Higgs

Higgs

Med/surg. ED. Palliative. Geront

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  1. Nursing in Stewart, BC

    Hi guys Anyone know anything about Stewart, BC or what it's like Nursing there? How many beds has the hospital/health centre? Toying with the idea of going 'Rural' for the rest of my career (maybe 25 years left!). I've done Emerge, Palliative, Ca...
  2. Sitting the new Med/Surg CNA exam in April and just started working through the practice questions in the book. Came across this: Question 29 - the correct answer is to give an analgesic before assessing an abdomen to ease discomfort. Question 30 - a...
  3. Not cut out to be a nurse

    Agree. Hang in there, kiddo. It'll get better as time goes on and you get more experience. Sure, you'll still have those days when something really gets to you, but that's normal. It's when you have pts like the ones you talk about and don't give a c...
  4. Question about HIV patient

    I ask purely as devil's advocate...would your responses be different if it was your sister's boyfriend...?
  5. Gunners in Nursing

    Not heard this term before. I know of some nurses that are possibly the least empathetic people I have ever had the misfortune to meet. Cant imagine them giving a damn about anyone or anything - Gawd only knows what the patients think when they ente...
  6. Hi Guys Anybody worked here or know a bit about this hospital? Staffing ratios, atmosphere, population, workload, communities, what it's like bringing kids up here etc etc Any help would be great. Thanks happy holidays!
  7. What can we deny our patients?

    Well said previous poster. If they don't like how we do care - even after we've explained why, they can go and find a hospital that will let them do what they fancy. It's not a prison, they can leave whenever they want.
  8. texting at work

    ...just hope you remember to clean the superbugs off your phones before you go home...
  9. Claustrophobia with MRI

    lorazepam does the trick
  10. How do you measure it?

    ...interesting to note that the pt was happy to wait for his next dose (ie the 2mg he was given was enough analgesia for the 4 hours) - begs the question of whether he needs his pain meds reassessing...
  11. I think what the doc really meant was the pelvic outlet is too narrow, but perhaps she should have said what she meant, instead of trying to dumb it down and just confusing people. As for the other issues you raised...dunno...but the doc shouldn't ha...
  12. Changing needles for injections...

    ...so if the consensus appears to be that a needle is made less sharp by drawing up meds - whether via a rubber stopper or not, (though, personally I dont see that pushing a needle through a rubber stopper will dull the needle point to the extent tha...
  13. Valproic acid for pain? Really?

    here we go...wikipedia has this: " It is more recently being used to treat neuropathic pain, as a second line agent, particularly lancinating pain from A* fibres. It is more recently being used to treat neuropathic pain, as a second line agent, part...
  14. Valproic acid for pain? Really?

    dont know for sure about valproiic acid, but I know that gabapentin is an anti seizure med used for pain control...maybe it's the same mechanism...
  15. How often do nurses have sex in the hospital?

    Eeeeewwwww.... I guess it really does take all sorts to make a world...
  16. Bringing nurses into Canada

    I'm British educated and trained and work in BC - came over with the Provincial Nominee Program a touch over 2 yrs ago. Getting a job offer - no problem. Getting immigration status- no problem. The thing that held up the whole process was jumping th...
  17. You just got the 'pre-new-job-wobbles'. Relax, you'll be fine.
  18. Hexagons of lightning

    Dear moderators, please remove this message from the website. Thank you.
  19. Don't flush saline lock? I'm confused.

    Agreed. It may or may not make any difference at all, but if it means I don't need to spend valuable time (or someone else's) trying to re-insert a cannula into a pt with no veins/oedematous arms/lots of fat/ etc etc, then it's a wise and prudent thi...
  20. Level of intelligence

    Sorry to hear that everyone's grammer is bad. Hope she gets better soon...
  21. Hygiene More specific facial hair

    ...you need to be aware that a N95 mask might be a problem, depending on the shape/spread of your 'tache... I have to shave off my beard for the yearly fitting - but grow it back again. If I ever need to wear one at work, I'll it shave then...
  22. Question about Pain

    ...the act of dying (ie the moment of death itself) is not painful at all - it's the disease which leads to death that can be painful. Death is not always painful, and doesn't have to be - depends which disease you have and how well managed (or not) ...
  23. Octreotide

    In palliative care we use it (amongst many things) for reducing GI secretions eg with intractible obstruction or terminal diarrheas... ...I guess where you work determines what you use it for...
  24. If you're not sure if you want to be a nurse or not, then you shouldnt go into it. Dont waste years studying for something that you may not want to do. If you're not 100% absolutely positive you want to do nursing, then don't go for it - you'll be d...
  25. Giving notice.

    'Dear XXXX I am writing to hand in my resignation from the post of XXXX with immediate effect. I am hereby giving a month's notice (in my experience a years employ means about a month's notice) from the date of this letter and my last day at work wil...