lisab82

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1. Should Nurses Accept Gifts from Patients?

   lisab82 replied to Anxious Patient's topic in General Nursing

   working on paeds ward in the uk we are always getting brought chocolates or biscuit which we share among the staff and is accepted , but gifts we are not meant to receive. It horrible sometimes refusing gifts as you feel its insulting and can see the...

2. You A Nurse When !!!

   lisab82 replied to RN2149's topic in Humor

   :) used micropore many a time

3. Any paeds community nurses here?

   lisab82 replied to Spaniel gal's topic in International

   hope the interview goes well paeds community is an area id love to get in to , working on a general paeds ward , we work quite a bit with the paeds community team a lot of it is to do with children with complex illness and some palliative care to. ho...

4. Need advice for new grad!!!

   lisab82 replied to RN2be_07's topic in Pediatric

   as everyone said you realised the mistakes you made and have admitted them, and it will take time for your colleagues to show that but if your are committed to this and show in the 5 weeks left you can change hopefully that will be enough for your bo...

5. KSF and PDP's

   lisab82 replied to UKPedsRN's topic in International

   i did mine with one of the ward sister and to be fair she was pretty good , i jotted down different points/ evidence to show i was meeting the criteria for each specific element and then we went through it typing it up together, and then found poin...

6. How many cases of tetanus have you seen in peds??

   lisab82 replied to marilynmom's topic in Pediatric

   ive not seen any cases but then i only been qualified 2 years but i know some of senior nurses have not seen any in 20 years. on another note the rise in cases of measles in the uk is mad because of children not having the mmr jab , obviously there a...

7. new grad wishing to migrate in uK

   lisab82 replied to cutiehotie's topic in International

   unfortunately it really hard to get jobs in nursing at the moment even if you trained in the uk , i know that people who qualified 12 months ago have not even got jobs yet

8. KSF and PDP's

   lisab82 replied to UKPedsRN's topic in International

   ive just been through my appraisal and going through all this stuff took bloody ages, also i would advise to read in detail the ksf as there different levels and i found id be put as one level on some and proved that i was actually working at a highe...

9. Mixing IV meds

   lisab82 replied to fleasle's topic in General Nursing

   i work in the uk as children's nurse and i always give my iv med separate as others said if my patient react to a drug id like to know which one , plus if your giving one medication for example in uk we used metronidazole and cefuroxime for post app...

10. info needed on working in america

    lisab82 posted a topic in International

    Im a rnc ( registered nurse child) and my partners a pe teacher and we thinking of coming to usa to work particular around the boston/ maine area. now i not sure on where i would stand my diploma in nursing is in child branch , and i thought you had ...

11. You know you are a PEDS nurse when...

    lisab82 replied to HU_nurse's topic in Pediatric

    these thread fantastic total agree with the comment, when asked about adult problems , i don't do adults , one of my favourite line. the program times for cbebbies (uk based kids channel) manage to do iv antibiotics with out waking the patient even w...