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  1. What do nurses wear in the UK?

    Noahm replied to sunnyjohn's topic in International Nursing

    We wear navy blue trousers and black shoes. Our shirts are white tunics with royal blue epaulets. The healthcare assistants wear purple epaulets, the sisters wear navy

  2. Wanting to Work in the UK

    Noahm replied to thowse13's topic in United Kingdom

    You didn't upset me at all Madwife. I agree with a lot of what you said. The nurse who got fired at my trust took a political stand so to speak and made our chief nurse and assorted other punks look...

  3. Wanting to Work in the UK

    Noahm replied to thowse13's topic in United Kingdom

    I have worked in the US and UK. I never saw US nurses "just following orders" but in the UK I have seen nurses carry out orders that they knew were dodgy because "it's the doctors decision, so that's...

  4. Nursing with a Southern Accent

    Noahm replied to natron20's topic in General Nursing

    I would think that your accent sounds lovely. Many people love different accents. I am an American in the UK and I get all sorts of responses. I have been here over 6 years and picked up a lot of...

  5. Is there any RN who never made a mistake?

    Noahm replied to ICUMish's topic in MICU, SICU

    A similiar thing happened to me Ruby. I feel for you. I have really let it get me down over the past few weeks, and have decided to leave nursing. The patient was fine, but the poor communication...

  6. Difficult to please patients and families

    Noahm replied to McGyverRN's topic in General Nursing

    I am so so sick of the nasty family members. There are some that are so sweet and I never mind anyone asking me for anything. But the another night I had back to back cardiac arrests (there was only...

  7. How do you cope with child abuse?

    Noahm replied to LNDRN19's topic in General Nursing

    I took care of a beautiful baby boy as a nursing student. My instructor was uneasy about giving this assignment to a student but I saw him in his crib and my heart melted. He had been abused for a...

  8. Patients always needing something no matter what.

    Noahm replied to OliveVinesRN's topic in General Nursing

    Twinsisters, I can't believe that happened to you. I can imagine you feel angry, traumatized and let down. Actually I can't imagine. I was just wondering which comments were posted that "struck a...

  9. Why can't we have breaks?

    Noahm replied to Alex3's topic in General Nursing

    So so true. What pisses me off the most is that the hospitals staff the wards like this, with impossible nurse patient ratios. The nurses try to deal with this by working a long shift and...

  10. Why can't we have breaks?

    Noahm replied to Alex3's topic in General Nursing

    At my job we are told we must take a break. But they staff our 20 bed acute medical ward with highly dependent patients with only one RN, one aide. That's it. We don't even have a unit clerk...

  11. Patients always needing something no matter what.

    Noahm replied to OliveVinesRN's topic in General Nursing

    Patients always need stuff no matter what. It's not their fault, and it's not our fault if we can't do it right away. I am currently working on a 21 bed acute medical ward. Our area has a high...

  12. I've noticed something on these boards...

    Noahm replied to bethem's topic in International Nursing

    No one is going to take such a sweeping generalization so seriously Froghair. You can come out from under your rock now, no one is going to be angry at your

  13. I've noticed something on these boards...

    Noahm replied to bethem's topic in International Nursing

    The American bashing gets really old. I have been an American ex-pat overseas long enough to see the original intent of this thread for what it is.... another negative stereotype/American bash....

  14. Gentamycin question

    Noahm replied to whimsical5's topic in General Nursing

    I wouldn't be surprised if my hospital was extremely out of date with stuff. I haven't had anyone go into renal failure though (not yet anyway yikes). Let me see of I can find some literature on

  15. Gentamycin question

    Noahm replied to whimsical5's topic in General Nursing

    Where I work we give that IV push. We have a policy and procedure manual that says this is appropriate. Our IV drug handbook given to us by pharmacy also says this is appropriate. That is for...

  16. Adn Rn

    Noahm replied to RRlvr's topic in International Nursing

    Hi there. I am an American working as a nurse in England. I did an accelerated diploma program and was accepted by the NMC (UKCC back then). Visa wasn't a problem because I moved here with my...

  17. can i work in postnatal ward without a midwifery cert??

    Noahm replied to khine2mn80's topic in General Nursing

    If you are an RN or and LPN or the equivalent I don't see why you could not work in labour and delivery, post-natal, or newborn nursery in the USA? They aren't usually staffed by midwives over there...

  18. UK Nursing Salaries

    Noahm replied to andreamae's topic in International Nursing

    Yes, but the cost of living in the southeast US isn't as high as in the UK and I think at the beginning of this thread they were comparing wages in the south eastern US with the UK. Correct me if Im...

  19. UK Nursing Salaries

    Noahm replied to andreamae's topic in International Nursing

    The difference in salaries doesn't seem so bad when you look at it that way but the cost of living in the UK is much higher than in the southeast USA. You are looking at spending about £160,000...

  20. UK Nursing Salaries

    Noahm replied to andreamae's topic in International Nursing

    Wow Fergus it sounds like you work at a nice facility. I left the US in 1998 so maybe things have improved a bit over

  21. Feeling frustrated and inadequate

    Noahm replied to ~Kitty~'s topic in General Nursing

    Kitty I'm sure you are a really good nurse that just needs more organization. We all make mistakes and we learn from them and improve. Please don't beat yourself up and feel inadequate. You sound...

  22. UK Nursing Salaries

    Noahm replied to andreamae's topic in International Nursing

    It is something that bothers me at times but UK nurses also get a lot of benefits that US nurses don't. I think that people in general do not realize what it is exactly that nurses do. They think to...

  23. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Noahm replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    It's orientated if you are British and speak correct English. Oriented is the preferred version in American english.

  24. US nurse interested in Uk nursing

    Noahm replied to Karen Ro's topic in International Nursing

    Hi there, I am an American nurse working in the UK. I currently work on a 32 bed medical ward. We have 2-3 staff nurses and 3 aides on for days, 2 nurses and 2 aides for evenings and 2 nurses 1 aide...

  25. Offended by Prayer

    Noahm replied to CCU NRS's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting question. I would not be offended at all. I am not at all religious and personally don't believe in prayer but respectful of other peoples beliefs/spirituality. I think if someone were...