knightlycomic

knightlycomic has 19 years experience and specializes in Everything.

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1. Nurses: Why do many of you do this?

   knightlycomic replied to terina66's topic in Relations

   WOW Maybe you should consider a new career path.................... how about with the 'thought police'. Maintaining privacy is important in our profession. However as one of the most stressful professions around nurses have always held the title fo...

2. Should Healthcare Be Funded As A Basic Human Right?

   knightlycomic replied to jayp's topic in Activism

   Yes - basic care for all, and free health care for all children under the age of 10. Now tell me how this is a bad thing or not cost effective, primary and preventative care is the smart money. You don't wait for the car to run out of oil then blow ...

3. How Can You Be A Nurse With No Clinical Background?

   knightlycomic replied to All4NursingRN's topic in Professionalism

   Finding your path in nursing is one off the most difficult things to achieve as a nurse. People make good managers, (nurses flip a coin), I have seen great managers that have had lots of clinical experience and those who are terrible as managers and ...

4. Which nursing specialty or position is the most physically demanding?

   knightlycomic replied to J19J94R's topic in General Nursing

   Harden up............you lot :) Try heavy stroke rehab nursing - physical absolutely, no gym membership needed ............ ever.

5. New NZ RN looking for work in Australia

   knightlycomic replied to KylieN's topic in Australia

   Hi Kylie Get your APC sorted first if you have not already done so. Do you have a location in mind? Once you do approach the HR departments directly ie Queensland Health for example, they will often happly accept your CV and information on what area...

6. Common ER abbreviations for charting

   knightlycomic replied to cathyrn2b's topic in Emergency

   laugh ........ So many terms some great some funny some ........... FITH - F*!d in the head F.U.B.A.R - F*^%#D up beyond all recognition SLK - silly looking kid DzS6P - Dozen short of a six pack

7. Question about BP control in your ICU

   knightlycomic replied to IheartICUnursing's topic in MICU

   Much the same here in NZ, the concern is that lowering a patients BP that normally sits around the 180 just to have a lower number can cause other system problems. Unless the patient is compromised I believe in the take the lesser evil.

8. Getting involved with a co-worker

   knightlycomic replied to Runman1914's topic in General Nursing

   Well Go for it but be ready to move to another hospital or clinical area when it hits the fan, and it will sooner or later. I'm talking from experience got involved got married got divorced, then I moved countries.

9. I need HELP!! with IV starts

   knightlycomic replied to Jasano's topic in Infusion

   Hi Jasano Wow it sounded like me many years ago, now I'm a resourse and teaching link in IV work insertion and development. Reading the posts it sounds like you know the rountine down pack but need to work on the practical side. Which part do you fin...

10. Power injecting thru cental lines

    knightlycomic replied to radnurse2001's topic in Infusion

    Hi Anne Simple, with MD's who demand the use of power injection for contrast agents via CVL's should simply do that themselves. Here that task is the responsibility of the radiology department and the MD (consultant) performs that task. Not keen on '...