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1. Is it a Medication Error

   smilenurse replied to smilenurse's topic in Australia

   Thanks you for all the comments, I agree too.

2. Is it a Medication Error

   smilenurse posted a topic in Australia

   Would like to find out if for some reason RN or EEN forgot to sign medication chart after doing a Insulin Injection, is it considered a Medication Error??? and a Incident Report needs to to written due to this??? Is this right or wrong???

3. Practice intramuscular injection students on each other, Australia

   smilenurse replied to mumlauf's topic in Australia

   Also we practices on a sponge.

4. Practice intramuscular injection students on each other, Australia

   smilenurse replied to mumlauf's topic in Australia

   When I was a nursing student we practiced in class on a orange.

5. Taped Handovers

   smilenurse replied to carolmaccas66's topic in International

   I am in Aged Care. We do all handovers on Icare computer program and could be printed off if needed.

6. EEN's running the floor without RN's

   smilenurse replied to smilenurse's topic in International

   No it is not me, I would not do this never ever. I just hear around from other people talking about this but did not say were and when but they did finally find a RN from agency coming in.

7. EEN's running the floor without RN's

   smilenurse replied to smilenurse's topic in International

   Due to shortage of RN's and even the Agency have shortage and can not provide RN's when you need them when RN calls in sick 30 minutes before handover. Then the EEN's have no choose but to run the floor, give the medications, insulins, injections, S8...

8. Moving to Brisbane

   smilenurse replied to shugs's topic in International

   The Train is the close by.

9. EEN's running the floor without RN's

   smilenurse replied to smilenurse's topic in International

   Why not? What do you do when RN's cannot be find ?

10. EEN's running the floor without RN's

    smilenurse posted a topic in International

    Does anyone know or heard of EEN's are able to do shifts without RN's, mostly high care resident's (at Nursing Home) when there are no RN's available for the shift.

11. Returning back to Oz

    smilenurse replied to AussieKylie's topic in International

    Are you thinking to do night shifts? Aged care night shifts are easyer then am and pm.

12. Workplace bullies & weak management

    smilenurse replied to milenko's topic in International

    we have supportive management staff were i work at aged care and management does not put up with bullying.

13. Nurses need to be tall and beautiful???

    smilenurse replied to Lucia cong's topic in International

    Lucia cong ! There is no standard in the western world. Nurses in Australia come in all shapes and sizes - skinny to the fattest, tall to mini, beautiful to the ugly, even sometimes cross eyed. Hope this will answer your question?

14. Enrolled nursing in Oz!

    smilenurse replied to Kimmeh's topic in International

    EEN now it is a Diplomas. Full time courses one year and part time 18 months. This is in QLD.

15. Has the economic downturn affected your employment opportunities?

    smilenurse replied to joannep's topic in International

    Joannep ! Thank you that was a interesting article to read. But anyway were I work in aged care we are having difficultly finding experienced nurses despite advertising on line. We mainly depend on Agengy nurses now as there are no nurses interested ...