OldDude

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    Monkey Bars

    OldDude replied to BluebellRN's topic in School

    I apologize in advance for this but I just can't help it!! If it's a Media magazine put the cover
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    Monkey Bars

    OldDude replied to BluebellRN's topic in School

    That's a scary story...I'm glad there was a happy ending! Welcome to the
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    Seattle is Dying

    OldDude replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Many years ago I read an article that stated eradication of the boll weevil would end research on the eradication of the boll weevil and thus have a greater negative impact on the cotton industry than...
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    Does Hospital Leadership and Policy Promote Working When Sick?

    OldDude replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Nursing

    I think the underlying core of why attendance policies are "necessary" is, in general, the facilities haven't made the investment in the employees, working conditions, and staffing that establishes...
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    Dubious Victories

    OldDude replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    I think the movie was Heartbreak Ridge with Clint Eastwood as the drill instructor who wore a different t-shirt every day and the platoon was supposed to adapt and overcome and wear the same color...
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    Monkey Bars

    OldDude replied to BluebellRN's topic in School

    OMG! I got nauseous just watching
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    Seattle is Dying

    OldDude replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    So you're the one!!! I hear ya, name calling and rigid adherence to "the party" regardless of what issue you're dealing with has always produced a mutually beneficial result for everyone.
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    Allergies vs Pink Eye

    OldDude replied to sweetsadie's topic in School

    I hear ya about the pollen...I have a white truck and every morning its yellow from the oak trees this time of year. The only time I "do" anything about red eyes is when there is colored drainage,...
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    Seattle is Dying

    OldDude replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Amen!
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    Seattle is Dying

    OldDude replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Wow Emergent...I was just remembering being old enough to recall, growing up in a piss ant little town in south Texas, vagrants being taken to the city limits and dropped off by the police. Vagrancy,...
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    Monkey Bars

    OldDude replied to BluebellRN's topic in School

    When I first came on with school nursing there was an old fashioned steel merry-go-round on the playground. Those kids would load that thing up and get it spinning at the speed of sound and see who...
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    That's So Fetch! (Pink Wednesdays)

    OldDude replied to Farawyn's topic in School

    I may be alone over here but I can still hear what you guys are
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    Monkey Bars

    OldDude replied to BluebellRN's topic in School

    Our playground doesn't get mulch (engineered wood fiber) added to it until we hear Chinese music playing from underground. Before we moved to this campus we had pea gravel as the surfacing and...
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    C'Mon Now!

    OldDude replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in School

    3rd grader comes in..."I asked my teacher to help me clean my glasses but she said go to the
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    Man erroneously circumcised after paperwork mixup

    OldDude replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    ...which leads to playing with his organ when he is NOT taking his bath which increases the frequency of playing with his organ which ultimately leads to blindness...
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    Hygiene Issues/Parent notification

    OldDude replied to NurseDew's topic in School

    On the elementary level the teachers are more worried about smelly kids than the other students are..."Oh, it's just grossing me
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    Generation Z

    OldDude replied to missmollie's topic in General Nursing

    Yea...no one can work, drive, sleep, or eat, without ear
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    Seattle is Dying

    OldDude replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I visited Seattle a few years ago. I don't visit big cities on a regular basis but the ones I have visited have the typical panhandlers in common; all planted in their area with whatever sign or...
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    Man erroneously circumcised after paperwork mixup

    OldDude replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    Well, that didn't work
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    Monkey Bars

    OldDude replied to BluebellRN's topic in School

    There are things about recess that I've come to conclude will never change and playground supervision is one of them. Another thing is, how many fractures occur from relatively minor mechanisms of...
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    Valuing each other's time

    OldDude replied to Flare's topic in School

    I refer to the period from spring break to the last couple weeks of school as the "doldrums." Like being stuck out in the middle of the ocean on a sailing ship...no land in sight...no wind for...
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    Does anyone else get emotionally exhausted from this job?

    OldDude replied to RatherBHiking's topic in School

    Sometimes school nursing is like a night of serious drinking...when you wake up extremely hung over the next morning, having to feel better to die, and swear you'll never drink again...then you feel...
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    Hygiene Issues/Parent notification

    OldDude replied to NurseDew's topic in School

    As with similar posts...there is no school rule or policy prohibiting a student's body odor from offending someone. I always refer these things to the counselor to address under social issues or, if...
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    Medical tent for school carnival

    OldDude replied to alligatoRN's topic in School

    Call in sick that
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    Resource for the wee ones

    OldDude replied to Jedrnurse's topic in School

    I actually enjoy doing physical assessments on toddlers and those who haven't developed good verbal skills. They give you a true representation and generally don't report stuff to you that has been...