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1. Purposive sampling

   redtshirt posted a topic in Research

   I have a quick question about purposive sampling that I am rather confused about. Purposive sampling is used to gain study participants who would have experience in the phenomena that I want to study. So I want to study nurses with experience in a ...

2. Interview advice??

   redtshirt replied to cablefree's topic in MICU

   They will usually ask you what experience you have and skills you have that you can use in ICU. So you can discuss your experience with vented patients. They also ask for your education - any specific courses or online learning you have done that wi...

3. Walking vented patients

   redtshirt replied to Verbatim's topic in MICU

   If they are well enough to be walked why are they still vented? Why not consider non invasive ventilation etc?

4. Transition to ICU

   redtshirt replied to redtshirt's topic in MICU

   Thanks for your help!

5. Transition to ICU

   redtshirt posted a topic in MICU

   Hi all, I am two years qualified as a general nurse and I have worked all over the place gaining different experiences in my two years both medical and surgical. I am now considering going to ICU. I love the adrenaline rush when you have a sick pa...

6. Pinning up long hair

   redtshirt replied to annetter's topic in Safety

   Ours must be off the collar but once its presentable and off your face they arent so strict about it

7. What makes a co-worker someone you look up to?

   redtshirt replied to xtxrn's topic in General Nursing

   I look up to those people who have a wealth of knowledge and can apply it. Someone who is open to new suggestions and listens to new research, not just doing something because that's how its done. Someone who no matter how busy they are doesn't sho...

8. nurses dating nurses?

   redtshirt replied to rnski's topic in Humor

   My other half gets my toilet humour and adds his own stories to the mix!

9. How to positively help a really bad student

   redtshirt replied to redtshirt's topic in Educators

   Thanks for the advice whispera. I had a chat with her today and she was able to point out things that she felt she needed to work on and they were similar to what i felt she needed to work on. She seems to have settled in a bit better to the unit thi...

10. Call Bell Requests

    redtshirt replied to pomRN's topic in General Nursing

    Ive recently had a ward full of demanding bell hoppers....... Requests included... -will you turn off the tv? ( remote on bed table nothing wrong with arms) -I want a commode...followed by beds 1-6 wanting bedpans and commodes -I want tea -Get me pi...

11. How to positively help a really bad student

    redtshirt posted a topic in Educators

    Hi I am just wondering if you can suggest some ways that I can approach a student nurse. She is currently in her final year of her programme and has 8 months of placement with something like 5 different units/wards in it. The idea is that the student...

12. GOAL -- Weight Loss and healthier living

    redtshirt replied to AKFLIGHTRN's topic in Stress 101

    I was doing great going to the gym feeling great and then my mental health plummeted and now i comfort eat and whatever confidence i had gained and will to get fitter went out the window!

13. Lack of Experience as my Biggest Weakness?

    redtshirt replied to kimpatrtan's topic in New Nurse

    I think if you are going to be honest about you weakness you should have a plan to overcome it. And remember that you do have experience. Think back over your training and find something that you knew nothing about but then learned once the opportuni...

14. Bit of extra help?

    redtshirt posted a topic in Stress 101

    Hi all, I'm qualified about a year now and I love nursing. But recently my mental health outside of work has deteriorated. I have an ongoing embarrassing health problem and that has gotten so much worse over the last few months, its not life threate...

15. facebook and texting at work

    redtshirt replied to NurseEmRN's topic in General Nursing

    Some of our older patients are very set in not having integrated with other cultures. So when a nurse from a different culture is speaking in their own language it annoys me. But i have witnessed a nurse while washing an elderly lady, talking in a fo...