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Did he get too much morphine? Intravenously - perhaps 8mg is a bit much to push in one go. IM/SC - not at all.

I believe that I have no right to expect others to abstain/refrain from smoking. Just as no one else has any right to expect me to behave in a certain way. So what if it's harmful/addictive/etc! We all know it! But some people do it anyway. It's thei...

Hi- I've been trying to get this information from the Californian Board (for LVN's), but have not had any luck getting an answer... Any help you can offer would be very much appreciated! I am an Australian Registered Nurse (Bachelor's degree, five ye...

It depends how keen you are to start nursing in the US after graduation from an Australian university. It's a long process (as other posters have stated, as your program of study will be scrutinised by the US Board of Nursing to ensure it is comparab...

Hi All- I was just wondering what education/etc one needs to become a Respiratory Therapist, and what their role is in the ICU? In Australia, Registered Nurses manage almost all aspects of day to day to care in the ICU, including ventilators (obvious...

I've been in the game for seven years. What used to get me out of bed was knowing that I was doing something good that couldn't be bastardised for the profit of some fat cat somewhere. Now I've gone about 180 degrees, and I've come to realise that I ...

Good call. I think that's a very sensible and much more helpful alternative to the ridiculously PC "non adherence", which achieves nothing more than the term "non compliance" anyway.

What's special about male nurses? I don't know, but one thing that makes me so ANGRY is being called a "male nurse", as though it's an entirely different job description. I do everything the girls do, and I happen to think I do it pretty damned well!...

There's nothing I like better than a debate over medical semantics... To those people who find the terms "non-compliant" and "denies" distasteful when used in the context of patient behaviour or responses to questioning, I say pull that stick out of ...

I'm 24, and have been nursing since I was 17 (straight after I left high school). I worked as a nursing assistant through my uni degree, and have been a registered ("professional") nurse for a bit over three years. In my seven year nursing career, I'...

I worked in the UK briefly earlier this year. When I left, there were plenty of nursing jobs all over the place, but recently I've been hearing stories of mass redundancies in the midst of the worst nursing shortage ever, budget blowouts, restructuri...

Yes - I'm interested in what people might have to say about 5thflrnurse's question. Which groups of the nursing population are enjoying stability, and who is looking at trouble ahead? Does the problem seem to be more prevalent in London, the country,...

No I would definitely not. I was working in an ICU not so long ago where we treated a critically ill thirty something person with necrotising fasciitis after a friend administered IM B-12. I know that the risk of acquiring necrotising fasciitis or si...

Hi all. I'm an Aussie nurse, currently living in London (not nursing here of course, it's far too difficult to get registered and I'm sick of playing the game), and I can't wait to get out of this place and head to Ireland. I've had a poke around An ...

When I asked this question (seems like over a year ago at least) my intention was to find out more about the role of the RT. Thanks to the many RT's who responded - I wasn't aware that so much preparation was required (I was skeptical having read so ...

Hi all, it's me again... Am I alone in thinking the NMC has just gone completely mad with bureaucracy and political correctness? My story goes a little like this... I'm an Aussie, and I love the UK with a passion. I can't wait to get over there (in J...

Oh yes. Double the registration fees! Lord knows they earn every cent! The overseas registrations department alone brings in at least £8046000 for the NMC each year (their own statistics - £149 x ~54000 applicants - thats not including fees and charg...

Dear sweetnlow121, I could go on for pages and pages and pages and pages about why the NMC puts me off my dinner, but I've summarised the most annoying points in an earlier post ( https://allnurses.com/forums/f124/20-day-protected-learning-and-why-i-...

I'm a big fan of feng-shui, nursing style... By that, I mean all the furnishings have to be parallel (in ICU - the bed must be parallel to the wall, the ventilator parallel to the bed, and so on) - and I mean precisely parallel, none of this 5 degree...

Dear Mio, Thankyou for your kind words. Since I last corresponded with the NMC (having sent away my application forms for processing), I've grown a beard, written a screenplay for my novel, chosen a retirement fund, and been nominated for the Nobel p...

Hi all... I'm an experienced RN from Australia, and have spent the last 8 months working in the intensive care unit of a major teaching/referral hospital. Although I may not have the academic qualifications or extensive experience that many of my sen...

Further to my rant before, I have a new example of the idiocy of the NMC's policies. As you may know, every overseas trained nurse wishing to register in the UK has to undertake a 20 day period of "protected learning". I did a little investigation, a...

LOL! I'm so glad I'm not alone in my mild to moderate outrage. Damn bureaucrats...

I understand that these policies exist to protect the public (and the agencies business interests). I think the reason I was so put out by their response was because I'm used to appointments being made on merit and not simply years of service. Thanky...

Perhaps my expectations are a bit too high. Nevermind, guess its back to med-surg for a while (not that theres anything wrong with that by the way! I just know where my interests are...). Thankyou Suzanne et al for your replies!