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I work as an agency nurse in UK as a PACU or recovery nurse. Most hospitals have a policy that we are not allowed to give ANY intravenous medication to our patients with or without a skills certificate. I do not have the certificate but have been a n...

The NHS is full of staff who are out to bully, backstab and tell tale on their co workers. It was a shock for me when i walked into my first placement as an agency nurse and saw ARE YOU BEING BULLIED posters everywhere. It is accepted practice and s...

worked full time till 2005 then joined agency and started working in NHS before that only worked in private hospitals so it was quite a shock ;-) most NHS hosp dont accept outside certs and wont give u competency waste of money they say but so they w...

That petty co worker had an intubated patient... the other mentioned case...the doctors and managers were busy deciding on further plan of care and i think any patient would be more relaxed with a nurse who had been caring for them from the onset...u...

Thanx...i did what was good for the patient and did not ignore a policy...why else would i be working if i was going around ignoring policies in different trusts...i will look into that inspection check...theres 2 sister hospitals and both have separ...

I did what was told for the good of the patient...policy or not..no harm came to the patient as it relieved her vomiting...my manager keeps on saying i KNEW i was not to give it...and i am saying for all the OTHER times you and your petty staff saw m...

I understand it fully...i refuse to look like a bad nurse over the incident and the management admit they are partly to blame for the lax execution of rules... and limply implement them when it suits them...but a lesson learnt for the future...work l...

Let me repeat....the policy was in place when i entered the first recovery unit..there are 4...and in every single one i was giving IV care..in front of every single manager and senior in those units...no one mentioned an iv policy for agency nurses ...

Now that the cycle has cleared my head...:-)...why not make a last point...being S African and taking a blood gas had nothing to do with the issue...but if I was a petty spiteful UK nurse, with less experience and probably a chip on my shoulder...in ...

Like a true professional I am not going to respond to that statement...but I will add that a one spiteful petty UK nurse, among many, who always seem to have a chip on their shoulder when a more experienced foreigner enters their unit. I am not there...

thanx....I am a nurse not and ODP....the prescription was already written down and he said to give it on his behalf as he could not leave his unconscious patient...i had been giving iv's for the past year and a half in the unit with a prescription an...

Most hospitals have different policies regarding agency staff and sometimes hospitals under tha same trust have separate policies for the agency nurse. Most of the ODP's state they dont give IV's so I am just going by what is said. As stated before s...

I FULLY UNDERSTOOD AND APPRECIATED THE RESPONSE ;-) ...which made me feel much better...i am back at work tomorrow and will see what they say after my letter...good luck to me. different perspectives will always arise and was just trying to clarify t...

I have been supposedly breaching this policy for over a year and a half and giving much more potent stuff than an anti emetic and not once was I stopped. In the UK and in most hospitals we cannot perform most nursing invasive duties without a compet...

Totally frustrating that all the recovery nurses are from the agency and the there are 2 hopsitals in the same trust. They each have different set of rules and policies for iv drugs and for agency nurses. And in both I was not stopped from giving iv ...

Fair enough...a bit of background....i started the placement in April 2010 and have been giving iv meds and care in front of every senior and junior manager, the unit managers and including my present manager in 4 different recovery areas of the hops...

Haha...thats ok...enjoy ur recovery

You cant reason with UK hospitals trusts sadly..their rules are silly and set by people who have little idea of what nursing actually entails i think..i am an RN since 1995....the issue has now reached new heights as i spoke to the manager and it is ...

hello again...the patient was awake and talking and quite ready to be discharged to 2nd stage recovery room...and the nausea and vomiting was un expected...so she was fine...but the pettiness of it riled me up and I was not thinking about the rules o...

thanx for replies...im def not lazy ;-)...and spoke to the manager who said the rules have changed in the hospital to NO AGENCY NURSE TO GIVE IV AT ANY TIME. they do not accept an outside IV certification and they refuse to allow us to do theirs acco...

We cannot do iv with or without it but when i joined this placement they said if i am competent and confident i can give iv but the rules had changed and no one updated them. just not worth the effort n aggro. rather do less n get paid more.

Hi Anna Thanx i do unnerstand that so will check out the scene. g x

Hello all I am based in the UK and am thinking of moving stateside but sadly do NOT want to really work as a nurse there but would like to keep my options open. Could i write the enclex exam before i apply for or get a job? If yes then where do i enr...

Hello Ruth I am a South african trained nurse - started 1986 and have over 20years experience in most departments but am really looking for part time placements as i do acting as well ( wanna be closer to Hollywood ). So as i do here in the UK i.e wo...

Helllo there Where do i get to know which ones do that. I really just want to go to NYC or California. Will check out anyway. Thanx a stax