Whisper

The treatment seems incredulous to me. Totally over the top, but maybe thats a difference between the US and UK. We have enough trouble trying to restrain violent patients, and the rings we have to jump through to arrange that let alon a co operativ...

My commute is just under an hour each way. I meant to only do it for 6 months then move or get a job closer to home..... that was over 10 years ago. I like the break between work and home. Helps to leave work issues there

Does any one know a good web site for figuring out US medications? I was reading a thread on the CCU page, and keep finding that I have to try googling the drugs, to find their 'official' names. Just so I can understand the disscussion I know that in...

http://www.patientopinion.org.uk/default.aspx was the site they mentioned on the dispatches show, I found some really great comments about my Trust.... and ignored all the bad ones :)

I thought the dispatches programme was not as bad as it could have been... They seem to agree that if nurses had fewer patients to look after we'd be able to do a better job!! Which seems to point the fingers for poor care back at the managers. But o...

I was just wondering peoples views on Unions, from reading other posts I got the inpression that unions are not a standard thing. One of my lectures this semester was two of the big nursing unions came in and gave us informations, so we could join. T...

I've had my blood taken once or twice1 but would have to be unconscious for an IO!.... or a bed bath

Students taking charge of a ward?! I can't ever see that happening again. not as they are 'supernumery' whisper But an interesting aside, i've just been on youtube to look up intaosseous needle insertion, and US paramedics, and the UK army practice s...

Has anyone else had difficulties using the FAST option on the RCN website http://www.rcn.org.uk/elibrary it keeps asking for a username and password and my RCN number won't work, just wondered if it was something really blonde like needing to registe...

I'd never heard of google scholar before, but its brilliant found loads of articles. Thanks

I work in a tertiary referal centre, a huge trust with two major hospitals, and outlying cottage hospitals. we can't catheterise men, unless we have been on a course, and to get on the course is a nightmare. Despite the hospital being built (at leas...

Thanks I tried that just now, no joy. So I've emailed the RCN its frustrating as I can get to most of the site just when I get to the FAST part ovid sp won't let me in. I guess it is a sign I should not be lazy and trawl all the databases my self!!

Its interesting how much regional variation has cropped up, even with in the UK, some trust seem to have a taken extending nurses roles much further than others. My last shift I was moved wards due to a bedding crisis, I ended up 'baby sitting' ( the...

I had a house mate when I did my training, that had very poor personal hygiene, did a double shift, came home and slept in her uniform and went back and did another double the next day in the same uniform!! When myself and other house mates raised co...

I 've just got back from a holiday in America, visiting a friend who I trained with. She has a much more extended practical skills list than i'll ever be able to achive, yet whilst i've stayed in the UK I've clocked up a lot of uni and in house cours...

We still have some IVs that nurses don't give, the policy is for medical staff to administer them only... although nine times out of ten nursing staff have to prepare the drugs. Some of them seem daft, that nurses can hang nasty drugs like amiodaron...

I can't believe that this was allowed to happen, I work with students and train new staff nurses to give IVs, third year students we'll let mix and draw up drugs under supervision, even set the IVAC, but they are not allowed to touch, a patients venf...

I am attending a resus module at uni, and they were talking about how research suggests that your dominant hand should be the one on the patients chest. I never do CPR this way around, my dominant hand is on top, talking with a lot of other nurses, t...

putting my dominant hand down first, feels really uncomfortable for me, would not be able to get the right depth... well at least on my mattress

I might have imagined it but last night I'm sure I saw some guidelines for venepuncture on the RCN website, now I'm at home and looking to print them off all I can find is the paeds guidelines. Cany anyone help, am I going mad???!!! Hopefully my war...

sharrie its in ILCOR's 2005 recommendations its from a level 6 study (manikin) and the recommendation: "for people to be taught to place the heal of the dominant hand in the centre of the chest, with non dominant hand on top"

the desk at work has been well and truly resussed.... i wonder how many computer desks and chairs across the country, are now vitims of this abuse? but it seems to be the only way to tell which hand you use!

I don't have the full reffs in front of me, as I'm at work, but I'm sure they came from ILCOR. Will search it out and post it here.

I think it sounds like a good system, it worried me slightly as we have enough trouble with people screaming post code lottery now... how will the headlines read when people are able to top up their health care package (if they can afford it ) rather...

I think nurses as a general rule make terrible patients. I know I certainly do.... I don't mention what I do for a living anymore, I think you get labeled as a bad patient, and I'd rather they judge me rather than my job. I usually say I'm an NHS em...