eimhear

eimhear has 11 years experience and specializes in Paediatrics.

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1. Would Love to Hear Worst Student Nurse Fumbles

   eimhear replied to sonnyluv's topic in Educators

   I was working on an ENT ward and we had a patient admitted with severe vertigo, a newly qulified nurse was asked to give paracetamol suppositories, I entered the room to find a them sticking out of his ears. Another incident, I was standing in the ...

2. Nurse cannulating and phelbotomy

   eimhear replied to eimhear's topic in General Nursing

   This is interesting reading, in Ireland there is only one level of nurse, RGN (Registered General Nurse) or Registered psychiatric nurse (RPN) etc... so we do all patient care, in ED, and ICU some staff cannulate and draw blood but the norm is doctor...

3. Nurse cannulating and phelbotomy

   eimhear posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi everyone, I hope you will be ale to provide me with a little information I work in Ireland and currently there is a debate re nurses (Registered) performing cannulations and phelebotomy. In Ireland this has traditionally been carried out by docto...

4. What type of bedside nursing unit does a pediatric hospital have?

   eimhear replied to Mikerinhouston's topic in General Nursing

   I'm not sure this will help as its an Irish hospital, but we have infant wards (Under 12 months) - two general wards that accept both medical and surgical (infants are all nursed in single cubicles so infection not an issue) and one infant cardiac, w...