rozymisty replied to rozymisty's topic in Stress 101
I went back today to the first GP that i saw, to get the 6wk follow up on the mental health plan. She agreed with the work doc that it may be a good idea to see a psychiatrist and go from there. Towards the end of the day I got a very unexpected call...
My old housemate worked at Mater Private...she said they had to organise all the blood tests, write up requests for imaging etc etc, and ring the consultants. Mater is quite good. And you get the benefit of it being a 'private' hospital, its owned by...
rozymisty replied to Sophia36's topic in International
At the recent RCNA nursing expo, they said that if you join up the 3Lp thing that counts to ur 20hrs, and any inservices, um like workshops count, and even being a member of the RCNA, and reading their stuff they send out to u is included.
rozymisty replied to forumjunkie's topic in International
Back in 2008 as a new graduate RN I was getting about $25 in a private hospital base rate. I didnt do much shift work there. When I moved to Qld Health, I started on $26, and now with the new agreement, and this being my 3rd year, I get $30.1184 an h...
rozymisty replied to ziggyldy's topic in International
hm do you guys find that people dont do the 2 nurse check properly? Like 2 pple are there when its mixed and added, and then you both go to the bedside and physically check the name band? we had an inservice a few months ago, and they did it for like...
rozymisty replied to jess112's topic in International
Ive had a few close encounters with mainly dementia patients. we had one guy who had dementia and couldnt realy communicate. LIke he knew what he wanted to say but just couldnt, and he'd keep repeating one word. One night, we did the pressure care et...
rozymisty replied to rozymisty's topic in Stress 101
huh, ive asked the rehab person if i can do work like in the aged care unit, um admin work or something. It seems its just got to be my ward....which i hate. When they said i could do supernumery on my ward, i was like oo that would be good, then i w...
rozymisty replied to totally_nuts's topic in International
I got the Ascent ones too from the Athletes Foot last year, after wearing out an old pair and then my sisters shoes haha. I had looked at Hush Puppies, but I wore them for one shift and my left ankle really hurt. So I went to the podiatrist i was see...
rozymisty replied to rozymisty's topic in Stress 101
Thanks, the psychologist is the counsellor person involved in my case. She has helped a bit...still the obsessive thoughts override her work which i hate
This is a VERY long post sorry Ok so i completed my degree at the end of 2007. I did my graduate year at a small private hospital in 08 and i hated it. They say you either sink or swim and I was well and truly drowning. For some reason they would jus...