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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...

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. ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

Fell into a large vat of beetroot juice?

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. ...

Isn't it funny how migraines react so differently in different people? Personally I take two aspalgin ( aspirin and codiene), turn on the air con and go to sleep. It usually is resolved by the time I wake up. We also use IV paracetamol or toradol wit...

It's not just inside our hospitals here. In the middle of the biggest drought in Australian history, when we aren't allowed to use water for anything outside the house, this hospital and others in the area health service, were watering grass, concret...

Always knew I was a cheap date! Now I have the proof to back it up!

I try to get all my work done on my work days that way my days off are just that. That and I hired a house cleaner to do the floors, windows and bathroom twice a week. It all helps when you have four kids and both work full time. I can hav...

Had someone tell me I was the devils girlfriend once, went home and told the MOTH, he asked " So how do I know him exactly?"

See now, let me explain this to you, it's a very common phenomonen.A time bubble, happens all the time. You stepped OUT of your patients room and then a time bubble appeared, completely enveloping the pts room and her in it. So while you felt you wer...

:roll We only have two computers in our hospital! I could just see us all crowding round trying to get on there to write our notes! When I started here they didn't even have printed handover sheets! They're slowly coming over to the dark side to join...

I think in our job we are always learning, keeping up to date, learning from other staff, patients, new situations etc. I have just completed my ENs and am now starting my RNs. Later I'll do FLEC training ( for ED). Maybe do my masters, do some midi ...

Oh and plusses mean lots. Like in GCS scores, or exudate. You usually have one, two or three. meaning some, plenty or lots.

Tee Hee, additt = to add to, like if you make an entry into notes and sign them and then you have to add something else you write "additt" then the further notes. BTW you are not supposed to use any shorthand in the hard notes. dot, line, ...