K+MgSO4 BSN

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    UK RN IV training for Australia

    K+MgSO4 replied to VickyMcSkimming's topic in General World

    It is not something that AHPRA would think needs to be
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    UK RN IV training for Australia

    K+MgSO4 replied to VickyMcSkimming's topic in General World

    In fairness even if you didn't get it done you could refer to the bible that every Ward has the Australian injectables book. This tells you how to make up every med and how to administer it length of...
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    UK RN IV training for Australia

    K+MgSO4 replied to VickyMcSkimming's topic in General World

    It is a ridiculous archaic throw back that I went through in Ireland as well. Get your course done as I give IVs like they are going out of fashion. Australian nurses give ivs all the time from 2nd yr...
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    UK RN IV training for Australia

    K+MgSO4 replied to VickyMcSkimming's topic in General World

    What do you mean IV training? Giving antibiotics and TPN? Or canulating? Can you explain
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    What is your Achilles heel?

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

    False eyes and eyeballs in general. Which is a problem because my Ward takes ophthalmic patients. Thankfully it's only about one a
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    Regression, anxiety, agitation, fearfulness in Alzheimers

    K+MgSO4 replied to Nurse SMS's topic in General Nursing

    Has she got a doll or Teddy bear that she could hold onto. That is something I have used in the past. On a side note I had to shackle a 90 yo man from eastern Europe the other day who had a deliurm....
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    Working in UK vs Australia

    K+MgSO4 replied to aldzbp20's topic in Nurse Registration

    no employers hire nurses because they are required by EBAs, if employers had their way a lot of unskilled workers would be employed and a lot less nurses. In any hospital nurses are the single...
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    Working in UK vs Australia

    K+MgSO4 replied to aldzbp20's topic in Nurse Registration

    You better have specialist experience for either country as there is no nursing shortage in either
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    How to get into nursing without a Grad Year

    K+MgSO4 replied to carmie36's topic in Australia, New Zealand

    What about private hospitals and RDNS? Going rural might help as well. Not everyone can get into the major city
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    Night shift and body mechanics

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

    When you start your shift clear the area around the bed for yourself. Yes raise the bed you have only one back there will be thousands of patients. Most of your beds are electronic are they not? How...
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    AGENCY NURSING

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

    SC morph is used to prevent narcing pt or depressing the resp system on the wards. We go through endone on my Gen surgery Ward are a alarming
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    International Nursing

    K+MgSO4 replied to taz5's topic in General World

    First the registration issues in the UK that you encountered you will also have in Ireland. The systems are very similar, as the health service deliveries are very similar. Second issue is the 17.5%...
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    rmf srubs website

    K+MgSO4 replied to K+MgSO4's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Thanks I just got mine and washed them they do look very wrinkled in comparison to my other ones that I bought from the shop at work. O well they will do as back up when I am on a long
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    rmf srubs website

    K+MgSO4 posted a topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Hi all was wondering if anyone has used the rmf scrubs website. Any feedback
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    Medical Drugs in the US & else where. Are they the same ?.

    K+MgSO4 replied to benBELLA94's topic in Patient Medications

    doses can vary as well, in the UK & Ireland prophylatic asprin is 75mg where in Australia and New Zealand it is 100mg. Some combination meds are not approved in other countries.......Augmentin IV...
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    Uk nurse wants to work in OZ but not do nights. Is it possible??

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

    Sure if you find a job that doesn't do
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    Do Employers Value Experience in the USA?

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

    Midwifery in the UK is different to the way the term is used in the
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    "I don't want an admit..."

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

    I hear you had a nurse moan to me that opening up flex beds is stupid. Right, ........... so leaving ED full and ambulances ramped is a better idea? Its winter here in the public health system suck it...
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    Small children visiting patients in the critical care setting... thoughts??

    K+MgSO4 replied to TigerGalLE's topic in Critical Care

    I work on a general surg ward. I hate it when all the family traispe in at the one time and expect to sit around the bedside (my rooms all have 3 beds). I suggest that they take their loved one off...
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    rmf srubs website

    K+MgSO4 replied to K+MgSO4's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    thanks for
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    Want to transfer to another unit...

    K+MgSO4 replied to pedsnurse2011's topic in Nursing Career

    Changing units means a change in cost center for wages etc and it is faster to swap units than go through the whole recruitment process. It is also good manners to tell your manager what you are...
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    Foley Catheter Lubrication

    K+MgSO4 replied to Twinmom06's topic in General Nursing

    Amazing the difference in practice I started my studies in 2002 in Ireland and always saw lidocaine gel being instilled into the meatus of a male for catheter insertion. Still do it here in Australia...
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    Oldest patient

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

    102 man perfed his bowel due to diverticular dx. Was booked for a ICU review post op but didn't need it. Came back to the Ward post laporotomy. In the same room asthe 30 something lap chole. Put...
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    Oldest patient

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

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    breakdown at work

    K+MgSO4 replied to LookForward's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I have cried at work. A pt that was dying because her MPOA was a nutjob and was obstructing life saving treatment. Myself the social worker and the surgical registar all cried during a clinical...