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as agency staff i work between 2 hospitals and a multitude of wards and have been observing the attitude of auxillary staff such as the cleaners, porters for transfers, patient services assistants etc etc and i must say that i am disgusted at times b...

well to the male management i would love to say "could you come here please and let me give you a pr exam, i think you're megaly prostate is pressing up against your brain"........:chuckle or how about they all have cerbral lavages?? or how about "...

Just another example of the weak as catspiss meowwwwwww unions we have 'supporting' us and the multitude of unfairness, inequality and unrecognition we nurses face........

this little lamb should have been marched into managements office to the slaughter i say........... and there is one thing i am a little confused..a clerk is just that are they not, what right do they have to intervene with any nursing care?? tell th...

I hear ya! You had a shift from hell, a thing that is becoming increasingly common with all nurses worldwide........:) Administration is all too busy promoting hotel like hospitals I expect to see a concierge greeting us all and bidding us a 'good ...

yes find me a ward that smells of lily of the valley and im rushing to apply!! yes it is the gut wretching and emesis inducing aromas whos microscopic molecules find comfy little resting places on us nurses clothes, skin and hair so lucky us, we ev...

Yes I would say it is patient abandonment......amazing it could actually happen really......why have not management pulled her up about her sloppy paperwork before? And yes I agree, it does sound suspicious, was she 'on the nod' somewhere?.............

Interesting thread but what I ask is what are the differences between designations there? RN I know, but what are the job titles of say CNAS or LPNS?? Is that like Enrolled nurses and Assistants in nursing as we call them here?? Thanks for any clarif...

Many of you have already answered this post greatly I think, and as Mattsmom out it SOOOOOOO aptly, it is the management that are at fault for promoting a 'hotel like atmosphere', right on MAtts mom!! The general public has NO respect it seems for ...

Awwwwwwwww thanks TOOKIE! But how do you tell a person how to fit it all into 2 weeks in our glorious country??!!!!! I really think that you should stay a month Shay, 2 weeks is far too short considering the flight.....it takes a day just to fly h...

Not directly no, but being agency nurse and having had my family admitted to the hospitals I know quite a large number of them anyway! But for those that I dont know, I will ask questions regarding treatment/test results using the terminology that ma...

Ahhhhhhh you planning a visit to the sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains.......GLORIOUS beaches, amazing outback, vast open plains and deserts, rugged coastline... I could go on and on.... Our weather here is wonderful, and as posted above it...

hehehehehehehehehe @ sprung screwing @ work hehehehehehe......... i heard of a story of 2 gross cleaners at one of the hospitals i work at being sprung in a staffroom on the floor....helllllllo, no they thought *no one* would want to walk into the s...

Hehehehehehehehehe @ bagging the MD........:chuckle Maybe when she realises in the real world after all those back to back shifts, double shifts etc that she really will be way too tired to slather on those lashing of seductive mascara and glossy li...

That is shocking disher I really must say, what pitiful moral......How can people work like that?? Surely their pathetic woeful attitudes would have been reflected in the patient care (or what may have been their idea of patient care...)...... To not...

We are generally on first name basis with all doctors here thankfully and we have good working relationships with them and can often socialise with them at end of term rotation parties which are always a right trashy affair! One professor in a depa...

what i really find revolting is those patients that demand an ambulance escort upon discharge/transfer and they demand one when they have a million annoying relatives to do the simple task......they damend in order to prolong their dying swan acts......

I think that BURDEN OF PROOF hit the nail on the head!! Yes I agree that hospitals are all too consumed with delivering the best 'customer service' from ailing near nurseless institutions whilst failing to provide full support for staff in the event ...

Good old pair of TED stockings......not attractive but who can see them and by golly you feel the difference at the end of a long hard day...... Works for this nurse anyway.......

Ahhhhhhh the good old poopsies!! :roll I really like the 'Hansel and Gretel' type of shit, you know the type where they leave a trail...and not the breadcrumbs type either!.....often a good way to find wandering demented patients too I have found qu...

Errors?? Lets start with the blatantly obvious errors that reigns supreme and that being management and the administrators they haul on in to run the show, many who often havnt got a rats arse what really happens in the trenches and are too busy bean...

So what ,we have to wait 6 hours or even 22 hours in the ER before the next ward transfer........I say we as westerners living in developed countries should be incredibly grateful that we are receving prompt, efficient and effective medical treatme...

glandular fever/ebv perhaps? have you been checked your lft's? and other blood counts? i had glandular fever last year, mid year and i tell you i have never felt so exhausted and drunk with fatigue......too make matters worse i was misdiagnosed and...

the mass exodus of nurses also continues here with agency and pool staff making up at least 2 to 3 nurses per ward on any given shift.... until administrations and governments really pull their funger out it will continue here and worldwide...... bu...

they really that anal about 15 minutes or so there?? that is really anal sorry to say guys....... we are lucky here, if we at any time find that we wont be able to make it for a lunchbreak here which can be from 30 mins to 45 mins for lunch we can...