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  1. What is your Nursing Kryptonite?

    But strangely, doing chest physio with young kids and teens with cf, and suctioning kids in icu, never bothered
  2. What is your Nursing Kryptonite?

    Old men and sputum cups...yuk!! Just listening to them made me want to vomit...let alone the cup of
  3. When you don't hear what the docs hear?

    Fine crackles can sound like hair rolled between your fingers next to your ear. This is how I have always described
  4. You are NOT allergic to...

    Then there are those who are allergic to ALL generic
  5. What is your Achilles heel?

    Full Sputum pots....ick, ick,
  6. ect nurses

    I have maintenance ect every 2 weeks under general anaesthesia. I am in Australia but I cannot imagine it being done anywhere with the pt awake! No
  7. ECT

    I have had many ect treatments over the years. I currently am on a maintenance regime with one treatment every two weeks. I have minimal side effects. Only a minimal amount of memory loss, I think. I...
  8. What's your nursing kryptonite?

    Sputum from paeds patients is fine...suctioning doesn't bother me. The only time I remember that was sickening was when a kid with bronchiectasis and a trache...and behavioural problems...aimed at me...
  9. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    This is quite amazing...and amazingly
  10. Nurses' personal medical records

    If someone has a mental illness that is well controlled by medication and their psychiatrist has cleared them to work then I don't see a
  11. I quit in the middle of my shift....

    A number of years ago I had a breakdown and quit my nursing studies for good in the middle of a clinical shift . I do suffer from clinical depression and all my stress just culminated during that...
  12. The mistake that really gets on my nerves is loose and lose! So many people write loose when they should spell it as lose . Does my head
  13. Electroconvulsive Therapy

    Starting Over....I have no doubt that I would be dead without medication, at the very least . At the moment I am sure that ECT helps me to function day to day, in combination with meds. Over the last...
  14. Electroconvulsive Therapy

    I have had 3 courses of ECT as an inpatient, for depression, and currently have it every 2 weeks as an outpatient (Maintenance ECT). I think ECT has saved my life as my depression is very treatment...
  15. Tylenol overdose and the public's ignorance.

    I work in a chemist as a pharmacy assistant and I am very careful to let customers know when they purchase an OTC or prescription med with paracetamol (in Australia) in it. It is currently winter,...
  16. What grosses YOU out?

    Old men and half full sputum cups and the noises they make to get sputum up
  17. What Freaks You Out?

    I can handle sputum or any secretions suctioned from traches or ETT's etc in children or adolescents, including those with cystic fibrosis and lots of secretions. But when it comes to old men with...
  18. Nurses working without health insurance

    Desperate for aged care nurses in
  19. Nurses working without health insurance

    I am even more stunned and disgusted by the USA health insurance system everytime I read another post! Move to Australia is all I can say! (isn't America supposed to be the land of the
  20. Nurses working without health insurance

    I cannot believe the US insurance system . I am Australian and insurers cannot refuse to cover anybody. When you join, or upgrade cover, the most you will need to wait for cover, or upgraded cover, is...
  21. I fainted today in the ICU!

    As a student I was standing in a side room with other students and a tutor, assessing a pt with a brain injury and a tracheostomy. When he coughed the sputum hit the opposite wall . It was hot and...
  22. Two Year Nursing courses

    I'm currently doing a 2yr grad entry course. I think it is appropriate for someone like me who already had a medical background and has studied way more anatomy and physiology in the past than is...