Tiwi

Tiwi

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  1. Did anyone hate nursing school?

    Tiwi replied to FNPhopeful's topic in First Year After Licensure

    What annoyed me was the first year or so when the subjects were "fluffy" eg professionalism etc. If you can get through those it can be a little more meaningful, though those who have to work, have...

  2. phone calls no outsider would believe

    Tiwi replied to JBudd's topic in Emergency

    these are ewww! I have never had calls like these, thank God! Are they serious, or do they like to put the nurse on the spot? The worst call I have ever had is not funny. I had a woman saying she...

  3. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

    Tiwi replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Nursing Humor

    Question: I have never worked in a private facility. Do you have to do everything they say if you work in one, because they are paying for the care they receive? Or are you allowed to promote...

  4. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

    Tiwi replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Nursing Humor

    OMG! The reasons I have had for pressing the buzzer are much more boring: what time is it - when there is a clock right in front of them can you turn on the television/change the channel/turn it off...

  5. How to get to work in a snowstorm?

    Tiwi replied to AfloydRN's topic in General Nursing

    I hate to tell you, but its a world wide

  6. When staff accuse resident's of being racist?

    Tiwi replied to LadyMonteCarlo's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I agree with the latter, but I really think that support should be there for both carer as well as resident, so that the former can care for the latter more confidently. Telling her to not take...

  7. How to get to work in a snowstorm?

    Tiwi replied to AfloydRN's topic in General Nursing

    I can see this is a serious problem. I'm lucky to live in an area where there is no such thing as hail let alone snow. But yet our local hospital still has snowshields, seriously! Apparently it is...

  8. The GOOD things about nursing - why are we still doing it

    Tiwi replied to Tiwi's topic in General Nursing

    When nurses work as a team, the atmosphere is great. Even when the work is c**p, in these conditions we seem to get ourselves through. I guess it's our determination, as well our warped sense of...

  9. Careplans in your head?

    Tiwi replied to Troischats's topic in General Nursing

    Care plans are important, and I found it initially hard to work out what was required for individual care. Where I am, we still use non computerised recording. Even if you use a standardised care...

  10. Can Anyone Help Me Think This Through?

    Tiwi replied to TrudyRN's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with everyone; you need a break out of the norm to see what you have been missing. New areas mean new knowledge and skills gained, and that can make life more interesting However only you can...

  11. The GOOD things about nursing - why are we still doing it

    Tiwi replied to Tiwi's topic in General Nursing

    I love it when you meet ppl in the street; they say hi and thankyou, maybe introduce you to friends and/pr relatives with them (its embarrassing when sometimes you don't remember them though), but I...

  12. The GOOD things about nursing - why are we still doing it

    Tiwi replied to Tiwi's topic in General Nursing

    I love the fact you are working with ppl, not machines or sitting behind desks. Its great to be able to listen, even if you can't solve their problems, though sometimes the opportunity in this job is...

  13. 501 ways to know you've been on allnurses.com too long!

    Tiwi replied to Roy Fokker's topic in Nursing Humor

    Hah! I've just been doing

  14. FELLOW Nurses please help with this dilema. I am so upset!

    Tiwi replied to sweetnurse2006's topic in General Nursing

    It sounds to me you have been really hurt, and it is ongoing because you have your family to provide for. I hope the old saying is true for these ppl, "what goes around, comes around". Going to an...

  15. When staff accuse resident's of being racist?

    Tiwi replied to LadyMonteCarlo's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I haven't caught on as to whether the resident has dementia. If they do, I believe they say things that prior to their condition commencing they would not say. And their confusion wouldn't help...

  16. Do you trust automatic "vitals" machines??

    Tiwi replied to Fairlythere's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I have found that electronic sphygmos in the main, are accurate, and really help when it is difficutlt to hear a BP. But I have found them to be totally in accurate when there is an arrhythmia, eg AF,...

  17. Adelaide hospitals

    Tiwi replied to johana's topic in International Nursing

    Hi, I am also considering moving to Adelaide at the end of my grad year next year. I don't know any of the hospitals, and would really like to know how ppl rate them according to such things as...

  18. Please Guide me(Foreign Nurse)

    Tiwi replied to rosita33's topic in International Nursing

    Sorry, I really don't know the processes involved. That is why I suggest you contact the nurses board in the State you are planning to go

  19. Please Guide me(Foreign Nurse)

    Tiwi replied to rosita33's topic in International Nursing

    rosita We really don't make it easy in Australia do we? Where I work, many of our nurses are from the Phillipines, Zimbabwe, Britain, and we both learn from them and appreciate their presence. I have...

  20. Anyone ever work full time while getting their RN?

    Tiwi replied to RNpandoraRN's topic in General Nursing

    Agreed totally. I worked full time as an EN (which I gather is similar to an LPN? from this board) until I finished my course. My last practical was four months long, so I had to save leave to do...

  21. If they are so worried about my health....

    Tiwi replied to jo272wv's topic in General Nursing

    The hospital I work at has a gym, developed over many years, by the staff themselves. They now have a number of machines, and while one may have to pay, all the money does go to the gym and is spent...

  22. Please Guide me(Foreign Nurse)

    Tiwi replied to rosita33's topic in International Nursing

    Australia has both individual Nurses Boards, as well as the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council. I would suggest contacting both of these, plus also may be a couple of Australian agencies may be...

  23. Aussie student nurses ? re clinical placement

    Tiwi replied to jax's topic in International Nursing

    Agree with all of the above. Also, make sure that the person preceptoring your student wants to do it. Easier said than done when the hospital states who / who does not preceptor students. Best of...

  24. Happily Addicted to allnurses.com

    Tiwi replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    You were awake before the kids on Christmas morn! OMG you are addicted. And...I think I'm beginning to join you all. That song is absolutely

  25. Would you ever be a doctor?

    Tiwi replied to arizonanurse's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing offers personalised care, whereas medicine is more concerned with "that fractured NOF down the hall" or as I was once referred to "the scope on the trolley" The pressures doctors suffer I...