ZippyGBR BSN, RN

Spinal Cord injuries, Emergency+EMS

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    dispensing medications

    ZippyGBR replied to 9309's topic in Emergency

    here in right pondia any 'supplying' of medication for a patient to take home has to be the pre labelled packages already made up by the pharmacy dept .. this is apparently legal as the pharmacist...
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    Back stabbing

    ZippyGBR replied to fiesty_gemini's topic in International Nursing

    it's a refelction of the distorted pressures on the hit the pointless target at all costs mentality which is sweeping the NHS you can give fantastic careand 'cure' someone in the ED but if it takes...
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    Can't find the answer to this ANYWHERE!

    ZippyGBR replied to VegasNurse05's topic in International Nursing

    however given there are 2 year PGDip pre-reg programmes i nthe uk for people witha relevent first degree... suck it and
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    I know we are all sick of this but.....

    ZippyGBR replied to scattycarrot's topic in International Nursing

    well except many of these 'ladies' retired when they married and left at the merest sniff of pregnancy if not before ... i for one am sick and fed of up a a certain well known Agony aunt and...
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    18 gauge insertion

    ZippyGBR replied to Murse7's topic in Emergency

    if you are going in an ACF because you can't get a hand or forearm vein then bigger is better if this might end up being the 'lifeline' too many people won't use forearm veins - these are often...
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    UK pay scales

    ZippyGBR replied to finks's topic in International Nursing

    bands are based around job descriptions and how that role corresponds with level descriptions in ?13? domains so the levels within the domains and a weighting for importance of the domain determine...
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    list of uk hospitals willing to hire overseas nurses

    ZippyGBR replied to parabone's topic in International Nursing

    few if any as none EU or otherwise right to work in the Uk peopel will struggle to get work permits due to a relative lack of a shortage at
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    UK sterotypes in USA

    ZippyGBR replied to ayla2004's topic in United Kingdom

    Stafford? I know people who work in various places around there - mainly through SJA ( why pay to go to the v festival
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    What's YOUR nursing obsession?

    ZippyGBR replied to tanthalas's topic in General Nursing

    untangleing cables and plugging kit in ! i have recently written in big letters on the staff room white board " THE ELECTRIC FAIRY DOES NOT MAGICALLY PUT ELECTRICITY IN THE DINAMAPS ETC PLEASE PLUG...
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    What happens...

    ZippyGBR replied to DoubleblessedRN's topic in Emergency

    possibly admitted under emergency physician while sorting out place of safety placement in residential care then competency assessment dfro ma psych poin t of view and bounce the whole shebang to...
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    18 gauge insertion

    ZippyGBR replied to Murse7's topic in Emergency

    'any hole is a goal' ... sometimes has to be the maxim with vascular access practice practice practice is the successful way to get good at IV insertion - assuming your technique is
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    UK sterotypes in USA

    ZippyGBR replied to ayla2004's topic in United Kingdom

    scary do you work at the universally horrible of north staffs then
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    Commonplace to starve someone to death?

    ZippyGBR replied to HM7380's topic in General Nursing

    more to the point it appears that the medical staff have decided she is not fit enough for an operation to remove the haematoma -assuming that the chronic onset of the subdural wasn't days to weeks...
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    Intubation Preparation

    ZippyGBR replied to punkstar's topic in Emergency

    a lot depends on 'crash' intubation or 'planned emergency' intubation
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    trying my luck!!

    ZippyGBR replied to quijarz's topic in International Nursing

    not at present as unless you have highly specialist skills ( i.e. read management and/or practitioner skills at masters level or above) RNs are not a shortage group in the UK so you are unlikely...
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    "New Nurses's Don't Know Anything."

    ZippyGBR replied to Diary/Dairy's topic in General Nursing

    we have two co-existign problems here the 'i know better becasue i'm a nurse relative' AND the parent of an adult with learning disabilities ... sometimes these parents are they and their...
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    Is this true of nursing?

    ZippyGBR replied to 2bNurseguru's topic in General Nursing

    a joke from my OR days what's the difference between a physician ,a surgeon and an anaethetist ... a physician is paid for what s/he knows a surgeon is paid for what s/he does an anaesthetist is...
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    £38 towards registration costs.

    ZippyGBR replied to cheshirecat's topic in International Nursing

    it was one of the concessions negotiated for accepting the staged pay award ... there is also a commitment to a further contribution to training costs for none registered staff over and above that in...
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    The Cat needs help

    ZippyGBR replied to cheshirecat's topic in International Nursing

    generally trusts are happy for part time employees to work up to full time hours over the pay period as they won't have to pay the NHSPcommmission what they don'yt want to do is allow people to work...
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    Ns Bolus

    ZippyGBR replied to TIMFOGARTIE's topic in General Nursing

    venous pressure isn't necessarily directly affected by arterial pressure he blood will have been through capilliary beds between the arteries and the veins
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    ED protocols that include zofran?

    ZippyGBR replied to kmoonshine's topic in Emergency

    as for 'practicing medicine without a licence' traige drugs are going to be subject to a legal mechanism to allow the RN to supply and adminster them ... in the uk we have Patient Group Directives...
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    Ns Bolus

    ZippyGBR replied to TIMFOGARTIE's topic in General Nursing

    - set? - cannula gauge? - cannula location ? - head - whether that's gravity by height , or via pumps or via pressure bag as well well sited 18 g or larger line that isn't positional and is...
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    £38 towards registration costs.

    ZippyGBR replied to cheshirecat's topic in International Nursing

    yes finally landed in our pay packets this week... surely senoor management should have been able to identify all staff that were entitled
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    ED protocols that include zofran?

    ZippyGBR replied to kmoonshine's topic in Emergency

    ondansetron has come off patentnow , suddenly it;s started appearing as a stock drug here i nthe uk rather than something that you had to order from hospitla pharmacy for a named patient or sell...
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    Salary in the US vs salary in Sweden

    ZippyGBR replied to swedishnurse's topic in General Nursing

    perhaps nursing is still stuck as a 'vocation' ... in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s there were sevral occisionswhere nursing salaries and /or terms and conditions were given very large jumps in...