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Think of it this way, if you in your role as a Nurse had a patient who said I know that this is a teaching hospital and everyone has to learn but I am not comfortable with having students in the room when I am in labour would you object or question h...

Hate to be the one to tell you but these habits will stay for life. . . . I have been off the wards/floor for many years and away from cardiology for more than that but still wake up occasionally ‘hearing’ monitor alarms. Still love palpating veins,...

Hi, I was wondering if someone could answer a question for me about nursing licences in the US and how you maintain yours. Actually the above question is a bit ahead of myself. My question is once you have your nursing licence what do you have to d...

Ok, how about the time I somehow managed to spill tomato soup all down my bum? Oh and the laundry room was locked and me being a big girl no-one else’s uniform or scrubs would fit, and being the senior nurse on the ward couldn’t go hide. . . . Or ...

That interviewer was a total puppy's mother. . . . . . It is so horrible (and hard) to try to sell yourself without sounding big-headed and then to realise that it was all for nothing. As said earlier, nursing goes in peaks and troughs and someday ...

Poor old Reg, if he lose's another finger. . . . . . .

Ginger of any type for nausea, particularly morning sickness. All the women in my family swear by keeping ginger biscuits by the bed when in the early stages of pregnancy. Eat them before you even get up. Mint/ Peppermint for any gas/ bowel issues. ...

Sorry I haven't had a chance to look at all the pages, but here are some of my current favourites Current house rule! Do NOT get between the woman with PMS and the Chocolate!!! Personal favourite: Who died and made me the Queen of Nice? (You get betw...

I grew up in a large family, I won't say we were poor, well we were, but as kids we didn't know, everyone was in the same boat. BUT no one smelled, my God my parents would have died of embarrassment, poor is one thing, dirty is a whole different ket...

I asked a patient post left leg above knee amputation to ' hop out of bed’ so I could change the sheets !!!!!! Luckily she had a sense of humour

No no no no no no no no no no no no no no Get the idea? no no never thought I'd hate not having the patient contact, but working in a clean happy area with GOOD pay and people who treat me like an adult not a mushroom............... I love my job!

Call yourself a Nurse? Long post warning I know this issue has come up before but I have a problem with an individual who is apparently doing the above, calling herself a Nurse when as far as I can see she's not. The situation is complicated, I'm in...

I was a ward nurse for 18 years and over half of that on nights. I left for 50% health reasons. My Hospital brought in internal rotation, that is I couldn't just work nights, which wasn't too bad when we were doing 12.5 hr shifts but when they starte...

wow I had always heard that you didn't get much paid holiday time in the US but never really realised it. Anyway it is about the one thing the NHS get right in regards to nurses. over here it's On appointment 27days + 8 (the 8 are bank holidays)=35...

Can't say that it is valid or not but have never heard of it before. The University of Dundee is real and quite well known, what would worry me is the "celtic-scholar link", if that makes sense. This is the web site for the university of Dundee http...

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LONGGGGGGGGGG reply (you've been warned) Several years ago I required a spinal tap. At the time I was a nurse I was working at the hospital in to which I had been admitted, and it was a teaching hospital. I was asked at the time if I minded if the H...

'Do you have a stat box in which you keep a few doses of things you might need quickly? Like potassium, benadryl, antibiotics, narcan, things like this?' In nursing homes, No they don't. In a case where a patient/ client went off in a nursing home i...

fultzymom: As I said above in an acute site we have a doc on site 24/7 in the community ie: nursing homes etc, the GP are required by law to provide a 24hr call out service, they can either do so themselves or employ a locum agency to do so. As an a...

Maybe this is a situation where the difference between the UK and the US can be seen. (I'll admit that I'm assuming that you're US based) 'What if the doc is not present but you need an urgent order, such as pain or fever Rx or even a laxative or som...

I can't access the clips but this is an issue that I feel very strongly about. Death is a natural process and will come to us all, sadly in some ways like childbirth it has been taken over and made a medical issue. My Father and our family were fort...

I'm assuming that by 'order' do you medication prescription? Here in the UK, if it ain't written down it ain't legal. While, yes there are certain situations that I will accept an 'order' over the phone it would be on me legally all the way no matte...

That is a brilliant idea, so easy and simple, hopefully it will spread. The pharmacy I use has started including a description of the pill on the outside of the bottle. "This an oval orange tablet with ER123 on the side." I think it's a great idea ...

Actually my 'official' title the one on my contract is Nursing Sister. It's still quite common over here in the UK and in Ireland. It harks back to the time (medieval) when all health care was provided by religious orders

It happens, you're human, we all are and mistakes happen. When I 'had' students I never judges them for making a mistake but did for the way they reacted to it. The ones that were breezy and 'oh well you caught it no harm' set all my alarm bells rin...