katie258

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1. Working with pca's

   katie258 replied to ceridwyn's topic in International

   The ambos said if they are called they have to resus. I don't know but seems a little odd to me. Mind you these are the same people who bring us drunk and disorderlies too, love to know what the rules actually are. Yes the RNs and PCAs are a little s...

2. Working with pca's

   katie258 replied to ceridwyn's topic in International

   Short sideline. We got an ambulane in about two, three months ago with a DOA from our local nursing home. When the boys got there the RN was holding her hand telling her everything would be allright. So ambos dutifully transported her to us. ...

3. Enrolled Nurse vs. Endorsed Enrolled Nurse

   katie258 replied to pink_margarita's topic in International

   Oh my goodness! When I did my training they drummed into us no hypertensives with out a current ( within 15 mins) BP, no anginine without apical beat. I wont give first or second abs either but that is personal choice. The RN gets paid to do that stu...

4. Can anyone recommend a decent pair of work shoes?

   katie258 replied to ProudofmyNursingart's topic in International

   I have spurs and am too much of a girl to get the shots. I wear crocs all the time, they are the only shoes I can wear all day and still be able to walk after shift. I have crocs thongs, beach shoes, work shoes, wellington boots and some nice heeled ...

5. culture-shocked...i want to understand why

   katie258 replied to wishiwereanurse's topic in General Nursing

   I turn 80 I back smokin' and drinking like when I was 18 and indestructable. No-one stand in my way unless you want to be walked over. Once you hit a certain age and stage of life you might as well do all the bad stuff why not? God gonna be standing ...

6. Enrolled Nurse vs. Endorsed Enrolled Nurse

   katie258 replied to pink_margarita's topic in International

   Oh man that is too bizarre! I am an EEN in New South Wales and I can give up and including S4s, check S8 (always have been able to though) and start IV's give meds IV and SC,IM, not S8s though. I can't hang bloods though. The difference state to stat...

7. to sleep or not to sleep???

   katie258 replied to trmr's topic in General Nursing

   Always wake them. If they need meds or obs, If they have an IV running I dial up for two hours then they wake up anyway and I'm the one who shuts it up, and while I'm here I might as well get a set of obs, do you need some pain relief etc.

8. kids and parents

   katie258 replied to sister--*'s topic in General Nursing

   Really? there are foods that kids don't eat? My lot even fight me for my oysters, eat sprouts, all the stuff their friends wont eat. My son invited a friend over to sleep the night. This kid only eats sausage rolls for dinner, my son sa...

9. Will you work during a Pandemic?

   katie258 replied to Goju's topic in COVID

   Oh my goodness, If I went and bought that much food, well the boys would probably have it eaten by the end of the week. But it is scary isn't it? I think I'd go to work but I think then I'd be too scared to go home in case I took it into my house and...

10. Did he get too much morphine?

    katie258 replied to Deb123j's topic in General Nursing

    This is interesting. In Australia you need to have two staff members present to give a schedule eight drug. We confirm the prescription, get it out of the cupboard, count how much is left and write it in the S8 book. Then the medication is drawn up, ...

11. Enrolled Nurse vs. Endorsed Enrolled Nurse

    katie258 replied to pink_margarita's topic in International

    A circular went around my hosp about a month ago with a list of competancies(I can never spell that word, you should hear me pronounce it!) for EENs, also a list of proposed ones included catheterisation, placing NG tubes and cannulation. But no extr...

12. Night Shift and Nausea?

    katie258 replied to Poopsie Gigglebuns's topic in General Nursing

    Hasn't it got to do with the release of glucagon into the blood stream too? I find an apple helps a lot, I also turn my days upside down, have breakfast at dinnertime and dinner when I get home I also try to stay up when I get home for as long as I c...

13. The "TRUE" Blue Bloater on Oprah

    katie258 replied to mcknis's topic in General Nursing

    Wonder what colour his pee is? Wonder if the silver is somehow attatching to the red blood cells and that accounts for the colour change? You know like attatching to the haemaglobin. Wonder what his sats are like? Hmm lots of questions, I go a little...

14. red leg ?

    katie258 replied to student-with-no-life's topic in General Nursing

    Fell into a large vat of beetroot juice?

15. Working while sick- what do you think?

    katie258 replied to beachbum3's topic in General Nursing

    Don't go to work sick, your co-workers don't want your bugs, your patients are dealing with enough bugs of their own with out having to deal with yours as well and when you are sick things always go wrong and you might not pick it up quickly enough. ...