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  1. So angry right now. Warning: Extremely long

    Please, please pull the nurses card, I kind of did with both my parents deaths, BUT NOT ENOUGHT I AM CRYING WRITING THIS. but I felt happier if that the right way to put it with my dad, I and he were part of the process, but I didn't with my mum and ...
  2. On Death And Dying

    maybe it's not right to say this is funny but it is...
  3. I subcribed to a previous post of a male nurse who was HIV postive and he said obviously I can't do obs and gyny why not? I must admit that during my training the lads wheren't allowed to do it but that was 1990, (and at that point us girlies were no...
  4. HIV+ Nursing student!

    I realise I didn't answer your post, I was angry with the way you where supposed to "hide". in Britian we always think of America as the future... and I have only been here 8 weeks and I think I am living in 1978, I don't know what to advise, but as ...
  5. Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    Oh right I am going to be the school teacher here can you all go back and check your answers, some of you will realise how selfish you are being and also a socal system will help you as well
  6. Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    oh god t my gp has always known me go to the UK
  7. Unfair orientation discipline?

    Basically to quote "don't walk run" but don't be rude when you run you may want to come back later...trust me it has happened to me and because I didn't diss people I got a top of the rung, never to be repeated job of a life time...for 8 yrs...unfort...
  8. Unfair orientation discipline?

    i agree with most of the above replies don't unless you have anything to apoligies for, and maybe you want to work there, but I would be Ta ta for now nice knowing you!!!
  9. HIV+ Nursing student!

    For goodness sake I have been passing doctors and nurses fit for duties for 8 years??? you don't want to be a surgeon or a OR nurse you represent no greater risk to the general public than anybody else, if fact I am willing to bet you maybe safer, c...
  10. Restraints during surgery

    Oh and you think we don't have these type of patients in the uk..18 years of nursing 5 in the OR and 6 in ICU never a problem maybe they lash out but probably more in the US because they know they will be tied down, I know I would,the US doesn't have...
  11. I cringed on the inside

    iwhen reality bites...having said that I was the same as you and my kigs didn't see TV until they we're 2 1/2 cos selfishly I couldn't bare a years mat leave with kids telly, still they have clicked on well...but the good thing is that they can wonde...
  12. Restraints during surgery

    Angry I only found out that women having c sections in the US got tied down last week, I had twins that way under locali n the UK believe me you won't move i worked in theatre I have seen amputations under local, my dad and gran had caterax under loc...
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  14. ou do confused why can't you do OB? my midwife was male, no kids not married did a sterling job as any female who have done...had twins by the way unfortunatly he couldn't deliver as footling presentation but I would have gone the whole way with this...
  15. Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...cy-869736.html http://www.measureofamerica.org/2008...port/factoids/ food for thought you spend more and achieve less, may be if it was intergrated...
  16. Connecticut
  17. Hi I have started all the necessary stuff to register here but my job in the Uk was Occupational Health which I never managed to finish my degree, long story but father ill, sole career, father died, pregnant with twins...husband gets job in US, Howe...
  18. An easy nursing field

    Okay the UK is different but in my job in Occupational Health I dealt with loads of people in many differing areas including Acute areas (and doctors) who had it, the important thing is follow your meds, keep up to date with your care, intresting que...
  19. Can I make it in Nursing school?

    If its not your head...given all the investigations is it your heart??? you sound a bit bradicardic?? get it checked? that can mess with all your organs including the brain! good luck and if it isn't that then the lungs is the place to go...
  20. That make sence the HIPPA regs, it went through my mind what about data protection? when I was writing this, thanks
  21. Tomorrow is my first day!!!

    Good Luck I remember My first day so well, I pinned the badge to my lapel and I was soooo proud, and I have never lost that, even in the bad days, the days I screwed up, the day I did well and the days I was owesome!!! (and I mean that in the British...
  22. Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    Oh I read through that and realised I had,t mentioned the elderly or children, and those with diabilities they are a given
  23. Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    I have read through most of this thread and I agree with the person who felt it was polar oposite,, here are my thoughts and I am bias as a product of the NHS, a lot in fact, my feeling is that in a perfect world starting from scratch you would have ...
  24. Oh and the other thing I meant to ask, are Hospitals generally open to people shadowing staff (obviously no pay or hands on for me) so they can get a little bit more up to speed or is there such a thing as back to nursing or forgein nurses practice p...
  25. My Occupational Health Job was in the Acute Care setting dealing with the staff and outside contacts as well as immunisation programs and I was very lucky as we had alot of disaster management for terrorism ect, but I would really say 8 year since I ...