milly

milly has 2 years experience.

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1. Syringe driver terror

   milly replied to milly's topic in General Nursing

   I have continued to follow this thread, lack of technology has prevented me from commenting further. I have recently started a new role, and there is small proportion of my work is Palliative care. I know that I am good at my job, and I have a good ...

2. Syringe driver terror

   milly replied to milly's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you for your understanding.. Your first paragraph summed it all up.. Patients dying has always been viewed negatively..and if it happened on my watch I did something wrong .. And I let them down.. Both of which I don't want. I have very rarel...

3. Syringe driver terror

   milly replied to milly's topic in General Nursing

   How do you achieve that mindset? Without being terrified of killing someone?

4. Syringe driver terror

   milly replied to milly's topic in General Nursing

   I don't suppose it's the machine itself that scares me, iv used them in different ways like sliding scale insulin and heparin infusions, with not an ounce of worry. The problem comes when it is mixed up with palliative care. Thing being is the vast m...

5. Syringe driver terror

   milly replied to milly's topic in General Nursing

   I had hoped for some encouragement.. Iv hardly slept. Can hardly breathe and I just want to cry.. Hoping beyond all hope that I manage to survive today without a panic attack.

6. Syringe driver terror

   milly posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hello I know that there will be allot of people disagree with me here Am I only nurse that is quite simply terrified of syringe drivers? I just feel like I'm helping someone die. I didn't want to be a nurse to help someone die.. I wanted to be able t...

7. Blood pressure and PICC's

   milly replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

   cant help really but whats a PICC?

8. Calling in Sick

   milly replied to Jesskanurse's topic in General Nursing

   we have to report our illness to the senior nurse on duty at that time, and you have specific times we have to call in by and it differs in length. for instance we have to call before 6am for our early shift before 10am for our late shift and before ...

9. pin care for external fixators

   milly replied to marcibz123's topic in Orthopaedic

   dont know if its much good, but i had two ex fixes myself, and i had them in for 13 months, i was taught to shower ever day with it, cleanse each pinsite with a cotton wool swab with normal boiled water allow to dry. and part of my physio was to swim...

10. please help i am going out of my mind

    milly posted a topic in International

    hi all, i am going out of my mind i really am at this present moment, i am a newly qualified nurse and i am having a real hard time getting my prioritising and time management right. i seem to keep making little mistakes and things get left. not on...

11. please help am going mad

    milly posted a topic in General Nursing

    hi all, i am going out of my mind i really am at this present moment, i am a newly qualified nurse and i am having a real hard time getting my prioritising and time management right. i seem to keep making little mistakes and things get left. not only...

12. newly qualified - struggling to find work, please help

    milly posted a topic in General Nursing

    hi all, i am due to qualify in sept, and i have been very let down, 3 hospitals being close to me, closer than my placement base. each of which promised me work, the first one on later questioning said they had no work but had previously said that o...