Josefin BSN, PhD, RN

Talking about the international educational level of midwifes, in Sweden midwifery is a nursing speciality on one year masters level. A BSN is required to enter midwifery training, and I believe that basically the same goes for most Scandinavian coun...

As you can see in my profile or introduction, I come from Uppsala/Sweden, and will become a RN in june 2002. My fiancee is a Ph: D student in inorganic cheminstry and is probably going to be offered to do his postdoc in the US. Ofcourse the rest of E...

Here in Sweden we have nurse anesthetists and from what I know, they are rather independent in their work. Since I´m in a completely different area myself I´m not sure about their exact duties, but they do for example intubations. Normally in Sweden ...

Oh, I hope it will turn out well, happy that I could help! /Josefin

Addition to above: Now after posting this it struck me that the term custodial mental healthcare might not be correct. To explain, it means involuntary mental healthcare.

Hi, I´m glad to try to answer your questions; hope you can use the answers. If you have more questions, please don´t hesitate to contact me. This will be a long reply, if you use this I would very much like to see the final result (only if you find i...

I believe that there might be some diffrences between the scandinavian countries as well. I have never worked outside Sweden myself, but from what I have heard other colleuges with experience say are RN nursing work generally more advanced and comes ...

I work at a community mental health unit and feel that I recieve a lot more respect for the job I do, compared to other nurses I know who are working in other "traditional" areas. It might be a bit different since I work in Sweden, but my job as a "p...

My was 6 semesters plus 2 or 3 for specialisation after working in the field for one year. All swedish nursingprogrammes are 6 semesters, to become a LPN you have to go 2 semesters.

Just have to tell everyone how happy I am... They just called from the unit where I would like to work the most, and offered me full time employment from monday after I graduate! I´m so happy, our hospital are generally not employing any new nurses ...

Brrrrr... I just can´t stand poop or mucous... And the smell from eldery men´s urine... URK

We have 6 weeks of about 50 at communal care. Pretty OK I think, I would´nt want to spend more time than necessary there...

I have been told that one year of experience is requierd to work nights at all here... So dayshifts are the only thing I have been offered! I found "my" job at psych, so I´m happy!

I´m not sure what the situation is like in the US, but here in Sweden the hospitals are SCREAMING for RN´s and especially BSN´s with specialist competence. Agencies are growing constantly, and due to the lack of physicans too nurses are given more an...

Well. It depends, if the tests are marked with "acute" it takes about 20 mins. Otherwise about 40 mins- 2 hours depending on what time of day they are sent.

Hey Zacarias... I totally understand how you feel. I bet that most of nursingstudents/med.students feels exactly the same from time to time! I went on my last med rotation before christmas, and had a discussion about this with my supervisor. I compla...

It is a "general" locked psych unit. General menas that the unit deals with depressions, bipolar diseases, borderline and sucidal patients. (No schitz-patients) Patients are 18-60, so there are no kids and no elderly patients. It is going to be so in...

Ho ho ho- I offer you my place here in a (at the moment) dull and cold Sweden...:) I could need some time at Bahamas...

Yeah I think that we europenas have moaned more about working condditions than you have in the US! It has lead to more generous and secure employment conditions. For example here in Sweden we have about 25-30 days of holiday/year to take as you wish ...

Woooops- I fooled you by mistake...:) I now remember that it might be a difference between the american expression of masters and the european. I actually think that our "masters" is a mix between BD and the "american" masters. The normal time for a ...

Hey by the way... I forgot to say that I think that the "swedish way" is the same as all other EC-countries (except for Norway:)), the eurpean community have got standard rules for all university programmes. Our licence is valid within all EC. :)

But- I come out with a BD in nursing too! (Working on my paper at the moment) And our RN-programmes are universitybased, I´m going to Uppsala univerity, one of Europes oldest... Though I know that nursingprogramme is to become 4 years from next year...

The choise was between ER and psych for me (!)! In the end psych won. I still love emergency care but can´t stand all the stress... Besides when I did my rotation at the ER I was pretty disappointed, felt that the RN´s competence was not fully used. ...

Hmmm... I see, interesting! Then I´m in the BSN programme. Our nursingprogramme is 3 years, but we get a BD in nursing. After we get our licence we work for about one-two years, and after that most RN`s specialize in for ex. psychiatry, prehospital, ...

I have a question: What is the difference between BSN program and LPN program? I´m Swedish so I´m not used to the terms...