KirriG

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1. You know that you are dating/married to a nurse

   KirriG replied to mydee's topic in Humor

   Hmmm, my husband's list would look something like this (I'm still just a student): When he complains of a headache, out comes the BP cuff cos he has hypertension. He has to give me more information about his bowels than he ever assumed during our ear...

2. What's in your pocket(s)?

   KirriG replied to AllieSparksRN's topic in General Nursing

   A handful of gloves, a pen, a piece of paper with the shift's showers on it (and probably by 2 hours into the shift, little notations next to names with bowel status) and the key to my locker. Assistant nurse in nursing home.

3. Don't know how to cope with it all.........

   KirriG replied to MossyOakGirl's topic in CNA/MA

   Wow, I would have loved to have more than 2 shifts training (I'm in a nursing home - LTC). I am totally with you too. I'm slow because I don't whizz through everything, especially with the really frail ones because they get so overwhelmed. BUT, I th...

4. Dodgy workmate - what would you do?

   KirriG posted a topic in CNA/MA

   I've been working as an AIN (equivalent to your CNA but without taking vitals) in a nursing home for 5 months. Most of the people I've worked with have been great, very helpful at showing the newbie how things are done, but I have recently been put w...

5. Anyone going beyond their CNA license??

   KirriG replied to sunflower777's topic in CNA/MA

   I'm going for my registration... It'll take me another 3-4 years because I'm going 1 or 2 subjects a semester, but I'll get there in the end! Kirri

6. 501 ways to know you've been on allnurses.com too long!

   KirriG replied to Roy Fokker's topic in Humor

   212. You have keyboard imprinbts on the side of your cheeks from falling asleep because you want to check 'just one more' thread. 213. You consider this site to be a valuable study resource, thus validating your continued dependence (and have every i...

7. Stupid things said by your non-nurse significant other

   KirriG replied to Moogie's topic in Humor

   You can tell him that I had one after my third child and my childless sister has had one too.

8. What do you say when a patient asks you how old you are?

   KirriG replied to blondy2061h's topic in General Nursing

   I'm 21 with 17 years experience.

9. Australian STUDENTS

   KirriG replied to rachelgeorgina's topic in Australia

   ummmm... Sorry Zoe, p&p is a bucket load of work, but super interesting cos you start to get the point of learning all that a&p. Put it this way, in my study group we could count 2 distinctions, 2 credits, 2 passes and 3 fails for P&P1. ...

10. Australian STUDENTS

    KirriG replied to rachelgeorgina's topic in Australia

    Zoe, are you studying at Griffith Uni? I'm doing Pathophysiology and Pharmacology 2 this semester which also starts for me tomorrow. :) And like you I love it and can't wait to get stuck in again! Kirri

11. Am I Crazy? 38, never thought I'd considering nursing but now I am

    KirriG replied to Elizabeth K.'s topic in General Nursing

    Lol, are you me? I'm 38 and just started my RN study. Because of having no experience, no family who are health care workers and finding it difficult to cope with people in pain I just hadn't ever considered the field. Then last year after having h...

12. Myers-Briggs Profile Typing and Nursing

    KirriG replied to metal_m0nk's topic in General Nursing

    ESFJ for me - apparently the 2 careers I've been tossing up (nursing and teaching) are both good fits! :) Kirri

13. Why would a facility over-hire nurses?

    KirriG replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    I'm guessing because of the higher wages for more expereinced staff. Australia went through a bad patch of this in the 1990's where hospital admins were 'concerned' about growing health care costs and figured that getting rid of higher paid nurses w...

14. Resident having seizure

    KirriG replied to branbran77's topic in CNA/MA

    So true - we were told in the first First Aid course I ever did that the ambulance the teacher worked in had been called out to a home for someone who had a seizure. They arrived to find ... and please be aware this is pretty awful before you read o...

15. how many cna's plan to continue their education?

    KirriG replied to jynxa17's topic in CNA/MA

    I kinda came to AIN (Aussie CNA) from the other direction. I'm a second year RN student (3 year Bachelor degree) and realised that with my course I'd be rocking out with very little experience in patient cares. Soo, I slowed down the study to part-ti...