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  1. Did he get too much morphine?

    Did he get too much morphine? Intravenously - perhaps 8mg is a bit much to push in one go. IM/SC - not at all.
  2. Nurses Smoking

    I believe that I have no right to expect others to abstain/refrain from smoking. Just as no one else has any right to expect me to behave in a certain way. So what if it's harmful/addictive/etc! We all know it! But some people do it anyway. It's thei...
  3. RN to LVN in California

    Hi- I've been trying to get this information from the Californian Board (for LVN's), but have not had any luck getting an answer... Any help you can offer would be very much appreciated! I am an Australian Registered Nurse (Bachelor's degree, five ye...
  4. It depends how keen you are to start nursing in the US after graduation from an Australian university. It's a long process (as other posters have stated, as your program of study will be scrutinised by the US Board of Nursing to ensure it is comparab...
  5. Whats to Enjoy about Nursing?

    I've been in the game for seven years. What used to get me out of bed was knowing that I was doing something good that couldn't be bastardised for the profit of some fat cat somewhere. Now I've gone about 180 degrees, and I've come to realise that I ...
  6. Medical terms you'd rather see changed....

    Good call. I think that's a very sensible and much more helpful alternative to the ridiculously PC "non adherence", which achieves nothing more than the term "non compliance" anyway.
  7. What's special about male nurses?

    What's special about male nurses? I don't know, but one thing that makes me so ANGRY is being called a "male nurse", as though it's an entirely different job description. I do everything the girls do, and I happen to think I do it pretty damned well!...
  8. Medical terms you'd rather see changed....

    There's nothing I like better than a debate over medical semantics... To those people who find the terms "non-compliant" and "denies" distasteful when used in the context of patient behaviour or responses to questioning, I say pull that stick out of ...
  9. I'm 24, and have been nursing since I was 17 (straight after I left high school). I worked as a nursing assistant through my uni degree, and have been a registered ("professional") nurse for a bit over three years. In my seven year nursing career, I'...
  10. Is It Really Mass Unemployment, Or Just Mass Hysteria?

    Yes - I'm interested in what people might have to say about 5thflrnurse's question. Which groups of the nursing population are enjoying stability, and who is looking at trouble ahead? Does the problem seem to be more prevalent in London, the country,...
  11. I worked in the UK briefly earlier this year. When I left, there were plenty of nursing jobs all over the place, but recently I've been hearing stories of mass redundancies in the midst of the worst nursing shortage ever, budget blowouts, restructuri...
  12. Would you or wouldn't you?

    No I would definitely not. I was working in an ICU not so long ago where we treated a critically ill thirty something person with necrotising fasciitis after a friend administered IM B-12. I know that the risk of acquiring necrotising fasciitis or si...
  13. Hi all. I'm an Aussie nurse, currently living in London (not nursing here of course, it's far too difficult to get registered and I'm sick of playing the game), and I can't wait to get out of this place and head to Ireland. I've had a poke around An ...
  14. What does a Respiratory Therapist Do That An RN Can't?

    When I asked this question (seems like over a year ago at least) my intention was to find out more about the role of the RT. Thanks to the many RT's who responded - I wasn't aware that so much preparation was required (I was skeptical having read so ...
  15. 20 Day "Protected Learning", & Why I Loathe The NMC

    Oh yes. Double the registration fees! Lord knows they earn every cent! The overseas registrations department alone brings in at least £8046000 for the NMC each year (their own statistics - £149 x ~54000 applicants - thats not including fees and charg...