K+MgSO4 BSN

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    New Grad Programs in Australia

    Within the Victorian public system the computer match system prioritize VIC students who are Australian citizens, other state students that are citizens, then non citizens that studied in Australia,...
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    Nursing or med lab science?

    How would a site for nurses know enough about medical lab
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    Got fired as a grad

    Firing a nurse even in a grad program in Australia is a long process. I have been through it with a grad nurse before. There is a process that has to be followed, informal conversation, formal...
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    Got fired as a grad

    Grad nurses in Australia are fully licensed. The limit of under grad clinical hours is recognized as an issue and the grad year was developed to assist with the transition to independent...
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    WWI / WW2 Nursing dress

    Have a look at some English nurse uniform
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    Robots assisting nurses?

    Medication administration requires clinical judgment, it is not just dispensing pills. However for assistance with turning, moving and rolling robotics would be great. Assistance with food...
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    GI Bleed

    Think of the function of the bowel......not putting food in means less activity in the bowel, chance for recovery from the
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    This week, I learned (7/18).....

    I learned that sitting on a turned on electric blanket after applying cellulite cream that contains capsicum and ginger meand that I can turn off my heat in the coldest day in Melbourne in 20 years!...
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    Your worst nightmare

    Nope,
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    Your worst nightmare

    Most UK, Ireland and Australian hospitals are still on paper charting so it is completely viable that paper can go missing, as public hospitals run on the smell of an oily rag we do not have the...
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    You should know better

    I'm good with the dentist, dr, gyn. I don't drink fizzy drinks and never smoked. Never liked coffee. However living n a different country to where I grew up I spend a fortune on imported chocolate...
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    Medications by enteral tube challenges

    Talk to your dietician about the option of bolus
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    Studying and needing information

    Radiology nurses scrub for interventional radiology procedures and the immediate post op care. The hours depend on a mass of things, such as where you practice a major public metro hospital will be...
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    Funniest thing you've heard in an interview

    Me as the interviewer, our organization has a set of values that govern our everyday practice, can you tell me about a situation where you used one of these values. Interviewee, "o I don't believe...
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    12 Hour Shifts and What to Bring?

    Water bottle so you have no excuse not to drink, consider cooking up a storm the day before if you are doing 3 in a row invest in pyrex or the like for containers if you are going to be microwaving...
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    Thickened liquids and straws?

    It depends on if the person can perform the pursed lip suckling action and follow through swallow. Think about that amount of muscles required for
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    Delirium tremens, level of care?

    Magnesium
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    Alaris pumps?

    Alaris can handle 4 channels which is great also the ability to transfer channels to a different pc module when you move a pt ( our hospital ED techs are odd) it is also a oh&s reduction. I like...
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    Unusual treatments

    Also used for arthritis in larger joints such as a knee where you can wrap it around. Onion and brown sugar mixed together and drink the juice as a cough remedy, nettle soup, poitin (irish moonshine)...
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    Become a Nurse without Nursing School

    This has got to be from the 90s, most likely 80s about ENs id guess. Nurse education is degree level in the UK and is specialized you need to decide if you want to do adult, child, mental health,...
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    Scrub bottoms for tall/fat female?

    Urbane work it from a few years ago was awesome since loosing weight I am wearing a different urbane tall as that is the company my hospital uses in their contract as ours are tax deductible with our...
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    My patient had a fall.

    No no no. Drs will only act like that if they are allowed to. My surgeons would not dare treat my nurses like that, I do not atand for it as the NUM. First tme, my office for a conversation, second...
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    A day in the life of a UK nurse

    Practice is similar, conditions hellish since I left 8 years
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    A day in the life of a UK nurse

    Very. I have nursed in Ireland and Australia and it is very, very