3ringnursing BSN

ICU; Telephone Triage Nurse

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    Emergent Situation Gone Wrong. Ideas?

    3ringnursing replied to Tencat25's topic in School

    LOVE this! What a wonderful combination: Sergeant + Nurse =
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    Emergent Situation Gone Wrong. Ideas?

    3ringnursing replied to Tencat25's topic in School

    It sounds like a post event meeting was in order to discuss what went right, and what could have been handled better. I bet that's the very first thing you did when the dust finally settled. It sounds...
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    Does your district allow narcotics in the clinic?

    3ringnursing replied to SassyTachyRN's topic in School

    My son missed 2 wks of school for a Fx'd clavicle in 7th grade, and he absolutely still needed the vicodin when he returned still in a sling, poor guy. The middle school he went to didn't have an RN,...
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    Today's grossest lunch award goes to...

    3ringnursing replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    Speaking of disgusting food, does anyone remember {heave} fried pork rinds? [taking a moment to get my stomach under control while it roils …]. Okay, so my brother's first job was working in one...
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    Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    3ringnursing replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    ME TOO! I'm glad I'm not the only one! I mentioned this my 1st year into my nursing career when a seasoned old battle-ax (i.e., me now, 23 years later) of an LPN set me straight! LOL! I still...
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    Today's grossest lunch award goes to...

    3ringnursing replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    And chocolate is the 5th food
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    Today's grossest lunch award goes to...

    3ringnursing replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    Maybe I could market a brand of white peanut butter for preschooler's called, "Marc's Smooth White Peanut Butter" (as a nod to my son, now 23 y.o. who can now see the humor in it)? The catchphrase...
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    Today's grossest lunch award goes to...

    3ringnursing replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    I remember eating tuna as a kid, but later learned "tuna fish" really was fish - not tuna chicken! The cats all come running though when my husband opens a
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    Today's grossest lunch award goes to...

    3ringnursing replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    Wasn't Span made for WWII war pack rations for soldiers? My son used to love watching Man -vs- Food with Adam Richmond and that's where I also got my info about Hawaiian's loving Spam, and frying it...
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    Today's grossest lunch award goes to...

    3ringnursing replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    Why yes … isn't that spiced canned cat food for those felines which discriminating
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    Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    3ringnursing replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    Holy cow Batman! That's wild! Although I have to admit I may have been a pretty unhappy camper if I had woken during my hysterectomy. An IV pole spear would have been nothing compared to what they...
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    Any nurses with severe clausterphobia?

    3ringnursing replied to Daron73m's topic in General Nursing

    I hate elevators - I can force myself on, but the higher up I have to go the more frightened I get. Shudder … I was locked in a shipping trunk as kid after being tricked into getting inside -...
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    Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    3ringnursing replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    When I was still in nursing school I was in the student nurse float pool working as a tech (think CNA, but could also administer O2 in transports which PCT's and CNA's could not: circa early 1990's) -...
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    Today's grossest lunch award goes to...

    3ringnursing replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    Glad it wasn't bone in sardines in mustard sauce (my husband has a nasty can in the kitchen cabinets right now). Eww. One day when my son was still in elementary school he decided only babies bring a...
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    Blindsided by a colleague.

    3ringnursing replied to tch1920's topic in School

    Yep, lame. No amount of stress is an excuse for such poor personal conduct. If you know her personally I say go for it, if you don't know her personally (i.e., by reputation only) then blow it off...
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    Would you call an ambulance?

    3ringnursing replied to halohg's topic in School

    Was there any evidence he had already take any unauthorized meds (as in unauthorized by you, the designated authority in the school setting)? I work in telephone triage and speak to multiple nervous...
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    Don't flame me for this

    3ringnursing replied to future_RN, CNA's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It sounds to me they find you a competent hard worker and are going to the person they know will always get the job done no matter what. That knowledge makes their lives a bit easier, and gives them...
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    Questioning a doctors order

    3ringnursing replied to MrsJt's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    In my own personal experience I've found nursing to be no different than any where else in the fact most people won't spare the time to praise for a job well done (unless you've done something...
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    New RN, leaving after 6 months unprofessional?

    3ringnursing replied to RubyRubyRuby's topic in General Nursing

    The travel opportunity aside, I never recommend anyone stay in a job they dislike regardless of the reasons you feel obligate you to stay. Real or imagined, that yolk of guilt and responsibility seems...
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    Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    3ringnursing replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    When I was a new grad I did my time in the night shift trenches where most of the practical jokers seemed to congregate. Unfortunately this setting leaned toward my own natural propensity for childish...
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    Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    3ringnursing replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    I know, right? Like a gift - like finding a $20.00 bill in your winter coat pocket you didn't realize was there! I snorted hard enough to shoot my right temporal lobe out of my right nostril at mach...
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    Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    3ringnursing replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    OMG! This is the best one yet! I laughed so hard the cats all became alarmed and ran off! I LOVE this
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    Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    3ringnursing replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    I remember a story a PCT told me in 1998: He worked at a car dealership years before, and once in a while the owner would select one of the workers to get to drive a brand new, fully loaded car up to...
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    Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    3ringnursing replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    It was pulled back. Now, 23 years later it's an angled bob, but no more patient care. Bad hair timing I
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    Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    3ringnursing replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    Back in the late 1980's I worked as a dental assistant in a periodontal office. Back then vicodin had just come out, so the drug rep gave the dentist about 200 samples which we kept in one of those...