Grandy

Grandy has 14 years experience and specializes in Adult General ICU & Orthopaedics.

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1. Doing real CPR as a student.

   Grandy replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Students

   When I was a second year student I was on a placement in an adult surgical ward in a medium size suburban hospital. I arrived early for my day shift, it was before 7am and we were milling around the nurses station waiting to receive handover from the...

2. At my boiling point...you are NOT a Nurse...of ANY kind!!!!

   Grandy replied to nursehunnie's topic in Professionalism

   If you go and earn a PhD in Nursing then you have every right to call yourself a doctor because you would actually have a doctoral degree, and therefore have reached the pinnacle of your profession. In that case you would have more right to call your...

3. 30+ page care plans

   Grandy replied to Boog'sCRRN246's topic in General Students

   In the clinical environment nobody could be bothered to read a 30 page care plan let a lone actually write one. It seems that there are still some nursing schools where academics are completely out of touch with the real world where real nurses pract...

4. How do you sign?

   Grandy replied to Mashira's topic in General Nursing

   The only time I use Registered Nurse after my name is when I am signing patient notes. If I have a student with me and they are doing some documentation I will usually get them to sign as a student nurse year 2 or whatever year they are in, for examp...

5. Do you call your teachers by their 1st names?

   Grandy replied to noyesno's topic in General Students

   Depends on the school you go to I guess. I went to a small and friendly nursing school, there were only 70 students in my cohort and we had an excellent student to teacher ratio. All of our lecturers, tutors and clinical facilitators knew us by our f...

6. What a blow to my ego

   Grandy replied to letitbe_lindsay's topic in General Students

   When I was a nursing student I came across one or two nurses like this. My belief is this, such nurses lack self confidence and are threatened by the presence of students, they compensate by trying to belittle or intimidate. In a few years time, afte...

7. AEDs and SNFs

   Grandy replied to badphish's topic in Safety

   I have no idea what an "SNF" is, must be an abbreviation unique to the USA. But as far as AEDs are concerned I would strongly aqdvise you to check out the American Heart Association website for some excellent resources, perhaps you could printo off s...

8. Making an occupied bed-help me settle a debate!

   Grandy replied to Dorali's topic in Oklahoma

   If I were your examiner/assessor then I would not fail you if you did either, because seriously there are more important things in the world to worry about. It is time for our profession to get over this rediculous Florence Nightingale authoritarian ...

9. Is anatomy one of the toughest courses for nursing?

   Grandy replied to Toots71506's topic in Pre-Nursing

   Typically the biological sciences are the courses that most nursing students find the toughest, especially those students who have not studied very much science previously. From my experience physiology was much tougher than anatomy as it requires yo...

10. A surgeon's perception of nursing education.

    Grandy posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hello everybody, I have posted an article below that I found interesting, a surgeon seems to have a lot of issues with the fact that nurses are now trained in the university system and not under the old apprenticeship method. This article was publish...

11. would you be a RN for $11.00/hr?

    Grandy replied to PHLEBOTOMIST_TO_RN's topic in General Nursing

    I could not be bothered getting out of bed for $11.00/hour!

12. Anatomy Summer 2006 Club

    Grandy replied to KMDominguez87's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Anatomy and physiology and the human life sciences in general can be a big challange, but they can also be a lot of fun. If you use the Marieb text I would advise you to make use of the MYA&P that comes with it, it has loads of online interactiv...

13. How is nursing in AUSTRALIA??????

    Grandy replied to mariuszraj's topic in International

    Hi MR, How is nursing in Australia? Well here in Sydney there are two types of nurses: 1. Enrolled Nurses (called Div2 Nurses in some other states) these are basically equivalent to what you call a LPN in the US. Enrolled Nurses or EN's are technical...