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1. Do Nurses Eat Their Young?

   Spectre replied to Brian's topic in Relations

   what i gave her was good solid advice about how someone like her can pass university. it is not a disservice to nursing to explain how to get around a badly constructed system. it is a disservice to nursing the way more senior nurses treat junior nu...

2. Do Nurses Eat Their Young?

   Spectre replied to Brian's topic in Relations

   This will annoy the crud out of you, but act dumb, really really dumb. And refuse to take any initiative. its a horrible suggestion i know, but trust me, it works. I went from an advanced LPN to an RN, and in the 3 years of uni never learnt one singl...

3. Do Nurses Eat Their Young?

   Spectre replied to Brian's topic in Relations

   wait til they use the ever precious 'life experience' catch phrase to prevent younger nurses from getting anywhere over there. nurses eat their young, and sometimes it really isn't provoked. best example i can give is many years ago when i first gr...

4. Funniest real orders you have seen in a chart?

   Spectre replied to nilepoc's topic in Humor

   LPS - lonely person syndrome FGS - family guilt syndrome (when you haven't spoken to dad in 10years and now he's had a heat attack so you want the drs to wake him up so you can say sorry) did ECG on a pt with severe pneumonia, gave it to Dr, med s...

5. Can I work in AU with an associates in Nursing

   Spectre replied to piddlepong's topic in International

   sorry, obviously didn't make myself clear. I'm only commenting on licencing in Australia cause its highly illegal to even make references to visas in this country. The words $20,000 fine and up to 20 years in jail comes to mind. (Had to do courses o...

6. 12 hour shifts?

   Spectre replied to X-treme's topic in International

   most places do compulsory rotating shifts, and compulsory nights during the year, (usually about 4 weeks). Royal Perth Hospital in WA offers 12hr emergency shifts, and there's a large chunk of hospitals australia wide that do 8/8/8 shifts all day, es...

7. Can I work in AU with an associates in Nursing

   Spectre replied to piddlepong's topic in International

   In australia its only a 3 year degree to become an RN. and it used to be a 2 year associate diploma to become an EN in WA, but it's now an 18month diploma in WA, and 12 months in just about every other state. just be careful if they do make you an EN...

8. Can I work in AU with an associates in Nursing

   Spectre replied to piddlepong's topic in International

   There's plenty of work in Australia, but you'll most likely be registered here as a LPN instead of an RN. except here they call them EN's