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Some patients relate better to males other better to females no matter what sex they are. I have seen a 5' 1" female stand in between two 6' plus male patients and tell them to stop fighting... It worked. I have seen different aged workers do better than younger or older staff. I have seen different ethnic groups work better than others with or their own ethnic group or different ones. Basically it is not what you are but WHO you are that will make a difference in any given situation. BYW I have been doing this job 30 years +

Not just in nursing but anywhere... People who get ETC and ECT mixed up.

Part of a patients assessment would be whether they are capable to consent to a sexual relationship. And part of that capability would be whether they were able to have this relationship with appropriate protection, appropriate place, appropriate time etc. With the above in place the OPs original post would then be.. "What do you do when you see 2 ... patients having sex? will you stop them? or let them because its a physiologic need? help pls. "

I am very pleased that you have found a way to continue your registration. I am surprised that you felt you needed to de-register. I thought that if you did not pay your annual £75 renewal fee you would no longer be on the register. THAT was the reason that we were first told that we had to pay the fee,(Remember when it was only £30 for 3 years?), so that the registry was up to date. It would seem now that you actually have to go out of your way to get OFF the registry. The MNC keep writing to my wife to tell her to pay her fee or she will not be able to work... She has been dead for nearly two years, and was unable to work for 3 years previous to that. I phoned them to tell them this, but no, it was not good enough that she had not paid her fee for several years. They wanted me to send this form and that form etc etc. I refused to do it. So she is still on the register.

I can tell you're not married.

Yep, I'm all male too. I wonder if we will get someone posting who is half and half, or three quarters even?

I've said no. A bit mean I suppose. But there are many ways of being 'Better'. Allnurses is just a fraction... as someone mentioned above it is a good place to have a chat /moan or even find a link to somewhere else etc... but by itself Allnurses is NOT the way to become a 'Better' nurse.

12) Them: 'I could NEVER do your job' Me : 'What do you do for a living?' Them: 'I work in an Abattoir'

Have you read THIS THREAD? It might help you with your inquiry. Good luck.

My wife (RIP) was on massive dosages of morphine. She needed to be on them to stop the pain, otherwise she would just lay there and scream. It is good to know that, at last, some nurses and docs are starting to understand the difference between addiction and pain control.

Sorry, but...Celibacy is, in its strictest definition, the lifestyle of someone who is and is striving to remain unmarried all his/her life. However, the term is often popularly used to describe a state of life where one chooses to abstain from all sexual activities, which is strictly "continence"."

In the UK the powers to be e 'thinking' about the use of Psychiatric nurses in such places as you discibe... as psychiatric help is the sort of stuff that the patients , and relatives would/might want... and come to think of it some staff too. So while you might not be 'administering Chemotherapy,' you could argue that as a Psychiatric nurse you would be able to offer a valuable service to staff, patients and relatives.

Where did you get this little gem of propaganda? I'll carry on smoking like a chimney then, knowing I am being less dangerous to myself than " being exposed to 'second hand smoke' "

£73 this year...Tends to go up each year... I remember when this first came about - It was suppost to be a one off charge... then it beame a three yearly thing ... now each year... And what do we get for this fee?

I am not too sure that it is OK to bump up an old thread but here goes... I had to call in today late for work.. Reason?.. I was looking for an UFO in my back garden... OK so as I was getting into my car to go to work a neighbours kid aged about 5 came to the car and with an anxious look in his face said he has lost his UFO (Toy) in my back garden... well I just had to go and find it for him eh? Fortunately my manager thought it was sweet.