KirriG

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 how things are done, but I have recently been put w...

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 about his bowels than he ever assumed during our ear...

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. Assistant nurse in nursing home.

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 frail ones because they get so overwhelmed. BUT, I th...

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! Kirri

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 validating your continued dependence (and have every i...

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

I'm 21 with 17 years experience.

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 distinctions, 2 credits, 2 passes and 3 fails for P&P1. ...

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! Kirri

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 considered the field. Then last year after having h...

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

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 and figured that getting rid of higher paid nurses w...

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 please be aware this is pretty awful before you read o...

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 patient cares. Soo, I slowed down the study to part-ti...

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 think I may have been guilty of setting my speed an...

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 different universities have it in for you when you a) r...

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 help you make the best decision about places to sett...

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 for help and crying and generally being useless and ...

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 about 3 suburbs away from me, so feel free to drop m...

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 of income that sneaks past the landlord and Energe...

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 course on Clinical Practice (to get me ready for 2n...

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 definition of 'decent' is for apartments. A couple of si...

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 (offered through Griffith at the Gold Coast campus and a ...

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 can get my hands on! I'm also a part-timer, doing...