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1. Professional dilemma

   gdc67 replied to gdc67's topic in UK

   The NHS is full of staff who are out to bully, backstab and tell tale on their co workers. It was a shock for me when i walked into my first placement as an agency nurse and saw ARE YOU BEING BULLIED posters everywhere. It is accepted practice and s...

2. Professional dilemma

   gdc67 replied to gdc67's topic in UK

   worked full time till 2005 then joined agency and started working in NHS before that only worked in private hospitals so it was quite a shock ;-) most NHS hosp dont accept outside certs and wont give u competency waste of money they say but so they w...

3. Professional dilemma

   gdc67 replied to gdc67's topic in UK

   That petty co worker had an intubated patient... the other mentioned case...the doctors and managers were busy deciding on further plan of care and i think any patient would be more relaxed with a nurse who had been caring for them from the onset...u...

4. Professional dilemma

   gdc67 replied to gdc67's topic in UK

   Thanx...i did what was good for the patient and did not ignore a policy...why else would i be working if i was going around ignoring policies in different trusts...i will look into that inspection check...theres 2 sister hospitals and both have separ...

5. Professional dilemma

   gdc67 replied to gdc67's topic in UK

   I did what was told for the good of the patient...policy or not..no harm came to the patient as it relieved her vomiting...my manager keeps on saying i KNEW i was not to give it...and i am saying for all the OTHER times you and your petty staff saw m...

6. Professional dilemma

   gdc67 replied to gdc67's topic in UK

   I understand it fully...i refuse to look like a bad nurse over the incident and the management admit they are partly to blame for the lax execution of rules... and limply implement them when it suits them...but a lesson learnt for the future...work l...

7. Professional dilemma

   gdc67 replied to gdc67's topic in UK

   Let me repeat....the policy was in place when i entered the first recovery unit..there are 4...and in every single one i was giving IV care..in front of every single manager and senior in those units...no one mentioned an iv policy for agency nurses ...

8. Professional dilemma

   gdc67 replied to gdc67's topic in UK

   Now that the cycle has cleared my head...:-)...why not make a last point...being S African and taking a blood gas had nothing to do with the issue...but if I was a petty spiteful UK nurse, with less experience and probably a chip on my shoulder...in ...

9. Professional dilemma

   gdc67 replied to gdc67's topic in UK

   Like a true professional I am not going to respond to that statement...but I will add that a one spiteful petty UK nurse, among many, who always seem to have a chip on their shoulder when a more experienced foreigner enters their unit. I am not there...

10. Professional dilemma

    gdc67 replied to gdc67's topic in UK

    thanx....I am a nurse not and ODP....the prescription was already written down and he said to give it on his behalf as he could not leave his unconscious patient...i had been giving iv's for the past year and a half in the unit with a prescription an...

11. Professional dilemma

    gdc67 replied to gdc67's topic in UK

    Most hospitals have different policies regarding agency staff and sometimes hospitals under tha same trust have separate policies for the agency nurse. Most of the ODP's state they dont give IV's so I am just going by what is said. As stated before s...

12. Professional dilemma

    gdc67 replied to gdc67's topic in UK

    I FULLY UNDERSTOOD AND APPRECIATED THE RESPONSE ;-) ...which made me feel much better...i am back at work tomorrow and will see what they say after my letter...good luck to me. different perspectives will always arise and was just trying to clarify t...

13. Professional dilemma

    gdc67 replied to gdc67's topic in UK

    I have been supposedly breaching this policy for over a year and a half and giving much more potent stuff than an anti emetic and not once was I stopped. In the UK and in most hospitals we cannot perform most nursing invasive duties without a compet...

14. Professional dilemma

    gdc67 replied to gdc67's topic in UK

    Totally frustrating that all the recovery nurses are from the agency and the there are 2 hopsitals in the same trust. They each have different set of rules and policies for iv drugs and for agency nurses. And in both I was not stopped from giving iv ...

15. Professional dilemma

    gdc67 replied to gdc67's topic in UK

    Fair enough...a bit of background....i started the placement in April 2010 and have been giving iv meds and care in front of every senior and junior manager, the unit managers and including my present manager in 4 different recovery areas of the hops...