kaeri

kaeri has 27 years experience and specializes in ed, icu, detox, ccu.

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1. i cannot do selection criteria - please help......

   kaeri replied to kaeri's topic in General Nursing

   karen: even though i dont have to write the responses, i do need to verbalise them. oldphat: just amazing. that is a huge amt of help. i cannot thankyou enough. Thank you so much. you have made it easy for me. it was exactly what i needed to have exp...

2. i cannot do selection criteria - please help......

   kaeri replied to kaeri's topic in General Nursing

   this is probably stretching our friendship - but i have found a way to attach the job info. in case anyone has nothing to do for the next 36 hrs of their life............................. the job is for a telenursing centre......... BS-H07QEII99-PD.p...

3. i cannot do selection criteria - please help......

   kaeri posted a topic in General Nursing

   hi there, i am new to this selection criteria cr*p. all my other jobs have been "can you start today?!!". i do not understand the s/c writers' sentence construction - i believe they are all drunkards. could someone please give me an idea of examples?...

4. been too long on the electronic pumps....

   kaeri replied to kaeri's topic in General Nursing

   i am pleased to hear you say that as i was beginning to believe i was the one in the wrong. i felt like alice in wonderland with the looking glass backwards. i am feeling happy now that i don't have that daily intimidation. thankyou for the new persp...

5. been too long on the electronic pumps....

   kaeri replied to kaeri's topic in General Nursing

   you people are all fantastic - thank you so much. i thought i may need to wait a few days for a response. no wonder nurses have such a fantastic reputation. no 2 is running over 90 mins - that was an integral piece of information wasnt it! to recap...

6. been too long on the electronic pumps....

   kaeri posted a topic in General Nursing

   i have been trying to get some iv calcs done, as i realised i hadn't done them for ages and i am going to do a few ward shifts in the near future. apart from them being nonsensical, as calcs often are; i.....cannot......do.....them!!! i have been in ...

7. Medical Terminology & Abbrevations Game :)

   kaeri replied to Florence NightinFAIL's topic in General Nursing

   " "fear of bad hair day?" or "panic re bad hair"

8. Medical Terminology & Abbrevations Game :)

   kaeri replied to Florence NightinFAIL's topic in General Nursing

   ooha = out of hospital arrest biba = bought in by ambulance puit = pu in toilet. have been nursing since '78 and heard these for first time in last 6 months i am sure someone in our critical care units has made them up.

9. Medical Terminology & Abbrevations Game :)

   kaeri replied to Florence NightinFAIL's topic in General Nursing

   you did so well - google or no google. what about OOHA and it's brother BIBA? as in "OOHA BIBA" PUIT = Passed Urine In Toilet (sounds like an order at the falafel shop) 2 OOHA BIBAs and 1 PUIT please. here's another: MIL and FIL One thing which I've...

10. Medical Terminology & Abbrevations Game :)

    kaeri replied to Florence NightinFAIL's topic in General Nursing

    We must speak a different language down this way - although some have got it right. 1)*PAFO* 2) *PONV* 3) *OOHA* 4)*INR.= International normalised ratio 5)* PND* 6) *FITH'S DISEASE* = NOT a spelling error (is F.I.T.H. Syndrome) 7) *CAD*=coronary a...

11. Medical Terminology & Abbrevations Game :)

    kaeri replied to Florence NightinFAIL's topic in General Nursing

    here's some down under ones 1) PAFO 2) PONV 3) OOHA 4) and this is one I accepted without thinking, until I realised I didnt know what it stood for - INR. 5) PND 6) FITH'S DISEASE 7) CAD 8) PUIT 9)TURP cheers kaeri

12. My CRNA friends do illegal drugs

    kaeri replied to DrugReptoNurse's topic in CRNA

    as you have gotten personal and assumed i am ignorant or prejudiced: it may surprise you "living in the land of the free" that some places of the world - maybe the ones that havent been invaded by your guns, your bible or your media - still regard ho...

13. What have other nurses done that have freaked you out?

    kaeri replied to texas_lvn's topic in General Nursing

    thankyou lacie - someone who has a self-deprecating humour is so refreshing. Yeh - I get the title - which goes back to my point.......and why do all the story-tellers have to have such a righteous tone?

14. My CRNA friends do illegal drugs

    kaeri replied to DrugReptoNurse's topic in CRNA

    "sit in the outback and take ectasy" - anericans can be quite ridiculous when it comes to how others live, cant they? no idea..... and to the others who are hoping for the perfect world: have you got your questionaires ready for your next health prof...

15. had it with nursing school already!

    kaeri replied to CANewRN's topic in General Students

    i cannot offer false platitudes. what you are experiencing occurs worldwide and is constant. you will continue to experience it when you are an rn in the workforce. i dont see the sense in telling people to "hang in there" just because we have a nurs...