ZippyGBR BSN, RN

Spinal Cord injuries, Emergency+EMS

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    Hospital or Hotel

    ZippyGBR replied to bubbles64's topic in General Nursing

    and ironically where the evil 'socialised' system of the NHS comes to the fore, becasue there is pressure on the hospitals to justify their use of bed days and becasue purchasers can save money by...
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    Spinoff : What We Do, What We Used to Do

    ZippyGBR replied to NursingAgainstdaOdds's topic in General Nursing

    it's called stocks on the units and in the emergency cupboard ... we are a fairly typical hospital i nthe Uk in that pharmacy is 'open' from 0830 to 1730 M-F and Saturday morning, there's often cover...
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    What would you do if this was your patient?

    ZippyGBR replied to MAISY, RN-ER's topic in General Nursing

    the other point to remember is that many peopel are in denial of their parents / grandparents eldery aunts + uncles etc quite obvois confusional states and also say ' they aren't confused at home'...
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    Spinoff : What We Do, What We Used to Do

    ZippyGBR replied to NursingAgainstdaOdds's topic in General Nursing

    i know you guys in leftpondia don't use it , but diamorphine still comes as freeze dried powder, plenty of injectables still come as powders / freeze dried in rightpondia, most antibiotics,...
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    Disposable Items

    ZippyGBR replied to nyapa's topic in General Nursing

    the single use disposible sterile scissors we get have a horrid habit of ending up in peoples sewing boxes/ fishing boxes/ desk tidy... especially when they have only been used to cut dressing...
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    new amateur transplants stuff

    ZippyGBR posted a topic in International Nursing

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuZl9tRqjoQ
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    Inventions for Nurses

    ZippyGBR replied to ryanfocker's topic in General Nursing

    one way slide sheets are available here in rightpondia while not automated they do exactly
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    Inventions for Nurses

    ZippyGBR replied to ryanfocker's topic in General Nursing

    that would be good as well as a pump that had a set and reservoir to doa gentle flush with saline if the pump gets a 'high down stream pressure' on low flow rates
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    Why are nurses so angry?

    ZippyGBR replied to cmo421's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Uk wise - we may not get rich - but at least now under Agenda for change there is the realistic prospect of a Staff nurse taking home 30 K GBP without overtime / extra hours or without the rota...
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    How to Maximize Efficiency During the NOC Shift

    ZippyGBR replied to Wendy Sutas's topic in General Nursing

    it will depend on the duty roster policy of the institution as has been suggested it may be a Night shift from the (cod) latin Nocte , it may be a general 'on call period' or it may be a Night time...
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    Should Government Pay?

    ZippyGBR replied to Shaggyb2000's topic in General Nursing

    23 % income tax with 5000 gbp (or more ,unless you have a company car) tax free allowance total tax take under a third on income ( ok there are local authority charges and VAT on some goods and...
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    Should Government Pay?

    ZippyGBR replied to Shaggyb2000's topic in General Nursing

    even in the single payer universal systems it;s only 'free (or there abouts) at the point of delivery ' for eligible residents of the country in question ( be they citiziens of the that country,...
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    Cleanliness in UK hospitals

    ZippyGBR replied to scattycarrot's topic in United Kingdom

    an advantage which is also a huge disadvantage , there is a joke among staff in the unit i currently work on, which has got a fairly mobile and 'geographically expereinced' Nursing staff base that...
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    Question regarding Dr. orders....(sorry, long)

    ZippyGBR replied to TinkRN8's topic in General Nursing

    or work with your lead clinicans and pharmacy to allow multiple routes in the prescription and allow the Nurse to adminster the most approrpaite route for the med
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    Combining Adult Med Unit with Peds Unit

    ZippyGBR replied to veegeern's topic in General Nursing

    thank chosen deity the Uk has seperate Paeds registration for Nurses... also having paeds and adult patients on the same unit is a huge child protection issue , how do you know that the patients o n...
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    Dumbest rule in your hospital?

    ZippyGBR replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    or as is standard Uk practice now - a single band with the demographics on and a way of indicating allergies or not - we use 'blue or white' for no alegies and red for any allergy or drug related...
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    How many liters of O2 can a patient with COPD be on?

    ZippyGBR replied to ChristopherH's topic in Pulmonary

    as with anything in Nursing / healthcare / medicien it depends o nthe patient there are COPD patients who when hypoxaemic and short of breath you can give as much O2 as you want to as they don't...
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    Sunday Times view of nurses

    ZippyGBR replied to cheshirecat's topic in International Nursing

    ward work or HCA work???? met a few people who moan aobut that but looking at how they work they are never quick off the mark to answer to do 'ward work' and whose fault is that? the RNs who have...
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    Sunday Times view of nurses

    ZippyGBR replied to cheshirecat's topic in International Nursing

    you defeat your arguement here if you r arguement was to try and attempt to put down a HE educated and prepared fro practice Nurse rather than a traditional trained one ... How - by still being in...
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    Pinky finger issue

    ZippyGBR replied to SaderNurse05's topic in General Nursing

    which is the english names translated into 'fake '
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    Pinky finger issue

    ZippyGBR replied to SaderNurse05's topic in General Nursing

    cerrtainly in the Uk it;s common to refer to the hand digits by names to save confusion thosze names usually being thumb, index finger , middle finger , ring finger and little
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    Sunday Times view of nurses

    ZippyGBR replied to cheshirecat's topic in International Nursing

    i wonder what some of the many retired Nurses who wax lyrical on how things were done in their day would cope with the acuity of modern Inpatient
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    Addressing physicians

    ZippyGBR replied to NeuroNP's topic in International Nursing

    the reason is way back surgeons and physicians were seperate professions ...surgeons were seen by some as little more than craftsman compared to the learned professional of the physician ... this has...
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    Sliding Scale Insulin

    ZippyGBR replied to RN BSN 2009's topic in General Nursing

    do you not have a facility wise 'standard' sliding scale prescription ? again this may just be a ringhtpondian thing but we have a standard sliding sclae with a specific prescription and...
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    Attending, Resident, House Staff, Physician...

    ZippyGBR replied to punkstar's topic in General Nursing

    a registered medical practitioner who doesn't provide a surgical service a registered medical practitioner in a specialist training appointment ( i.e. FY2s and registrars in Uk speak) a fully...