SaoirseRN

SaoirseRN

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SaoirseRN has 8+ years experience.


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  1. Putting MD in my resume

    I work with a GP who did the same as you when he came to Canada. He was honest about his prior work and similarly, he didn't lose his MD, he just wasn't able to practice and the diploma RN program was a quicker way to get work in healthcare and get s...
  2. I wouldn't call. I would explain that while I realize he would like his eye vitamins, that due to the late hour, we do not call physicians unless it is an emergency, which eye vitamins are not, and that we have no after-hours pharmacy and so could no...
  3. Nurses, how do you keep track of your schedule

    I have an iPhone and I use the "shift worker" app.
  4. Out of the mouth of Octogenarians

    The patient was a pleasantly confused but still mostly appropriate 87 year old lady, who needed to get to the commode before breakfast. I gave her a good wash up down below, set her up for breakfast, then finished her morning wash after. Handing her...
  5. First Year of Nursing Do's and Donts

    Create a system for how you organize your patient care, and follow it. Ask other nurses how they organize their day and cherry pick the bits that work for you. As an example (what I helped my last student to create): Step 1: Report (Patient A, Patie...
  6. Voluntary Euthanasia

    You're entitled to your opinion. What you are not entitled to do is imply that I "killed" my pet because it was "convenient". You don't believe that euthanasia is a kindness and that's fine for you. But you don't get to tell me that my choice was "c...
  7. Voluntary Euthanasia

    And what is euthanasia but the ultimate comfort measure of modern medicine? You liken it to me taking the cat out behind the barn and shooting her. No. Just no. Maybe opiates could have kept her comfortable, but I know euthanasia did and she died...
  8. Voluntary Euthanasia

    Wow. Just wow. How dare you.
  9. Voluntary Euthanasia

    As someone who recently had to euthanize my seventeen year old cat, I take great offense to this statement. I did what I did because she was suffering, not because I didn't want to care for her. I had her for seventeen years! I spent a great deal of...
  10. Men in the (nursing) field

    I've seen a few particular nurses who seem to have a problem with men who are nurses, but they are the minority (and seem to be the sort that have a problem with almost everything anyway).
  11. What Baffles You?

    I just say, "Sorry, that isn't something we do." And then change the subject.
  12. What Baffles You?

    This happened last night... After-hours bed move, sending patient out to the medical ward from telemetry in order to bring an admit up to telemetry. Two of us nurses did the move right at shift change. We were moving the lady in her bed and trying ...
  13. Getting doctors to listen to me

    Yes, a lot of the time, until they've gotten to know and trust you, doctors may we wary or hesitant to listen to what you are saying. Phrasing things as a question as someone else said can definitely help -- there are many nurses who DO try to tell t...
  14. Can nursing programs graduate practice ready nurses?

    I have a BSN, and while there was certainly much class room education, we also had lots of clinical time. The whole final semester was clinical practice. While I obviously didn't know everything when I graduated, I felt ready to practice. Of course I...
  15. Work from home? What companies to look at?

    Perhaps you accidentally missed the 'f'?