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Bed bugs are bad but there was this lady at my nursing home that had a colony of Roaches living in her fat. You would lift her tummy to clean

A nurse I once worked with was a nail biter. We went in to help her patient get admitted. We did a skin check, she pulled off his socks without

I knew a nurse in the 90’s, and everyone said they NEVER saw her use gloves. She had been nursing already like 30 years. It didn’t matter. Whether it was

I worked at a facility that was all dementia patients. One resident would ask have you seen my wife? I’d always tell him the wife and daughter went to the

I remember doing resuscitation for one patient successfully and afterwards she said she was hovering above us watching our efforts. She could tell me everything we said!!

Once I had a patient give me the tooth he pulled out of his mouth all by himself. He was so proud when he handed it to me. Teeth and

I’ll never forget I was holding a clotted dialyzer and lines, my PPE was covered in blood, and a patient asked me for a coffee with “two creams and one

I worked with a doctor who used to have a temper and would throw charts at staff. He tried that on me and I threw the chart right back at

My patient had a stroke and failed their nursing swallow screen. I educated family that she was NPO and why. Documented this education. An hour later he runs into the

I once dropped a pill on the ground. Was bout to pick it up to toss it and get another one. Patient hopped up and grabbed it, and swallowed it