rachelgeorgina

Hi All, I've done a bit of a search through allnurses but I haven't really found an answer to my question. I was hoping if I posted it here someone just might have some info for me. I'm currently a second year BN student in Australia. I'll be finishe...

Hi There, I know this isn't the nursing student forum, however that area of the board is largely plagued with nursing students in America! I'm an Australian nursing student scouring All Nursing for any other Australian nursing students who might be i...

I was wondering if anyone knew much about the management of end stage COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.) I understand that it's a progressive condition with no cure - the patient I'm thinking of is 87 with severe COPD/Type II Respiratory F...

This post doesn't quite fit the theme of student nursing in this particular forum and perhaps might be more sorted to the CNA/Assistants forum, however I am a student nurse and people tend to choose to employ me with that strength in mind. I'm hoping...

On my last clinical I was in the ICU. Tubes were aspirated for residual sixth hourly (patient's are on 24hrly continuous feeds. If there was more than 60mL of residual (i.e. the syringe capacity) it went into a fresh kidney dish (sterile/straight out...

I've just done a placement in one of the biggest and most specialized, well regarding neuro ICUs in the country. They leveled their art transducer at the tragus. With regard to the EVD/ICP these were most often open to the drain (& therefore the ...

Sometimes it depends on what sort of what you're on, the nurses that you're working with, the shift you're on and just.. the patient census that day. Also probably depends on the level of supervision you need, how far along in your course you are... ...

I would have thought that it's not a clear cut issue and would depend on a multitude of factors beginning at least with the patient's condition, what the drug is/why it's running in the first place. I wonder if it might be slightly too black and whit...

If I were a new student I would have been hesitant to do that by myself for fear of dislodging the catheter or breaking something/causing pain. Nurses often have little tricks of the trade for sorting out small but inconvenient issues like IV lines i...

Yes, they certainly do. The things that come to mind for me are the unsafe hours, particularly for junior medical officers and the ten odd years of education to work up the ladder to independent practitioner that involve the difficulty and competitio...

To those who stated that it is not the RN's job to teach - in Australia it's actually part of the national competency framework for the registered nurse. From the Australian & Midwifery Council's Competency Standards, which are used across the he...

It's an Aussie show but 'RPA' is a real life, real time show portraying all sorts if cases that happen in the hospital. From major trauma to transplant surgery. It's a great show and really shows it how it is, nursing too.

Sometimes things as simple as letting a child take mum's temperature or your temperature is a good way to let you take THEIR temperature!

Hi All, Thank you very much for your responses. They were really helpful going in to my first few days. I still have a lot to learn (counting a RR on a writhing, screaming child, a HR on a teeny baby... I never would have thought I'd have trouble doi...

I'm a third (& final) year nursing student. In Australia it's the beginning of the academic year so we've just started third year. In my degree so far we've had no exposure to a clinical paediatric setting. We did an introduction to children's he...

Wow. The American programs are really different to ours here in Australia. - In first semester we did very basic manual handling, basic patient care (bed baths, showers, making an occupied bed, mouth care) and vital signs. - Second semester we did o...

Do your vented patients not have an airway certified doctor with them for all transport? Perhaps they should be bagging in the absence of the portable vent, which really, seems silly not to have

Use your clinical judgement. Do you think pushing a bolus of fluid on every single patient you come across who is hypotensive is a good idea? It's already been mentioned above several times but you need to look at more than simply the numbers. Look a...

I'm on clinicals in the ICU at the moment and would never, ever want to be a patient after seeing how patients, in particular our sedated and vented and brain injured/lowered GCS/non responsive patients are treated. It's almost like our patients are ...

I'm sorry to hear about your little patient. I am really interested in the convo that's going regarding the paedi centres in the area though! If anyone else has anything at all to add to it I'm keen to read it. I'm an Aussie third/final year student ...

Adult nursing I, II & III might be med-surg by another name. I'm in Australia so I don't know how different our course is to yours but in first and second year we did Adult Nursing I, II, III & IV, each with a focus on a different body system...

I believe a PEG tube and a gastrostomy can be slightly different. The PEG is a permanent tube extending from the stomach. The gastrostomy can be a 'button' that you need to attach a tube to in order to access it.

Can someone explain the rationale behind the insulin drip post-op for both diabetics and non-diabetics? (I'm a student and curious.)

Even if you use your eyes to physically see someone in the act of cheating you still have nothing more than your word to rely on. Unless you video taped an act that was very clearly cheating you still have no evidence. I was merely suggested that the...

I think 'see' in this context is arbitrary. It would be semantics to argue that because you didn't visually see the cheating occur you aren't obligated to uphold your school's honour code. You are aware of the cheating in some form or another - there...