karenG

hiya I guess the questions depend on what course you are doing. are you planning on doing the 3yr masters route? if so, the questions are going to be about finding out if you understand what the course entails/ how is a NP different to other role...

when I trained (back in the dark ages) we wore a national uniform.. students wore white dresses with different coloured belts to denote the year of training, staff nurses wore pale blue and the sisters wore navy blue. and you were not allowed to...

thats interesting; I wonder if there is a regional variation then? Because in the 2 Primary Care Trusts that I have worked in, its been the case that secondary care nurses are not allowed to prescribe from the BNF and must use a hospital formular...

oh and to open a can of worms..... one of the biggest problems we have is the perception that the NHS is there to provide health care to whole world for nothing! In primary care, we see patients who are from all over- sometimes our surgery feels l...

I'm an advanced nurse practitioner working in primary care; so prescribing. I am an independant prescriber and for me, in primary care it means I prescribe within my areas of competency. so I can prescribe anything except controlled drugs such a...

am I the only one being driven totally demented by swine flu???? I work in a busy general practice (we have 13000 patients registered) and so far this week I have taken over 100 phone calls from people who think they are going to die from swine flu, ...

I've been in nursing 30yrs now.. and I cant stand the sight of blood.. I'm very squeamish. most nurses have an area they prefer not to work in; for me that orthopaedics.. anything to do with bones and I'm out cold!! but having said that, I lov...

I think clinical supervision has been around for many years; we just called it something different. As I stated earlier, I remember going to the pub after a terrible shift and having a few beers while talking about the shift and how I could have d...

Im a clinical supervisor and its not seen the way Herring RN describes it! well at least not where I work. basically, its a safe enviroment in which to discuss clinical issues, and look ways of solving them. back in the old days, we'd go down the pub...

well; I would have bought that T-shirt!! I think sometimes we need to learn to laugh at ourselves.. we can be very serious.... but then I am a fencer and have a t-shirt which says 'it takes more than 56 inches to impress me' with a picture of a fence...

dont think they do that any more.. and never saw it done myself, but then we seem to different stuff for different things!! I wear contact lens. one for distance and one for reading (because i am vain and wont wear bifocal glasses!) My eyes have...

its actually more common to have glare with cataracts- due to the opacity in the lens refracting the light. Glare is a big problem as you get older so its probably a combination of things.. ! I am very short sighted (most of us who have ever wor...

its spelt ophthalmologist! cataract surgery is bread and butter stuff; you should be able to see quite quickly, depends if they put a lens in(they normally do here). so about 6 wks normally before you get your sight back to normal.... almost! work s...

hi bit boring but will be worth it!! try listening to the radio or talking books! wont be long before you get your sight back to normal. Karen

thats interesting. over here, primary care refers to patients seen outside of a hospital setting. I work in primary care, we are seen as the first port of call for any patient so its primary care! patients cared for in hospitals are in secondary c...

i am proud to be an np and to see patients as a nurse.. and yes.. i do dressings, take out stitches and do the nurse stuff, as well as the np stuff.. i work as a nurse, i am working to the best of my ability to deliver the best care i can. ...

I'd have to disagree with that. Unless the NP is actually employed by the PCT (and I can only think of one that I know of) what an NP wears in a GP practice is dependant on what the GP's say! I've worked in one practice where black jeans and a po...

I think you will find the answer to all your questions in various places on this board.. most of them have been discussed to death! and despite what we say, and all the complaining we all do about the hours, the patients, the sore feet.. none of u...

its a bit different over here.. NP's have had a hard time getting permission to actually request stuff like xrays.. so we are careful to have a good clinical reason for asking for it.. also patients dont pay for heath care.. its free at point of ...

in 30 years as a nurse, I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times thats happened. Patients on the whole dont care if you are gay/straight/black/white/orange/green etc.. they DO care that you can do your job professionally. I'm w...

my apologies!! Just done what I hate people doing and used jargon! gyea.. short for gyneacological ward SCBU.. special care baby unit over here, if you want to look after children or babies, you can either qualify as a nurse (RN, registered nur...

do you want answers from just the States? or would you like some from the UK? Karen

my apologies if you feel i have hijacked your thread.. i would point out that i may have been a nurse for 30yrs.. but i dont work in the states and we dont have the same job titles as in the states. we have only a few qualifications.. here nurses are...

ok I swear you lot do this to see how long it takes me to work out the Jargon...........what is a CRNA?? I think it might mean a certified registered nurses aid?? if so.. what the heck is that?? wont tell you the 'non professional' interpr...

its not that bad!! ok maybe it is.. I didnt enjoy being a midwife.. though its different over here to the states... I have a friend called Moses (drop dead georgeous) who got fed up with being chased by patients (he was working on a gyae ward) an...