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  1. Horrid Grad Year

    purplemeech replied to older_grad_nurse's topic in International Nursing

    Hi Grace, Sorry I didn't mean to offend with my earlier post, must have come off night duty or something that day What I meant to say is, there seems to be a big divide between hospital and...

  2. Horrid Grad Year

    purplemeech replied to older_grad_nurse's topic in International Nursing

    I am a grad too and one of my friends has had a similar experience to yours - bullied in her first rotation, and copping it again in the second. Our DON was quite supportive when she was made aware...

  3. EB6 Proposal - Qld to gain wage parity with NSW

    purplemeech replied to Interested Party's topic in International Nursing

    I haven't read the fine print on EB6 so I can't really comment on it... would be interesting to know what conditions have been lost (if any) in exchange for $$, particularly for rural nurses (who got...

  4. New member

    purplemeech replied to gillypops's topic in International Nursing

    Hi Gail, I always found those legal/ethical asssignments the most difficult when I was at uni... I do have fuzzy recollections of lecturers droning on about the 4 principles of healthcare ethics...

  5. first year uni assessment, plese help

    purplemeech replied to new nursing student's topic in International Nursing

    You could also try Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/ It finds journal articles, not just webpages. The only problem is, it often links to sites where you need to be a subscriber to access the...

  6. sydney university

    purplemeech replied to chaseh's topic in International Nursing

    Hi there, just to add a little more to this discussion... if you're not already aware, Sydney Uni has stopped taking new students for their undergraduate nursing course, and many staff have now moved...

  7. Shift breaks - 8 or 10 hours??

    purplemeech posted a topic in International Nursing

    Hi all, I am a newbie here but thought I'd give this forum a go to see if anyone had an advice for me. I just finished my degree a few weeks ago and moved to sunny Queensland where I'm about to start...

  8. Shift breaks - 8 or 10 hours??

    purplemeech replied to purplemeech's topic in International Nursing

    Thanks Gwynith, good advice (I think I'm overly optimistic about my new job...

  9. Shift breaks - 8 or 10 hours??

    purplemeech replied to purplemeech's topic in International Nursing

    Thanks Gwynith for your advice - I did do late/early's when I was at uni so I am well aware of how horrendous they can be (I had a sadistic facilitator doing our rosters) however I didn't realise...

  10. anyone studied at UTS?

    purplemeech replied to tamtaw's topic in International Nursing

    Hi Tamtaw, I have just finished the 3-year Bachelor of Nursing at UTS Kuring-gai. I can't tell you too much about the accelerated course because I didn't do it - are you an EN already, or have you...