ZippyGBR BSN, RN

Spinal Cord injuries, Emergency+EMS

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    What do you do when you're a pt?

    ZippyGBR replied to Sarah G's topic in General Nursing

    exactly my thoughts , and how i've dealt with it caring for other Nurses, as a patient and when relatives have been in hospital ... Anyway if it was my Gran you were caring for you'd know pretty...
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    Doctor as a patient

    ZippyGBR replied to love-d-OR's topic in General Nursing

    was she a Doc herself or just suffering from acute on chronic 'Wife of' syndrome
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    Doctor as a patient

    ZippyGBR replied to love-d-OR's topic in General Nursing

    and that the Doctors pandering to them need to be reminded by their clinical director exactly who is accountable. A Health professional 'Demanding' that the plan of care be changed is an obvious...
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    Not properly trained for ER?????

    ZippyGBR replied to bassadict69's topic in Emergency

    you can take the Nurse out of the ER , but you can't take the ER out of the Nurse
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    ER's Turn Non-Emergencies Away?

    ZippyGBR replied to mwboswell's topic in Emergency

    just another symptom of a messed up (not a) system ... here in the evil socialist NHS we've been 'turning people away' from the ED after triage for many years and more often than not with the...
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    Not properly trained for ER?????

    ZippyGBR replied to bassadict69's topic in Emergency

    No pre-registration programme be it USAmerican / European / Antipodean/ Martian or what ever will prepare you for ANY speciality at all - regardless of it's academic level or the quality and...
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    How do you incorporate faith into your daily nursing tasks?

    ZippyGBR replied to orangepink's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    evangelising has no place in healthcare. you are doing the work of ' the higher power' by practising your profession, it is also onerous when hospital chaplains attempt to find out the stated...
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    Can a nurse come to work after taking a benzodiazepine?

    ZippyGBR replied to Smackdown's topic in General Nursing

    the fundamental issue here and the one which has earned members questionably justifable infractions win AN is the assumption seen from a number of posters 1. all Nurses taking medication are...
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    Can a nurse come to work after taking a benzodiazepine?

    ZippyGBR replied to Smackdown's topic in General Nursing

    the employing manager should not be seeing any of this, only Occupational Health .... Employing managers who are health Professionals are some of the worse people for recognising where the...
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    Can a nurse come to work after taking a benzodiazepine?

    ZippyGBR replied to Smackdown's topic in General Nursing

    who is 'they' ? the facility ( trying to cast doubt on their culpability)? the registration authority? some wise orifice lawyer ? lizard headed aliens? conspiraloons ? Senator McCarthy? this is where...
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    reamed out for using soft wrist restraints

    ZippyGBR replied to newnurse012's topic in General Nursing

    is this an in hospital or out of hospital question ? on ambulance stretcher restraints are used in motion same as seatbelts are used on the seats for crash safety purposes,- people are not tied to...
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    We may need fewer nurses in the hospital...

    ZippyGBR replied to Chin up's topic in General Nursing

    from my right-pondian view because the conservatives, McCarthyites, rednecks and conspiraloons can't distinguish between 'common good' and 'communism' and socialised and socialist ... the USA...
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    Frontline staff to lose jobs

    ZippyGBR replied to XB9S's topic in International Nursing

    32 and it's rare to have less than a dozen patients with tetraplegia or central cord syndrome ( and the consequent problems that brings for feeding and self care ) ... and of course the acutes who are...
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    Question about enemas...

    ZippyGBR replied to jnette's topic in General Nursing

    for a patient with an an established neurogenic bowel from a spinal cord injury NOT performing a manual evacuation could have greater adverse effects especially if they are T6 or above
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    Question about enemas...

    ZippyGBR replied to jnette's topic in General Nursing

    if the patient is a paraplegic s/he will probalbvy have some kind of neurogenic bowel ... failure to produce from an enema could do with so hands-on Or is that 'hands -in' investigation i.e. a PR...
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    is it wrong to sit on a patients bed?

    ZippyGBR replied to LPNweezy's topic in General Nursing

    it's an infection control risk ... however i've regularly gone and got either a visitors chaor or one of the chairs from the station to sit down by the bed with a patient to go through paperwork,...
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    Frontline staff to lose jobs

    ZippyGBR replied to XB9S's topic in International Nursing

    Misswoosie to answer your points, you have missed the point about acuity and the pressures on staff, you have also missed that any unit that staffs safely finds itself being used as a reservoir...
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    We may need fewer nurses in the hospital...

    ZippyGBR replied to Chin up's topic in General Nursing

    even though the drugs have never left the facility ? there are valid concerns over storage for drugs which have been out in the community and consequently even if the law allows these drugs to be...
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    We may need fewer nurses in the hospital...

    ZippyGBR replied to Chin up's topic in General Nursing

    which is why the vast majority of income tax and income tax like systems have progressive tax rates i.e. once you earn above a threshold - the income above that threshold is taxed at a higher rate...
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    We may need fewer nurses in the hospital...

    ZippyGBR replied to Chin up's topic in General Nursing

    yet another candidate for a McCarthy award ... A comprehensive national health service is not 'socialism' there are none of the tenets of marxism or any of the further perversions of the...
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    Can nurses do x-ray procedures like in urgent care?

    ZippyGBR replied to willowRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry to have to say this but yet another hard of understanding post on Allnurses, where dogma, tradition and ignorance influences the advice
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    looking up a patients arrest records?

    ZippyGBR replied to LPNweezy's topic in General Nursing

    those who refused to care for him should have been disciplined and reported to their professional regulator, as others have said there is nothing to gain from attempting to seek out what someone...
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    We may need fewer nurses in the hospital...

    ZippyGBR replied to Chin up's topic in General Nursing

    France is not the EU state closest to bankruptcy , they haven't gone begging cap in hand unlike the Irish who maxxed out their credit cards and thought they'd found the pot of gold at the end of the...
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    OR Circulator vs. PACU

    ZippyGBR replied to ijuanabhappy's topic in Operating Room

    just Circulating or Scrubbing and Anaesthetic assistant as well ? my first job on qualifying was in theatres - if you were theatres staff you scrubbed and circulated and did a bit of the...
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    Can nurses do x-ray procedures like in urgent care?

    ZippyGBR replied to willowRN's topic in General Nursing

    a lot of this will depend on legislation in the UK this would be perfectly possible assuming the Nurse was trained as an 'operator' under IR(ME)R, e.g. most Dentists are 'operator' trained for...