LiverpoolJane

LiverpoolJane

Dialysis, Nephrology & Cosmetic Surgery

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  1. Unexcusable

    LiverpoolJane replied to bethin's topic in General Nursing

    Does your hospital have a vunerable adults lead nurse? The legal department would be able to tell you. It doesn't matter what your "title" is, you are an employee of a facility that should have...

  2. To be an RN or RT..Help!

    LiverpoolJane replied to deebee12's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know anything about respiratory therapists as the nearest thing I think we have in the UK are the phsiotherapists that specialise in chest physio? Ask yourself that if you became a RT, when...

  3. a nurse's medicine cabinet

    LiverpoolJane replied to NurseNature's topic in General Nursing

    I know - I wish I hadn't confesed to that. The satellite unit I worked at used the multi dose bottles - the one with the rubber tops, like the insulin bottles and when I would be doing a tidy up at...

  4. a nurse's medicine cabinet

    LiverpoolJane replied to NurseNature's topic in General Nursing

    For a nurse I have to have the worst stocked medicine cabinet I know of. All I have is some paracetamol (tylenol) and piriton because I had an insect bite lat summer. No plasters or other dressings,...

  5. What do you think of this plan?

    LiverpoolJane replied to blameitonrio's topic in General Nursing

    In the US do you have the such a thing as a nurse bank - a department in the hospital which runs like an agency, so you sign up with them and they will offer you work as and when it becomes available?...

  6. What would you say to a new nursing student?

    LiverpoolJane replied to Anonymous2013's topic in General Nursing

    There are several things I would like to share with any nursing student. Firstly is try and enjoy it - embrace the opportunities that are offerred to you because once you are a RN it seems the...

  7. On flight to Europe... "we need a nurse"!

    LiverpoolJane replied to RNcDreams's topic in General Nursing

    I was on a flight from Bangkok to Dudai when the man across the aisle from me took ill. I had been in Thailand for a wedding and was sitting next to the brides parents who kindly alerted the FA that...

  8. RN Licensure for foreign grad in Vermont

    LiverpoolJane replied to cutenurse27's topic in Immigration Advice

    Go to this link - it has the application form to down load

  9. I'm tired of being assualted at work!!!

    LiverpoolJane replied to Candy303's topic in General Nursing

    Quite often when we ask for a special (I think this is the same as a sitter) we would get a young girl who was no match for some of our patients. If I think a patient will be too much of a handful...

  10. Interviews

    LiverpoolJane replied to XB9S's topic in International Nursing

    My trust also has band 6 specialist nurses and "very specialist" is band 7. I work in renal and have worked with some nurses who on paper look fantastic but in reality are awful. I would much rather...

  11. NHS is now four different systems

    LiverpoolJane replied to XB9S's topic in International Nursing

    Even locally there are different systems. Where I work we actually have patients from three different PCTs, so what is available in one is not provided in another and it gets very confusing. One has...

  12. How would you feel?

    LiverpoolJane replied to bellcollector's topic in General Nursing

    I have nothing to hide so I would not mind. Also as someone who was nearly assaulted by an angry relative who then made allegations against me I was relieved to find out that the hospital foyer were...

  13. Working with angry unstable incompetent RN

    LiverpoolJane replied to pedsRN121's topic in General Nursing

    I feel angry reading this, the fact that you have had to put up with this for such a long time. I understand she may need a refresher after being out of aute care for a while but this is dangerous. I...

  14. Need Help with Blood Administration

    LiverpoolJane replied to peds4now's topic in General Nursing

    As a student nurse it was standard practice to prime with saline, however when I qualified I went to work in renal medicine and because renal patients tend to be on a strict fluid restriction we never...

  15. Nurse-Patient Ratios

    LiverpoolJane replied to pattin13's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I live in the UK and the hospital I wrok in has 2 RNs and 2 HCAs for 36 patients. Yes that is correct 1 RN for 18

  16. For an experienced nurse who doesn't know anything

    LiverpoolJane replied to moliuchick's topic in General Nursing

    I would agree with the previous reply - I work on a renal ward but I also work my hospital nurse bank and will work in the ER from time to time to keep myself updated. I find it easier learning when...

  17. 17- year-old girl needs liver transplant, CIGNA denies

    LiverpoolJane replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    i have watched this thread since it was first started and would like to play devils advocate here. lets say i am the mother of a 16 year old lying in an icu bed with liver failure and in desperate...

  18. What should I have said?

    LiverpoolJane replied to Halinja's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I remember keeping in touch the the wife of one particular patient after he had died. I gave her my home phone number and looking back I now I cannot imagine me doing that again. However a couple of...

  19. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    LiverpoolJane replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    I was once asked by a colleague what would be the worst thing about a lung transplant? Their reply was - coughing up somebody elses sputum. On the subject of sputum - I knew of a nurse who worked in...

  20. 17- year-old girl needs liver transplant, CIGNA denies

    LiverpoolJane replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Do you use the MARS machine in the US to treat acute liver failure - it has been used in the UK - it is not the perfect solution but it has bought some patients time while their own liver recovers...

  21. Morphine question.

    LiverpoolJane replied to StrwbryblndRN's topic in General Nursing

    I have not seen the response you describe but an anaesthetist I worked with suggested that certain nationalities were more difficult to anesthetise and would need higher doses of opiates to gain any...

  22. How much patient information to give family members?

    LiverpoolJane replied to RachelRN25's topic in General Nursing

    If a relative asks me for information the first thing I do is ask them what the patient has told them, if they say something like -he/she says she needs to have a scan. I will then give them...

  23. Dialysis

    LiverpoolJane replied to jjsrn's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    This is a big subject so I will try and do it in bite sized chunks. The usual problem is that pts can go "hypo" - drop their BP - The best way to be able to predict this is frequent, regular BP...

  24. What would you do??

    LiverpoolJane replied to IngyRN's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with Aprilhere - I would continue chest compresions without mouth to mouth. A nurse I worked with some years ago was called to assist her when her next door neighbour found her husband hanged...

  25. Dialysate temperature in hemodialysis

    LiverpoolJane replied to Chisca's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    The policy at the unit I work on is that the machines' temp is defaulted to 36.5c I have been asked by patients to increase it and I really don't like doing so - I am more inclined to reduce if...