Laurlaur

I have just started doing nights as a student nurse and am not getting on very well with them! Every time I finish one I start feeling so dizzy and nauseous, I don't know if its because I haven't got much sleep the day before? Then I find it really ...

I think that it would be quite interesting to taste, but only if you had to do it in a life or death situation!!Only my own though, no one elses!!:rotfl:

You don't call the docs by their first names? We are all on a first name basis with all our junior doctors (until up to consultant level where they remain Dr. so and so)...If they want to use my first name then I will use theirs...doesn't not doing t...

After having my first year anniversary in nursing last week, my tips would be 1. Always listen to your gut instinct, if you think your patient looks well and is all right they probably are. If you have a little voice in your head telling you somethi...

take as many sick days as possible so you never have to be with your patients!!!hahahah!! No no no not really......I think half the battle is letting your patients/families/co-workers/docs know that you're listening and care about what they have to s...

Well Frankie you cracked me up!! If I ever happen to be unlucky enough to land in hospital I hope I have someone like you to cheer me up! I work in Paeds in the UK, and especially when parents are very tense, stressed etc it works wonders to have som...

One patients father saying to me "how long have you been doing this?"....as if to say "are you competent?"...I know I look 16 but I am 23 and went to university for 3 years, and have a BSc in Nursing!! To which then followed "didn't you want to do me...

I am sick and tired of the NHS!!!!!! We've had many many complaints as so many operations have been delayed for several days.....we're the ones on the wards that have to face the angry families!! Short staffed (with maternity leave not covered), many...

Always always always check if you are not sure of something, never be afraid to say "i don't know" to anyone, doctors, patients, anyone. Even if you think you will look silly. Never stop learning, don't be too hard on yourself..I've only be qualifie...

Well I applied to the local supermarket and they didn't have any vacancies, I was gutted, all my life I'd dreamed of stacking shelves. As a last resort I went to nursing. :chuckle

To me this thread discredits the mostly decent people docs are. Many that I work with are extremely nice people and are "normal" just like most nurses, are there to do their best for the patients (like most of us) and respect their co-workers whoeve...

I would say it is more important to monitor resp rate if the patient is in obvious resp. distress, or some sort of respiratory problem. If they are a good colour (well perfused), not cyanosed and can hold a conversation (not breathless etc) and temp ...

Please say something to the senior staff there, get out of this job or get a new preceptor quick! I am now a qualified nurse, but when I was a student in the NICU, I had a mentor that sounds EXACTLY the same as your preceptor. I had never looked afte...

Well only being a qualified RN several months, I haven't forgotten what being a student is like! However when they turn up late, say "I hate it here and I don't want to stay (and yet still come back) and don't know where in the chest the heart is(!!...

Be on time!!!!!! Don't say "I'm just here to do nursing for a while...but later I'm studying XYZ as I don't want to do nursing as a career" - that's REALLY annoying, especially when you're taking the time to teach. Don't say "all they get me to do is...

the way i was asked a couple of days ago if being an RN "was only a part time temp job" until I had finished college! as if i had just come in off the street to do my job!!! I said "no, I did nursing at college and this is my full time position". The...

It gets that colour from one drink all shift! That's if you ever get to the toilet....... And trying to guess what "sort" of cough the person has whilst holding your breath (smokers, bronchitis etc)

gotta agree with you there.....

Except don't come to the U.K. to work as you wont get big bucks over here!Oh no!

the family and patient where "thank you" never even passes their lips and where the child asks for coke - we are NOT McDonalds!!!!!

I just did a whole year of 12.5 hour shifts, my new job has 8 hour shifts, I'm so relieved. I'd rather do 5 days a week than 3. However, my advice for 12 hour shifts is to pace yourself, make sure you eat healthily and don't eat lots of crap like ch...

I was looking after a teenager with severe learning difficulties, he had a nappy on and filled it with green diarrhoea. He then put her fingers in it and started eating it! My stomach churned, his mum and sister were laughing at him but I nearly puk...

I was looking after a teenager with severe learning difficulties, he had a nappy on and filled it with green diarrhoea. He then put her fingers in it and started eating it! My stomach churned, his mum and sister were laughing at him but I nearly puk...

HI I was just asking about a reaction i had to a wasp sting once and i wondered if anyone else had experienced the same, about 5 years ago i got stung by a wasp and about 10 minutes later i fainted, i haven't been stung since, but i was wondering if ...

I everyone, I was asking if anyone knew about allergic reactions to wasp stings. I was stung a few years ago and fainted about 10 minutes later, i was wondering if it would be an anaphylactic reaction (or is that much worse and am i being stupid?). ...