Ever just want to tear your hair out, or someone else's? If you cannot restore a sense of balance, you will run away from home? Just want to say some things without the constraints of staying on topic? Well, this thread is for you! If you just need a short break to let it all hang out, be a brat, then come on, you can do it. No holding back! Go for it, you can do it.
Doing rounds they went into one room and found a female patient had died. They were terrified of what night sister would do when they called her. The patient had been dead a while and was very cold.
So being resourceful girls they filled the bathtub with hot water and carried the body to the bathroom. they let her soak for a while till she was nicely warmed up , put on a clean gown and carried he back to bed. Night sister duly arrived when called and pronounced the patient dead. As she was leaving she turned back and said " Funny how did her hair get so wet?"
The Medical student on pain of death were forbidden to set foot in the nurses home, but their residence looked out over some of the nurses home windows. On morning there appeared a mysterious set of white footprints on the wall of the nurses home and appeared to enter a room on the 4th floor. No one ever found out who did it. Matron was not amused.
Thankfully I went to college the "regular" way but my days in Catholic school sounded a bit like that nursing dorm. 😉
There have been so many advances in nursing that we could probably write a book.
Remember when;
Glass IV bottles?
Needle and syringe choppers?
Metal bedpans coated with white enamel?
Flat bed sheets for the top and bottom?
When smoking was allowed in the hospital?
Glass (Mercury) thermometers?
Manual blood pressure cuff and a stethoscope?
Cooling someone down with an alcohol bath?
With ice added if Temp. over 106*?
A mortar and pestle to grind meds?
Charting on paper (in a hard bound chart) with black pen (day shift), green ink (swing shift) and red ink (night shift)?
Those crazy "Flying Nun" nursing caps?
White dresses (uniform) with white stockings and white nursing shoes?
Medicine cards with patients' name and drug that sat in a little slot behind the paper med cup in an aluminum tray?
Showers lined up in a row...down the hall from your room?
When we used soap and water to clean our hands?(instead of antibacterial gel)
Fingernail inspection every morning by the nursing teacher? "Nail polish hides a multitude of sins", she'd say. She also checked the size of earrings (tiny or none at all), length of hair (off the shoulder) and proper stockings.)
"Latex" gloves?
Etc., etc.
Sometimes progress is a good thing! 💉
The saying " YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU".
He has a bible in his casket.
Carrying a card to explain the rudeness of your loved one with dementia:
"Sorry my Mom has forgotten how to be polite
I hope you were not offended.
You really don't look like the back end of a horse []
Your make up does not make you look like a clown. []
You are not a fat pig, just pleasantly plump []
She's right those shorts do show more than they should []
Those breast implants must make your neck hurt []
Your baby does not look like a monkey []
Your husband does not look young enough to be your son {]
Did you really make your dress from a tablecloth? []
Were you really trying to run her over []
Now I am just being silly and should move to the caregivers behaving badly thread."
LOL V.
"One of us has dementia, one of us is just bad. Thanks for understanding, let me get out of the way before you punch his lights out."
Do they give the card back to you? I am gonna need more cards.
She should have written on the back of it - "FOLD HERE. INSERT YOU KNOW WHERE."
Lol. CM!
Our dresses were always colored with a starched white apron. Black stockings and lace up shoes (at least four lace holes)
A white cap that came from the laundry flat and in the begining it took ages to figure out how to put it together.
Hear had to be short enough not to touch the collar or braided.
Don't know what a syringe chopper is our syringes and needles were rinsed out and boiled up ready for the next day.
latex gloves if only we had those. We did everything with our bare hands, think applying gentian violet or damp dusting with a smelly disinfectant.
meals were served from a food trolley that came from the kitchen with huge pans of food that sister doled out. No choice if you want to eat you'd better like it.
yes we had the glass IV sets and mercury filled glass thermometers
Our bedpans were stainless steel and ice cold. The men got glass urinals. The junior nurse did bedpan rounds with a trolley loaded with the bedpans covered with a cloth with a red cross stitched to it.
Visitors were limited to one hour in the evening and an extra hour on Sat and Sun afternoons.
Flowers were removed every night..
All food and drinks had to be carried on a tray and cups must have saucers.
No make up or jewelry on duty and nail polish was removed on sight.
Our wards were in a cruciform shape with a colume in the center. There were open coal fires on three sides and the drug cupboard on the fourth.
Well I won't go on as things are very different now nursing has become a college course just like the US and the equipment has greatly improved too.
That is enough social interaction for today.
That day is also known as National Atheist' s Day.
This year, Easter Sunday also falls on April 1st.
Nothing like nurses now.
Well, I guess if one is awake at 3:00 a.m., might as well be laughing!
Still laughing.
Did the snacks taste good?
Just staying up again will be bratty enough for me.
It is all up to you brats, carry on, in your landmines if you have to!
Really? I WROTE: "carry on in your jammies if you have to."
There is a computer gremlin on here, I am sure! The words to replace what I really typed are unbelievable! Should I have my head checked, or my kindle? Hubs just fixed this last night!
It is sunny, but too crispy cold for anyone to be out there.
It is very cold right now, woke me up at 4:00 a.m., but I will
go look out the window now and get back to you.
And, we also have Krispy Creme donuts.
If you miss viewing the swans (that would be so fun),
There will be people at the donut shop, and you won't be alone.
Did you see any snow out your window ?
It was in the 30s last night - crispy by SoCal standards
No snow, but it has snowed a tiny bit once or twice over my lifetime.
There were no people, no swans either.
The Yam is perfectly nutritious and sweet for the Viking MsMadge.
Since Mexican houses don't have heaters, I'm sitting here in my down coat typing this!
The houses here are made from cinderblock so they 'hold the cold'. We have a large open space (35'x13') for kitchen, dining room and living room, so impossible for a space heater. Plus the cost of electricity is very high here (comparatively).
I have an electric blanket but no one else does. I don't know why they haven't "caught on". It's my only saving grace during the night.
Still counting the days (1,408) until retirement and moving to a warmer climate. Brrrr.
Hope the Viking enjoys her baked yam Msmadge. I'd rather have one of Send's Krispy Cremes
Please send the snow via drone, just plop it in the driveway thanks so much!
Will be sending you the Krispy Cremes, do you want sprinkles with that?
SUE,
The summers must be cool inside?