+Team FIREBOY Posted August 12, 2007 Posted August 12, 2007 (edited) Just thought I would check to see how many nurses Geocache. I know I won't get a totally accurate count as there are so many cachers who don't read the forums. Stand up and be counted fellow nurses. And while I am at it... how many FIREFIGHTERS or EMS geocachers. I bet they are the biggest group between Docs, Nurses, Firefighters, and EMTs. One nurse here... ER One Firefighter/EMT Edited for grammar. Edited August 12, 2007 by Team FIREBOY Quote
+4BOWS Posted August 12, 2007 Posted August 12, 2007 Two nurses here. Mrs. 4BOWS is a Labor and Delivery Nurse, and Mr. 4BOWS is a Neonatal Intensive Care Nurse. Quote
bogleman Posted August 12, 2007 Posted August 12, 2007 Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighter (not my primary occupation) plus a couple of other things thrown in for good measure. Waymark(s) for my toys Quote
+Team FIREBOY Posted August 12, 2007 Author Posted August 12, 2007 Bogleman, What a small world. The Fireboy is also CRASH FIRE RESCUE at the airport where we live. Don't you just love the BIG trucks! They got a new Snozzle about 2 years ago, the one with the piercing nozzle, gotta love when you can poke a nozzle into a C130 and spray the inside without even getting out of your truck. ;o) Quote
bogleman Posted August 12, 2007 Posted August 12, 2007 Bogleman, What a small world. The Fireboy is also CRASH FIRE RESCUE at the airport where we live. Don't you just love the BIG trucks! They got a new Snozzle about 2 years ago, the one with the piercing nozzle, gotta love when you can poke a nozzle into a C130 and spray the inside without even getting out of your truck. ;o) mmmmmmmm love the smell of diesel exhaust and Jet-A in the morning - quite the rush, hmmmm I think I need some more drivers training. going off topic, sorry, does Fireboy trade patches? Send a PM if so and I'll see if I can dig one up Quote
+Savoy 6 Posted August 12, 2007 Posted August 12, 2007 Bogleman, What a small world. The Fireboy is also CRASH FIRE RESCUE at the airport where we live. Don't you just love the BIG trucks! They got a new Snozzle about 2 years ago, the one with the piercing nozzle, gotta love when you can poke a nozzle into a C130 and spray the inside without even getting out of your truck. ;o) mmmmmmmm love the smell of diesel exhaust and Jet-A in the morning - quite the rush, hmmmm I think I need some more drivers training. going off topic, sorry, does Fireboy trade patches? Send a PM if so and I'll see if I can dig one up Been in EMS 33 years, Paramedic for 27. I'm an EMS bureau-cat Quote
+Rockin Roddy Posted August 12, 2007 Posted August 12, 2007 Nurse Nanna is a good friend of ours...she's also a very active (and fun) cacher! Was glad she was around during our last event, I burned my thumb cooking the ribs! She quickly wrapped it up...never healed so fast after such a burn!! Quote
+donorgirl Posted August 12, 2007 Posted August 12, 2007 Been a nurse for 20 years now. Hemodialysis for the past 14. Mom, sister and brother are also nurses. Quote
+agilefox Posted August 12, 2007 Posted August 12, 2007 Mrs. Agilefox is and has been a Neontal Intensive Care Unit nurse for the past 20+ years. Quote
+peznurse Posted August 12, 2007 Posted August 12, 2007 PezNurse checking in! I am, of course, a nurse - I am an operating room nurse for the last 7 years and love,love, love it! Before that I was a pediatric nurse - I worked at the local childrens hospital as a med/surg nurse on the transplant and post-op unit, worked as a home healthcare nurse with children on ventilators and as a phototherapy nurse (that was fun - got to help all those jaundice babies!) I love being a nurse! I work with another nurse whose is a geocacher and with 4 surg techs who are geocachers as well! We have a lot of fun talking about geocaching at work, or talking about work when we get toghether to geocache! A couple of the surgeons we work with are interested in joining us geocaching sometime - maybe we can add a couple of MD's to the mix soon! Quote
ssmthrn Posted August 12, 2007 Posted August 12, 2007 One geocaching nurse here. I work home health and love it. Been working in home health for almost 4 years. I am new to geocaching and love to go with my daughter and my parents on days off. Wished some of my co-workers knew what geocaching is. When I tell them what I like to do or even mention it they are like "huh" Being new to this it is hard to explain it to them. Quote
+leeroyboy Posted August 12, 2007 Posted August 12, 2007 My 1st post. My first geocaching trip was last Friday and Konacoffee and I found 3 caches. I've been a nurse for longer than I want to admit. I work in surgery. It's still great. leeroyboy Quote
+Team FIREBOY Posted August 13, 2007 Author Posted August 13, 2007 Count so far: Nurses = 9 Firefighter = 2 EMS/EMT = 2 Lets keep up the count. Quote
+Team GCHound Posted August 13, 2007 Posted August 13, 2007 Emergency Room RN and Firefighter/Paramedic Quote
+wiseye Posted August 13, 2007 Posted August 13, 2007 I'm retired from the FDNY, have been an EMT and worked home health as an HHA for awhile. I cache with PAbabe who is a nurse. I know several FF both active and retired in the area, a number of EMT/Paramedics and Nurses. Great people to cache with. Quote
markandlynn Posted August 13, 2007 Posted August 13, 2007 Hmm EMT EMS ?? what are they ? Lynn is UK qualified nurse. Mark is a Quality Manager Quote
+Barfly1382 Posted August 13, 2007 Posted August 13, 2007 Wife Ann is a cardiac stepdown nurse. We just started Geocaching last week and it's a blast. Richard and Ann Manistee, MI Quote
+LDove Posted August 13, 2007 Posted August 13, 2007 I am an EMT/work in the emergency room, my daughter who caches rarely - with us, just got her RN license last week! Quote
+kim5010 Posted August 13, 2007 Posted August 13, 2007 One retired military ICU nurse here and one of my caching partners is a paramedic. Quote
+Team FIREBOY Posted August 13, 2007 Author Posted August 13, 2007 Hmm EMT EMS ?? what are they ? Lynn is UK qualified nurse. Mark is a Quality Manager Sorry, assumed. EMT = Emergency Medical Technician: can be a basic, and intermediate or a Paramedic mostly they are the ones who work with people pre-hospital (not always though) EMS = Emergency Medical Service : anyone who works to help people through an emergency. Like the radio dispatchers, EMT's, Police, Fire ect... Hope this helps. Quote
+mcrow Posted August 13, 2007 Posted August 13, 2007 Not a nurse, but am a Lab Tech. My wife is an Occupational Therapist. Quote
+Team FIREBOY Posted August 14, 2007 Author Posted August 14, 2007 Nurses = 17 Firefighter = 4 EMS/EMS = 5 Lab tech = 1 OT = 1 Manager = 1 See, I knew that there are people out there who care about their fellow man and who enjoy caching too. I agree that this group of people are great to cache with. Even more so if you get injured while caching. Quote
+Sileny Jizda Posted August 14, 2007 Posted August 14, 2007 The wife is an ER RN Nurse. Soon to be a Med Surg as well. After that she has another group of letters to add to those. Thinking of calling her alphabet soup. Quote
+chrisandjanet Posted August 14, 2007 Posted August 14, 2007 Janet is a RN; nurse manager at the local veteran's hospital. Chris is a health & safety specialist - not a nurse, but I've got my Red Cross & CPR certificates! Quote
+emtcop Posted August 15, 2007 Posted August 15, 2007 I am EMT-I Fire Fighter 1 and Police officer I think that covers it Quote
+swampy99 Posted August 15, 2007 Posted August 15, 2007 1 HEMS (Essex Air Ambulance) Paramedic from the UK If you want to meet me just have an RTC on the M25. Be Good. Quote
markandlynn Posted August 15, 2007 Posted August 15, 2007 Hmm EMT EMS ?? what are they ? Lynn is UK qualified nurse. Mark is a Quality Manager Sorry, assumed. EMT = Emergency Medical Technician: can be a basic, and intermediate or a Paramedic mostly they are the ones who work with people pre-hospital (not always though) EMS = Emergency Medical Service : anyone who works to help people through an emergency. Like the radio dispatchers, EMT's, Police, Fire ect... Hope this helps. Thank you different terminology over here. Lynn is an RGN (registered general nurse) but has done District Nursing and is currently and Occupational Health Nurse for the Police force. Quote
Drive-in Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 (edited) RN since 93 REMT-P 77-85 Caching: Oh, since 2001 Edited August 22, 2007 by Drive-in Quote
+CentralCArn Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 (edited) CentralCArn is an ICU nurse. I also work with one of the Rowdyclan who is an ICU nurse. Edited August 22, 2007 by CentralCArn Quote
+rstefano52 Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 I don't know if this counts, but my wife is an ER Nurse (now an educator) and very active in local, state, and national organizations. Because of me, she has added Geocaching to her list of hobbies. She doesn't have her own screen name but has helped me find quite a few of the caches that I have found to date (about 150). She does enjoy spending the time with me but doesn't always like communing with nature! Congratulations to all of the medical personnel out there who find the time to "use multi-billion dollar satellites to find tupper-ware containers"! Quote
+SidAndBob Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 Cath (my wife) is a nurse. She sometimes comes with us, but we (my son and I) usually go caching while she is sleeping after a night shift. Quote
+I am, therefore I Cache! Posted August 31, 2007 Posted August 31, 2007 Add one more nurse to the list. Are we still winning?????? Quote
+Team Paubon Posted September 1, 2007 Posted September 1, 2007 Retired RN - Intensive Burn Unit, Bachelors and Masters in Family Nurse Practitioner.... Quote
+Team FIREBOY Posted September 1, 2007 Author Posted September 1, 2007 Updated stats: RN = 28 Firefighter = 5 EMT/EMS = 8 Lab = 1 OT = 1 Manager = 1 Health/Safety Specialist = 1 Police = 1 YEP, the RN crowd is still winning. Quote
+Inmountains Posted September 1, 2007 Posted September 1, 2007 Did Team Paubon say MASTER'S DEGREE in Nursing? I also see that she has over 1,000 finds and is 70 years old. How awesome is it that we have a Geocacher who nursed with Florence Nightengale! Also, my wife is an RN, currently working in the Cath Lab at Mercy Regional Medical Center here in Durango, Colorado! So add another nurse to the list!! Inmountains PS: Just kidding mom. We are so proud of you. Plus, you got us into Geocaching. Quote
+Sparhawk & Sparslady Posted September 3, 2007 Posted September 3, 2007 Interesting topic. Sparhawk is a nurse at the VA hospital at this time. Retired military medic, been an CNA, EMT, LPN and now a RN. Sparslady is a CMA. Quote
+cathyd4 Posted September 3, 2007 Posted September 3, 2007 Two nurses here; one Informatics nurse (RN) and a nurse educator (RN). We have a "Nurses Rock!" geocoin released in the wild a couple weeks back: TB1KJ3T. Quote
+Txnurse97 Posted September 4, 2007 Posted September 4, 2007 Add another nurse to the list..just passed my 10 year mark of being a nurse. Became certified (CMSRN) in med/surg nursing last year and am looking forward to doing some caching in Las Vegas in October when I am attending the annual Medical Surgical Nursing Convention. Quote
+Roaring_Fork Posted September 4, 2007 Posted September 4, 2007 My wife is an OB Nurse and I'm a Police Officer. We love geocaching together with our kids. Quote
+Accordiongal Posted September 4, 2007 Posted September 4, 2007 Currently I work as an RN study coordinator Ya, it's a desk job, but have also worked in long term care, IV transfusion (Blood bank) service, Hospital based float staff-floated to 40 some different patient care units, medical, surgical, ortho, cardiac, peds, neuro, heme/onc, transplant, gyn, stepdown units, plastics, just about done them all RN Staff educator, Home health case manager. Darn, so many years to work yet!!! Also know 3 more nurses who are cachers. (Zuma, Wi-Robin, Mrs. Honeybunnies) Quote
+scarhill Posted September 8, 2007 Posted September 8, 2007 Hospice RN, maybe that's why I like cemetery caches so much Being a home care nurse sometimes I can do a quick cache between patients! Almost 30 years a nurse, how could I be that old?? Taken some nurse friends out with me, we have fun hiking and chatting and they like caching with me. Quote
+cach2find Posted September 8, 2007 Posted September 8, 2007 Add in one Oncology Nurse! Love my patients and my profession just a wee bit more than caching. Think we're still ahead! Quote
+kifcog Posted September 11, 2007 Posted September 11, 2007 Another nurse here. Night Nurse Practitioner (Old fashioned title would be Night Matron). There seem to be a lot of cachers involved in the alturistic professions. I wonder if any cachers out there arn't Drs, Nurses, Firefighters or the Fuzz. Quote
+TeamPatchwork Posted September 11, 2007 Posted September 11, 2007 FF/Paramedic here. Love the thread! Quote
+ADKcachers Posted September 11, 2007 Posted September 11, 2007 I bet there's a bunch of you out there, we wouldn't want to miss you. Quote
+wesleykey Posted September 11, 2007 Posted September 11, 2007 Are we SURE these threads are geocaching related?? Quote
+Team FIREBOY Posted September 11, 2007 Author Posted September 11, 2007 Are we SURE these threads are geocaching related?? Um, I don't know.... do you think the words "how many nurses geocache" make this a geocache related thread? Would it be better if I asked " How many nurse geocachers out there have placed a cache made out of a peanut butter jar, shrinking it using one of the cool cache container threads instructions, to place said shrunken peanut butter micro cache under a lamp post and how to you keep your log from getting soggy, how often do you maintain your cache, do you have any muggles or geocaching thieves who have stolen your cache and what did you do to solve your missing geocache problem, has anyone reported you for using a pb jar and it being a "lame" hide and did they do so by writing a "needs archived" log or did they just thrash you on your caches listing page and O.B.T.W. who made your geocaching forum avatar? I must go back to counting cheese now. But that is Off topic. Quote
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