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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.

I've been on light duties when I injured my back at work (belted by resident) and I was doing things like filing, answering phones, cleaning out shower caddies etc. I was also only on 70% of my wage until I came back to full duties.

I worked in aged care up until I was 8 months pregnant. The only restrictions I had placed on me were not looking after residents who were on cytotoxic drugs and I requested not to be rostered in certain areas due to the amount of walking on concrete causing havoc with my legs. I was still using hoists, feeding people, turning people, pushing meal trolleys, emptying laundry skips and everything else that the AINs do at my facility. I was also still taking on student nurses.

I wash my hair after every shift due to the amount of sweat I produce at work. On the days I don't work, I will condition only if I've been in the water and the rest of the time it's just a rinse under the shower when I wash myself. My hair is rather thick and frizzy though and I remember when I lived down south, if I washed it in the winter and didn't blow dry it, my hair would still be wet enough that I could not only wring water out of the middle and under layers of my hair, I could also snap it off due to it freezing on my way to school.

Is it bad that my first reaction when I read that was 'Holy crap"?

I've driven to work in a category 1 cyclone, a tornado (I just thought it was a bit windy, Australia shouldn't get tornadoes) and I've also had a police escort to work during the Black Christmas bushfires in 2001.

One of the residents where I work has this up on the corkboard in his room, he also has the nurses reply one. A Nurse's Reply What do we see, you ask, what do we see? Yes we are thinking when looking at thee! We may seem hard when we hurry and fuss, But there's many of you and too few of us. We would like far more time to sit by you and talk, To bathe you and feed you and help you to walk, To hear of your lives and the things you have done; Your childhood, your husband, your daughter, your son. But time is against us, there's too much to do — Patients too many and nurses too few. We grieve when we see you so sad and alone, With nobody near you, no friends of your own. We feel all your pain, and know of your fear, That nobody cares now your end is so near. But nurses are people with feelings as well, And when we're together you'll often hear tell, Of the dearest old gran in the very end bed, And the lovely old dad and the things that he said. We speak with compassion and love, and feel sad, When we think of your lives and the joy that you've had. When the time has arrived for you to depart, You leave behind an ache in our heart. When you sleep the long sleep, no more worry or care. There are other old people, and we must be there. So please understand if we hurry and fuss — There are many of you, and too few of us. As someone who's worked in aged care for more years than they care to remember, both of these poems are so true.

The two main ones I've seen here are webster packs or MPS rolls. We use them so that non-licenced people are able to give medications at least fairly safely.

I am so glad I live where I live. The last time we did a hospital trip was for croup as my son stopped breathing for about 2 minutes due to croup. All the other stuff if we can't see our regular doctor we go up to the local bulk billing 24 hr health centre or use a service called dr to your door who do home visits out of business hours and they bulk bill unless it's between midnight and 0800 when they charge $400.00 which goes to charity.

My son had his first bath at about 70hrs old. He was an elective c-section due to breechness and they bathed him on discharge with hubby and I watching to teach us how to bathe a baby.

been there done that when pregnant with hg and they tried to ping me for turning up sick. I was like, if you let me go when I first felt nauseous I wouldn't have disrupted the class as much by throwing up in an emesis bag.