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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...

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 fantasti...

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.

INR of 17. Onery old man in his late 90s. He lived for at least the time he was in the LCF I worked at for. I'm assuming he's dead though as he left there 11 years ago. B/P of 60/40. Unable to stand and the ER was a funny grey colour. I don't know ...

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 no...

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 i...

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 ...

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 smil...

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 the...

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 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...

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...

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...

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 an...

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 ...

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.