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Hi, I'm a med surgical nurse want to transition to occupational health. Trying to upskill, so employers don't see me as just med surg. Is it worth paying for a audiometry course which covers ear assessment, anatomy, hearing test, work place noise ?

Hi everyone, Currently work in med-surg but I want to transition to occupational health. I'm not sure how to altered my cv so my skills are transferable. Would anyone have any ideas. Also I am adding new training such as spirometry, audiometry as well. Thank you :)

Hi everyone, I'm not sure if I am on the right track. If you develop fournier's gangrene from SGLT inhibitors and diabetic ketoacidosis. Is that an adverse reaction type A. I was thinking because the drug causes glycosuria thats why its a type A. Thanks for any help. :)

Hi everyone, I'm stuck on this question. Identify a key adverse effect that is the same (I'm comparing fentanyl with oxycodone) but differs in clinical significance. Any help appreciated.

Hi guys, I currently have acute-med- surg experience. However, an opportunity has come up to interview for a casual occupational health nurse position. How do I persuade in the cover letter that my current experience could be a good fit and transferable. The position does not require an occupational health background. I'm thinking that maybe I've been doing bedside for too long. But I really want this and have been looking for a position for ages.

Hi I'm after some ideas to improve this handover practice. We currently receive a text message to say there is a electronic handover ready and it goes to the coordinators phone. But sometimes the coordinator has a horrible patient load and might not see the text. Emergency staff also call to confirm. So ED want to cut out the phone call to stream line their service. What other methods could be used to alert that there is a handover. We have a electronic white board in the medication room and I thought the IT people could design a alert flash or something similar because we are in that room constantly :)

Hello everyone, can you share your opinion about this. I started my shift at 14:45, this woman had a code earlier in the morning for SOB second to pain. The patient remained stable from when I had taken over her care. Observations wise scoring only for being on 2 L O2, SBP 105, RR 22-24 but that was their usual trend since admission. Patient reviewed in the evening by surgical registrar. No recording of urine output or intake recorded by morning RN at all. I recorded IDC output plus their intake. Also I requested fluid review for IVF. The morning RN started IVF but the fluids were nowhere to be seen and she did not do a fluid balance chart. So at 7pm our work loads were reduced because we had adequate staffing from 7. I dropped this patient (and she was stable). At 20:30 a code was called for SBP had dropped. She was given stat fluids and metaraminol, transferred to ICU (they also had a complex cardiac history) After this the staff think that somehow this was my fault (he had been stable throughout my shift) . So when I am at work some of the other staff are making comments about me and that nurse went to the manager to say I shouldn't have given the woman to her. I feel like not going back to work. The patient had cardiac arrest in ICU and did not survive. I don't know how to get past this. I know I did all the right things for them when they were in my care.