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    The Great Double Standard?

    talaxandra replied to Doog's topic in Men in Nursing

    I don't think anyone's claiming (or has ever claimed) that every female nurse is perfect. Of course there are instances of female misconduct, sexual and otherwise - what's your
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    NZ Nurse curious about Oz!

    talaxandra replied to misscherie's topic in International Nursing

    Given that there's more effort in recruiting overseas nurses rather than locals ones, I imagine there's a reason for the practice. Certainly the NZ-trained grads we've had have been very good; I'd...
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    NZ Nurse curious about Oz!

    talaxandra replied to misscherie's topic in International Nursing

    That's not quite true - my ward takes 8 grads a year, and we regularly have Kiwis as part of the intake; last year half our grads trained in NZ, so it's certainly possible. The rest of Carol's post is...
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    Why do some Medstudents love to belittle nurses?

    talaxandra replied to LPNweezy's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    That was me - my point (and I acknowledge it was a rather lengthy post) is that there's no knowing where this could end up, so you need to weigh the likely impact of you taking this further, to you...
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    Why do some Medstudents love to belittle nurses?

    talaxandra replied to LPNweezy's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm sorry I misinterpreted your post and have edited my response
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    Why do some Medstudents love to belittle nurses?

    talaxandra replied to LPNweezy's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm not recommending that LPNweezy ignore it, I'm recommending that s/he not react, which is what trolls (which this idiot clearly is) want. If it was happening in a clinical setting then reporting...
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    Why do some Medstudents love to belittle nurses?

    talaxandra replied to LPNweezy's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Thank you for that link, msn10 - I think the part most relevant to this thread was The difference between the OP's situation and the one discussed by the CfNA is that the former is a medical student...
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    Moving from the US to Australia

    talaxandra replied to gintran's topic in International Nursing

    As all nurses must have completed a tertiary qualification, studying at school and college is not in itself sufficient. What the site actually says is: As the principal official language of India is...
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    Why do some Medstudents love to belittle nurses?

    talaxandra replied to LPNweezy's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'd have been content with responding "Dude, you're going to have a nasty wake up call if you hit the wards with that attitude, and you'll only be my boss if you switch from medicine to nursing" then...
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    Anyone working for FMC annoyed by this?

    talaxandra replied to CocoaGirl's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Interesting - the NHHD site you reference is Australian; not only do we have universal health care, the team who set up the trial work in a publically-funded hospital, the pilot was state-funded, and...
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    The Great Double Standard?

    talaxandra replied to Doog's topic in Men in Nursing

    I'm in Australia, so things are different, ITSSO SIMPLE, but my former unit manager was a L&D nurse in the '80's and early '90's, despite his member. I'm intrigued by the implication in your...
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    A Point of View From a Dialysis Patient

    talaxandra replied to NDXUFan's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    mamabaer's explained the rationale behind dietary and fluid recommenations for people with ESRD, something I'm surprised hasn't been explained to the OP before. I'm not sure what the OP's point about...
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    Any UK nurses preparing for the move Down Under??

    talaxandra replied to aussie2011's topic in International Nursing

    Rachel, in addition to pediatric wards in other hospitals, most but not all the capital cities have a children's hospital - I know RCH in Melbourne has a haematology/oncology unit and I imagine the...
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    How is this possible? Being Diagnosed with type 1 Diabetes at 20

    talaxandra replied to Still Riding's topic in Diabetes, Endocrine Nursing

    neliii, for the most part a diabetic diet is a generally healthy diet - whole grains rather than white, complex carbs rather than simple, 20 -30% fat, take care with saturated fat, a wide range of...
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    Surgical Nursing in OZ

    talaxandra replied to thegardenofpromise's topic in International Nursing

    It's true there are no assistants, but my hospital never had them anyway, so it's not been a big loss :) Although the official acute ration on nights is 1:8 that's the minimum safe staffing level -...
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    Surgical Nursing in OZ

    talaxandra replied to thegardenofpromise's topic in International Nursing

    Things are quite different at my hospital. For a start, it's in Victoria, so there's a 1:4 ratio (plus in charge on the AM + PM shifts). We've got an 8/8/10 roster, with shifts running 0700 - 1530,...
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    Surgical Nursing in OZ

    talaxandra replied to thegardenofpromise's topic in International Nursing

    I'm a medical nurse all the way, though we get a smattering of surgical patients - although the priorities are a little different, the biggest difference for me with surgery is having to deal with...
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    Can anyone tells me a few situations that you would avoid using IV opioids on a pt?

    talaxandra replied to SamZ's topic in International Nursing

    The PCA answers are really interesting - I was thinking of that as an IV route and looking more at situations where no IV opiates would be given, rather than no PRN dosing. Our PCA-receiving patients...
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    Freaking Out... not really about nursing...

    talaxandra replied to KJStarling's topic in International Nursing

    I recently worked a night duty with an agency nurse from North America - it was only her second shift in Australia and, though a few things were pretty different from what she was used to (including...
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    Any UK nurses preparing for the move Down Under??

    talaxandra replied to aussie2011's topic in International Nursing

    I'm Aus-trained, so no help, but a non-active AN member I met who visited Melbourne to check out moving here emigrated last year, recently bought a house, and has just had a promotion, so it's all...
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    Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

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

    My immediate response is "Everybody poops - and believe me, I've seen a lot of it, so unless you excrete gold, I'll be back." I'm with Carol - psych consult, stat! Also, WT actual
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    US Nurse wants to know best place to live in AU

    talaxandra replied to alabamagrad's topic in International Nursing

    There are several threads here debating the merits of various capital cities. Like MgSO4 says, it's a big country, so that's a little like asking where I should look at if I wanted to move to the US...
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    What's the purpose of pleating a medicated bandage?

    talaxandra posted a topic in General Nursing

    Okay, I'm way over here on the medical site of nursing, and though I can do a dressing with the best of them, I'm not so au fait with the more specialised or esoteric aspects of wound management....
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    Help with terminology?

    talaxandra replied to SarahRN1987's topic in International Nursing

    Trans-oesphageal echocardiogram ("oesophagus" has an 'o' here :), making your GERD our
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    Favorite "Lay Terms" For Diagnoses

    talaxandra replied to OleMissRN's topic in General Nursing

    What about the woman whose son had "the