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  1. What is your Nursing Kryptonite?

    jenin replied to Lunah's topic in General Nursing

    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?

    jenin replied to Lunah's topic in General Nursing

    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?

    jenin replied to tsm007's topic in General Nursing

    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...

    jenin replied to BuckyBadgerRN's topic in General Nursing

    Then there are those who are allergic to ALL generic

  5. What is your Achilles heel?

    jenin replied to cjdmomma's topic in General Nursing

    Full Sputum pots....ick, ick,

  6. ect nurses

    jenin replied to 302queen's topic in Psychiatric

    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

    jenin replied to edie1's topic in Psychiatric

    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?

    jenin replied to ktliz's topic in General Nursing

    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?

    jenin replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    This is quite amazing...and amazingly

  10. Nurses' personal medical records

    jenin replied to Elizabeth 123's topic in General Nursing

    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....

    jenin replied to newgradERrn's topic in Emergency

    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. What do you think of nurses who can't spell medical terms?

    jenin replied to Mini-Murse's topic in General Nursing

    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

    jenin replied to Mashira's topic in Psychiatric

    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

    jenin replied to Mashira's topic in Psychiatric

    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.

    jenin replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    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?

    jenin replied to JenTheRN's topic in Nursing Humor

    Old men and half full sputum cups and the noises they make to get sputum up

  17. What Freaks You Out?

    jenin replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    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

    jenin replied to linguine's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Desperate for aged care nurses in

  19. Nurses working without health insurance

    jenin replied to linguine's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    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

    jenin replied to linguine's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    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!

    jenin replied to aismail3's topic in General Students

    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

    jenin replied to gwenith's topic in International Nursing

    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...