nurse.laura1989

nurse.laura1989 specializes in Gerontology.

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1. nurse : patient ratio

   nurse.laura1989 replied to Norwichnurse's topic in UK

   I work in medical geratology. Our patient ratio is 1 nurse to every 8-10 patients during the day and 1 nurse to every 10 patients at night. I tend to have one HCA to every 6 patients on a GOOD day and one to every 10-12 patients on a BAD DAY! Persona...

2. Newly qualified... are my feelings normal?!

   nurse.laura1989 replied to nurse.laura1989's topic in UK

   Hello Lindsay, thanks for your kind comments!! You're right, I think I do reflect constantly in my head. Actually just this morning I was helping a care assistant with a bedbath and afterwards I thought, could that have gone better? Should I have exp...

3. Newly qualified... are my feelings normal?!

   nurse.laura1989 replied to nurse.laura1989's topic in UK

   Hello silverdragon Its a difficult situation; my manager is a lovely male nurse who is currently fulfilling the role of two ward managers (one post being vacant, as yet unfulfilled) so is under enormous amounts of stress. I've reminded him about my p...

4. Theme song to your Nursing career?

   nurse.laura1989 replied to sMoLsNurse's topic in Humor

   I don't know about a song to sum up my nursing career... But I can certainly thing of a song to summarise my days off! Today I don't feel like doing anything.... I just want to lay in my bed! Don't feel like pickin' up my phone So leave a message at...

5. Do you talk about work at home?

   nurse.laura1989 replied to blackvans1234's topic in General Nursing

   Hello there, I agree that nursing is a lifestyle more than it is a job! When you meet new people outside of work and they ask what you do, "I'm a nurse" is usually like music to their ears. All of a sudden you'll hear about Aunt Betty's swollen legs ...

6. Year 1 Down!

   nurse.laura1989 replied to Tarabara's topic in General Nursing

   Well done and many congrats on completing your first year. I always tell students I'm working with that most find the first year the hardest, adjusting to shift work, a new area of study, the emotional issues that come with nursing... Its hard, very ...

7. You make the decisions on YOUR shift and I'll make the decisions on MINE

   nurse.laura1989 replied to CrazierThanYou's topic in Relations

   Ah yes, I agree - you should make your nursing decisions based on your judgement at the time... if no one is harmed, you made the right decision based on what was in front of you right at that moment. As nurses we're too critical of each others pract...

8. Newly qualified... are my feelings normal?!

   nurse.laura1989 posted a topic in UK

   Hello ladies and gents, I'm new to allnurses.com and was wondering if any of you lovely people had some advice for me. I qualified in the summer of 2012 when the whole world was going Olympics mad (!) and started a job at a large teaching hospital on...