cheels

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1. Things people say coming out of anaesthetic

   cheels replied to frellyou's topic in General Nursing

   I was on a placement in the recovery room (im still a student) and the best one i heard was a pt trying to start a chant.. "Give these nurses a payrise!!" He did get a smile from everyone after that :)

2. Australia to USA

   cheels replied to casserooni's topic in International

   Yeah i understand how long it will take to get visas and organise employment as well as sitting the Nclex.... thats why im predicting 5 years... instead of say 3 - which i could be out and nursing in a number of different countries other than the US....

3. Australia to USA

   cheels replied to casserooni's topic in International

   yeah but im still studying so i have to graduate, do my new grad year and then the extra semester for the USA. well depending on if the USA is happy to have me after my new grad then 5 years would be ok, but i read somewhere they want you to general...

4. Australia to USA

   cheels replied to casserooni's topic in International

   And here i had my 5 year plan to get to the US and now ill have to extend that Oh well ill get there eventually :)

5. How would you tell a patient

   cheels replied to cheels's topic in General Nursing

   Yeah i thought it would be the physicians role to explain the condition etc.. But most of the physicians ive worked with tend to explain important things when the patient is drowsy or out of it (might just be the area ive worked in post-op recovery.....

6. How would you tell a patient

   cheels posted a topic in General Nursing

   So say a 18/19 year old girl comes in, shes been in a pretty bad car accident. She was also 2 months pregnant and misscarried. What or how would you tell her assuming you dont know if she knew she was even pregnant??

7. Funny Nursing Related Stories

   cheels replied to nursejanefw's topic in Humor

   Wow.. they havnt taught us about this yet. THANKYOU

8. To All Nurses....

   cheels replied to NurseWannabe1129's topic in General Nursing

   I have my first patient contact day on monday, im nervous, very nervous like what if i have a mental blank and dont know something i should know etc. but im excited too! Thanks to all who have replied with their experiences its really helping calm my...

9. Witnessed my first death today.

   cheels replied to loriangel14's topic in New Nurse

   Im not worried about seeing anyone die.. other than young, 17-18-19 y/o boys from car accidents.. because it will deffinately bring back some very bad, sad memories.