Cassie Ryan

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1. What are Aussie hospital patients like?

   Cassie Ryan replied to bukko's topic in International

   I work in a emerg department in Adelaide, the area our hospital services is predominately older population and is very muticultural. We see mostly medical emergencies with the odd major trauma even thought we are no longer a trauma hospital. Slowly t...

2. NTG IV and compatability

   Cassie Ryan replied to jaimealmostRN's topic in Emergency

   I wonder if you are getting confused with mixing in the bag and mixing at y-sites. in our IHD patients we put in two lines. Into one we put GTN, Hep and N-Acetylcysteine. We can also use Dopamine as well into the same IV line but obviously none of th...

3. 8:1 ratios in the ER???

   Cassie Ryan replied to jaimealmostRN's topic in Emergency

   Here in Australia, we have just agreed through enterprise bargaining that we have a ratio of 1:3 plus triage and shift co-ordinator. obviously it gets out of control sometimes and with the additional of intubated or critically ill patients we sometim...

4. A resident swore at me!

   Cassie Ryan replied to pumpkin's topic in General Nursing

   I too have been the victim of aggression and rude language in my 15 year career as a nurse. Sadly I think that kind of behaviour is rife in the medical profession. Bullying and harrassment seems to be well tolerated by our colleagues. However it is u...