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I want to work my hours in the least amount of days possible. I have been a nurse for 30 years, and I do not want to be at work 5 days a week, so 10 or 12 hours are the way to go for me.

Cutting corners is exactly why I am leaving my current position. I spoke to my manager to tell her why I was leaving. I was noticing that the culmative effect of everyone HAVING to cut corners is impacting LEVEL AND QUALITY care. She said she disagre...

Hi everyone, I am working at a LTC facility and have a patient who was admitted from hospital to our facility with a number of conditions, diabetes, decubitus, history of aspiration pneumonia and schizoprenia (burnt out). Anyway, it took her a couple...

I had the same thing happen to me 25 years ago as a student nurse awaiting my finals. I gave a young guy a tetanus, and pooofff he was gone. Scared the heck out of me- thought I had killed a patient before even gaining my registration!! Luckily the s...

I agree with Tigergaile. I think there are 6-8 regulars who act as neo nazi's which led me for a time not to bother with this site. I think certain people (& some moderators) position need to take a chill pill from time to time- otherwise this si...

It happens because too many wards in the UK are not correctly staffed, and good nurses end up so burnt out, too the extent that they are unable to attend to the basic needs of patients such as this. It is impossible to be the only qualified nurse fo...

Took them 9 months to get my registeration to me, and that was with alot of chasing up. I trained i the UK, and was re-registering after 15 years abroad

1rrrn - what if doctors and nurses got control of the system instead of the insurance companies trying to ram people through the production line? what if drug companies had fair prices and fewer side effects? it is going to get better for patients an...

Hi all, Nurse in the UK here, would like as much feedback as possible. Who transfers the patient from PACU to ward in your hospital? How long does the process take? What delays the process? Do you think there is a better way to do this? I ask after ...

Does anyone use the Early Warning System in the US? And how would you say it works in conjunction with System assessment, does anyone think that EWS could be used alone and the systems assessment not necessary. I argue that EWS is a great tool, but a...

When I left the US to return to work in the UK, the EWS was not being utilised in the US. Not sure how to word this question. Now that I am working back in clinical in the UK, we are using the EWS and wondered what US nurses feel about the EWS and if...

Hello all, I am a UK trained nurse who worked in the US for 13 + years, I am now back in the UK and am writing a refelctive essay on the differences in practise in the two countries. One of the issues I am covering is system assessments. Nurses here ...

Hi Knitwhitt, Could you share the info you use on the laminated card you give your students? Also, if anyone has any links to research articles on how reporting findings to physicans when assessing patients.- I would appreciate them. Thanks

I have just spent the last two hours here in University in Necastle, searching for articles on nursing assessment, interventions and reporting findings to Physicans - without luck. Do you have any links I could use? Thanks

Thanks for your comments and references. I am still plugging away at this paper, hopefully I can make solid arguements and notice will be taken. Thanks

My thoughts exactly, however I know that some of my english colleagues do not see eye to eye with my on this topic, hence my post. Although they do assess their patients, do not think that they dont, it does is not a systematic approach as is done in...

Hi, I am a UK trained nurse who worked for years in the US, now I am back here in the UK, and have always been struck by the fact that floor nurses here do not complete an assessment of their patients at the start of the shift and Q4 hrs, which I wa...

Hi, I am giving a presentation this week and would love to add some comments from US nurses and nurses from overseas who are now working in the US. How important is it to complete a head to toe assessment Q4 hrs - why do it, why not and whats your av...

The comments I hear from patients generally indicate that they do not interact much with their nurses. I appreciate that it is difficult to complete an assessment with only 2 RN's to 30 patients, but surely this makes the point. If a nurse spend time...

Being at Uni at the prsent, I am alwas surprised at lecturers tellin our class that we have lots to teach pre reg students, and that they are saddened by the level of nurses they are producing. Each time I hear one saying this I want to scream at the...

In order to meet the requirements for US registeration you must have covered Medical, Surgical, Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Psych during your training, both Theorectical and Practical placements in each and every area, and in the med/surg portion of ...

Hi all, I have not been in clinical nursing for a while and would love to know what diet advice is now given to type II diabetics who have to be switched onto Insulin. How long would you say you needed to hospitalise a diabetic who is swithcing to in...

I worked with Food For the Hungry based in AZ. They need nurses to do trips to all of the countries they work in. They are a Christian organisation and are always in need of doctors and nurses to complete short and long term contracts as well as 1-2 ...

I have been amazed at the money poured into leaflets, posters an campaigns run here in the UK educating nurses to wash their hands. The reason I am sooo amazed by this, is the fact that when I trained in the 1980's it was one of the first things we l...

My full time job has just been made into a one day a week job - I won't go into details, but I taught another employee all she now needs to do my job. I have many many years experience in all types of nursing, have worked in the US, UK and Peru, and...