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1. New zealand nursing

   NZ RN replied to Frankcah's topic in Psychiatric

   i agree with Heidi, the plus factors of NZ are great. the most beautiful place, so clean and great people. also where you chose to live will make a difference on your income, as there is a weighting system which relates income in various regions to c...

2. The New, Improved Battery-Operated Allnurse (Thanks to Heather)

   NZ RN replied to MQ Edna's topic in General Nursing

   hey but thats what makes us fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!(the little strangeness we all have); how otherwise could we get thru this!!!!!!!!!! what can be done? in light of the current worldwide situation can we expand the multilingual function, and have an ...

3. Some questions for all the nurses

   NZ RN replied to RNIAM's topic in General Nursing

   well in NZ its a different system again, but i think it works, to be an RN we do a three year programme including university papers, and clincal rotations. for the last 10 years we also do a bachelors degree in nursing at the same time, so you come o...

4. 12 Hour Shifts

   NZ RN replied to curlygirlrn's topic in General Nursing

   my goddness butterflies, do you mean u are there for all of the remaining 12hr shift...that sounds criminal. and no overtime...???? do you have a nursing union? do other staff have to put up with this sort of treatment. it sounds very unfair to me

5. 12 Hour Shifts

   NZ RN replied to curlygirlrn's topic in General Nursing

   also it just seems to be more time to get everything done at work over 12 hrs, and maybe the pts get better continuity of care, rose

6. 12 Hour Shifts

   NZ RN replied to curlygirlrn's topic in General Nursing

   Yeah i am deffinitly begining to like my 12hr shifts. every second week do 3 12s over the weekend, and the other weekend have 3 days off. otherwise its 2 on 2 off. works out at 16 or so hours of built in overtime a month. the first day off after 3 o...

7. involuntary committments by POLICE!

   NZ RN replied to PGH70's topic in Psychiatric

   well, in NZ the police could hold some one if they were seen to be a danger to them selves or others, but then they would have to be assessed under the mental health act pretty quickly.