opal1266

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1. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

   opal1266 replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Humor

   the funniest thing happened to me when i was a newly qualified RGN, i was mentoring two first year student nurses on their second placement, a patient who i will call Jack had unfortunately passed away earlier that morning. i askedmy students to perf...

2. Pet peeves!

   opal1266 replied to ADN 2002's topic in General Nursing

   my biggest pet peeve has to be patients who drive from Scotland to Yorkshire approx 400+ miles with persistent crushing cental chest pain which they've been having on and off for 2 days but they didn't want to bother the hospital there because they n...

3. Layoffs and "Reconfiguring" the hospital

   opal1266 replied to LuvToBeANurse's topic in CCU

   hi, i'm new to the forum, but had to post a reply to this, i'm from England and today we heard that were going to be reconfigured, we are a small 7 bed district CCU (we transfer critical pts to the regional once stable enough to move, beds permitting...