ayla2004

ayla2004 ASN, RN

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  1. Use restraints much?

    We use restranit, have a policy. It is limited to critical care and neuro duet. It is to prevent pt with brain injuries with decreased gcs removing medical devices such as evd, trachey, and ngt or...
  2. Facilities not on the Customer service bandwagon

    We have hourly rounding I work in the nhs, and we need to ask pt how they felt about their care on discharge or the hospital doesn't get full pay for a patients
  3. Yeah end stage copy are hard to manage. They get so distressed They ask does news around the clock, saline news work at times and avoids tachycardia assisted with salbutamol. Fan, morphine someone...
  4. Hello all. After 2.9 years in elderly care, Ive been working on a neurosurg ward since June, big change with loads to learn but I'm loving it. I've set myself learnings goals based on what's was...
  5. how much experince is needed

    No not for the post advisertised rotantol neurosicene including neurology, neuro rahb and a piu and not 3quite in the right area. but i am looking to move kinda a shame i like my current ward co...
  6. Why am I not surprisedtories think patient choice and care needs
  7. Saw this at work. If this lady is innocent she still never work as a nurse again she as she is unlikely to be employed. And if she is.innocent who was guilty of tampering with
  8. We have just gone to trolleys with drawers for each pt, and drawers for stock medsiike it saves fighting past patients
  9. Enough nurses or not?

    Whilst I would do full obs(vs), get a cannula and bloods , we can't get get blood cultures without consultant approval. , so get the pt medically reviewed. Get others fluid for culture urine, sputum...
  10. Verbal orders vs Telephone orders

    Are systems are so
  11. Enough nurses or not?

    Skylark from reading this thread it seems clear your opinion is fixed that UK nursing is 2nd rate. Your report of having to study to take the nclex due to new information, was this because it wasn't...
  12. for the love of money...

    However in the UK police officers, firefigthers and teachers earn more than
  13. Hiding meds in food: illegal?

    i know ony of one case were after psych review, the conusltant pharmcist and pt nok all agreed to covert adminstration of oral meds including haldo.l (pt had vasular dementia, was very aggressive and...
  14. DVTs!

    dopplers, d-dimer, to confirm. no restriction on mobility although pain swelling may limit this anyway, treatment dose
  15. we use syringe pumps add insulin to d50 50ml over half
  16. Does a pressure ulcer = incident report???

    We photoraph any pressure ulcer, skin tear or wounds, bruises on admission, or aquired. We fill in incident reports for grade 2 pu on admission or if aquired, and all skin tears wound care nurse...
  17. Health Care Assistant

    e 7.15- 3.15 l 1.00 -9.00 n 8.30-7.45 ld
  18. Whats Tele?

    telemetry occrs in the UK were pt are attached to monitors, in Heart CarE/Cornary Care, HDU and ICU, RECOVERY AND
  19. WOW! The public really doesn't like us, huh?

    How much i delegate depends on what is happening on a shift, pt stable, resonable pt load, ill do RN and assistant work excepts pt requiring 2 person assits. More pt and/or less stable i will...
  20. Hourly rounding logs

    ive 8-12 and often its a paper
  21. Frontline staff to lose jobs

    Update. are ward closures ever anything but chaos i wonder. ward closure will be in 2 phases and inculde a ward move. we downsize to half (our pt numbers&staff,) and then merge with a cardiology...
  22. Electronic MAR?

    no lock out we have 2 hours to give, but at times we cant get it done, also you can forget to sign for a drug so at the end of shift we check for reds(outstanding) i wish we could reorder drugs from...
  23. Frontline staff to lose jobs

    from my memory necks ie laminectomy ante/post are neuro but may be nursed on neuro or spinal unit why i dont
  24. Frontline staff to lose jobs

    ]We have a seperate spinal ward but that is mainly ortho, out nearest specialist unit are shefield and southport. did a placement as a student on the ward im going to liked it but i remeber the...
  25. Frontline staff to lose jobs

    update had my aspiration interview and been offered a job on a neurosurgical ward which im ok with. my ward closes within 4