dreamyjean

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1. Happy Moment

   dreamyjean replied to poopprincess's topic in General Nursing

   I once attended the funeral of a ex-colleague of mine. The funeral was huge as she was only in her late 30s and her death was unexpected. I believe she took her own life, but not sure how common knowledge that was. Anyway, afterwards I saw an ex-p...

2. Ideas to help my 6 year old with Terminally ill grandad

   dreamyjean replied to dreamyjean's topic in Hospice

   Thanks for your reply and idea. I have emailed the local hospice in the city we live in for some ideas and some good resources. We are going up later this week (long drive to see FIL and MIL). It complicates that we do not live in the same city a...

3. Ideas to help my 6 year old with Terminally ill grandad

   dreamyjean posted a topic in Hospice

   Hi Seasoned Nurses My FIL has poor health and CLL along with multiple morbidities. He is finally under hospice care (in reality i cannot understand why it took so long to get to this stage as my understanding of hospice is that they can be involved ...

4. Annual Education Days

   dreamyjean replied to QSNurse's topic in Geriatric

   When I have run education days I have had a real mix of things. Quizs, research discussions, DVDs playing excepts from a well known movie that relates to health care makes it light hearted. And discussion around that. Yes and chocolate bribes are ...

5. Parents of kids with autism, please read

   dreamyjean replied to LydiaNN's topic in Pediatric

   Thanks for all the replies. I have not had a computer that I have been able to log into this site for a while. I will keep knocking on doors to get some more answers. Interesting to read some of your experiences. I am wondering how on earth I am...

6. Parents of kids with autism, please read

   dreamyjean replied to LydiaNN's topic in Pediatric

   Thanks for the replies. We are in New Zealand, not in USA so the system is a bit different. However the services are good and the health system publicly funded. At this stage the paediatrician does not want to put a label on him as such other than...

7. Parents of kids with autism, please read

   dreamyjean replied to LydiaNN's topic in Pediatric

   Hi There seasoned parents of autistic kids. I am beginning to wonder if my just about to turn 3 year old is autistic. Currently he is functioning about a 1 year old level. He has recently started to walka nd currenly just babbles, but this babbli...

8. Registration for NZNC...confused =/

   dreamyjean replied to osbourne's topic in International

   If there is anything else you want to know about NZ or nursing here, I will try and answer. I have lived in the UK had and short working trips to USA before I was an RN, but NZ is the only country I worked as an RN in. The health system is getting ...

9. Registration for NZNC...confused =/

   dreamyjean replied to osbourne's topic in International

   Sounds like you are stuck in a hard place with no experience and hard to get it! I wonder if the USA or Australia is easier. It is no surprise to me that NZNC has made it harder for international nurses to come to NZ as they have really toughened u...

10. Registration for NZNC...confused =/

    dreamyjean replied to osbourne's topic in International

    Let me know how you get on. Good luck:)

11. Registration for NZNC...confused =/

    dreamyjean replied to osbourne's topic in International

    According to the NZNC website the address is [email protected] This address is slightly different from the one you mentioned above. There is a lot of info about competence assessment programmes on the website for international RNs, but ha...

12. Registration for NZNC...confused =/

    dreamyjean replied to osbourne's topic in International

    Hi hope NZNC is able to answer your questions then. When I did my RN degree in the 1990s the requirements were that we had to do at least 1500 hours theory and 1500 clinical practice (we did more theory and clinical practice hours than that actually...

13. Registration for NZNC...confused =/

    dreamyjean replied to osbourne's topic in International

    Hi. For me I am NZ trained and work in NZ as an RN. So for I have never had to go through the process personally. I had a quick look at the NZNC website and there is a lot of info there for gaining registration for international nurses. They say ...

14. Registration for NZNC...confused =/

    dreamyjean replied to osbourne's topic in International

    Do you have any family/friends who have managed to emigrate to NZ? The hospitals in NZ are full of fillipino nurses! The 450 hours probably refers to a course NZNC often requires foreign RNs to do to get nursing registration here. I suggest you em...