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Well, you also apply for the graduate programs for January in July as well so not always a year in advance, but for July it is a different story. You can still apply for January and see if things pan out. I'm only talking about one particular state being bad at this time for new graduates, I'm not sure about the others but seeing as that Perth is where you are starting out I thought I should say something. It may not all be bad! I sincerely hope you can find a job here, I just don't want you to go to all that trouble to get here and not have something secured and think it's easy going. It's the same story practically everywhere in the world from what I can gather!

http://www.jobs.wa.gov.au/ Generally have nursing jobs posted on there. Perhaps try private as well. As far as I can tell the 10% budget cut has hit Royal Perth really hard and they aren't taking on any new staff, even the grad program has been cut so none of us are getting full time work. I'm not sure about the other hospitals but I'm sure it would be a rather similar story. As far as RPH goes they aren't taking on new staff but they are still using a lot of agency staff so perhaps that might be the way to go.

Here's the heads up: Graduate programs for July this year had to be applied for in July of last year. It is very, very difficult to get a placement as a person who is not a permanent resident of WA at the moment, heaps of my fellow students missed out on placements because they did not have permanent residency status. It's a really awful situation for graduates here at the moment. There's been huge cuts to the grad programs, some of the private hospitals aren't even running one this year. If you did a course in Western Australia and are a permanent resident/citizen it's been reasonable to get employed but if you aren't, you pretty much got shafted. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but better you know the situation before you get here. Some of the hospitals will take you with no grad program but the major ones generally do not. Perhaps now would be the time to swap your visa to one that is just for a holiday, if you are serious about nursing here as a working holiday you only get one chance and I'm guessing it would be better used later on. I don't know that you have to do an English test being from the UK? I know the nurses board has exempt countries and that is one of them.

I've recently discovered that site as well. I love it.

I use oriented. Orientated to me is showing somebody where they can go make a cup of tea.

I think there's at least one in every nursing home. They are the type that make me wonder whether I should be an RN in the same workplace where I have worked as a carer for 3 years, I have to wonder whether a few of them would respect me as a nurse when I used to be one of them. They don't even respect some of the nurses. We also have a few that are always putting in complaints over silly stuff and talking to the union. Some of it is legitimate, some of it makes me wonder. They always seem to be the same people who are too into routine and wont really meet the needs of the residents as opposed to 'doing the work', which is a huge deal in nursing homes but still, we have good staffing ratios and always finish well before we actually have to.

I'm amazed that she didn't just put the phone away as requested and went home instead. I hate it when people can't figure out how to use their phone appropriately.

I got mine about a month ago and I didn't have any issues with it.

I'm seeing the same red flags. I did a few of those injections on my doctors office rotation the other week and I'm fairly certain in the leaflet it says that you have to have adrenaline available when you administer that stuff. The nurse I was with explained to me about how the doses were increased gradually, then onto a maintenance dose. You could get a reaction because the dose was increased past a level the patient could cope with, or just because. It's not exactly rocket science that if you give somebody something they are allergic to you have to be prepared for things to go sideways.

I think it's just ignorance, plain and simple. Ignorance of the aging process Ignorance of just what caring for older people involves Ignorance of how bad the staff/resident ratios are I think it's just an effect of the value society places on it's aged, especially those that cannot look after themselves. We put them in a facility where the majority of relatives barely visit, and if they do it's for about five minutes. Can't expect people to engage and know how things work if they wont look past the stigma that a lot of people see in aged care. I personally don't, I quite like working in it, but most people I know have a hard time dealing with it.

I've delt with this kind of rubbish myself in the last few weeks. As a result, I get to do redo my last clinical placement. I think it's more a reflection of the corporate rubbish side of things than your actual ability to do the job. I think you pretty much have to suck up to these people rather than defend your actions, even if you're right. It's horrible that so many dysfunctional people exist in nursing, who would rather pick over you over a few tiny things rather than support you. Good luck.

I would go with psychologist or musician. Obviously for the latter I would have to learn to play something first. It's a pipedream

I feel really bad for you. I have not graduated yet but I am doing my final placement for my Bachelor of Nursing and they have thrown me in the deep end and I am struggling in many ways and succeeding in others, still not at a high enough level for them to pass me but there is time and every day I get better. I guess what I wanted to say was you're not alone with this feeling and also that it is good that you are worried about things, it means you are trying to work it all out and get in tune with how nursing works and how to think and what to do. I guess it is this stressed out reaction that helps us to become the best we can be and make sure we don't miss anything. Have you got somebody who can answer your questions and give you advice? Have you got some techniques to mentally switch off and leave work at work? All the stress will make you better but you can't afford to feel that way all the time.

I think it's okay for us to understand these kinds of things but for patients this may be right over their heads. Maybe if you're giving a convoluted story draw them a simple diagram of the different parts and draw arrows. Trying to keep track of all the different concepts and different parts can be very difficult if its all just words.

Oh wow. I'm kind of baffled at those responses that you said you got from your friends. I agree with the first poster. That isn't really how friends should behave. It's not like you decided to announce you were going to be a prostitute or a meth dealer! I'm glad you have some people who support your decision. Maybe you need some more mature friends, especially after that reaction to working in peds oncology. It's not like you give them the cancer! sheesh.