October 2008 - Posts
Did you know P.T. stands for Pain and Torture and O.T. stands for Other Torture? I didn’t either until my patient today enlightened me. Also, he kept raising his arm straight up in the air every time he saw the physical therapist. I thought this
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It’s a great fall night. My fake fire place is on (I don’t have to clean up ashes), and I have a Yankee vanilla candle fumigating my recently cleaned apartment. I love the smell of vanilla and pine sol. Ah…and I have my balcony sliding
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1. Put Chap Stick on my lips 3x/day. I prefer Burt’s Bees or Carmex. 2. Clip all of my chin/ear hair PRN (as needed). This is for my emotional well-being. 3. Floss my teeth with minted thin dental floss 1x/daily. 4. Pluck my eyebrows and provide
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Just about all of my patients thus far have been obese; therefore, it is extremely difficult to palpate for organs and carry out other health assessment techniques. When my instructor asked me what kind of patient I wanted, I said, “I want a skinny
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Dear Faithful Blogger Fans, I will be preparing for a tsunami of tests this week, but stay tuned for more nursing stories! Over the last week or so, I have gathered great blogging material. Yours truly, Whit-the blogger
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TOP TEN REASONS TO COME TO HOPKINS 1. Free Printing and Copies 2. You will have body guards while on campus and some of them are even undercover! 3. At the School of Nursing, you can eat kosher meals at Me Latte every day, except on Jewish holidays (I
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Assistant Wanted Duties would entail: hole punching all of my notes and putting them in binders, laminating Review of Systems (ROS) note cards (which should have been done 2 months ago), carrying my 75 lbs. book bag (so I could walk faster), and fixing
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Can someone please tell me where I live? Location? My approximate location is 75 miles south of the Mason-Dixon Line. My family insists I still reside in the South, yet everyone here in Baltimore, Maryland is determined we are in the North. Furthermore,
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For those of you who thought the subject of aging was boring, you’re world is about to be turned upside down. From the reading in my text book, Gerontological Nursing , by Kristen Mauk, I am given some helpful tips on how to educate my elderly patients
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Where in the World was Whit… Hello Blogger fans! I apologize for my long absence. Things have been a little on the hectic side with school, tending to my root canal, and fighting off invisible enemies (a.k.a. foreign germs). Fortunately, my root
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