mree

mree

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About mree

mree has 3 years experience and specializes in Emergency Care.


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  1. Dear lord, HOW do you guys in the US not go stir crazy and kill everyone? I'm in the UK, we have (at least on paper) a ZERO TOLERANCE approach to staff abuse. We just won't have it! My most recent example is a patient who screamed verbal abuse at me ...
  2. Band 7 interview pending

    Band 7 = Senior Sister/Charge Nurse in the UK, A&E = ER! It's called Accident and Emergency here.
  3. Clogged feeding tubes

    Pineapple juice!!! Works like a charm :)
  4. Home birth in NY?

    Thanks to all for your views, some interesting replies!
  5. Home birth in NY?

    Hi, I recently read about the closure of St Vincents hospital in NY, and it started a debate on another forum I'm a member of about the different attitudes to home birth between the UK and the US. Below is the reply I posted on another allnurses thre...
  6. VENT - Caring for patients in 3 bed rooms

    I guess it all depends what you're used to! I'm in the UK, and although I'm now an ED staff nurse, I did a lot of Auxilliary and Student Nurse shifts on wards during my training. Standard wards in the UK are usually four 6-bed bays with maybe 4 'side...
  7. Hi - UK Student Nurse :)

    Wow, that sounds complicated! Thanks for your replies guys, by the sound of it we don't have it too bad over here after all! What's the job situation like over there? I know it's a huge country, but are there any shortages of nurses/jobs for nurses w...
  8. Humorus List of Hospital Job Roles

    Is this it? Surgeon: Leaps tall buildings in a single bound Is more productive than a train Is faster than a speeding bullet Walks on water Talks with God Internist: Leaps short buildings in a single bound Is more powerful than a switch engine Is fa...
  9. How to tell you've worked too many shifts in a row

    When you go to get changed into uniform and wonder what shirt (if any) you're going to find under your jacket as you were still asleep when you got dressed. I've done an entire ED nightshift in my sleep at the end of a run of nights - it was really b...
  10. Hi everyone, I'm a 3rd year student nurse from the North-East of England. We've recently had a lot of fuss made about our education, in particular bursaries and level of qualification, and as I've been 'ghosting' on this site for quite some time, I t...