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  1. Would you take a pay cut?

    bulletproofbarb replied to nicu4me's topic in General Nursing

    wow, sounds like you are almost my twin. I too took a significant pay cut as I was sick of working lates, thats all I did. I'm not in my dream job yet and it's definately not psych but when I get...

  2. Standing up for "meal break" issue

    bulletproofbarb replied to flymomrn's topic in Nursing Career

    I take my meal break when I am at work, I just say " I am going to dinner" and leave. I refuse to carry a pager..it's unpaid time. They can pay me on call for half an hour if they want me to carry the...

  3. Facebook almost cost me my job

    bulletproofbarb replied to ReginaPhalange's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    ah, i cant be reading all 100 posts but I am dead proud that I am the only person I know who has never used or seen facebook:D i'm too damn lazy when it comes to technology and my mental span for...

  4. My health is suffering..vent I guess...

    bulletproofbarb replied to MJB2010's topic in General Nursing

    Your post reminds me why I left hospital nursing but I have to be honest, I am now getting depressed as I miss nursing (not hospitals!) so much. I'm trying to find work in GP surgery but having not...

  5. post-interview anxiety!

    bulletproofbarb replied to SrnD's topic in General Nursing

    I too did the wait for one job..at 2 weeks I heard nothing so made a call but was told they were too busy to talk. Then 2 days later I got a rejection letter in the mail. Since then i have been to...

  6. Australian equivalent of NP?

    bulletproofbarb replied to SnowShoeRN's topic in International Nursing

    seek.com.au has jobs on it but the site is down at the moment..but to answer your question, yes we do have nurse practioners in Australia that have script writing privaleges and work autonomously....

  7. Anyone leave nursing for a different profession and come back?

    bulletproofbarb replied to PAERRN20's topic in General Nursing

    I have looked at that..and like you found have to have xperience in the area. I dont want to invest that kind of time and money into something unless I am working in the area anyway. I'm just going to...

  8. Anyone leave nursing for a different profession and come back?

    bulletproofbarb replied to PAERRN20's topic in General Nursing

    I left to work in a lab and am now trying to get back into nursing. I am trying to get in GP nursing and not finding it easy. I still have my lab job but I do miss nursing...I did some FNA's with the...

  9. nurse/patient ratio

    bulletproofbarb replied to efRN's topic in International Nursing

    the last place i worked for morning and afternoon shift it was: 10 patients, 1 senior RN, 1 grad/en and a student. It was a busy surgical ward and having to teach students, help grads and do stuff...

  10. Anyone work in a GP surgery?

    bulletproofbarb posted a topic in International Nursing

    I've had a gutful of ward nursing and am a bit lost as to what i want to do. I'm currently working in the medical field but not as a nurse and it's only part time work. The job I have is really...

  11. Anyone work in a GP surgery?

    bulletproofbarb replied to bulletproofbarb's topic in International Nursing

    Thanks so much. Thats great to know. My current job pays $12.00 an hour less than ward work so going to work in GP will be a pay rise for me. BUT that drop in pay is absolutely nothing compared to...

  12. can anyone recommend a friendly hospital in Perth

    bulletproofbarb replied to igual's topic in International Nursing

    I'm at Murdoch and love it....I am back from my travels and UK working holiday..ah I miss it some

  13. Anyone with a seizure disorder ?

    bulletproofbarb replied to niali's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Hi, I have epilepsy and didn't have a problem going through nursing school but I think that was because it was when we changed from Hospital to University education and I was in the first intake at...

  14. I'm sick to my eyeballs of incompetent agency nurses.

    bulletproofbarb posted a topic in General Nursing

    :angryfire I am sick and tired of having to work with incompetent agency nurses. Ones that have no clue what to do but take the shift anyway because it's money. I'm sick of having to teach them...

  15. Needle Stick Injury tonight, really stressed, advice please

    bulletproofbarb posted a topic in General Nursing

    I had a needle stick injury tonight. I've been nursing for 20 years and never had one. I am so stressed. The patient is HSV positive, has genital herpes and is on zovirax. Can HSV be passed on through...

  16. Needle Stick Injury tonight, really stressed, advice please

    bulletproofbarb replied to bulletproofbarb's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, that's sounds okay. I don't want to talk to anyone at work. I just came back at the beginning of June after being off with uncontrolled epilepsy and up to now, still had days off when I have been...

  17. anyone online now, can you help me, it's so urgent

    bulletproofbarb posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm going to work in a couple of hours. I have done something I feel very guilty about and can't stop thinking about it. I have been off work for a few months because my epilepsy went out of control....

  18. anyone online now, can you help me, it's so urgent

    bulletproofbarb replied to bulletproofbarb's topic in General Nursing

    I am back. I rang the GP and told him and also the manager. The GP couldn't gauarntee that I wouldn't have a seizure without the tablet but then he also said he couldn't guarantee I wouldn't with it...

  19. anyone online now, can you help me, it's so urgent

    bulletproofbarb replied to bulletproofbarb's topic in General Nursing

    I know you are right. I shall say something when I go in today. It's too rude to do it over the phone. I shall have to wear the consequences I guess. Actually, I tried to say something the other day...

  20. anyone online now, can you help me, it's so urgent

    bulletproofbarb replied to bulletproofbarb's topic in General Nursing

    I only stopped one, not all of them. (just to clarify because I am thinking people think I have stopped all of them) Just the one that makes me drowsy. I still take the morning and bedtime

  21. anyone online now, can you help me, it's so urgent

    bulletproofbarb replied to bulletproofbarb's topic in General Nursing

    Trust. Nobody is going to trust me if I don't say anything. I haven't told my GP either who has been so helpful. I have let everyone down including myself. I don't want to lose peoples trust, that's...

  22. anyone online now, can you help me, it's so urgent

    bulletproofbarb replied to bulletproofbarb's topic in General Nursing

    I've been off since March. I'm so frustrated I am being reckless I know. I have been fine all week, it's the guilt that is stressing me out. It's stressing me out because they have been so supportive...

  23. anyone online now, can you help me, it's so urgent

    bulletproofbarb replied to bulletproofbarb's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know I don't know what to do. I am scared she will send me home. That's why I haven't said anything. I only have seizures in the morning and it's 1145am

  24. anyone online now, can you help me, it's so urgent

    bulletproofbarb replied to bulletproofbarb's topic in General Nursing

    sorry, forgot to change my location, I am in Australia. I don't know what repercussions it would have on my nursing registration. I only have seizures when i wake up, that is why I always work the...

  25. RN's removing chest tubes/heimlich valves and urostomy drains

    bulletproofbarb replied to Miss RNC's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Same in Australia. We remove all sorts of drains, pigtails, chest drains, all wound drains, sutures, staples, epidurals. You name it, we remove it. I'm glad we do, makes the job more interesting....