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1. Basic Mouth Care

   Step replied to adrienurse's topic in General Nursing

   Hahaha I can just hear that thumping way over here in Australia, watch it or you will end up with a head injury and maybe needing someone to give you mouth care :)

2. Basic Mouth Care

   Step replied to adrienurse's topic in General Nursing

   Some of us may think the lemon swabs taste awful, but consider the poor old soul with nothing to stimulate the taste buds for a period of time... I reckon in their mind they are going "YES, OH GOD YES i WANT MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!".... and they fulfill not...

3. Basic Mouth Care

   Step replied to adrienurse's topic in General Nursing

   sponges on a stick in australia are "Q Tips" or "mouth swabs" :)

4. Basic Mouth Care

   Step replied to adrienurse's topic in General Nursing

   What amazes me is mouth care is more often then not performed on elderly people and everyone forgets about the 23yo from surgery that is on O2 and nil by mouth for 2 days. My mouth feels grotty after 7 hours sleep, I can imagine what they feel like a...

5. Nights

   Step replied to Laurlaur's topic in General Nursing

   I have worked nights for 2 years now and love them... get to go shopping in the mornings and pay the bills and have a cafe latte al fresco etc... and it didnt figure doing days with all the vitals to do, 24 showers, 2 lots of assist feeds(Breakfast a...

6. Question-how far do you travel for work daily?

   Step replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

   I work temp and my agency has sent me to a placement 1000 miles away that was 2 days drive... do I win :)

7. Bulletin board networking versus live chat

   Step posted a topic in General Nursing

   Have only been on allnurses for a short time and find the bulletin boards great stuff!!!! So why are the live chat forums so empty? Maybe we can have a wine *oops* I meant whine there some time and do some live networking

8. I didn't know the shortage was THIS bad

   Step replied to VickyRN's topic in General Nursing

   Lets face it, the shortage is because nursing is not seen as an attractive career option for the majority. They know its hard, tiring, physically and mentally exhausting work! Governments just have to make it more attractive and employers ensure it s...

9. But she's not a nurse!

   Step replied to flowerchild's topic in General Nursing

   I come from aussie too and we call a nurse a nurse.... sister is rather outdated isnt it sister??? but at least I am an EN (nurse)

10. But she's not a nurse!

    Step replied to flowerchild's topic in General Nursing

    Just a second piece of thought... I think it is really scary to think of CNA's giving injections and high tech "qualified nursing" job descriptions... makes me wonder where nursing is going in the 21st century... do we give away our roles ????

11. But she's not a nurse!

    Step replied to flowerchild's topic in General Nursing

    In answer to your post I will probably cop a lot of flak here but I have broad shoulders :) I have a problem with unqualified carers-practitioners-employees, what ever the position is... using the title "nurse" with so little enlightenment for which...

12. Survey:When you are the patient or family member, do you identify yourself as a nurse

    Step replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    I was admitted once to a hospital in my own area health service so when the admitting clerk asked me what I did for a living I told her computer tech... she then punched out my name and birth date on the computer and it came up as "nurse employee" *s...