ValWai

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1. What have other nurses done that have freaked you out?

   ValWai replied to texas_lvn's topic in General Nursing

   One more reason to stay healthy.

2. is it oriented or orientated?

   ValWai replied to cokie's topic in General Nursing

   9. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth:and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. Oh, it's LORD's idea. Genesis Chapter 11 V1-9. Tower of Ba...

3. Hypertension develops during Haemodialysis

   ValWai replied to HKnurse's topic in Urology

   I think HKnurse trying to say her patient's pressure starts to shoot up toward the end of dialysis. I have one patient having the same condition. She has normal pressure pre-HD and pressure shoots up to 190/90 or even higher one hour before concludin...

4. Sodium Profiling

   ValWai replied to Northern nephron's topic in Urology

   We used to use UF profiling together with Na profiling. We start off with 145 and gradually down to 140. Patients seem to tolerate this quite well but we find patients will become overloaded easily after Na profile. And more patients got admitted fo...

5. Do RNs declot temporary hemodialysis catheters?

   ValWai replied to frankie's topic in Urology

   How about completely blocked catheter? Sometime the clotting is so bad that nothing can go in or out. It's impossible to instill anti-coagulant into the catheter without dislodging the clot. I used to draw the catheter until it collapses with a 20 ...

6. Performance Assessment Score

   ValWai replied to ValWai's topic in Safety

   It didn't reflect bad on my center. In fact, my center was rated as within normal standards and even some with 100% compliance. Our centers are new to the company. Among these 28 centers assessed, there are centers in different countries in Asia an...

7. Floating Policy Help Needed

   ValWai replied to mattcastens's topic in Neuro

   It's nothing personal. And I am a nurse in dialysis and I wonder if my mother was admitted and was having a heart rate of 30. So, is she all right? I mean judging my own mother as a daughter. I agree that "We found that a cardiac nurse and surgica...

8. Performance Assessment Score

   ValWai posted a topic in Safety

   I have been considering my response seriously for the past two weeks and found out that I did not write this for vengeance or self-defense. Five months ago, our head office (international company) sent someone to our center and audited our center sta...

9. Crne/nclex

   ValWai replied to ValWai's topic in CRNE

   Oh, I see. I was imagining a Dolly Parton girl with lots of pressure that makes her tireder. LOL.

10. Crne/nclex

    ValWai replied to ValWai's topic in CRNE

    Thank you for your tips and your blessings, Disher and Tiredernurse. I passed my NCLEX in 1988. But when I study NCLEX exam guide again this year, I find them harder than CRNE. But I will do my best. Anyway, why tireder?

11. Crne/nclex

    ValWai posted a topic in CRNE

    Hi, I am a nurse in Singapore. I am being thinking of emigration to Vancouver. I have been there for holiday and love the place very much. After all the Eng. tests and psy. courses, RNABC has accepted my applciation to write the CRNE. I have been pra...

12. Lethal injection nurse???

    ValWai replied to Zhakrin's topic in General Nursing

    Why nurses? Do we impress them that we kill everyday just because we face death everyday. Or do they think that we have no emotions towards people's death, or we are supermen and women who can do what ever is left undone. It's nothing to do with wh...

13. language barriers.........

    ValWai replied to hapeewendy's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly, they will start a conversion asking details if i uttered a few words. I think pictures and cartoons would help. They are universally understood , even by the elderly.

14. Distance degrees

    ValWai replied to JMP's topic in International

    Hi Canuck. Thank you for the reply. My son will be going to the University in Canada. I want to go with him and to visit my brother at the same time. We will be staying in Vancouver somewhere near to UBC. So, do you have any information on the nearby...

15. Distance degrees

    ValWai replied to JMP's topic in International

    Hi, this is Val. I am a RN in Singapore graduated in Hong Kong. I've been a RN since 1981. I just started a Bachelor of Nursing(Post Reg.) course in Monash University. It is a two years program with 8 subjects; 2 subjects in every 15 weeks. Lecture...