ProudofmyNursingart

ProudofmyNursingart specializes in Aged Care, General Acute,Theatre,Rehab,.

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1. Someone calling themself Nurse when not.Help please?

   ProudofmyNursingart replied to ProudofmyNursingart's topic in General Nursing

   Perhaps his email can be posted and all RNs in this forum can send him an email regarding the legitimacy of him calling himself a Nurse. It's probably more appropriate for him to call himself Head of Nursing, if this is in fact his role. I guess he c...

2. Someone calling themself Nurse when not.Help please?

   ProudofmyNursingart replied to ProudofmyNursingart's topic in General Nursing

   I started working as a PCA at the age of 14 at a Special Needs Hostel. Since that age I have gained qualifications to be both a PCA and a RN.

3. Someone calling themself Nurse when not.Help please?

   ProudofmyNursingart replied to ProudofmyNursingart's topic in General Nursing

   Even calling yourself a nurse and representing himself as one.

4. Someone calling themself Nurse when not.Help please?

   ProudofmyNursingart replied to ProudofmyNursingart's topic in General Nursing

   To call yourself a nurse or to practice nursing without a license? To CALL yourself a nurse. It's even worse to practice without a license.

5. Someone calling themself Nurse when not.Help please?

   ProudofmyNursingart replied to ProudofmyNursingart's topic in General Nursing

   These smaller fonts are too small for ME to read. Is there a problem with that? Please reframe from hanging **** on me. Thanks.

6. Someone calling themself Nurse when not.Help please?

   ProudofmyNursingart replied to ProudofmyNursingart's topic in General Nursing

   In Australia it is a crime with a $10,000 price tag.

7. Someone calling themselves a Nurse when not.Help please!

   ProudofmyNursingart posted a topic in International

   I am going to post this in the Australian section as well, but wanted opinions on this problem. My problem is this; I was working at this Retirement Village. I'm not anymore. A male who is the manager of a retirement village where everyone lives indi...

8. Someone calling themself Nurse when not.Help please?

   ProudofmyNursingart posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am going to post this in the Australian section as well, but wanted opinions on this problem. My problem is this; I was working at this Retirement Village. I'm not anymore. A male who is the manager of a retirement village where everyone lives indi...

9. To flush or not to flush...advice please.

   ProudofmyNursingart replied to lovingtheunloved's topic in General Nursing

   Whenever a Intma Cath is used for subcut injections. It is ALWAYS flushed with 5ml NS after administering the medication. Usually Morphine. The rationale being that some of the Morphine dose is sitting still in the line so the patient is actually not...

10. Heparin injections ?????

    ProudofmyNursingart replied to ProudofmyNursingart's topic in General Students

    Thank you both. I thought of both of these, but thought "Maybe there is some other specific reason that Iv'e missed.". But not maybe I didn't. Thank you both.

11. Heparin injections ?????

    ProudofmyNursingart posted a topic in General Students

    I have come across a question today as applying for a job on something I have not encountered in my Nursing experience before. Why do we ONLY give Heparin injections as subcuts???? Pain and bruising is one reason. How about mucking up half life? Plu...

12. Enrolled nursing in Oz!

    ProudofmyNursingart replied to Kimmeh's topic in International

    Well done StudentBeccy. :balloons: On the final stretch. When you look back you realise just how far youv'e come. It still blows me away just how far you do come and learn. Enjoy your acute placement. Take EVERY opportunity that you get offered to ...

13. Care plan help

    ProudofmyNursingart replied to Pleased to care's topic in International

    That's great to hear. Our Facticitators were VERY STRICT on the CP as you need to do them all the time at work. So many had resubmits. I luckily didn't. I couldn't face it again. I mailed it off with a lucky kiss. A habit I started with nursing corre...

14. Care plan help

    ProudofmyNursingart replied to Pleased to care's topic in International

    Oh boy!!! I did this EXACT same care plan in school. You don't happen to be a Spencer TAFE student do you? My CP went for pages as this is a difficult BUT realistic CP. To be honest I initially had so much trouble too. Then I mastered it and assiste...

15. Advice. Support. Anything!!!

    ProudofmyNursingart posted a topic in International

    I work for a Nursing Agency that I trully love. I was placed in various places, such as Rehab, Aged/Dementia Care and lot's of Acute. On the 7th of January I was tripped at work in a hospital by an employee. The result was a herniated disk at L5/S1 l...