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But strangely, doing chest physio with young kids and teens with cf, and suctioning kids in icu, never bothered me.

Old men and sputum cups...yuk!! Just listening to them made me want to vomit...let alone the cup of sputum.....

Fine crackles can sound like hair rolled between your fingers next to your ear. This is how I have always described them.

Then there are those who are allergic to ALL generic medications!

Full Sputum pots....ick, ick, ick!

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 way!

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 function, I work in a part time job as well. I am ...

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 and coughed :uhoh3:. Was glad I was masked, gowned...

This is quite amazing...and amazingly beautiful..

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 problem!

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 particular shift and I broke...it was horrible. Walkin...

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 in

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 10 years I have lost my career as a physiotherapis...

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 resistant. Currently my procedure goes like this: ar...

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, with a lot of people buying cold and flu meds OTC. Th...

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

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 COAD spitting into cups full to the brim with sputum....

Desperate for aged care nurses in Australia!

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 free????!)

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 12 months for pre-existing conditions. I have jus...

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 crowded in there, and with the sights I had to get ou...

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 covered in a 3yr nursing degree. But at the uni I'm at...