frellyou

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1. Any advice for working at Prince of Wales Private, moving from Scotland

   frellyou replied to scots's topic in International

   Yeah, bring as much documentation as you can, because there's quite a lot of competition for rental properties in Sydney. When we left our place in June last year there were at least 10 groups coming through to inspect the place, and most of them see...

2. Any advice for working at Prince of Wales Private, moving from Scotland

   frellyou replied to scots's topic in International

   I used to live in Randwick before rising rents pushed me out, and I think that if you want to rent a place by yourself you'll have trouble as demand is really high. However, like others have said, the population is pretty transient so there are alway...

3. How come t here are no Males RNs on a peds floor?

   frellyou replied to JomoNurse's topic in General Nursing

   If you're going to invoke statistics to justify your own prejudices, then perhaps you should reconsider leaving your children alone with family members and close friends. After all, they are the main perpetrators of child abuse.

4. Apparently we LOVE night duty?!

   frellyou replied to taeran's topic in General Nursing

   Ah NSW Health...it's interesting that they site both being busy and not having to do anything as reasons for why nights are so 'popular' (I'm sure it's nothing at all to do with compulsory rotating rosters!) I also wonder who their witness is. I thin...

5. What is your unit like - Private, Semi-private, or Multi-bed rooms?

   frellyou replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

   Is this usual in Victoria? Up in NSW 4 to a room seems to be standard, with a few private rooms for isolation (although one of the older wards I was on for clinical didn't have any!) I kind of like the four bedded rooms, it's easy to check on all you...

6. Affairs rampant among nurses?

   frellyou replied to sugarbush's topic in General Nursing

   Our lab instructor told us a night nurse at a place he worked at was fired for commencing a sexual relationship with a patient (young guy in traction, motorbike accident). Apparently they just closed the curtains!

7. Fundamentals of Nursing book (Potter and Perry)

   frellyou replied to xng's topic in International

   The 3rd edition has been rewritten from an Australian perspective, whereas the 2nd Australian one has amendments tacked on to the American edition and I think the units changed (so the 3rd edition is a lot lighter and more streamline). The social iss...

8. Australian STUDENTS

   frellyou replied to rachelgeorgina's topic in Australia

   I was speaking to a nurse from NICU at RNS who thought that the UTS bachelor of midwifery students didn't really have the basic nursing skills they needed, so a combined degree would be good. How much longer does it take? Buttercup, can you talk to y...

9. Australian STUDENTS

   frellyou replied to rachelgeorgina's topic in Australia

   I'm really liking it so far, it's good to have some variety. I always thought it seemed like a stupid idea, until I went to the open day the last day before the cut off for changes and everyone was so nice I changed my mind! I was going to go to UTS....

10. Australian STUDENTS

    frellyou replied to rachelgeorgina's topic in Australia

    I'm second year BA/MN at Usyd, so only started nursing subjects this year. Just had my first week of clinical, it was awesome! I also just started work at a dementia nursing home (they called me at 5:45 this morning, presumeably to start work at 6:30...

11. Australian STUDENTS

    frellyou replied to rachelgeorgina's topic in Australia

    Hey, this sounds like an awesome idea, maybe we could convince allnurses to set up a sub-forum? I agree about the student forums here, the American system seems quite different to ours (they're all obsessed with their GPAs!)

12. Question: Why don't hospitals color code the scrubs?

    frellyou replied to DolceVita's topic in General Nursing

    They had a big investigation in NSW, Australia into the hospital system (the Garling report) which recommended that each profession wore a different colour, with charts all around the ward showing patients what the colours meant. His research reveale...

13. Please, just pat me on the head...

    frellyou replied to Jaguar Boy's topic in General Students

    *pats*

14. NSW brings in pre-packaged hospital food.

    frellyou posted a topic in International

    http://www.smh.com.au/national/inedible-frozen-meals-for-patients-20090519-beah.html http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/govt-defends-prepackaged-hospital-food-20090520-beuh.html http://www.smh.com.au/national/nurses-to-supervise-feeding-de...

15. Stop calling me kid...

    frellyou replied to SweetLemon's topic in General Nursing

    If he's calling you 'kid' I think that you're completely justified in calling him 'old man'. As in 'thanks old man, but I think I'll get enough practice with paperwork before my time's through!' If he can't take it, then he shouldn't give it.