NZ_RN

NZ_RN has 5 years experience and specializes in Critical Care/Perioperative/Neurosurg.

Latest Activity

1. Would you marry a Doctor?

   NZ_RN replied to fleurafor's topic in Relations

   I can only imagine you made your posting to stir us up. You're a nursing student, is that right? Once you have being working as a Registered Nurse and experience first hadn the disregard and disrespect Doctors have for, and treat Nurses with, you wil...

2. I've been bullied all my life, and it continues...

   NZ_RN replied to asdjkl's topic in Relations

   Hi, I feel your pain. I was warned against going into Nursing by a family member who had been a Nurse for many years and I stubbornly refused to listen to her. Now, 5 years later, I feel like I have nearly completely broken down more than once and am...

3. Do you love nursing or hate it???

   NZ_RN replied to ysin's topic in General Nursing

   Hi there, Congratulations on thinking of a career change. Where will I start?! I both love and hate nursing!! It is both the best and worst thing in my life. I have been nursing for four years and am your age now. When I decided to go into nursing a ...

4. Anyone Bipolar???

   NZ_RN replied to phoenix72's topic in Stress 101

   Hi GCS99, I am now three years out from completing my nursing education and was diagnosed with bipolar back in 1998. It seems as though you are being too hard on yourself! It seems to be a common aspect amongst BP sufferers. Admittedly every semeste...

5. Auckland DHBS ICU

   NZ_RN replied to adboehnen's topic in International

   Hi adboehnen, I too am here to advise you against working in NZ as a Nurse. I am a Kiwi and returned last year to work in NZ after working in Melbourne, Australia. I have also worked in Far North Queensland. I have found it very difficult financially...

6. Commute to Auckland Hospital

   NZ_RN replied to solobabe_101's topic in International

   2 hours, that's awful, don't do it - move closer. There is subsidised, cheaper parking but you have to be careful about arriving early to score a park, making your days even longer. Nearby suburbs are Mt Eden, Parnell, Newmarket, Kingsland, Balmoral....

7. royal northshore hospital

   NZ_RN replied to scots's topic in International

   Hi, I haven't worked at RNSH myself but my friend did. It is apparently an older hospital bricks and mortar wise but is a large full tertiery teaching hospital. It has an extensive critical care service and all specialties. I don't know if you will n...

8. What makes you nervous about or irritated with a new grad or orientee?

   NZ_RN replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

   In my experience as a student nurse, most nurses I worked with didn't want me around let alone to teach me. There are many different types of personalities that are a factor with graduate nurses and preceptors. You could have a young or mature studen...

9. Vent: Irritating classmates

   NZ_RN replied to AmyLiz's topic in General Students

   Are people like these motivated to be nurses for the right reasons? How do they stick it out through the hard graft of the academic workload plus clinical? I thought people like that only existed on TV in soaps and bad made for TV movies. Does anyon...