purplemeech

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1. Horrid Grad Year

   purplemeech replied to older_grad_nurse's topic in International

   Hi Grace, Sorry I didn't mean to offend with my earlier post, must have come off night duty or something that day What I meant to say is, there seems to be a big divide between hospital and university-trained nurses, with each side viewing the other...

2. Horrid Grad Year

   purplemeech replied to older_grad_nurse's topic in International

   I am a grad too and one of my friends has had a similar experience to yours - bullied in her first rotation, and copping it again in the second. Our DON was quite supportive when she was made aware of the situation, and the bully was basically told ...

3. EB6 Proposal - Qld to gain wage parity with NSW

   purplemeech replied to Interested Party's topic in International

   I haven't read the fine print on EB6 so I can't really comment on it... would be interesting to know what conditions have been lost (if any) in exchange for $$, particularly for rural nurses (who got screwed around a few years ago in the NSW nurses p...

4. New member

   purplemeech replied to gillypops's topic in International

   Hi Gail, I always found those legal/ethical asssignments the most difficult when I was at uni... I do have fuzzy recollections of lecturers droning on about the 4 principles of healthcare ethics (autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice), w...

5. first year uni assessment, plese help

   purplemeech replied to new nursing student's topic in International

   You could also try Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/ It finds journal articles, not just webpages. The only problem is, it often links to sites where you need to be a subscriber to access the full-text article. But it's useful to find articl...

6. sydney university

   purplemeech replied to chaseh's topic in International

   Hi there, just to add a little more to this discussion... if you're not already aware, Sydney Uni has stopped taking new students for their undergraduate nursing course, and many staff have now moved on to other uni's (which are picking up the slack ...

7. Shift breaks - 8 or 10 hours??

   purplemeech replied to purplemeech's topic in International

   Thanks Gwynith, good advice (I think I'm overly optimistic about my new job... )

8. Shift breaks - 8 or 10 hours??

   purplemeech replied to purplemeech's topic in International

   Thanks Gwynith for your advice - I did do late/early's when I was at uni so I am well aware of how horrendous they can be (I had a sadistic facilitator doing our rosters) however I didn't realise about the patterning of shifts for people with 10 hou...

9. Shift breaks - 8 or 10 hours??

   purplemeech posted a topic in International

   Hi all, I am a newbie here but thought I'd give this forum a go to see if anyone had an advice for me. I just finished my degree a few weeks ago and moved to sunny Queensland where I'm about to start my new grad. The hospital wants to know if I want ...

10. anyone studied at UTS?

    purplemeech replied to tamtaw's topic in International

    Hi Tamtaw, I have just finished the 3-year Bachelor of Nursing at UTS Kuring-gai. I can't tell you too much about the accelerated course because I didn't do it - are you an EN already, or have you done some other degree? I know some EN's who did the ...