1. You remember working with nurses who wore caps.
2. You remember nurses (and doctors) sitting at the nurses station drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes while charting.
3. You remember when charting was done (handwritten) in 3 different colors (black or blue for day shift, green for evening shifts, red for night shift).
4. You remember when IV fluids came only in glass bottles.
5. You remember when breast milk wasn't a biohazard. :redlight:
6. You remember when chest tube setups consisted of glass bottles, rubber stoppers, and tubing.
7. You remember when white polyester uniforms were the standard for nurses.
8. You remember when you'd have given your eye teeth for a comfortable pair of nursing shoes (we haven't always been able to wear athletic shoes).
9. You remember when the hospital's top nurse was the director of nursing and not the chief nursing officer.
10. You remember giving lots of IM shots for pre-ops and pain meds.
What else?
HollyVK (with patient care experience going back to 1972) :gandalf:
Specializes in Alzheimer's, Geriatrics, Chem. Dep..
...some of the newer nurses are asking if the 'young' nurses can maintain their partying ways.
BUT, if they wanted a serious answer... partying when appropriate, and being responsible when you're supposed to be, are probably fine. I will say that some who party the nite before still have alcohol on their breath, or coming out of their pores - eww - to say nothing of how the patients might feel.
And - I ended up in AA 4 yrs after graduating from nursing school so - it isn't necessarily "harmless"...
I could say more but I am still upset about that dog... HA HA HA - kidding Marie - it's cute...
Oh Ruby, I remember I was dreadfully sick as well when I wrote the exam. Wrote it with a box of kleenex, cough drops and a bottle of water to keep the hacking down.
I also remember during the lunch break (the test was divided into morning and afternoon sections) the whole class went to a nearby restaurant. Some people drank alcohol (hope it worked!). No way I was gonna wait 3 months to write it when I felt better. I passed it though, first time.
A friend of mine rode her bike everywhere, she showed up on the second day of testing over 1/2 hour late, covered with mud, limping and pushing the bike. Some idiot ran her off the road. She got up, made it the test and finished it. I ran her and the bike home in the truck during lunch, she cleaned up, we rushed back, took the last exam and THEN went to the ER. No way she could afford to wait 6 months to retest, not being able to work. She passed too!:monkeydance:
Specializes in Alzheimer's, Geriatrics, Chem. Dep..
A friend of mine rode her bike everywhere, she showed up on the second day of testing over 1/2 hour late, covered with mud, limping and pushing the bike. Some idiot ran her off the road. She got up, made it the test and finished it. I ran her and the bike home in the truck during lunch, she cleaned up, we rushed back, took the last exam and THEN went to the ER. No way she could afford to wait 6 months to retest, not being able to work. She passed too!:monkeydance:
TazziRN, RN
6,487 Posts
[quote=judy ann;1972628I took boards in October and got results on January 20th. It was such a big thrill that I still remember the date.
This is such fun--remembering the "good old days". I am now thinking they weren't so good!
I took mine July 12, 1988....three hours away in Sacramento, and got the results September 12th!