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"You know how you went to ICU three times because you were completely unrousable and we didn't know why? And then the fourth time someone decided to a BAL as well as a drug screen, and found you 6...

I've had paid study leave for all my post-grad qualifications, and none of them were even in nursing (health ethics, social health, medical anthropology/health sociology) albeit with a focus on...

I'm sure they'll let you know if your application was unsuccessful, but maybe send an email after a fortnight politely enquiring if there's been any progress. Good luck :)

In the same way, Savonina, as the 50% or so of my colleagues who've worked, or plan to work, in the UK for a couple of years. It's aboutt he experience and the travel, and nothing to do with the...

Thanks Dan - as posted by me above (quite some time ago!) your story is amazing. Thank you so much for sharing it - as a nurse working with survivors of NF it's been invaluable for both my own...

We treated over 1.5 million patients last year, and $6M is less than a week's operating costs for a medium sized hospital - this is another Herald-Sun xenophobic beat up.

I'm not as familiar with the NSW ratios as I am with ours in Victoria, but my understanding is that they're pretty much the same as ours. The ratios depend on the acuity of the hospital and the kind...

I don't think you're a sheep for having concerns about unions, and I'm pretty sure I haven't ever used the argument that "I'm right because I'm right". I absolutely object to the idea that nurses who...

My union is the only reason we achieved (the world's first legally mandated) nurse: patient ratios in 2000 - something we have since had to fight to keep every time we've negotiated our conditions....

Welcome to AN as a participant :) I live in Melbourne, and work with adults, so I can't help with most of your questions. Every public hospital I know has rotating shifts, though many nurses have...

Chico David, thanks for articulating a response that I couldn't quite frame.

My father also ran his own small business, and has been strongly anti-union. I have no idea where my strong sense of social justice came from, but it's been an integral part of who I am since I was a...

I don't think you have to be spiritual or religious to be a good nurse. I don't need to share my patients' beliefs to respect them. I don't need to care about my patients to provide care for them....

Guttercat, is that figure (1 RN:16 patients plus tech/s) the case for acute as well as chronic? And how many techs would you expect?

That doesn't sound safe. I work on a renal (and other specialties) ward, not HD, so our patients go to another unit for acute dialysis. They seem to have a 1:2 ratio, and we don't have aides or techs...

Thanks for the quick response, FransBevy :) Does that mean you've got a 12-chair chronic HD unit, with four RN's and 3-4 techs? Sorry to be a little slow on the uptake - I don't transition from...

I was wondering what kind of ratios (nurse and tech: patient) you're used to in both acute and chronic.

Hi. In Australia we have an all-RN workforce in acute HD. I understand from colleagues who've worked in the UK that you work with dialysis techs. I was wondering what kind of ratios you have in acute...

You're welcome to the first, and you've earned the second :) I think the DD recording's fairly standard, at least across Victoria, as the log books aren't hospital specific. I do know that not...

Not at my hospital, Carol - after a qualifying period, testing, journalling, supervision and an annual competency, RN's can single check almost anything, including narcotics. There's a lot of...

If I have to work harder to decipher your post than I would reading a clinical article, I won't And the same goes for no grammar, no paragraphs on a lengthy post, a whole lot of unnecessary font...

Try this - they're not all CEU online tests but hopefully something wil be useful. The site does certainly got a far stronger medical than nursing focus.

If you subscribe to newsletters you often net links to CEUs without having to search. which is nice.

Plait is Australian/British for a braid. A snood is a cloth or net than can cover the whole head or, like I wore it, capture hair at the nape of the neck. I tried posting a picture of it but...

Maybe check what they mean by not touching your collar - when I trained, a hundred years ago, our hair wasn't allowed to touch the collar if it was down. Mine reached 2/3 down to my waist and I...