Murt

Ive heard about this and im hoping to god that they dont make me do this, i mean im Irish, lived there most of me life, speak english (well as good as we Irish do ) and have been educated in Europe. Ill crack up if they suggest this. Good luck with your own application btw, just go into http://www.hse.ie and see if you can contact anyone there.

Hello all, im a 30yr old male and am hoping to move home to Ireland with abroad. I left home when i was 20, studied abroad and have absolutely no idea of how things work in the irish care system! I qualified as a general nurse, (RN i think it is), studied psychiatrics for another yr (RPN i think!), i think what i have is called "double degree"? I qualified 4 yrs ago and worked from day 1 in psychiatics, detox (including a 5 week specialist course), acute psychiatry, forensic psychiatry (prisons). At the moment im working as a forensic community psych nurse, ie caring for psych patients that were sentenced to care but are being release back out. Anyway i want to move to somewhere in the south east, at a stretch south dublin and ive been informed that ill walk into a job in the St John of Gods in stillorgan at about 34-36k. What i really want is however somewhere in the south east, St Senans (enniscorthy) or the psych hospitals in Kilkenny, Waterford or Carlow. Anyone got any idea of - what are my chances of getting such a job in the south east, where do i look? - is there any private psych hospitals in the area? - do i need extra qualifications to work as a psych community nurse? Its a bit of a jungle out there so all input will be a help.

Ive been look ing around for a few days now and i reckon the handiest would be for me to go through an agency. Anyone got one to reccomend? Prefferably one that does a lot in mental health, forensic psychiarty or substance abuse treatment. Im open to working in large hospitals or small treatment centres. Ive allready sent off to a few for information but like i said above ive done a lot of agency work and i know the pitfalls so if anyone knows a good reliable one let me know.

I spent much of yesterday trowling throught he 26 pages of Oz threads yesterday so ive come to realise im not the first to come up witht this idea, nor to start a thread about it! Lots of good pointer sin there eitherway. Sydney seems the natural choice, i know loads of ppl that went there, some are still there. One of my best mates lives in Hobarth so im going to look at that aswell. We wouldnt want a palace, just something half decent, appartment or house, doesnt matter. Child friendly area being the most important, Hobarth might be better in that aspect, in a "small cosy town" sort of way? Is there much demand for medical secretaries in Oz? Im fairly confident ill get a half decent job, the mrs is more of a worry. Would we be able to go slightly plus income wise in Sydney or Hobarth with a nurse and dr secr income? Weve 2 kids aswell, do schools cost anything? Do psych nurse earn better btw? Reading through all the other threads has me wondring about agencies or not now aswell. Ive done a lot of agency work in sweden and now all about the pitfalls, (cancellations, forgetting to ring, forgetting i exist!!!). Is there enough work going around to justify taking a risk with an agency. One last question, prison nurses, do you have these in oz, is there a big demand and do they get paid good. From country to country it seems forensic psych goes from very highly paid to very poorly paid.

Hello everyone, Im a psych nurse (double degree), 5 yrs experience from drug rehab clinics, prisons and at present as a forensic psych nurse. Im male, 30 yrs old, from Ireland but living and educated in Sweden, 2 kids 10 & 5. The missus and meself have more or less decided to skip sweden and move home to Ireland but we want a little adventure, a yr or two in either Oz (preferably) or perhaps the US. The better half works as a dr secretary but her education was all about electronic journal systems/staff management/ IT stuff. Do you think we'd be able to make a living with our two incomes? Im presuming theres lots of work available but is the pay ok? The money isnt the main thing, were not moving to get rich, if we wanted that we'd stay where we are because i have a great wage at the moment. Were hoping to make a 100% final decision ove rthe next few months and make it a reality by this time next yr. Id be eternally grateful for any pointers. /Murt

I can in a way identify with the charm in it, we get a lot of Korsakow patients which is similar and their a good laugh and easy to get on with. My gripe is that gero psych places allways seem so understaffed and you work so hard the sweat is rolling off you.

Same feeling here with my present job, treatment centre for female substance abusers. Getting fed up with cutbacks and gobshite bosses. Also recently found out that a new nurse got a higher wage than me, despite my higher education, experience and dare i say it competence. Looks like ill be jacking it for a 3 day /week job translating for a medical company. Match my present full time wage meaning i can study one spare day a week and the other i can do a job i like ireegardless of the money, i psych emergency, kids psych etc.

specially like the manic one :rotfl:

very true, the last comment about withdrawl still being relivant. The risk for Delirium Tremens is judged by many to be highest a week after the latest intake of alcohol.

Mallorol as its called in Sweden was taken off the market here last summer, probably only a matter of time before it disappears all over the shop

Amen. and that goes for all phsycho medicine. We need the best of both worlds.

I work in a small treatment centre with only 4 nurses, of course we count all the drugs each time we make a withdrawl/ addition. As long as it stays in order well keep doing it every week, when i started their it hadnt been done for months! Also they're were drugs lieing around in cupboards all over shop and tablets were disappearing for no proper reason! But i tightened up all that and now were looking a lot better.

I work with drug/alcohol abusers and nurses/nurses aids are way over represanted among patients which is why i make sure we do a drug count every week, my boss thinks once or twice a yr would do

A very intresting one which i see on a regular basis. Its basically caused because alcoholics get their calorie intake from alcohol and can go weeks without eating. The get a B- vitamin (thiamin) shortage which is involved in transforming sugar to a form that the brain can use. When an alcoholic finally gets care its vital they get intra muscular Thiamin before they ingest sugar. Thats why dr's should allways give im Thiamin to any unconcious patient before giving iv glucose etc which if not done can cause severe brain damage. Anyway the disease (or Thiamin deficency)is dignosed by nystagmus (shakey eye movements), memory loss, confabulations (impressive bullshitting). Normally we give them im Thiamin daily for 21 days beause alcoholic have dificulty taking up per os as their stomachs take a few weeks/days to recover and be able to absorb it. It not reversible but it wont neccesarily get worse, but they have to stop drinking. As ppl have mentioned they're normally very charming, happy patients.

Ill look it up but it could take time as it was a another hospital that did it. I spoke to the dotor there and he said that some test proved with out a doubt that it was faked. Ask your doctors if there is such a test and ill let you know if i track it down.