lisab82

working on paeds ward in the uk we are always getting brought chocolates or biscuit which we share among the staff and is accepted , but gifts we are not meant to receive. It horrible sometimes refusing gifts as you feel its insulting and can see the hurt when you refuse . what we try is if they really insist then we point them in direction of ward fund or equipment for our playroom. I have it been known for patients to by nurses little gifts and what been done is to accept and then put them in to a box for Christmas & birthday gifts for patients.

:) used micropore many a time

hope the interview goes well paeds community is an area id love to get in to , working on a general paeds ward , we work quite a bit with the paeds community team a lot of it is to do with children with complex illness and some palliative care to. hopefully it an area i will move in to in the next few years

as everyone said you realised the mistakes you made and have admitted them, and it will take time for your colleagues to show that but if your are committed to this and show in the 5 weeks left you can change hopefully that will be enough for your boss. we all make mistakes we are only human after all, but in a few years you will look back on this and im sure it will make you in to a much better nurse for it. i seen a lot of newly qualified nurse since my qualification three years ago, and the ones that come out of nursing school thinking they know everything or pretended to are the ones that make mistakes. Your newly qualified and your colleagues dont expect you to know everything none of us do and the day with think we know everything there is to know then you should give up nursing. the best thing you can do is try to be part of the team ask question if you don't know something ask , im still asking senior advice and ive been qualified three years id rather my seniors say tome that i was right than be wrong.

i did mine with one of the ward sister and to be fair she was pretty good , i jotted down different points/ evidence to show i was meeting the criteria for each specific element and then we went through it typing it up together, and then found points from this to develop in to my development plan for example taking charge of ward supervised, doing my mentorship course but ive heard it is very hit and miss like you say between department and do feel it a bit of waste of time as things you put on your development plan that even thought you want to do them, there no money to help achieve them.

ive not seen any cases but then i only been qualified 2 years but i know some of senior nurses have not seen any in 20 years. on another note the rise in cases of measles in the uk is mad because of children not having the mmr jab , obviously there are reasona the parents dont want the jab the study related to autism but there are ways round it like have the jabs individually .

unfortunately it really hard to get jobs in nursing at the moment even if you trained in the uk , i know that people who qualified 12 months ago have not even got jobs yet

ive just been through my appraisal and going through all this stuff took bloody ages, also i would advise to read in detail the ksf as there different levels and i found id be put as one level on some and proved that i was actually working at a higher levels so bare that in mind dont sell yourself short the personal development plans well i put down i want to do some course but i know i wont get too, we got not money to hire more staff that we so badly need let alone send us on training courses.

i work in the uk as children's nurse and i always give my iv med separate as others said if my patient react to a drug id like to know which one , plus if your giving one medication for example in uk we used metronidazole and cefuroxime for post appendix patients now these two drug can be mixed, and i see fellow nurses do this if you mixed the above two drugs for example one an infusion over 30 minutes the other a slow bolus if the cannula tissued during the infusion how do you know how much they had of each drug , least if you give the slow bolus first and it fine and then the cannula tissues during infusion then at least you know they had the one drug.

Im a rnc ( registered nurse child) and my partners a pe teacher and we thinking of coming to usa to work particular around the boston/ maine area. now i not sure on where i would stand my diploma in nursing is in child branch , and i thought you had to be general trained to come work in the usa is this correct, if so would i need to get my general nurse training before coming to usa or could it be done out in usa or would the accept me ? any help or info would be much appreciated

these thread fantastic total agree with the comment, when asked about adult problems , i don't do adults , one of my favourite line. the program times for cbebbies (uk based kids channel) manage to do iv antibiotics with out waking the patient even when lying on there iv line