KirriG

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  1. Dodgy workmate - what would you do?

    KirriG posted a topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I've been working as an AIN (equivalent to your CNA but without taking vitals) in a nursing home for 5 months. Most of the people I've worked with have been great, very helpful at showing the newbie...

  2. You know that you are dating/married to a nurse

    KirriG replied to mydee's topic in Nursing Humor

    Hmmm, my husband's list would look something like this (I'm still just a student): When he complains of a headache, out comes the BP cuff cos he has hypertension. He has to give me more information...

  3. What's in your pocket(s)?

    KirriG replied to AllieSparksRN's topic in General Nursing

    A handful of gloves, a pen, a piece of paper with the shift's showers on it (and probably by 2 hours into the shift, little notations next to names with bowel status) and the key to my locker....

  4. Don't know how to cope with it all.........

    KirriG replied to MossyOakGirl's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Wow, I would have loved to have more than 2 shifts training (I'm in a nursing home - LTC). I am totally with you too. I'm slow because I don't whizz through everything, especially with the really...

  5. Anyone going beyond their CNA license??

    KirriG replied to sunflower777's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I'm going for my registration... It'll take me another 3-4 years because I'm going 1 or 2 subjects a semester, but I'll get there in the end!

  6. 501 ways to know you've been on allnurses.com too long!

    KirriG replied to Roy Fokker's topic in Nursing Humor

    212. You have keyboard imprinbts on the side of your cheeks from falling asleep because you want to check 'just one more' thread. 213. You consider this site to be a valuable study resource, thus...

  7. Stupid things said by your non-nurse significant other

    KirriG replied to Moogie's topic in Nursing Humor

    You can tell him that I had one after my third child and my childless sister has had one

  8. Australian STUDENTS

    KirriG replied to rachelgeorgina's topic in Australia, New Zealand

    ummmm... Sorry Zoe, p&p is a bucket load of work, but super interesting cos you start to get the point of learning all that a&p. Put it this way, in my study group we could count 2...

  9. Australian STUDENTS

    KirriG replied to rachelgeorgina's topic in Australia, New Zealand

    Zoe, are you studying at Griffith Uni? I'm doing Pathophysiology and Pharmacology 2 this semester which also starts for me tomorrow. :) And like you I love it and can't wait to get stuck in again!...

  10. Am I Crazy? 38, never thought I'd considering nursing but now I am

    KirriG replied to Elizabeth K.'s topic in General Nursing

    Lol, are you me? I'm 38 and just started my RN study. Because of having no experience, no family who are health care workers and finding it difficult to cope with people in pain I just hadn't ever...

  11. Myers-Briggs Profile Typing and Nursing

    KirriG replied to metal_m0nk's topic in General Nursing

    ESFJ for me - apparently the 2 careers I've been tossing up (nursing and teaching) are both good fits! :)

  12. Why would a facility over-hire nurses?

    KirriG replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    I'm guessing because of the higher wages for more expereinced staff. Australia went through a bad patch of this in the 1990's where hospital admins were 'concerned' about growing health care costs...

  13. Resident having seizure

    KirriG replied to branbran77's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    So true - we were told in the first First Aid course I ever did that the ambulance the teacher worked in had been called out to a home for someone who had a seizure. They arrived to find ... and...

  14. how many cna's plan to continue their education?

    KirriG replied to jynxa17's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I kinda came to AIN (Aussie CNA) from the other direction. I'm a second year RN student (3 year Bachelor degree) and realised that with my course I'd be rocking out with very little experience in...

  15. Advice for New CNAs

    KirriG replied to greeniebean's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    This is great! Many thanks. I've just started as an AIN (the Aussie version of the CNA) and have been pretty cranky and sad about my slowness. I was partnered with an awesome experienced AIN and I...

  16. Things you would love to say to your fellow nursing students!

    KirriG replied to Faeriewand's topic in General Students

    Love this thread. 1) (To 1 particular student) DO NOT spend the last hour before a very stressful final exam buttonholing me against a wall telling me intensely about how all the lecturers in 2...

  17. US nurse moving to Brisbane

    KirriG replied to sunshine888's topic in International Nursing

    Hi again, I'm actually in Indooroopilly, across the road from that big mall. And yes, public transport in this area is also great (train and bus). I certainly agree that going to transinfo will...

  18. Funny things that pts say

    KirriG replied to jRN4now's topic in Nursing Humor

    Confession time - I was one of those patients! :icon_roll I'm 3 days post-partum and suddenly my new baby girl starts to hitch and make weird noises. Pressing on the nurses button, I'm calling out...

  19. US nurse moving to Brisbane

    KirriG replied to sunshine888's topic in International Nursing

    OK, well you couldn't have done better. :) It's a great hospital where I want to work as soon as I have enough AIN experience in Aged Care, and where I want to do my Graduate Programme. Also it's...

  20. Maybe silly question -

    KirriG replied to Zoe*aka*studentnurse's topic in International Nursing

    That's very true, but for myself I questioned the point of completing expensive training to become an EEN for the last year of my degree, especially with 3 daughters in their teens sucking every drop...

  21. Student clinicals

    KirriG replied to JanisM's topic in International Nursing

    I'm inclined to agree. With a background in academia and a graduate entry into a nursing degree which I'm doing part time, I have had only 1 prac in an aged care setting as part of a 6 week bridging...

  22. US nurse moving to Brisbane

    KirriG replied to sunshine888's topic in International Nursing

    Hi Sunshine - good user name if you're moving to Queensland. A few things:- I've lived here all my life so I can give advice, but I don't know which hospital you're working in, and what your...

  23. Maybe silly question -

    KirriG replied to Zoe*aka*studentnurse's topic in International Nursing

    Hi Zoe, I've looked into this and it's provisionally true. The provision being that you finish 2nd year AND do a reasonably expensive EEN bridging course in the Summer Semester following that...

  24. Australian STUDENTS

    KirriG replied to rachelgeorgina's topic in Australia, New Zealand

    Well that's just good timing. I just found and joined the forums about 10 minutes ago. I'm a student nurse in Queensland and would love an online-y type study group - all the study group working I...