MVH119

MVH119

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  1. Nurse bashing by UK public AGAIN

    MVH119 replied to scattycarrot's topic in United Kingdom

    Oh come on. People are only human. God knows the worst job in the world is the dread Elderly care. Small wonder folk turn to

  2. Nurse bashing by UK public AGAIN

    MVH119 replied to scattycarrot's topic in United Kingdom

    News Politics Health policy Anger over peer's 'sex and booze' nurses slur Matthew Taylor The Guardian, Saturday March 1 2008 Article history - Contact us A Tory peer who branded nurses as "grubby,...

  3. Good jokes

    MVH119 posted a topic in Nursing Humor

    As a long-standing Plastics trained nurse one favorite joke of the plastic surgeons was: Q: What is the definition of a holistic orthopod? A: He considers the WHOLE

  4. I'm quitting nursing

    MVH119 posted a topic in General Nursing

    After losing my chosen job in Plastics because my ward got shut down and trying other surgical posts I got a relevation of sorts last night. I was emptying a bedpan at the time and the thought struck...

  5. I'm quitting nursing

    MVH119 replied to MVH119's topic in General Nursing

    What interests me is why anyone thinks nursing holds the moral high ground, Why would it? It is just a job. A dirty one at that. It does not give you moral superiority for liking it. I nursed for 12...

  6. I'm quitting nursing

    MVH119 replied to MVH119's topic in General Nursing

    I am well-qualified enough to teach, having a Masters degree.. But I do not want to teach about a job I hated

  7. I'm quitting nursing

    MVH119 replied to MVH119's topic in General Nursing

    What is awesome about nursing? It's a nasty job that I was daft enough to do. No

  8. Redeployed to ITU and hating it

    MVH119 posted a topic in MICU, SICU

    The specialist Plastics ward I had worked on for the last 7 years was recently shut down by the NHS Trust I work for (I'm in the UK) and the only alternative post I was offered was in critical care...

  9. Redeployed to ITU and hating it

    MVH119 replied to MVH119's topic in MICU, SICU

    The end of this sorry episode is as follows. I was moved back to the surgical wards at the new site. I'm doing fine there as I love surgical nursing and it really does not matter which speciality it...

  10. Re-deployed and hating it

    MVH119 posted a topic in International Nursing

    My Trust recently moved the ward I had worked on for 7 years, a specialist plastic surgery unit, out of its original Middlesex location to an inner London site 12 miles away. 12 miles dosen't sound...

  11. Re-deployed and hating it

    MVH119 replied to MVH119's topic in International Nursing

    It is a month now and if anything I dislike the job more as time goes on. I am in fact very seriously considering quitting nursing

  12. Letting CNA pass your meds, bad idea?

    MVH119 replied to walla189's topic in General Nursing

    Whatever

  13. Letting CNA pass your meds, bad idea?

    MVH119 replied to walla189's topic in General Nursing

    Well our legal code of conduct allows the delegation of some tasks "as long as the practioner is satisied as to the competence of the delagatee". I am so satisfied, I do not suggest that the HCA...

  14. i decided not to have my son circumcised-need feedback

    MVH119 replied to nursemn's topic in General Nursing

    What a lot of nonsense! Funny how all Europe does not run around with infected memberes at all turns. Circumcision is a superstition. No more and no less. It is an entirely unnecasary

  15. Letting CNA pass your meds, bad idea?

    MVH119 replied to walla189's topic in General Nursing

    And I suggest you are slightly less snotty. All the HCA"S of my exprience can not only read but see as well. They are no more likely to confuse Mr Smith with Mr Jones than I am. It is pefectly legal...

  16. problems with my unit, any ideas?

    MVH119 replied to rags's topic in General Nursing

    What the hell is

  17. i decided not to have my son circumcised-need feedback

    MVH119 replied to nursemn's topic in General Nursing

    it is not even an issue in Europe. We expect your average bloke to have a foreskin and are mildly disconcerted if he dosen't unless he is Jewish or

  18. Stories for Halloween

    MVH119 replied to MVH119's topic in General Nursing

    Come on folks share your scary haunting

  19. Stories for Halloween

    MVH119 posted a topic in General Nursing

    This happened about three months ago.. On night duty I often carry the emergency bleep as the senior nurse on duty. One night one of the Oncology wards called me urgently needing an antibiotic...

  20. Letting CNA pass your meds, bad idea?

    MVH119 replied to walla189's topic in General Nursing

    It now occurs to me that the HCA is miles away from an untrained aide. HCA's in the UK do everything including taking bloods, putting in Venflons, taking obs and doing BM's Perhaps you mean the...

  21. Letting CNA pass your meds, bad idea?

    MVH119 replied to walla189's topic in General Nursing

    And how exactly does the paracetamol tablet change from your putting it in a pot and telling the HCA to give it to Mr Smith?. It is perfectly safe to do so. As long as you can read a drug chart and...

  22. i decided not to have my son circumcised-need feedback

    MVH119 replied to nursemn's topic in General Nursing

    It is totally unindicated surgically, All Europe is aghast at this mutilation carried out on baby boys. Funny thing but compare the infection

  23. Letting CNA pass your meds, bad idea?

    MVH119 replied to walla189's topic in General Nursing

    Rubbish. I often give routine oral meds to our HCA's If you have done your job properly are 100% sure that your practice is safe then what harm can come from it? A HCA giving a Paracetamol tablet...

  24. Letting CNA pass your meds, bad idea?

    MVH119 replied to walla189's topic in General Nursing

    I see no reason at all why a HCA cannot administer a medicine properly checked by a staff nurse. If you, as a qualified nurse have not correctly checked the contraindications, interactions and safety...

  25. Letting CNA pass your meds, bad idea?

    MVH119 replied to walla189's topic in General Nursing

    Nurset1981 is talking rubbish. I'd trust our wonderful, indispensable HCA's with anything short of a intubation. HCA's aren't stupid. As a student I learned more from them than I did from the...