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    Autonomy and Informed Consents

    talaxandra replied to rncee's topic in General Nursing

    Ethical issues can indeed be confusing. My take: a year after diagnosis chemo is unlikely to be effective, and the reasons Zenobia decided against it (painful & expensive) are still valid. I...
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    Any thoughts for H1N1 vaccination?

    talaxandra replied to Sophia36's topic in International Nursing

    Hi Sophia, I haven't heard anything about deaths associated with the vaccine, though there are risks of side effects as with any other medication. The H1N1 vaccine's side effecgts are mostly limited...
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    Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    talaxandra replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    Interestingly, friends who worked in Edinburgh referred to a patient's GCS and were asked by the Scottish RN there "his what?" WHen they replied "Glasgow Coma Score" she said she'd never heard of it!...
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    Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    talaxandra replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    Is a placenta fascist a really underdeveloped, right-wing despot or just his source of support? That is a ridiculous confusion! Tatara - fore-ah-men oh-vah-lay (at least in
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    Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    talaxandra replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    It really threw me the first time I heard my US-raised A&P lecturer pronounce capillary - in Australia it is ca-pill-ary, so when he said cap-ill-ary I thought it was a structure new to
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    Australia versus New Zealand

    talaxandra replied to seungk5's topic in Australia, New Zealand

    The recession is pretty much officially over here - interest rates and house prices have already started to
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    Australia versus New Zealand

    talaxandra replied to seungk5's topic in Australia, New Zealand

    Well, that is a fairly sucky combination - no wonder I work with half a dozen
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    Help with questions for my paper please

    talaxandra replied to erena1289's topic in General Nursing

    40 hours/week, which includes a paid day off every four weeks (five on nights) Nine in total on day shifts, four or five on nights depending on acuity We practice team nursing, which means I and a...
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    Got interview but they didn't read my resume

    talaxandra replied to tothepointeLVN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Wow, what a waste if their and your time - how hard would it be to put that information in the ad, and how long would it take to glance at the resume? Did you at least get some interview experience in...
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    New male nurse, and got a question

    talaxandra replied to BigNick909's topic in Men in Nursing

    Fair enough, but I'd like to point out that the male nurse section of a nursing website is pretty much the last place that someone will assume a connection between your job, your gender and your...
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    Would you have given the meds??

    talaxandra replied to **LaurelRN's topic in General Nursing

    i have been struck while reading this thread by the confusion about diabetes classification. to clarify: a person with type 1 or insulin-dependent diabetes does not make insulin. their bgl is more...
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    New male nurse, and got a question

    talaxandra replied to BigNick909's topic in Men in Nursing

    Hi Nick - welcome to allnurses. I work in acute care in Australia, so I have no idea about CNA/patient ratios in aged care in the US. I hope someone here can help you. I just wondered to know why you...
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    How do you make exercise a non-negotiable?

    talaxandra replied to Purple_Scrubs's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Also, if getting up early is a problem maybe you need to look at when you go to bed - insufficient sleep has been shown to contribute to weight gain and other health issues, in addition to an...
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    Best ER Nurse quotes

    talaxandra replied to JennyAS's topic in Emergency

    My favourite thing about foreign objects is the stories - dude, just say "I decided to shove this [insert name of inserted object here] up there, even though I could buy a butt plug with a flange to...
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    chance of working in oz for overseas new grad with norther territory registration,

    talaxandra replied to Patient's love's topic in International Nursing

    I don't know what you've tried - I put nursing, jobs and rural into google and got a 43,000 hits, including this site, this site and this site. I don't know anything about the agencies or the...
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    1st patient that died

    talaxandra replied to valsquek's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry you didn't like our advice, though I have to tell you that if you think that they were stern lectures you've been fortunate thus far. I clearly can't speak for Vito, but my post was intended...
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    chance of working in oz for overseas new grad with norther territory registration,

    talaxandra replied to Patient's love's topic in International Nursing

    It's not about hard work, though that's certainly true - it's that it can be really difficult for experienced nurses to manage, in addition to cultural aspects of remote area work that can be...
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    chance of working in oz for overseas new grad with norther territory registration,

    talaxandra replied to Patient's love's topic in International Nursing

    Rural and remote are very different things. Remote I'd be very wary about working in a remote setting without much experience, even for locally trained nurses - even if they were prepared to take you...
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    ICU envy?

    talaxandra replied to CandyGyrl's topic in MICU, SICU

    Wow, Candy - you don't have a very high option of Med/Surg. With the exception of aortic balloon we manage all those aspects on my ward, and use a combination of observation, experience and knowledge...
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    I don't care if you know someone whos had every disease that we talk about!

    talaxandra replied to Duice88's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    We had one of those, too. She shut up when we got to sexually-transmitted diseases,
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    Returning back to Oz

    talaxandra replied to AussieKylie's topic in International Nursing

    Pay's better,
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    Nursing in Australia...Working overtime?

    talaxandra replied to AntonellaB's topic in International Nursing

    Yes to the English test - much to their indignation, my non-EU-passport-holding colleagues had to sit English exams to work in the UK, too. in Melbourne, at least, overtime in fulltime positions is...
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    chance of working in oz for overseas new grad with norther territory registration,

    talaxandra replied to Patient's love's topic in International Nursing

    For the most part, employees are reluctant to hire overseas-trained nurses without experience, unless it's for a graduate position, as the transition from student to RN is difficult enough without...
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    Grad programs in Melbourne

    talaxandra replied to rubystar's topic in International Nursing

    I'm with silverdragon (which is a good thing, what with her being the mod and all!) - you'll find answers to most of the questions you have about visas and registrtion to work in Australia in the...
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    Grad programs in Melbourne

    talaxandra replied to rubystar's topic in International Nursing

    Graduate programs are competitive, year-long placements designed to assist graduate nurses transition from studetns to registered nrses. Though each hospital program differs, msot provide a period of...