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Everyone say that they "consigned" a drug waste? Well, of course not everyone, but a whole lot of folks on here do.
Shouldn't the word be co-signed? Or have I been wrong all these years? To me, consign is what you do with your used clothes in a consignment shop.
Some of us have to be crazy enough to do it. Cheers to good taste.In school we were asked to fill out preference lists (which always ended up with what seemed like no one getting what they wanted, so maybe not the best idea) and mine always said:
1. Cardiac
2. Psych
3. Not peds
OTOH, I had classmates who started referring to themselves as peds nurses three months into the program (gag me with my stethoscope). Takes all kinds.
But I'd much rather have scared students on psych than entitled students anywhere else. Managing 20 psychotic patients is a skill people think is easy until you put them on a psych unit.
I always said I'd rather be in a room with 5 paranoid schizophrenics than 1 personality disorder.
Some of us have to be crazy enough to do it. Cheers to good taste.In school we were asked to fill out preference lists (which always ended up with what seemed like no one getting what they wanted, so maybe not the best idea) and mine always said:
1. Cardiac
2. Psych
3. Not peds
OTOH, I had classmates who started referring to themselves as peds nurses three months into the program (gag me with my stethoscope). Takes all kinds.
But I'd much rather have scared students on psych than entitled students anywhere else. Managing 20 psychotic patients is a skill people think is easy until you put them on a psych unit.
If it makes you feel any better, all the young females with no kids all wrote:
1. NICU
2. Mother/baby
3. Not sick old people
If it makes you feel any better, all the young females with no kids all wrote:1. NICU
2. Mother/baby
3. Not sick old people
Lol. That would've probably been my list too. I didn't want to work in geriatrics & of course "aww babies". But that has totally changed now. Not because I have a son, but because I love corrections.
If it makes you feel any better, all the young females with no kids all wrote:1. NICU
2. Mother/baby
3. Not sick old people
Oh yeah, I think 2/3rds of my class styled themselves as future L&D or peds nurses. There were three of us - still good friends - who were interested in psych. We suffered many a birthing video being shared on Facebook.
Oh yeah, I think 2/3rds of my class styled themselves as future L&D or peds nurses. There were three of us - still good friends - who were interested in psych. We suffered many a birthing video being shared on Facebook.
But birth is sooooooo cooooooooooolllllll!
Some of my L/D friends are a little bit bummed they don't remember anything but what to do with lady partss. (Eyes up here, perv.) They lose the med/surg/psych/critical care knowledge over time.
But birth is sooooooo cooooooooooolllllll!Some of my L/D friends are a little bit bummed they don't remember anything but what to do with lady partss. (Eyes up here, perv.) They lose the med/surg/psych/critical care knowledge over time.
Oh, Lordy, my clinical group was the same way.
We were in a delivery room, watching the proceedings. They were all yammering about "the miracle of birth, so beautiful, so wonderful...".
I was like "Is it time for break yet? I'm hungry." They looked at me like I'd sprouted horns and a tail. 😈
But birth is sooooooo cooooooooooolllllll!Some of my L/D friends are a little bit bummed they don't remember anything but what to do with lady partss. (Eyes up here, perv.) They lose the med/surg/psych/critical care knowledge over time.
Had a recent OB patient end up in ICU. The great ICU nurses who can take care of all the critical and high tech stuff had me trotting over every couple of hours to check the fundus. I discovered that ICU nurses don't like blood coming out of any orifice, even the one it's supposed to!
Had a recent OB patient end up in ICU. The great ICU nurses who can take care of all the critical and high tech stuff had me trotting over every couple of hours to check the fundus. I discovered that ICU nurses don't like blood coming out of any orifice, even the one it's supposed to!
We got a postpartum hemorrhage on my stepdown unit and they wouldn't LET us check her fundus. I can't imagine that inspires a whole lot of confidence in a patient who doesn't understand how nursing specialties work to make us not so good at some things over time.
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I think it sounds a tiny bit scary, challenging, and kind of fun.