K+MgSO4 BSN

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    Nurse!!! Nuuuurrrrsssse!!!!

    K+MgSO4 replied to Anna Flaxis's topic in Emergency

    What I get - even the days I am non clinical and in business wear is LOL "sister, sister" I am in Australia so that is what patients call their RN, ENs (LPN) get "nurse" from the NUM. We had a loon of...
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    Calling patients and/or co-workers "honey" or "hon"

    K+MgSO4 replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Absolutely agree! Kid is a young goat, another one is a NW irish term "weans" which is the same. It really grates on
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    Please help!!:)

    K+MgSO4 replied to Kritner's topic in International Nursing

    Short answer no. there is no private nursing schools in the UK or Ireland. Also if you were to practice in the US your UK degree would not be adequate. Nursing in the UK is specialist - adult,...
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    LD Scottish Nursing student looking to move to Ireland

    K+MgSO4 replied to Jane-m12's topic in United Kingdom

    Not in the republic maybe northern ireland? One of the issues is all nursing is 4 years in Ireland........ talk to your uni and the unis that you are interested in moving
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    RNs, I got a question about pain meds

    K+MgSO4 replied to tarotale's topic in New York Nursing

    As an abdo surgical nurse men in their 20s are big wimps lap appendix requiring a PCA. In the next bed a 70 something war vet who had had a 6 hr laporotomy OOB 6 hrs post op. The 20 something women...
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    Does nursing school teach you how to react to a dead/dying patient?

    K+MgSO4 replied to RainbowHead's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Ahh my first day of clinical placement as a 17 year old. Walk onto the ward discover that my preceptor is sick and I have been allocated to nurse X. The ward manger apolgises to me. I have no idea...
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    Taking dying patient home with children - what are your thoughts?

    K+MgSO4 replied to tokebi's topic in Pediatric

    My mother and father nursed my maternal uncle in our house as he died of a brain tumor. I must of been less than 7 as it was before we moved to Ireland. In rural ireland death was just part of...
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    Lying about licensure on social networking sites

    K+MgSO4 replied to Working4ALiving's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Why would you care if this is your biggest worry you are very lucky
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    How much is too much?

    K+MgSO4 replied to alth's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Most people are enthralled by my irish accent and ask me where I'm from in Ireland how long I've been in Australia then they want to know if I'm staying. I turn the conversation around to their...
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    Enrolled Nurse

    K+MgSO4 replied to miss green's topic in Australia, New Zealand

    EN can give IV meds if endorsed to do so. However EN is not on the skills shortage list for a sponsorship visa once you have
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    Use of chux cloths to replace facewashers

    K+MgSO4 replied to seriouslylost's topic in General Nursing

    Ahh pts are not "billed" like the are in the US the hospitals use a scoring system to be reimbursed form state or fedral funding.....in acute care most people go via the public health system which is...
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    Use of chux cloths to replace facewashers

    K+MgSO4 replied to seriouslylost's topic in General Nursing

    I think the poster may be Australian. A kylie is an washable absorbent pad that is about 2 feet long and as wide as the bed. It is used to save the bedsheet from getting soaked with incontinent pt...
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    Nursing in Ireland

    K+MgSO4 replied to Sinedenise's topic in International Nursing

    In the republic Nursing is still in a hiring freeze in ghe public sector, your chances are very
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    Pressure ulcer stage 2..what would you use?

    K+MgSO4 replied to seks's topic in General Nursing

    My wound nurses and professor of nursing research just published an article on preventive dressings in high risk pts in a critical care area. They usec mepilex sacrum and had some really good...
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    Who should make patient assignments??

    K+MgSO4 replied to D.R.A.'s topic in General Nursing

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    Diploma in Enrolled Nursing

    K+MgSO4 replied to EngrMercy's topic in International Nursing

    ENs are not on the skills shortage list. RN
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    Sitting down in patient rooms.

    K+MgSO4 replied to Caffeine_IV's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I do it I just thought I was lazy!! If I am feeding someone I always try to sit as my frame leaning over them could be intimidating fat 6ft woman ! when I am replacing TEDS I will grab some...
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    Has anyone ever look down on you because you are a nurse

    K+MgSO4 replied to dulcet's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    My sister statred uni a year after me to study accounting. She is still doing exams 7 years later and is pretty low on the totem pole at work still. I am running a ward of 25 beds and about 40 staff...
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    Moving to Brisbane from UK

    K+MgSO4 replied to Gem1210390's topic in Australia, New Zealand

    I am not famili with Brisbane at all but there would be neonatal units there best bet is to put some feelers out via email to nursing workforce at some hospitals. Wikipedia might be able to give you...
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    Moving to Brisbane from UK

    K+MgSO4 replied to Gem1210390's topic in Australia, New Zealand

    Your not going to get a permanent job without registration. If you have a good lenght of time before you move you could start it in the uk youll have easier access to the paperwork you will need. You...
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    inappropriate messages

    K+MgSO4 posted a topic in Nurse Management

    I am going to explode! My phone number is posted on the contact list at work. However one of my staff has taken to text messaging me roster requests, looking for favors etc. I do not nor have I...
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    inappropriate messages

    K+MgSO4 replied to K+MgSO4's topic in Nurse Management

    Thanks to both off you. I pulled her into the office and told her that there was proper channels for roster requests and other non urgent issues. I.e. the ANUM on duty. If they couldn't resolve it...
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    8 month old baby dies because iv line could not be accessed

    K+MgSO4 replied to ibnkoomson's topic in General Nursing

    If it is all you have ever dealt with how would you know any different? When I wirked remote area nursing in the Australian outback I had no peads training - no doctor somedays - and still had an ED....
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    ~Likes & Dislikes~

    K+MgSO4 replied to Gaby_rmz77's topic in General Nursing

    I like the practical changes I have made for my team of nurses, new products that work, redesign of areas that they wanted. I hate that they are put at risk by dangerous patients and face aggression...
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    8 month old baby dies because iv line could not be accessed

    K+MgSO4 replied to ibnkoomson's topic in General Nursing