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hi, i'm about to head out into the australian bush for 2 months on a remote indigenous community, in the middle of the tanami desert. i have never done this before! the basic set up is this: 4 nurses, running clinics 7 days a week, then oncall over...

Hi there! i am currently doing a round-oz trip with agencies. for each state there are hundreds of agencies. but there is a gourp of agencies that service all states. they all fall under the same big roof, and anyone of them can get you a job... the...

I LOVE IT OUT HERE!!!! this has got to be what nursing is about!! primary care, emergency nursing, EVERYTHING!! I'm primarily doing the chronic disease type stuff, so the health board can get more funding, and i've been flown between 3 different comm...

i actually tell my patients ( if they are being narky): "if you thought you needed to come in, and truly think you are ill enough to come to ED, why would you then refuse treatment we reccommend, or want to go home? there are plenty of after hours GP...

just a few points: 1: we are a proffessional body. they traditional white uniform, while looking smart, conjures up the nurses role of yesteryear, while as fabulous as they were, were not the clinicians we are today. people remember this. the subserv...

im there for 2 months. theres a fair bit out here for resources... mostly uni websites.... i think i must be nuts, because i sure dont feel couragous at the moment.

thanks for the comments... i feela bit over whelmed about it, and im not there yet. i leave in 2 weeks. Just a bit more on my assignment. The aboriginal community population is of about 800 people, with around 50 non-aboriginal people. The nearest to...

hey guys!!! well i am no longer emplyed at the moment!!! its fabulous!!! my last day was last sunday. i leave for the northern territory in 2 weeks!!!! i'm so excited!!! i will definately be using allnurses more while i'm in remote areas. see you all...

Hi everyone, as part of my trip around australia, ive acquired a 2 month contract in a remote town in the middle of no-where in NT. has anyone worked in this kind of environment before? this is a big step for me, and while im not too concerned about...

Thanks Gwenith, a friend from work gave me a book on remote nursing. it's a study carried out over a year in a remote community in WA, and talks about all the hardships the nurses under go, and the lifestyle of being a remote nurse. absolutely fascin...

Thanks Gweneth, i know that i'm partnered with another nurse, and we take it in turns to be on call during out-of-hours, and then we run clinics 7 days a week. i made sure the agency knew that i dont have suturing or canulation skills, but i have a ...

on my first ever prac as a nursing student, i was placed on the medical ward in one of the major hospitals for 6 weeks. on this medical ward there was an elderly italian lady with dementia who didnt speak english. we , for some reason, called her 'm...

it was my birthday today. and i couldnt think of anyone better to spend my time with that those i studied nursing with. nursing bonds people together. i love these people so much, the are my closest friends. they love me for who i am, and accept my q...

i have to confess, i thought i would lose out on that bonding, having gone through the uni system.... but theses girls are my world. from what i can tell, its not as solid is it would have been if it was all done in nurses colleges, but its there. we...

that was only my experience of it. if your at the state childrends hospital, you'll be fine, because they have nurses who are speciasised to paeds care/ adult care transition. they dont expect you to be able to cope. not that they are underminding yo...

i went through uni with identical twins, Kristy and Kirsty My mum graduated her masters with a Rainbow Seagull ( it was environmental science)

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3 incidences. 1) cas pool nurse working on rehab ward, pts sats down to 78%. wrote it down, and walked off 2) same nurse, attends to another patients dressing while the patient is on the tiolet. 3) in a arrest, the patient goes asystole, a very senio...

you know you're a nurse when: - you are in theatre, and havent eaten in quite some time... but the hunger doesnt bother you unitl you smell the use of the diathermy, and start wondering about whether you want steak for dinner tonight. - when your fri...

thanks for the warning gwenith. for the above mentioned reasons (privacy), i will say that i'm "at the big public hospital south of the river, close to the uni". :wink2: they had an excellent grad program, ive just finished my '2nd rn program', whic...

if i had gone to an adult unit, i would have thrived. your time management skills are unsually pretty shonky still after uni, but they get better. un/ fortunately, i went head first onto the paediatric unit, where i had to put all my newly learned nu...

although, we should mention that you dont need to do your undergrad at those uni's to do post grad. i went to notre dame, and have been working for 2 years.

Before i was i nurse, i was never pushy, never stood up to anyone... now i'm a bit of a power freak... and am pushy... in the nicest way possible. as it has been said through-out this thread, as soon as i explain what i'm doing, there is co-operation...

yesterday i had a "moment" with the hair dressers who were doing my hair. i have made it my mission recently to let the public know the extent of knowledge we actually require. sometimes its completely innapropriate to "educate" people, ut i rocked y...

Hi Chris, curtin is a great uni, although i never went there. but i went through uni with curtin students. curtin gives you a BSc, instead os a Bch Nsg which means your exempt from other units, should you change career paths. its a 3 1/2year degree ...