Penelope is popular!?!! Egads. Even its shortened version, Penny, is godawful.

...and ‘bar exam’ etc. Also not a lawyer but took ‘English from Latin and Greek Roots’ at SFSU back in the day. See porn lovers, your money will go to educate people like us.

Mrs. Fields!

Pretty sure Cher has been calling him that since they were on the Sonny and Cher show.

Source?

By writing this post, Clover has now jinxed the weather, so it will in fact turn very cold at some point.

Like they tell you in nursing school, “You WILL make a med error”. But fortunately, like you, none of mine were serious.

Forgot to mention: we had a lot of DKA’s in our ER, and I could smell them just by walking past the room.

I got my RN license in 1997 and my first job was a new grad training position in an inner-city ER. About three years into it, a man in his 30s came in talking but confused, complaining of muscle weakness. The only information he could tell us about his medical history was that “it’s a metabolic condition”. The triage…

Thanks for that. From what you describe, I might have been one of those ER nurses you worked with, and I liked working with residents. They knew we knew more about some things, and it was fun to teach them.

No, no, no. RN’s and LPN’s have licenses that say specifically what we are allowed to do ourselves, and what we can supervise others doing. If a nurse wants to lose his or her license, they could give MA’s tasks they shouldn’t be doing.

Likely it’s her license, not her degree that is the problem. RN’s make good money, LPN’s don’t. Sounds like she’s an LPN. You can go to a community college for either license.

Docs don't like delivering babies unless they're right next to an OR. I worked ER and nothing struck fear in an ER doc more than the announcement that someone was about to deliver. It's an uncontrolled environment. Plus there's a shit ton of potential liability if something goes wrong.

Nurses can not prescribe medications. We must have an order from an MD. I can tell the MD what I want to do, and they usually agree, but ultimately they have prescribing authority and I don’t.

BUT do you get to see nice, naked ones in person?

That reminds me. My grandpa owned apartment buildings in NYC before he died. He told me in the early nineties that he knew Trump from his real estate dealings, shook his head, and called him a shyster.

@notonesingleword: not sure what Jezebel you read, but there was at least this thread -

My best friend found her brother’s Playboys when we were about 13. Oh did we have fun. In between going to the pool or playing Trouble, we would make tents and steal a magazine and explore our newfound sexuality. She and I did some stuff back then that even anonymously i wouldn’t discuss. I credit the magazine and my…

Congrats on your sobriety. I’m going to mention this story tonight at my AA mtg and give thanks to the program for all those people it has helped.

BTW my profile pic is a pic of the smallpox vaccine