Noahm

I am getting really worried. I am planning on relocating back to the Lehigh Valley after 10 years in Europe and have my heart set on working at LVH. I am absolutely desperate to get home. We are just waiting for our house to sell and my English hus...

I really think that members of the public who want to behave like this i.e. getting abusive when their loved one doesn't get one to one nursing care SHOULD BE FORCED to pay for one to one nursing care. The other night my colleague commenced a dressi...

If you aren't too busy could I have one as well? I am about to start a new job in Med Surg. Thank you so much! [email protected]

bump please.

Oh and we *try* to do a background q2 hourly with a linen trolley. And we are supposed to serve tea and coffee to patients via a drinks trolley or we get collared. Yeah right. As if we have time for that. Half our patients should be in ITU.

I work in Northern England and we have all this stuff right now. We are a 30 bed nightingale ward. We have 15 beds lined up down both the left and right side of the ward. We get 2 RNs per shift and it is acute medicine. We had a smoking room up unti...

If someone is in AF the pulse oximeter will not always pick up an accurate 02 saturation because of the irregular heartbeat. But the changes in mental status show that he may have been hypoxic secondary to a million and one possibilities and needed ...

Thanks ChristopherB.

Chuck, I have been working for the NHS for the last decade. It is tough. I wasn't kidding when I said we have 2 RN's to 30 patients in med-surg. We also take high dependency when ITU is full, palliative when the hospice is full and psych when the...

Hello Everyone, I am planning on relocating back to the USA (Pennsylvania) in early 2011. I have been an RN for ten years and have lots of experience. Most of that experience has been in the UK however as we moved here with my husband's job a year a...

Hi Chuck, I am not a BSN. I graduated from a well respected 3 year diploma school in the Lehigh Valley. We had statistics, chemistry and everything there and had enough university credits to get our BSN fairly quickly. I think the only thing I ne...

Hello again, Thanks for all the replies. We are looking at the Lehigh Valley as that is where I grew up. The conditions here are pretty bad too. We have no set schedule and have to mix day, evening and night shifts all in the same week...sometime...

Anyone????

I love med surg too!

So so true about interrruptions getting interrupted. You are going around with the medicine cart and pouring some meds and someone phones, you go to the phone and on your way back someone shouts out for the commode, on your way to fetch the commode ...

I work in Med-surg. I once worked on a specialty surgical floor and found it too boring and routine. I like the variation in Med-Surg and the challenge of it. It can be hell on earth though. I hate the fact that our patients can be more complicated...

We all know how bad things are getting as a result of the deliberate short staffing by NHS management. Patients are getting terrible care. Nurses are leaving. UK nurses are working their behinds off and getting a really bad reputation because nurs...

I have been busting my ass trying to get this thing signed by people. I want more than 200. I am sick of seeing one RN to 25 acute medical/surgical patients running her ass off whilst the patients and visitors complain that "nurses today just don't...

They may have saved Lincoln with today's medicine but he would have ended up as a vegetable at a short staffed Long Term Care facility. It may have helped if Lincoln's one and only "guard" who was supposedly guarding the theatre box hadn't taken of...

A union was contacted but haven't heard anything back. The 1 staff nurse and 1 hca is starting to happen way too much. It's supposed to be at least 2 and 3 for that ward. But if there are people off sick or on leave they don't get replaced.

I'm American RN who has been working in an NHS hospital (north of england)for the last 5 years. As soon as my British husband's visa comes through and our house sells we are going to the USA at lightening speed. My acute medical ward, which also take...

Ain't it funny how all of the research that has concluded that thirmosal does not cause autism was funded and researched either directly or indirectly by the drug companies who made those vaccines. These guys knew years ago that the thirmosal in the ...

Is he autistic PeachPie? Then he cannot help it and there is really nothing that can be done about it. I hope to god that if you ever get some kind of brain injury or cognitive impairment that causes you to act that way that you are surrounded by pe...

I would have asked the doctor why they hell he was so stupid as to show up and review the patient while the patient was in x-ray? Doctor: "Well I phoned the unit and told so and so that I needed patient in his room, how was I supposed to know that...

I am a floor nurse who is used to getting slammed with multiple admissions at the worst times. But I don't think it is fair to get grumpy or flame the PACU or ER nurses about this. I have never been rude to them even when they are sending admission...