Era

Era specializes in Surgery in HepatoPancreatobiliaryGastro.

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1. Advice PLEASE - Considering Nursing @ 39

   Era replied to Seven, RN2b's topic in Pre-Nursing

   If you hear 'the call' then do so. You're still young to start a career in nursing. Good luck!

2. What's your story? Why did you take up nursing?

   Era replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

   :roll Hahahahah That's funny! My story? Simple..... I wanted to make my Grandfather proud + the fact that I was from a line of nurses & midwives! I also wanted to make a difference in my own little way.

3. loss of a fellow co-worker

   Era replied to irmaRN's topic in General Nursing

   Sorry for your loss. -x-

4. day shift nurses vs. night shift nurses

   Era replied to angelluv1976's topic in General Nursing

   I currently am contracted to rotate between day & night. I don't like nights much as there are less nurses and can be a nightmare. Then again, there are days when you feel the same way about day shifts. I am properly awful in the mornings but fu...

5. Why are nurses such back-stabbers?

   Era replied to RNforLongTime's topic in Relations

   I agree with NurseHobbit! Some people's lives are just so empty that they just have to excite it by aggravating someone else's. Unfortunately, this happens where I work now. We have been merged into one ward ( Male & female ) and there is this o...

6. How do I decide on a specialty?

   Era replied to purplegrape's topic in General Nursing

   Hello. When your instructor say; you just know. Well, I must agree with him/her. I finished my training donkeys years ago and the first 18months was of a wide variety of specialties. I changed my mind so many times in my head what I'd like to special...

7. You Know You're a Nurse When...

   Era replied to Brownms46's topic in Humor

   So So true!!

8. Nursing survival gifts...

   Era replied to White Shoes's topic in Humor

   Has anyone mentioned..... IV chocolates & lots of it, +/- other forms for other routes !? ( I did see chocolate spray )

9. cute joke

   Era replied to casey12873's topic in Humor

   Awwww..... Sweet! -x-

10. Add to the story....

    Era replied to bassRN's topic in Humor

    ... then George ( as in Clooney ) came in scrubs to give her a once over to decide what to do with her. Then he discovered.....

11. Your Favorite one liner used with patients

    Era replied to scaredofshots's topic in Humor

    :penguin: Good for you! Nurses without a good sense of humour are usually quite scary to me. When I was on my final placement as a student nurse ( donkey's years ago! ), I worked with this fantastic and very comical Nurse and it made such a differenc...

12. Thank you's - memorable ones you've received?

    Era replied to Liddle Noodnik's topic in Relations

    chocolates and a general 'thank you' cards to all are always welcome and nice but i have personal faves. i used to work in the private part of a london hospital and i received these personalised 'thank you' letters and cards from patients. i still pr...

13. What is the major reason nurses leave?

    Era replied to saguaro13's topic in General Nursing

    all of the above reasons. more so now that the nhs is in crisis and very chaotic. no-one seem to care anymore ( it feels very much like this where i work ). has anyone ever notices that nurses are so often used as an emotional/stress/anger punch bag...

14. fear of vomit?

    Era replied to maggijo's topic in General Nursing

    Me too! Give me double gloves and a pinny, I'm good. I can handle blood, other juices that the body produces ( LOL I'm rhyming here! Haha ) I can handle 'em all .... except thick greeny plugs of phlegm!! Yuk! See? I can't even spell it!! Is that how...

15. change of career specialty

    Era replied to joannep's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not in a senior position like yourself... coz I'm comfy where I am ( band 6/Senior E-grade ) but I am beginning to loose interest in what I am doing but because of what's happening in the NHS I don't want to go anywhere else till at least after t...