Once had to do the Heimlich maneuver on a choking patient in the dining hall. It worked. Obstruction came flying out of the elderly gent's mouth, flew across the table and to my surprise landed with a plop in the middle of a lady's plate. Handed the patient off to his nurse and without a beat...
A nurse is only as good as her support staff. I counted on my aides, housekeeping and dietary staff to be my eyes ears and nose because nurses can only spread themselves so thin.
Thank you for everything you did to help the nurses. I loved it when somebody would walk by my med cart and without...
You know you are a nurse when you have to leave a patient's room in order to keep from busting out laughing.
Graduated from nurses' training in 1975, retired in 2015. Started my career in OB/GYN, ended it working with my husband as his office nurse/office manager in his optometric practice. It...