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Since ixchel is taking a much deserved break, she was gracious enough to allow me to fill in for her. Here's hoping I don't blow up her thread.
My next door neighbor is a retired nurse. She frequently comes over to visit me, which leads me to the title of the thread: where two or more retired nurses are gathered, the talk eventually turns to nursing.
Sharon (not her real name) has a son who works at a local hospital. He frequently fills his mother in with his experiences. She'll often share them with me, and many times the two of us end up shaking our heads in disbelief at how nursing has changed, sometimes for the good, often for the bad.
So what did I learn? I know that now, with greater certainty than before, that I dearly miss nursing, but not what it has become.
I've also learned that I must have some sort of invisible "Welcome, Free Lodging" sign over my head that only respiratory bugs can see. Every year like clockwork these invaders turn me into a coughing, sneezing, snotting host for them. It will get better, but by Oct/Nov. it will happen again.
And when a doctor gives you abx. for a sinus infection from Hades and tells you to make sure you take it with a probiotic, believe. him/her.
So, what have you learned this week? Hope you had a good one!
I have learned that choking on a peppermint Mento while riding in the car is both terrifying and exhilarating.Oh, and hey you anti-vaxxers out there! I just got a shingles vax of my own volition! Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah!
ooooh..I want a shingles vax of my very own!! maybe I'll get a pneumovax too...take that you anti-vaxxers!
I've learned that 3 posters that I absolutely adore have conveyed/told me outright that they feel or consider themselves old. These posters are some of the funniest, sharpest nurses here. Nurses I look up to.
I am in my 40s and blatantly immature. If they are friends with me, how can they possibly be old?
I love the seasoned nurses here. I learn something every single day from them.
COBs are wonderful. Thanks.
I've learned that 3 posters that I absolutely adore have conveyed/told me outright that they feel or consider themselves old. These posters are some of the funniest, sharpest nurses here. Nurses I look up to.I am in my 40s and blatantly immature. If they are friends with me, how can they possibly be old?
I love the seasoned nurses here. I learn something every single day from them.
COBs are wonderful. Thanks.
Never grow up Far!
Wouldn't it be great if we could use our retired nurses who still wanted to work a few hours a week to help teach skills. Win:win for for all involved.
You know, I don't think it is skills they need to share as much as it is that intuition to walk into a room on a new patient, assess them, put it together with everything they know in their head, and instantly know that the patient needs to be transferred to ICU ASAP.
I found a gerbil after 6 months. He was still alive. A lot more feral but still alive.
We once had a frog missing in our basement for 3 weeks, caught him and he lived a good life for several years in a habitat in our son's bedroom. Long story as to WHY there was a live frog loose in the house...I am the proud mother of curious children.
Farawyn
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Hmmm... can you describe the exhilaration part?