LiverpoolJane

LiverpoolJane

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  1. Families from Hell

    LiverpoolJane replied to traumamomtx30's topic in General Nursing

    Woody, I am so pleased that your experience of the healthcare system has been such a positive one. My relationships with patients relatives has been for the most part excellent, I have kept in touch...

  2. Need help figuring out what happened to this guy!?!?

    LiverpoolJane replied to TigerGalLE's topic in General Nursing

    This is not my area of expertise but you mention he is an alcoholic and I can remember from my nurse training - along time ago nursing a pt with hepatic encepholopathy and he would drift in and out of...

  3. I think I really screwed up choosing nursing

    LiverpoolJane replied to Curious1alwys's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with the other respondees, you shouldn't stay if it is really filling you with dread but I would encourage you to look at jobs that still require a nurse but in a more academic capacity. I...

  4. hard to deal

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

    I work on an acute unit and we used to have problems doing heparin free RRT but we have changed our dislysers and the problems have been greatly reduced. We now use an AN69 dialyser and prime the...

  5. Have you ever personally used alternative medicine for a medical condition and if so,

    LiverpoolJane replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/feverfew-000243.htm A website from Maryland Uni about

  6. Have you ever personally used alternative medicine for a medical condition and if so,

    LiverpoolJane replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    Feverfew is a plant that is probably considered a weed in the UK. I used to grow it as occasionally get migraine - the leaves are quite bitter but worth it if you suffer with migraine. However you...

  7. Please give me some advice

    LiverpoolJane replied to RDFloRN's topic in General Nursing

    I feel it is a shame that you are having a rough time. I feel inclined to advise you to stick it out as I am sure it will get better. My advice is to set yourself a date that you will make your final...

  8. Have you ever personally used alternative medicine for a medical condition and if so,

    LiverpoolJane replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    I completed a diploma in Aromatherapy in 1994 to allow me to treat patients in the clinical area. As it turns out I didn't use it to the full potential as I work in Renal and it needs to be used with...

  9. I made med error, what now?

    LiverpoolJane replied to thomask's topic in General Nursing

    Don't be too hard on yourself, it happens to the best of nurses. I remember as a newly qualified nurse checking a IV antibiotic with my ward manager, Drs handwriting be what it was we both misread...

  10. what metal should my wedding ring be?

    LiverpoolJane replied to SBK1013's topic in General Nursing

    I am really surprised that you are even allowed to wear any ring other than a plain wedding band. In the UK the policy is that the only jewelry allowed is a wedding band - without stines etc and a...

  11. Need Advise regarding my highschool girl mentoree

    LiverpoolJane replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    I can empathise with you as I have had to watch my son go down a different route to the one that I had brought him up. I guess you have become very close to this young girl and felt that in some way...

  12. Nursing as a Science and Religious Consideration in Healthcare

    LiverpoolJane replied to MQ Edna's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I agree that our religious beliefs should not influence how we care for our patients. I see reading another recent thread it seem to be "open season" on Jehovahs Witnesses and I was distressed to see...

  13. meal trays + MRSA, C. Dif, or VRE

    LiverpoolJane replied to psalm51's topic in General Nursing

    I worked in one NHS hospital from 1992 - 1999 and we would have a trolley just outside the siderooms where the infectious patients where, on the top, was a bowl filled with a mild sodium hypochloite...

  14. MORPHINE and Dying Patients

    LiverpoolJane replied to constantlylearning's topic in General Nursing

    I have a memory of a patient dying in a great deal of distress as the nurse would not ask the doctor for pain relief as "it might knock his breathing off" I was a student nurse back in 1991 on night...

  15. Families from Hell

    LiverpoolJane replied to traumamomtx30's topic in General Nursing

    I think that when the negative effects of the open all hours culture hits the hospital mangers you will see an about turn. I live and work in the UK and in the "good old days" when I was a student...

  16. heparin dosing

    LiverpoolJane replied to Dialysis RN1's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I work in the acute dialysis setting and have been asked by Consultants to carry out heparin free treatment, either haemodialysis, haemofiltration or haemodiafiltration. It used to be a real...