barrjan

Here is another way to look at it , which would you address if the patient presented with all three? so obviously it would be B, because the haemorrhage would need an immediate response.

Thanks for your quick response. I have already contacted the school for the transcripts, and have sent them the packet. They messed up the last time with Vermont, instead of giving hours of practice/theory they gave weeks. The whole process took nearly a year! my school kept on insisting that they sent them, a nightmare going back and forth. A letter to the head of the dept ended up sorting that out. So i called them to make sure that they do it right this time. Did livescan finger prints this afternoon $71 , my dh needed smelling salts. I'm expecting having to wait 4-6wks, i'm sure that i read on here that it can take 6 months for a permanent license. So it's a good idea to pay for the permanent and temp license?

I am endorsing my license from Vermont to California. I trained in the UK. Do i have to do Nursys and send verification of license packet to Vermont, do i have to do both? I'm willing to do both if that is what i have to do. I am a green card holder.

I am endorsing my licence from Vermont to California. I trained in the UK. Do i have to do Nursys and send verification of license packet to Vermont, do i have to do both? Edited to post on International forum, just saw the sticky.

What did the hospital do ? We were always told that in the event of getting a needle stick injury to let it bleed wash it and go to ER and contact Occupational health, then you would be tested for all related infections. ( This was in the UK)

This is an example of restraints gone wrong and poor observation on the nurses part http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20080730-9999-1n30sharp.html Taken from article........... Jeffrey Christopher, 25, of Bonsall was playing cards with his mother on April 11 and became agitated when visiting hours ended at the hospital's psychiatric unit. Christopher had a history of becoming unsettled and then falling to his knees, resulting in wounds to his knees and feet. The unit's workers took Christopher to his room and had him lie down on his stomach. They secured him to his bed with restraints at the wrists, ankles and waist, keeping his head and neck above the mattress. They also gave him several medications for his schizophrenia, including ativan and thorazine. Although nurses continuously monitored Christopher, they did from a chair facing his feet instead of following the standard practice of checking a patient's face. One nurse assigned to his room said she saw him "scoot and wiggle himself lower onto the bed until his face was on the mattress," according to a report by the county's medical examiner, who conducted an autopsy on Christopher. "He then began violently hitting his face against the mattress and metal frame of the bed," and held his breath, the medical examiner's report said. During a staffing rotation, another nurse entered the room and saw that Christopher had turned blue. The Medicare report said a nurse tried to resuscitate Christopher, but did not follow American Heart Association guidelines because he had not been trained adequately. Christopher died that night. At least one-quarter of the federal report, which did not mention Christopher by name, is devoted to chronicling the series of errors that resulted in his death. "The staff did not intervene by repositioning the patient onto his back so that he would be unable to bury his face in the mattress," it said. Gross and Tarbet, the Sharp executives, said a licensed vocational nurse who was watching Christopher didn't notice that he had suffocated. "The (nurse) assumed that since the patient had been sedated, he was resting quietly," Tarbet said. ............................ I worked in a Nursing Home 22yrs ago on a youth training scheme in Scotland, and they would use bandages to restrain the residents with dementia to their chair in isolation in their room. When the authorities did checks, we had to sit with the patient and as soon as the y left we had to put the restraints back on. I was only there for 3 months, i 'm not sure if they had the whistle blowing proceedure back then and now i really which i had complained.

It was not my intention to embarrass you. I happened to grow up with learning imperial and metric. I have a hard time remembering temperatures metric normal body temp 36.9 c = 97.8f , see i'm the stupid one now.

a kilogram is 1000 grams or 2.2lbs 1gram is 1,000,000 micrograms 1gram is 1000 milligrams 1kg is 1,000,000milligrams

Body weight not to be applied to affected limb. I don't know what 2, 3, 4 point means I worked in Orthopaedic Trauma in England and they do not use underarm crutches due to injuries i think rotator cuff injuries.

Do not obtain a throat culture if a child has acute epiglotis as it can cause an obstruction. Rule of nines, 9 = head, 18 = arms, 36 = torso, 36 =legs, and 1= perineum = 100%

Scrubs are provided to staff who require them, and they all have to wear the same colour, example Theatre Staff (Operating Room), laundry service is provided for them. You do not have your own set of scrubs. When i worked in Theatre, i had to change into my Nurse Uniform, wear the cap jacket etc and then change into scrubs, same ritual when leaving Theatre.

I remember back in the eighties when we were wearing white dresses and we had to wear white moccasins. I remember it was hot one year, i was a student and we decided that it was far too hot to wear our tights and we were told off, and were told that we had to wear tights for the prevention of perineal droppings.

I meant that we had Df118 in the trolley. We used Co codamol, and Co dyramol. If they were given as TTO's they were not allowed to have a repeat prescription, but over here you can get refills, it's no wonder that people get addicted.

Here's another one Tylenol and Codeine3, i think that is Co Codamol 500/30 with 30mg codeine. I worked in Orthopaedic Trauma before we moved over to the States i do remember we had it in the trolley but we never used it.

I had a feeling that it was df118. do they use that much in the UK. My husbands family use that a lot. I had toothache and the dentist gave me a prescription for that and it left me feeling hungover all day, i don't know how anyone could get addicted to that feeling.