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We all have accents,depends on where you are working.That's what i found i since came to Australia.Many Australians have accents,especially some from country town,strong accents with lots of slangs,sometimes it's simply not possible for even those from UK or CA English-spoken country nurses to understand.The good thing is people here are friendly and many of them are very much aware it's a multi-culture place,this could happen.Both sides make an effort for better commnucation instead of just complaining. If i'm the one constantly being complained at,i would take an English class to improve my accent.

It was just a lousy week,began with verbal abuse from patient's family member,and tonight,walked out of the unit with tears. I work in NICU.Tonight it was a busy shift as i was looking after 3 babies and one of them has Neonatal abstinence syndrome,she was very unsettled and required lots of attention. I was supposed to finish at 10pm,but after handover and writing notes,it was already 1030pm,while i was about to walk out of the unit,Jenny,who has been in the unit since 80s or maybe 70s,said very coldly:"Wash Tyler's bottle before you go."I was too busy between 9 to 10 so Baby Tyler's feeding bottle was still left on the bench beside his isollete.Night staff Sue heard Jenny and quickly said to me:"don't worry,you go and i will do it."Sue was the one looking after Tyler over night. Before i could say anything,Jenny said to Sue in an even colder voice:"Let her do it,you didn't do the feed." I cleaned the bottle and walked out of the unit with tears. I know it's not right to leave the bottle unwashed,but there are times you are simply too busy to be perfect.Most of the time i work hard,make sure everything is done before finishing shift,I'm not being lazy to leave my stuff to the next shift.There are also times i cleaned bottles for the previous-shift staff,but without much complaint.Why Jenny can;t be a little bit polite?I asked myself:Shall i be treated like that just because of an unwashed bottle? I feel really hurt by Jenny's attitude. Working with Jenny has never been easy.When she teaches me things, it's just hard not to have the feeling of being silly or being teased for not-knowing that.The "you are an idiot " way she looked at me when i didn;t get her words was one of the worst moments in life. I really feel Jenny is the one who always carries a stick ,and ready to hit me anytime when she got a chance,unfortunately i'm a junior nurse,soft in personality and from overseas. Is this something i shoud expect from senior staff?Am i making a fuss?Will you do the same thing as Jenny if this happened in your unit? What shall i do with that now?what can i do if this happens next time? Feel really sad. PS.--I'm not trying to pity myself,but i do want to say,if possible,please be nice to those good overseas nurses in your units,simply for equality not the minority,for the beauty from diversity,the difficult situation of starting everything overseas,and the courage.

Thx a lot for all the input,really helps!

sth new for me...I guess i'm still new in NICU Looks really creepy.

Shall we also stop giving babies cuddle ,just to prevent MRSA?Babies r patients,but they are babies... Is there anything else we can do???

Neonatal network helps me a lot!

We use sth we called "warmer" in the unit,just put water inside and swith on,put the bottle in (only for 1 bottle ) for several minutes.it's quick and pretty good.Personally i like giving baby warm milk.

I'm allways looking for some challenge....It's really a personal choice,i think.So just follow whatever you like.

Hi,I also signed up contract with an agency and now is waiting for my visa.So my suggestion is based on my personal experience: (1)Uusually u can get a notice from CIS about in 2-3 months when the agency started the application.I got mine in 2 months. (2)If the 1st agency already lodged the application for you,then i don;t think it's a good idea to have the other one apply for u again.At least the immigration office will get confused,which could lead to delay of your case. If i were u,i would have a good talk with the 1st agency to see what's exactly going on there,as the applicant,we have the right to know everything concerning ourselves even though we have agencies working for us.And if they didn;t do anything substantial(which is quite rare,coz they also want u to go to states ASAP,that's the time they start making profit from u),u can cancle the contract and then talk to the second one. Just personal opinion,might not be all right. Good luck.

To be honest,This is really something i never heard before i came here. (Am i too stupid? ) But i was told by some senior that so long as Mums want to do BF,never suggest or give bottles.It's all right for preterms,but i feel so weird to do tube feeding on a big termed baby who is screaming and sucking crazily when Mum is not present. Anybody can give me some light about this?

Hi,i've got some questions about NAS baby.(neonatal abstinence baby) (1)feeding:The baby is termed,excessive sucks ,mum wants to do BF,she does BF every 3-4 hours.but the problems include:she dosen't have much supply,and baby couldn;t coordinate well on breast.so Do i still encourage breastfeeding? Does mum still need to express after each feeds or it's just not necessary to express in this case?I mean it's not really good breastfeeding. (2)Meds:baby day 4, on 4 hourly morphine.Some senior told me we can go to 6 hourly morphine if finnigan score is good,some told me later it's rediculous to go to 6 hourly if he is only day 4.I don;t quite understand the latter.Is age a factor for the time gap for Morphine administration? Thx.

Hi,Liz,first congratulations on starting in such a nice place.Not every NICU is so good.Like the place i'm staying now is similar to yours in that many staff with 10+ years experience,but the difference is new people here constant being put down by senior.I used to struggle so hard and now it's better but far from being good. There are really lots of things to learn in NICU,and we learn many things only from experience.So i would really calm down at the beginning,doing all the assignments,working hard and keeping an eye on how tsituations being handled by experienced nurse.There will be a time that u can speak... Cheers.

This is really helpful! Thx,guys. Cheers!

Hi.people, I had a baby with transpyloric tube the other day.For some reason we don;t have any policy about this in the ward.And i really don;t know much about it. Any information about the following questions would be really appreciated: (1)how to put down the tube and tape the tube on babies? (2)How to check position of the tube? (3)How to control the speed of feeding?i found milk goes really quickly down the tube due to the tubesize.Do we need to control the speed like NGT feeding? I tried to google,but got nothing about it.Do u know any useful website for this? Or if anyone got the policy about it and can share with me(if it's allowed by your working place)?my email:[email protected] Heaps of thx.

that's really great! Thx