bagwash

bagwash has 20 years experience.

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1. The Nurse's Role in Providing Spiritual Care - Is It OK to Pray?

   bagwash replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Spirituality

   I must disagree. It's generally not OK to pray with patients. This is what Chaplains are for. While it may be OK to be silently present with a pt who is praying, if they request that, it can in some circumstances be an abuse of power to offer to pray...

2. Would your unit/facility actively treat pneumonia in a pt with advanced ca?

   bagwash replied to bagwash's topic in Pain

   Good to read your response, jerenemarie. I couldn't agree more. This reminds me that when I was told that my relative couldn't be suctioned because it was considered "traumatic". I thought: isn't drowning in your own respiratory secretions much more ...

3. Would your unit/facility actively treat pneumonia in a pt with advanced ca?

   bagwash replied to bagwash's topic in Pain

   Thanks for your comments and your kindness, Classicdame. I'm glad you can see that active treatment is not necessarily inappropriate in a pall. care ward. I could understand there being an objection to life-saving care in a situation where there is n...

4. Would your unit/facility actively treat pneumonia in a pt with advanced ca?

   bagwash posted a topic in Pain

   One of my relatives was recently admitted to a palliative care ward for radiotherapy to relieve pain from spinal cancer. He has had prostate ca for 15 yrs, is 79 y.o and is otherwise in good health, is mentally bright, lucid and enjoys life very much...

5. Help! How to cope w/ rude, bratty ED and PD young pts

   bagwash replied to bagwash's topic in Psychiatric

   Yep, sounds great, but unfortunately, I don't think it is ever going to happen, in our unit. The sad part is that I now think the only way I can survive in this unit is to be a lot more distant, more rigidly "professional" and to keep my guard up at...

6. Help! How to cope w/ rude, bratty ED and PD young pts

   bagwash replied to bagwash's topic in Psychiatric

   Sounds like a great idea, Imustbecrazy. I'm not too familiar with Behavioural Intervention Programmes as such, but I get the general idea--consequences for unacceptable behaviour. Currently we have none, where I work, except for some limiting of pri...

7. Help! How to cope w/ rude, bratty ED and PD young pts

   bagwash replied to bagwash's topic in Psychiatric

   Thanks Emernurse, Meerkat and BSNtobe;I appreciate your feedback. The analogy with a junkie wanting his/her fix makes a lot of sense. Mind you, I worked in drug and alcohol (you guys call it chemical dependency) for over a decade but rarely encounte...

8. Help! How to cope w/ rude, bratty ED and PD young pts

   bagwash posted a topic in Psychiatric

   Sorry if this is an old topic. Couldn't seem to find the "search old forums" button. I work (as an RN) in an eating disorder ward. We get a lot of young (!4 to 25yo) pts who are mostly straight-out anorexics but also a substantial portion of mixed ED...

9. I Hit A Bone!!

   bagwash replied to breakin_moon's topic in General Nursing

   It's interesting to read this thread. I was always taught to dart the needle in (and to bunch up the muscle first) and I've always found patients tend to consider my IMIs less painful than other injections they've had. But when I started working in a...

10. Professionalism...

    bagwash replied to rninme's topic in General Nursing

    I agree that there's a general lessening of responsibility (and also of basic courtesy) in society generally but where I work, in a small private psych hospital, it's the older RNs who are most guilty of unprofesssional behaviour. And when I say olde...

11. What is the major reason nurses leave?

    bagwash replied to saguaro13's topic in General Nursing

    Well, that's typical. One thing about managers in most places--they are bureaucrats and bureaucrats never want to hear about problems. At my work, we recently had a lecture on CPR at which they told us we needed to get out the defibrillator and start...

12. What is the major reason nurses leave?

    bagwash replied to saguaro13's topic in General Nursing

    I'm glad you asked! I would say 1, 3, 4 and 5. I'm a Registered Nurse in Australia. One thing that really bugs me is having to be a ward clerk--as well as a nurse, unpaid diagnostician, cleaner etc--doing things such as putting together admission pac...

13. Codependant or just Caring? Nursing ED patients

    bagwash replied to bagwash's topic in Psychiatric

    No need to hide behind the couch ChayaN Its good to be able to say what you think and hear other points of view and even change your mind-- or not, depending. Hope you enjoy your nursing studies

14. How is nursing in AUSTRALIA??????

    bagwash replied to mariuszraj's topic in International

    Here is the link to POWH http://www.sesahs.nsw.gov.au/POWH/ As for wages, I work 4 days a week and make about $60,000 per year. I would make maybe $70 - 75K per yr if full-time. You need to prove that you have at least 8 yrs experience to make the to...

15. How is nursing in AUSTRALIA??????

    bagwash replied to mariuszraj's topic in International

    Hi MR, I have no idea how hard it is to jump through all the beurocratic hoops in order to be allowed to work here in Australia but I can tell you that they need nurses desperately!! I think the best trauma hospital in Sydney is Prince of Wales Hospi...