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  1. bricklayer's accident report - very funny!

    Don't care who wrote it, performed it etc. I still love
  2. call bell responses

    At a LTC we had an elderly lady who would GOD GOD ARE YOU THERE? for hours at a time As you can imagine this was quite draining on the staff finnally one of the nurses pushed the intercom button...
  3. bricklayer's accident report - very funny!

    what wonderful language!!!!!!! Until now the best incident report was from a kitchen aide while I was charge nurse in an LTC. "I stoke my hand in a boekt and cut my fanger." I swear this was the...
  4. opened multidose vials- when to discard??

    I have always been told that the manufacturers exp date was for sealed unopened
  5. Have you ever been hit by a patient?

    Had an elderly confused pt break my nose with a well aimed punch and then rebreak it 6 wks later. Had a little old lady Pinch nipple so hard it turned purple I was holding her on her side for a Dr....
  6. Confidentiality

    just a question who was concerned about confidentiality when your wife told the story. she shouln't
  7. Funny things patients say !

    I still giggle when I think of a story my mom told me about having her first baby. She say the only way to have a baby is to be "put to sleep with the first pain and woke up when the hairdresser gets...
  8. Confidentiality

    confidentiality is one of our hardest and most important duties. I work in home care and confidentiality extends from just the patient to the family, family life etc. one agency I worked for would not...
  9. just a short comment on this subject. Back in the dark ages I was so excited when I was accepted into nursing school all of my friends were happy they all said that they were so proud that I was going...
  10. Jay Leno's "joke" about nurses

    as a reply to hot spam and all the other guys out there. I truly do not think that the Media star joke was made at the expense of the male nurses in our comunnity. I have spent quite a few years...
  11. What my DON said about getting rid of LPN's

    O.K. I'll jump in I love RNs I love LPNs when talk of "grandfathering" LPN first started years ago there was talk of revamping the entire nursing system . Exp. Lpn would become Rn Rn would would...
  12. What my DON said about getting rid of LPN's

    O.K. I'll jump in I love RNs I love LPNs when talk of "grandfathering" LPN first started years ago there was talk of revamping the entire nursing system . Exp. Lpn would become Rn Rn would would...
  13. Nurse using drugs at work - ? violent

    I think we need to recognize the difference between using a medication and abusing a medication. Not everyone who uses ativan is impaired. If the nurse recognized that she was Impaired (using I'm...
  14. What keeps you comming back

    I am new to the web site and have enjoyed all of the discussions I have read. What I would like to know is with all of the talk of overtime, marches, working conditions, pay etc. what is it that keeps...
  15. Charting Bloopers

    from a nursing note. 7 formed fecalettes floating in the toilet. I often wondered if they all got in line and did high
  16. What would you do?

    something I learned a long time ago. You have team nursing, primary care nursing and competion nursing . These nurses are into "I'm better than anyone else" as for unsigned notes under the door, does...
  17. codes

    had a pediatric code on time. Just resp. evey time the doc tried to tube the girl would sieze finally the doc went down the nose and he still couldn't get airmovement he pulled the tube out and had...
  18. If an MD shoved you...

    keep a journal(not just a note for incidents but something that you make entries in everyday ) Take names of witnesess date time everything. YOu might try saying in a quiet voice "assault is a...
  19. explain carefully

    about 100 years ago when I was new to nursing I gave a pre-op enema to a young woman (a good old fasioned soapsuds enema). When I was done I told her to call when she was done and let me check it....
  20. Alternative meds? You'll never believe this one!!

    my grandmother would use kerosene for head lice and cobwebs for deep
  21. What Freaks You Out?

    I can suck snot all day (noses,mouths, trachs I don't care) pleeeeeeeeeeeeese don't hand me your teeth!!!!!! also the smell of a good old fasioned gi
  22. Why LPN??

    I have been an lpn for 24 years and have watched the profession change greatly in those years. I think the reason I became an Lpn vs. an Rn is because team nursing was "all the rage" at the time. I...