Aging Nurses - Where do we go?

    Bat Lady replied to TamDar429's topic in General Nursing

    Not to mention norovirus epidemics! Double

15. A Rough Nursing Shift...

    Bat Lady replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    When you come in, have a code in the first 30 minutes and spend the night trying to keep that patient (who was brought in essentially dead) alive, and then have a code on a DIFFERENT patient at the...