1. Camming is way more fun than $120,000 in student loans for nursing school.
2. Smoking pot before a job interview is totally acceptable.
3. Cocaine is a hell of a drug.... (...that gives you renal failure, heart failure and cardiomegaly)
4. If you tell someone you need to get deer ticks off of testicles, you will have an audience.
5. Night shift. Glorious, glorious night shift. I haven't slept in days, but I got to actually do a good, thorough job changing a bandage and OMG.... I taught people actual STUFF. I miss night shift.
6. I keep forgetting I'm old enough now that doctors can and will be younger than me. It's okay, though, because I look younger than them.
7. Literally every person could end every post with "wait 24 hours before you do the PVT, and people will still brag about their good pop up and offer advice on how to pass.
8. People are actually able to spend $120,000 on nursing school. This girl said $20,000 per semester. I'm pretty sure she says BSN. I'm not sure if she realizes her math is off. But still.... It's crazy.
9. I'm nearing a breaking point on some personal life stuff and confess I've secretly been glad to escape it to go to work.
I had a patient with an inverted member. Maybe this will help... I made a peace sign with my fingers, placed them on either side of where his member should be, and pressed in, causing it to... uninvert? Revert? Exvert? Pop out like a whack a mole. Then I grabbed it and held on tight to keep it from inverting again while I inserted the cath.
Of course, this was a patient on a neuro floor who'd had a watershed stroke, so he couldn't tell me what he thought of the procedure.
I wish this trick worked on female urethras...
My technique was more like popping a pimple, gentle pressure on both sides of the innie. The problem was as soon as I got it out, he'd hold on to it to position the urinal under, and then let go of it. Talk about butterfingers. It would have been easier if he had a foley, but we can't place those out to make our lives easier darnit!
My technique was more like popping a pimple, gentle pressure on both sides of the innie. The problem was as soon as I got it out, he'd hold on to it to position the urinal under, and then let go of it. Talk about butterfingers. It would have been easier if he had a foley, but we can't place those out to make our lives easier darnit!
Hey, "Male Nurses"- its just like popping a pimple!
member popping and camming . . .two NEW things I learned about this week.
Another new (frustrating) thing - Some force is in charge of my MacBook Pro . . ... the screen suddenly enlarges and then gets smaller and then enlarges. I "googled" it - the options to fix sound too scary. Might have to take it in to an expert.
When you're on a high priority call at 3am, and your medic has stopped giving orders and begun staring at you with a sad, sad look in his eyes, you MIGHT be trying to take a blood sugar with the wrong end of the test strip.
I learned that I seriously regret not sticking with nursing due to my fear of touching people/having them touch me resulting from a long-term childhood trauma. I'm still trying to learn how to explain this to my boss as she has mentioned nursing school several times so I can be her nurse paralegal...
My technique was more like popping a pimple, gentle pressure on both sides of the innie. The problem was as soon as I got it out, he'd hold on to it to position the urinal under, and then let go of it. Talk about butterfingers. It would have been easier if he had a foley, but we can't place those out to make our lives easier darnit!
Men with memberes that are completely incapable of getting beyond their testicles to urinate effectively/cleanly into the urinal benefit from using a larger-mouthed item, like these -
They can place their testicles and member in simultaneously, and the "innie" problem is no longer problematic (or messy).
I learned that having both a bad sunburn and strep throat leads to one miserable Ood.
Crap, you have me beat. I'm still working on whatever this bug I have is. Today I got to puke in public with my kids watching and asking over and over if I was okay. *sigh* Fell asleep this morning plugging my phone in. The sound of it hitting the floor woke me up. I'm so done with this. :\
Whenever we have something like this happen, the next thing out of some of the older nurses' mouths is, "don't want to lose that check..."
I think I'm still too green, because it surprises me (in a bad way) every time they say it. I don't want to ever believe a person would full code a suffering family member just to keep a social security or pension check.
Believe it-happens all the time in Home Care and Hospice (15 people living in grandma's house, not one with a job, but they all have Range Rovers, weaves and 2 inch nails, and grandma is upstairs in the attic "bedroom" with no AC in 90 degree weather, and multiple Stage IV wounds no one can be bothered to take care of because "that's what YOU get paid for").. And she's a full code in spite of Stage IV colon/breast/lung cancer because "we believe a miracle can happen". Yeah, and monkeys might fly out of my butt...
Why would someone want Hospice if they have a vested interested in keeping grandma alive? Easy; for all the "free stuff" they heard they can get.
member popping and camming . . .two NEW things I learned about this week. 
Littleguccipiggy
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My technique was more like popping a pimple, gentle pressure on both sides of the innie. The problem was as soon as I got it out, he'd hold on to it to position the urinal under, and then let go of it. Talk about butterfingers. It would have been easier if he had a foley, but we can't place those out to make our lives easier darnit!