azalight90

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1. Should nurses strike?

   azalight90 posted a topic in UK

   Do you think nurses should strike? With public perception of nursing low due to scandals such as Stafford and others people believe that nursing care and nursing is poor or recruiting the wrong people. However a large number of the problems stem from...

2. Use of stethoscope

   azalight90 posted a topic in UK

   Hello I am a student nurse in Scotland. What I want to know about uk nurses are this: do you use stethoscopes to listen to bowel and chest sounds? Yes or no and why? i ask because nurses from America say they use them all day. That it is an everyda...

3. If this was your patient what would you do?

   azalight90 replied to azalight90's topic in General Students

   What are you looking for when using a stethoscope and listening to bowel sounds? I would say that doctors are more likely to listen to the. Here.

4. If this was your patient what would you do?

   azalight90 replied to azalight90's topic in General Students

   That patient had been sat down for a while. He was actually sitting talking to relatives. On no drips and appetite was ok nothing abnormal there

5. If this was your patient what would you do?

   azalight90 replied to azalight90's topic in General Students

   Well I have never seen uk nurses use stethoscopes. I know in many places in the uk nurses just do not use stethoscopes to listen to chest or bowl movements. Not seen it once n my 2 weeks in a gastro ward

6. If this was your patient what would you do?

   azalight90 replied to azalight90's topic in General Students

   99% of blood pressure is taken by machine also takes pulse and sats. There re was no pain at all. The only problem was his he felt temperature wise. However he was on oxygen and had no voice box..

7. If this was your patient what would you do?

   azalight90 replied to azalight90's topic in General Students

   Was it wrong to just call the doctor? I have never ever seen uk nurses use a stethoscope by the way

8. If this was your patient what would you do?

   azalight90 replied to azalight90's topic in General Students

   What other assessment would you do? I can't remember the other obs sorry.

9. If this was your patient what would you do?

   azalight90 posted a topic in General Students

   Hi i was on placement. I took a patients obs all but blood pressure was normal. He he felt cold but had a temperature was 36.5 however his blood pressure was systolic 199 diastolic 70 the blood pressure was normally high at 160 170 systolic and dia...

10. Difference in RN education

    azalight90 replied to azalight90's topic in General Students

    I agree with everything you said Silverdragon102. However I wonder what you make of this: Some Mental health nursing students have said to me that they would possibly not have gone into nursing if they could not have gone straight into mental health...

11. Difference in RN education

    azalight90 replied to azalight90's topic in General Students

    Another thing I forgot to mention was this: Student nurse Bursary. This means that as Student Nurses we get £540 ($830.95)every month. This is Scotland think England might be different. This is on top of having our university fees paid. In Scotland...

12. Difference in RN education

    azalight90 replied to azalight90's topic in General Students

    A C section is something that midwives do call doctors for. It was one of the Emergencies I talked about. The doctors do deal with labor emergencies. However the uk is more about normal births and the main person to look after women in the uk is Mid...

13. Difference in RN education

    azalight90 replied to azalight90's topic in General Students

    I know that is what I think. I chose adult nursing for a few reasons 1- Most general 2- More places of work 3- General so a good grounding 4- If I want to change I can go back and study for two years with physical health knowledge behind me Havi...

14. Difference in RN education

    azalight90 replied to azalight90's topic in General Students

    Firstly most degrees in the uk are 40% pass rate for a pass (bad one) but a pass. As the training is a degree the university is more or less forced to make the pass rate 40% however 99% of my tutors say that they hate it. Also the uk has NO nurses a...

15. Difference in RN education

    azalight90 replied to azalight90's topic in General Students

    Thanks that is a good idea Firstly to be a RN you need a minimum of 3 year BSN although you can do a 4 year BSN with Honors Also when deciding to go into nursing you are not able to just go for a nursing degree you must pick one of 4 Adult nursing- ...