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Oh well you can get great deals on ebay. And I am not crazy enough to buy stuff brand new. I particularly am quite interested in those older models like the Propaq Encore, and the newer Drager Infinity Delta monitors. I bought a functioning AED off ebay last year and am quite happy with the purchase.

Um yeah of course they should be in the hospital but aren't these machines fascinating? I would personally buy one of those patient monitors and use it as some over the top BP machine. You could get a complete set (with leads, probes and mounting bracket) for cheaper than the latest iPhone on ebay. Just saying.

Just curious, do any of you nurses buy special medical equipment (ie patient monitors, iv pumps etc) for use at home and use it on yourself/family members?

Statistically speaking, you should go ahead with option #1. Option #1 has a p-value of 0.006, Standard Deviation of 2.12 and Standard Error of 1.50 The rest are not statistically significant.

Hi, I didn't get the job. I was told they will reply in 2 weeks but they only replied within 2 days. This happened to my application at another hospital before. Was wondering if it has anything to do with my interview or an internal thing. I applied at one of the teaching hospitals in Singapore. If you're not from Singapore, the exact name of the hospital doesn't really matter. I don't know how many months before trying again.

Well before considering quitting the current job, consider other factors such as culture and benefits. Is the culture in the other hospital to your liking, do they have more benefits? I presume a full time position has benefits that part-time jobs don't offer. Also, don't look at it based on distance. You may need to move out or travel further, but if the journey is worth it and outweighs the benefits offered by the full-time job, stick with the current one. Good company and workplace environment is hard to get. On your query to write a letter, I can't advise you on that, but you can google to find some templates.

Hi fellow nurses, I am due for an interview with a teaching hospital on 17th. I went for several interviews with other public hospitals but I didn't get the job. I might have screwed up the interview. Now this is the last public hospital that has called me for an interview, so I don't want to screw this up else I might have to go private. Any tips? Thanks in advance!

1:6 for subsidised wards and healthy manpower, 1:9 to 1:12 for manpower shortages. 1:2 for ICU, 1:4 for high dependency.

That's the first step to take. The problem with my supervisor is that she thinks she knows better about the healthcare system, and she uses her '40 years in the army' as excuse for that. But she knows nothing about it. She says everyone in the medical centre is a nurse. This dilutes the hardship of what an RN goes through in the years of training. In my country, if someone is not a nurse but declares himself/herself as a nurse, they can be charged by court of law of up to $10,000. I've heard my professor say they wish they have that kind of law in their country.

I'm a Registered Nurse currently doing my army conscription in an Army Medical Centre. One thing is that I am the only RN in the Medical Centre, and I am not a medic or whatever. I am a clerk due to medical reasons, so I am not allowed to do nursing or medical-related activities that the other conscripts (who are medics) in the centre can do. I pride myself on being an RN, and I have encountered medics telling me that I am a clerk and they are medics, even being aware that I am RN. This carries the connotation that they (the medics) are better than me and it triggers me.This triggers me further that even the medic supervisor (also known as the senior medic) was quoted as saying that I am *just* a nurse. In my country, medics in the armed forces are picked from unqualified 18 year olds, and are trained for 3 months. They call themselves 'healthcare workers' but fall short of what I expect from them in terms of skills and professionalism. I go through 3 years of diploma training, and 1 year of Bachelors training but I am quite saddened with the perception of these medics/supervisor towards nurses. Is this a global problem? How do I deal with these people? Thanks in advance!