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    Australia versus New Zealand

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

    I don't know anything about visas but I've worked with many kiwis whose qualifications were accepted without issue and their education was great. About half of them did their grad years with us, so...
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    Dehydration due to alcohol before surgery

    talaxandra replied to marie_22's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    It's true that surgery can be done with dehydrated patients, particularly if it's unavoidable. However, well-hydrated patients are easier to cannulate, have fewer intraoperative complications, better...
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    schizophrenic brother discharged by his case worker

    talaxandra replied to iwanna's topic in Psychiatric

    Just an aside on the smoking - it can reduce some of the symptoms of schitzophrenia, as well as side effects of some of the
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    new grad. in US looking to work in australia

    talaxandra replied to link51411's topic in International Nursing

    In Victoria it's illegal for untrained staff to perform nursing work in acute care, so there aren't any AIN/CNA-like roles, though aged care would fall apart without them. The resource/in charge nurse...
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    Patients paying for TV service in the hospital

    talaxandra replied to Turtle in scrubs's topic in General Nursing

    My hospital outsourced it, to a company in Queensland. The good news is that it only take a phone call to get it connected if the patient's admitted or moves room, the bad news is that if this happens...
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    Hygiene--HELP PLEASE

    talaxandra replied to ANurseWannaB's topic in General Nursing

    Have you been married long? Is this new, getting worse lately, or a long-standing issue that you've had enough of? Because if it's a change it's come from somewhere and that might help you work out...
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    Anyone get out of a ticket just for being an RN?

    talaxandra replied to nicu4me's topic in General Nursing

    A friend stopped at a red light driving home after night duty, and fell asleep. A couple of police officers knocked on her window after watching her sleep through three sets of lights, then escorted...
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    Rare Illnesses please!

    talaxandra replied to Fuji James's topic in General Students

    Off the top of my head, I've looked after patients with: catastophic APLAS (antiphospholipid antipody syndrome); MELAS (mitochondrial enchephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis with stroke-like symptoms);...
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    Declining coverage-The worst is yet to come

    talaxandra replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I assume that bold was sarcasm. My point was that illegal immigrant use of the US health care system is often given as one of reasons for the difference between the US & the rest of us, and has...
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    For Australian nurses (more specifically qld)???

    talaxandra replied to midori09's topic in International Nursing

    I agree with Grace (hi Grace :)) Even criminal records of juveniles are sealed, however according to google answers, cautions are removed after five years, so if it was longer ago than that then there...
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    *Weird* Patient Allergies

    talaxandra replied to cherrybreeze's topic in General Nursing

    I recently discovered that morph makes me vomit for hours - not an allergy, but I'd like to have an antiemetic with it if I ever need it again. However, I know a lot of people see that as an allergy...
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    Declining coverage-The worst is yet to come

    talaxandra replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I don't know what this refers to. I agree that every country has different economic and demographic profiles. As such, specific stats about Australia's welfare recipients and tax structure aren't...
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    Declining coverage-The worst is yet to come

    talaxandra replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Interesting. So two questions - why do you think that you have more welfare bums than we, and do you think the percentage of drug seekers would increase from that truly staggering figure of 60%?...
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    Declining coverage-The worst is yet to come

    talaxandra replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I certainly come across a few drug seekers in Melbourne, but as I don't work in Cas I'm sure I only see a fraction of those who present. However, I'm not aware of any statitics about higher rates of...
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    Declining coverage-The worst is yet to come

    talaxandra replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I'm with herring, only my question is - do you think Americans are so lazy that, if they get the same kind of health care model utilised by every other Western society, they'll decide to give up on...
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    Can Someone Be a Nurse Without Jean Watson??

    talaxandra replied to Q.'s topic in General Nursing

    I think that's ridiculous! Some of the best nurses I've ever worked with have been men, and some of the best nurses I've worked with haven't Cared (in the Watsonian touchy feely way) about their...
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    High blood pressure

    talaxandra replied to PopeJane3rd's topic in General Nursing

    Although >140/90 is considered hypertension, some health organisations have proposed the idea of pre-hypertension for people who consistently have a BP >120/80 but under the hypertension level....
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    Refusal of Brain Death exam??

    talaxandra replied to PICNICRN's topic in General Nursing

    While I accept that this may very well have been due to misdiagnosis rather than a flaw in the concept of brain death, the fact remains that there are well documented cases of patient officially...
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    "Other" healthcare careers...

    talaxandra replied to ONCRN84's topic in General Nursing

    After five or six years as an RN one of my former colleagues switched to speech pathology and loves it. She said nursing gave her the flexibility to fit work around her contact hours at
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    Say What??????!!!!!!!!!!

    talaxandra replied to gt4everpn's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I once had a family rush hysterically into the corridor yelling "Heeeeeeeeelp! She's crashing!" Half a dozen nurses rush into the room to see.. a LOL sitting up in bed looking absolutely fine....
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    How many clinical placement hours do you get in Aus?

    talaxandra replied to toninz's topic in International Nursing

    I finished my training a hundred (well, seventeen) years ago, when it really was "training" so am no use to you at all, but this post on an unrelated thread suggests at least some Aus institutions...
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    Bumper stickers you'd like to see...

    talaxandra replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in Nursing Humor

    Love it!Renal nurses do it without peeing (well, don't we all?) ID nurses do it with precautions ID nurses do it dressed up Diabetes educators do it sweetly (although that kind of is the
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    What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    talaxandra replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    Though I would not go so far as saying they peeve me I do find myself frustrated by full codes in patients who have no chance of surviving it, because it is futile, distressing for everyone involved,...
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    What is your unit like - Private, Semi-private, or Multi-bed rooms?

    talaxandra replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    We are an ID (and other specialty) unit, so need a lot of isolation rooms. Only 4 of them are negatively ventilated, which has been an issue with H1N1 but so far so good. When we remodelled...
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    What is your unit like - Private, Semi-private, or Multi-bed rooms?

    talaxandra replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    Public hospital so the rooms are single or double. We used to have 8 single, 10 double and a four bed bay (great for moving lifting machine etc in) but moved last year and now have 18 single rooms and...