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What are the chances of people needing CPR on the floor and not a bed? The reason I ask this is the last time I did my CPR update the guy that ran it was an ex paramedic and rode bikes, he taught us how to do chest compressions with our feet so if we'd been pillioning on a bike and had come off, we could still perform the compressions with broken arms. He also taught this way to people who were smaller such as teenagers and the elderly.

I got permission from the CN the other day to give a resident on a minced diet pancakes and maple syrup for breakfast. I ended up cutting them up as small as I can so that they were essentially minced and feeding them to her. Our facility is fantastic when it comes to food though as one of the philosophies of the place is that it's their home, and they can eat what they want so long as it's not going to cause major injury. This means that I've pureed or had the kitchen puree all sorts of foods, I've thickened alcohol and soft drink and even sat there whilst someone has munched on crushed ice. I do make sure that I run anything I do like this past the CN though.

I've currently got a sterile water bottle in the fridge that's filled with home made tomato sauce.

whatever we pick from the company uniform catalogue that's acceptable for our area, we also have to wear enclosed shoes. I personally wear the navy blue polo and cargo shorts with black leather sneakers.

We used to put the tooth in a cup of water on the windowsill and when we woke up in the morning there was a coin in the cup. I remember one year when I was a camp firstaider, we had a kid lose a tooth and they were quite upset about the toothfairy not being able to find them. I ended up telling them I'd keep the tooth safe for them and when they came in the next morning for their meds, I told them the toothfairy had been and left a voucher to spend in the camp store. The camp was cash free so this was the best I could do.

I used to use a thing called a pillbob when I was handing out meds. I used to wipe it over between each person with an alcowipe.

It takes me 40 minutes minimum to get from my workplace to my son's school due to fact I work that far away from the school. Some of the kids travel up to an hour and live on properties out of town, I have no idea what those parents do as if you're in the middle of harvest season, or burning off your cane, you may have no mobile reception at all and the school has to go down the list. I'm lucky in that I'm at a fairly family friendly nursing home and once they manage to reach me on my 2 way I'm able to get out of there fairly quickly once I hand off onto another CNA. Last time it took the school and hour to reach me and then work wouldn't let me leave until I'd calmed down enough to pick him up.

I've previously used a chux heavy duty dish cloth in the nappy, covered the child's butt in amolin (almond oil, calamine and zinc) nappy rash cream and when I've changed the nappy, blow dried before applying the cream with a hair dryer on cool. This has usually cleaned up the issues within 12 hrs. This included the chemical burns my son got from a different brand of disposable nappy.

We have something in Australia called the R.U.M. (return unwanted medicines) project. Basically we throw all drugs into a large yellow bucket that a lot of staff call a rum bucket and then it is taken to a pharmacy and they dispose of it for you.

first initial surname all in cursive then my role and in brackets my surname printed afterwards. Unless it's for TAFE in which case I have a scanned "signature" on my computer I can insert in, it's basically the same but at a different angle and smiley face doodle on there as well.

Ours are covered with an adhesive dressing similar to the sticky stuff on primapore (blank on name sorry) with a hole cut in the middle so we can see what type of patch it is and the dressing is dated with when the patch was applied. The patch is then checked every shift by the incoming and outgoing RN/EEN

There was no meds in this fridge as such, it was all tetra packs of novasource or similar so if by some chance my milk had spilt, all that would've happened is it would've been wiped up and I would've cried.

Red Kryptonite the World Health Organisation actually. WHO | Breast is always best, even for HIV-positive mothers

Actually according to the CDC breast-milk is not classed as a body fluid. Breastfeeding: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) | DNPAO | CDC I pumped at the nursing home I worked at and my milk was never segregated. It just had to be well labelled so as I didn't get it mixed up with anyone else's. I was also able to store it in the staff room fridge or the fridge in the med room where the prescribed meal replacements were kept.

I found out this week that my 5 yr old is able to keep his puffer on him at school. I've chosen for him not to have it on him, but his teacher is keeping it for him in the classroom and it then gets handed to the teacher on playground duty to give if he asks for it. He's had a puffer/nebuliser on and off since he was under 1 (asthma only flares up when unwell or during cyclones). He knows how to take it and has actually come inside from playing at home to sign to me that he needs it. He'll probably keep it on him full time when he's about 8 and I can trust him not to lose it.