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Hi Correctional nurses. I work in Australia and am just wondering how you give out your pills. Some of our patients are on a lot of pills, especially those who have Mental Health issues. All the nurses bag up the pills in the dispensary in zip lock b...

It depends on the level of security for each pod. They tend to hover about and the officers call them as we tell the officers. The methadone/suboxone parade is a bit different. They get in a line for that and when they have had their suboxone, they h...

Thanks for that. We sort of do that too in the pods but they are bagged up by the nurses first in zip lock bags with the patients names/ min numbers and cell numbers before they see the patients. I think this practice can lead to the patients gettin...

Hi, The 20 hours is professional development not necessarily education and training...easy peasy. It could be an article that you read. It could be a discussion with someone else when you learned something. It could be tertiary studies. It just has t...

Hi...love your eloquent writing and story telling. At the end of the day from a mangement perspective, we are all just numbers and it is wrong for those in management to keep pushing us. Management creates these problems and then makes them our prob...

Thank you for the ACT link. I have checked it out.This is fantastic. Many many thanks

Evidence suggests that patients show signs of deterioration up to 8 hours before they actually become unstable and proceed on to cardiac arrest if not treated in that 10 minute window of instability. How do you know your patient is deteriorating befo...

I'm not sure active/passive is about different learning styles...it's more about teaching styles. Learning should be student-centred not teacher-centred. And does it have to be one or/vs the other? Can you not have both? As for simulated learning... ...

I know there is no turning back but I've been around long enough to remember the Nightingale wards. The desk was in the middle and you could see all your patients. When patients were put into private rooms or bays, they could no longer be seen or hea...

Hi, My advice is you will get confused if you use this forum to build your knowledge because everyone has their own understanding and although people mean well, there needs to be some authenticity, references and peer consensus so you don't head off ...

Where was the support/counselling etc from the workplace and the union while this was going on for this poor man? Who provided him with legal assistance? Is the workplace now providing him with help or is it just you guys?

Pain is a biological characteristic that enables us to keep away from danger. Without it, we may hurt ourselves so seriously without knowing it that we risk death. This tells us that pain is in fact an objective experience. There are many different t...

It doesn't come with the t-shirt. If you can see it for what its worth you aren't puting up with it. If it makes you angry then are you any better? Your frustration lies in the fact that you can't give it back to them. I don't want to give it back to...

The question is..is pain subjective? No it's not but pain behaviours are and many are standing in judgement by measuring pain by pain behaviours. I guess most are talking about the narcotics/drugs of addiction and placing big value statements on the ...

Ahh...the battle of the wills! I've seen it all and I've felt your fire and passion. At the end of the day, it's not an us and them situation. There is nothing to be achieved by being defensive. There are no winners and no losers. After a while I rea...

"pain addeth zest unto pleasure and teacheth the luxury of health" pain is what the patient says it is, nothing more and nothing less.

Hey..... its better than those that nod off and snore with everyone worrying that they are obstructing their airway. We had a student a couple of weeks ago who was yawning so much she dislocated her jaw. And then there are the ones that nod off and t...

From your perspective it's probably a big deal. From theirs you are one of many students. An accidental email has been sent. What do you say about others in your emails? A word of advice. ...let it wash over you and get on with doing your best at you...

I'm not too sure that most of us see them as scary. The general theme seems to be that many of us see them as downright rude and I'm sorry but I don't accept gratuitous rudeness. I think we are well versed in being efficient when contacting a doc. Nu...

Ya gotta luv it that nurses are expected to communicate information in a way that accommodates doctor's limited adaptability to interpret the English language. So as we are being trained to do Doctor Speak are doctors being trained in the art of Nurs...

Do you guys have a government organisation that investigates and handles health care complaints? In some of the posts it seems there are cases for failure of duty of care. Do your managers advocate and mediate for you when you have a grievance agains...

I'm with you...I think this says it all

Just to introduce another complexity. Doctors are currentlythe gate keepers of health care. Their conlicts of interests are far and wide. Can you create a "treatable" epidemic of erectile dysfunction and not be able to treat malaria. Do you think the...

by your own admission you know little about oz health care. the problem with you guys is that your benchmarks aren't off the bottom line. your current health care system is the bottom line. if you are going to measure how good a health care system is...

Because ya keep stuffing up the countries that they come from with ur macropolitics