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    How would YOU interpret this question on an application questionairre?

    talaxandra replied to KimmbaFNP's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Good luck
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    How would YOU interpret this question on an application questionairre?

    talaxandra replied to KimmbaFNP's topic in Post Graduate Students

    They might also be looking for motivations that will keep you in the program, reducing the likelihood of a place going to someone who'll drop out part way
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    What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    talaxandra replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Oh, I wasn't thinking of the idiot family - I was thinking of the poor, tortured patient kept alive for over 30 years because his family thought he'd "snap out of"
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    Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    talaxandra replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    I used to work with a nurse who mngled words - Panadeine Forte was "Pandaeine Foot", temaze was "temay." My favourite, though, was the Lingy version of spina bifida - "spifida
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    What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    talaxandra replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    I think that's one of the worst horror stories on this
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    Free water restriction

    talaxandra replied to jam2007's topic in General Nursing

    I have no idea how I knew this, having a fly-paper memory for facts but not their origins. I had the idea that some brain chemistries have a dopaminergic response but when I googled I could find...
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    Grad programs in Melbourne

    talaxandra replied to rubystar's topic in International Nursing

    Hopefully a Vic grad can discuss programs with you. As of October 31st (the second of three pay rises as part of the 2007-2011 agreement), graduate nurses earn a weekly base rate of $879 ($23.1316/hr...
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    Free water restriction

    talaxandra replied to jam2007's topic in General Nursing

    We get a lot of psychogenic polydipsia - having a low Na+ makes them feel
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    Haunted Hospital

    talaxandra replied to DeadHeadRN's topic in General Nursing

    A friend of mine's going to start her PhD next year loking at nursing ghost stories and urban legends - I'll have to direct her to this
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    Normal temperatures =)

    talaxandra replied to cherrybreeze's topic in General Nursing

    Awesome!
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    Most Embarassing Nursing Moments

    talaxandra replied to Jessiedog's topic in Nursing Humor

    Ewww!
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    Looking for aJob as a Newly Grad Nurse in Australia

    talaxandra replied to kit25's topic in International Nursing

    There's a steep learning curve once you're on the floor for real - as a student you are shielded from a lot of the paperwork, difficult interactions and responsibilities you encounter once you're...
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    Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    talaxandra replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    Oooooooooooooooooouch! The unending weirdness of people never fails to surprise
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    Transgender Nursing Student

    talaxandra replied to Transgender_n_TN's topic in General Students

    I'm sorry to hear that, too. I hope you find a nursing school that's a better fit for
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    Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    talaxandra replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    We had a patient who catheterised herself with a garden hose (years of practice - dont try this at home) then dropped fish hooks down the tubing into her
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    Poll on new design

    talaxandra replied to loricatus's topic in General Nursing

    This is my first visit post-upgrade - I'll hold off on voting until I try natvigating around. So far though, I prefer the old
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    Drug addicted nurses

    talaxandra replied to ske0124's topic in Nurses Recovery

    After years of prompting from my dentist father I saw an orthodontist - although I have orthodonture (years of it) when I was a teen, my bite's apparently very complex, and I was grinding my teeth....
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    What things do your family members do that drive the nurse in you nuts?

    talaxandra replied to blondy2061h's topic in General Nursing

    This is a great thread! 1. If you're diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroiditis then going on thyroid replacment therapy isn't providing your body with an unnatural crutch. Yes, I'm sure - I work on an...
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    Working with pca's

    talaxandra replied to ceridwyn's topic in International Nursing

    I agree with Mr Ian - disagreeing with your decision is one thing (and clearly an issue in itself), documenting that in the notes and talking to the family is something else entirely. Is it possible...
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    Rates of pay. Guidelines or law?

    talaxandra replied to 5kilocat's topic in International Nursing

    5kilocat, I think you're going to fit in just fine :) And jealous-that-she-lives-elsewhere-Grace: the Yarra might be a rich, chocolatey brown, on which the famous Willy Wonka's river was based, but it...
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    Rates of pay. Guidelines or law?

    talaxandra replied to 5kilocat's topic in International Nursing

    While we may take the mick, I can say with a wholly straight face that Melbourne rocks and people everywhere else are just trying valiantly to overcome their distress at living somewhere second rate...
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    How often do you do vitals and I&Os?

    talaxandra replied to blondy2061h's topic in General Nursing

    Multi-specialty medical unit Our patient population is so varied that there's no commonality at all - some have 2/24 vitals their entire admission (lignocaine infusions); while stable patients waiting...
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    shingles

    talaxandra replied to grandee3's topic in General Nursing

    Patients admitted to my hospital with shingles are cared for in a negative ventilation room until the shingles crust over; everyone entering the room must gown and glove, as shingles exposure can (as...
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    Fear of Blood?

    talaxandra replied to Tim92's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Desensitisation programs for both blood and needle phobias are really successful and usually only require one or two
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    ...moving to melbourne :)

    talaxandra replied to rednalexa's topic in International Nursing

    Hi Sarah - welcome (in anticipation) to Melbourne, I hope you enjoy it here. The actual ratio varies depending on what kind of ward and in what acuity of hospital or department you work in - ICU has a...