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    Common nicknames for hospital items.

    Patients always look at me askance when the anaesthetist puts in their IV and then asks me for a toilet seat. I used to try to explain, now i just show them this and they laugh.
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    Help with instruments

    it's more important to know what things do than what they're called. focus on that :)
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    OR Pet peeves

    Ha ha, i remembered another one.. Peekers. our theatre doors have little windows in them, and i get so so cross when i'm in the middle of a stressful emergency case and i look up at the door to see three or four faces peeking through. not trying to...
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    OR Pet peeves

    i have a lot of little peeves, most of them so petty that i feel silly about bringing them up, but they make me so cross! *med students/junior doctors who, while scrubbed, try to take instruments from me to pass to the surgeon. i know they're tryin...
  5. fournier's gangrene debridement. I will never forget those two sad, uncovered testicles.
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    Sterile nacl or h2o???

    i've heard this one too, and there are a few surgeons who go with it, but most use saline. i got similar crazy looks when i started at a new hospital and found that they use saline in neurosurgery. i was taught at my previous hospital that ringers so...
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    Wrong side/omitted procedure

    i can tell you exactly why this happened. time is money. my hospital has a policy that before the patient can be brought up from the waiting bay to the anaesthetic room, the surgical site must be marked and initialled by the surgeon, and the consent ...
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    tell me about your brainless moments

    i got busted the other day turning around so that my body was aligned the same way as the patient's so that i could work out which side the diathermy plate was on and which arm was on an arm board.
  9. it's funny, i work in theatres and i see a lot of stuff that most people would think is really gross, spanning a wide range from your run-of-the-mill 'where does all the poo come from?', though ridiculous random injuries, and finishing in bad smells,...
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    Pyxis for the uninitiated

    hello all! I've been reading these threads for years, and for the most part have managed to translate your american qualifications, medications and abbreviations into australianisms well enough to understand what it is that you're saying. However, it...
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    24 weeker - how bad is it?

    update, since i've just returned to look at this thread.. she's now closing in on 2kg, weaning off CPAP really well and in an open cot! mum and dad get to see her whole face!!
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    Anyone studying at UTAS in sydney?

    ok, i googled it. that's new! how exciting for you!
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    Anyone studying at UTAS in sydney?

    i'm confused. UTAS is University of Tasmania - how is it that they have a Sydney campus?
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    How to NOT interview for your RN/LPN job!

    now, to the OP (and other interviewers), you touched on something dear to my heart, and my face. my nose stud. before having it done, i checked my work's uniform policy, and made sure to use a discreet little stud. nobody mentioned it once it was d...
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    How to NOT interview for your RN/LPN job!

    i'm no expert on interview technique (i interview terribly due to nerves, and am always surprised when i get a job!) but i'm guessing what the OP means isn't so much 'be sure to wear make-up' as 'take a bit of pride in your appearance'. i don't reall...