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...
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...
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...
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...