Bipley

Bipley

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  1. Nurses are overpaid!

    Bipley replied to Bipley's topic in General Nursing

    Do you?????? I have an early 1900s hemoglobinometer. It's from Merck. It has little papers similar to paper towels. You put a drop of blood on this special paper and compare it to the color chart to...

  2. Nurses with ADD/ADHD?

    Bipley replied to Metron's topic in Health, Stress Management

    If you are feeling badly the drug is not working for you. I still swear by plain old, tried and true Dexedrine. I like the short acting version. I have more control over when I want to take it and...

  3. Nurses with ADD/ADHD?

    Bipley replied to Metron's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I know of one person that takes it and she likes it. I wouldn't take it but the reason is due to the side effect I happen to get from the drug. Wellbutrin is the same as Zyban and a few years ago...

  4. Outta Line........

    Bipley replied to hbncns35's topic in General Nursing

    I wasn't referring to this particular patient. I was writing in

  5. Your Worst Mistake

    Bipley replied to aurora_borealis's topic in General Nursing

    Once again, we

  6. Outta Line........

    Bipley replied to hbncns35's topic in General Nursing

    Just because someone is a newbie surgical pt doesn't mean they are having tests. An appy is a pretty good example. Sometimes it is okay to get a fresh appy out of bed. It depends on the pt....

  7. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    Bipley replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    What a wonderful post. I'll give you this, it tooks guts to post this one. :wink2: Cheers. Cheers to common sense and critical thinking skills!!!! And another thing....

  8. Thyroid out of whack!

    Bipley replied to Nikki69's topic in General Nursing

    I couldn't remember who it was that was also an endo patient and advocated a young female endo or 2nd best, a young male endo. Need I write about how correct you are? :wink2: I'm not one to suggest...

  9. Nurses with ADD/ADHD?

    Bipley replied to Metron's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Strattera still scares the heck out of me. I'm still afraid that I'll end up doing the Thorazine shuffle. I just don't like HOW that drug works. I'll stick with my cavity causing, anxiety causing,...

  10. Nurses with ADD/ADHD?

    Bipley replied to Metron's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Someone I respect a great deal is an elementary school teacher. Each year they are given some sort of file or document on each child with a history of each child. If the kid is AD/HD, or, they just...

  11. Nurses with ADD/ADHD?

    Bipley replied to Metron's topic in Health, Stress Management

    True yet not true. We are talking adult AD/HD. In kids this is over dx'ed but in adults it is under dx'ed. My S/O's brother in law is a dog. He's a ... I don't have the words. Supposedly he's a child...

  12. Nurses with ADD/ADHD?

    Bipley replied to Metron's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Hear hear, yeah that! And all that stuff. Some folks just need to catch up on

  13. Is your hospital DIRTY ??? Does housekeeping clean the empty room and bath in

    Bipley replied to passing thru's topic in General Nursing

    Ho

  14. Outta Line........

    Bipley replied to hbncns35's topic in General Nursing

    You are on the money. There is a way to get a patient to do what he didn't know he wanted to do, and there is force. Not totally force, but pushing the heck out of reality. A GOOD nurse will end up...

  15. Outta Line........

    Bipley replied to hbncns35's topic in General Nursing

    Tweety.... You know, technically I suppose you are correct but your post still makes me feel all creepy. With that... :kiss Friendly smooches! We are ALL professionals when we are doing our job...

  16. Outta Line........

    Bipley replied to hbncns35's topic in General Nursing

    My best guess is that she just got her butt chewed and she was taking it out on you. She SHOULD have asked you what the scoop was on this patient. Then you would have responded/explained, and she...

  17. What is in this woman's mouth?

    Bipley replied to not now's topic in General Nursing

    Mucous plug. Get it out and don't let her choke on it. Congrats to you for

  18. Thyroid out of whack!

    Bipley replied to Nikki69's topic in General Nursing

    Heh... you sound JUST like a Hashi's patient! Signed.... A Hashi's

  19. Thyroid out of whack!

    Bipley replied to Nikki69's topic in General Nursing

    YEAH! What Blue Eyes wrote! But not just any doc, it MUST be a YOUNG FEMALE endo!! 2nd best is a young male endo. The site I wrote of previously also has the PATIENT'S TOP PICKS for docs. Not what...

  20. Thyroid out of whack!

    Bipley replied to Nikki69's topic in General Nursing

    301 is a tad bit high! LOL There is another thyroid patient/nurse here that will tell you the same as me. You need to find a FEMALE endo doc pronto. If not female then a YOUNG endo. They have brand...

  21. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    Bipley replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    Something I have read time and time again on this thread. It's about the good guys wearing white and the bad guys wearing dark. That's a New Age Twinkie concept, not something for real. What if you...

  22. Received this email today and I am steamed!!!

    Bipley replied to MomBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Nooooo, Z! VERY funny all the way! :kiss Someday the newbies will be laughing too. I remember being a newbie. I even charted properly. (NOT that the patient is sleeping, but that his eyes are...

  23. Where to get scrubs?

    Bipley replied to bowkerj's topic in General Nursing

    I pay the bucks and get the cool stuff from my local merchant. I have Betty Boop, Fred Flinstone, Marmaduke, I Love Lucy, then we have non-TV scrubs such as denims, pastels, patterns, neon (neon...

  24. New Jobs are so hard :(

    Bipley replied to geekgolightly's topic in General Nursing

    Give it time, you never know if it happened to be that you started during times other than the holidays, people might not be as stressed and it would have been a totally different

  25. I Double Dawg Dare You, Do It!

    Bipley replied to Bipley's topic in General Nursing

    I love this thread. We are so used to talking about everything that is wrong. I think as nurses we almost feel it is wrong to talk about the cool things we have done or the positives we have done...