K+MgSO4 BSN

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    Welcome to the Forum - General Aussie Chat

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

    Anyone feel the earth move in Melbourne tonight? 5.5 on the reciter scale just outside Moe! First
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    US student may need to move to UK during or immediately after nursing program?

    K+MgSO4 replied to FourFoxes's topic in United Kingdom

    Scotland is governed by the NMC so all of the threads on here discussing US to UK are relevant to you. UK training is specialist whereas US is generalist. Have a look at the threads to see the...
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    What supplies do I need for med-surg?

    K+MgSO4 replied to Nurse ABC's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Some of us have been wearing specs since 14! Not sure how my parents ever saw each other both of them with coke bottle glasses! I think I need to go for a check up, the computer screen is getting...
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    What supplies do I need for med-surg?

    K+MgSO4 replied to Nurse ABC's topic in Medical-Surgical

    All of the above and a watch! Good
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    How soon can we make the move - UK to Australia

    K+MgSO4 replied to sjblackwell79's topic in Australia, New Zealand

    Get experience first. even a year would really help you both. Also AHPRA may of changed their requirments for
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    When Should I Call?

    K+MgSO4 replied to Despareux's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    while this job is high on your priority list it is a lot further down on the nurse managers list. Trust me. I have covered my NM job for 2 months and I only got 2 days a week in the office. The...
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    Mental health bank work in Melbourne

    K+MgSO4 replied to Tappy20's topic in Australia, New Zealand

    Pay as a bank nurse is pretty good. You are looking at about $30/hr I think as a bank nurse. Just make sure that you only accept MH bank shifts as the bank co-ordinators may forget that you cannot...
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    From USA to AU

    K+MgSO4 replied to mika07's topic in Immigration Advice

    O dear o dear. NZ is a completely different country. It's not Tasmania! but a separate country! Government currency
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    How messed up is this?

    K+MgSO4 replied to jelly221,RN's topic in General Nursing

    This! Nurses week seems to be a trite thing that is only celebrated in the US. I never heard of it until I joined AN. it is not celebrated in UK, Ireland Australia or
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    Florence Nightingale

    K+MgSO4 replied to munch666nath's topic in United Kingdom

    this sounds like homework for nursing
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    How do you remember to check on patients q 15min or 2hrs, etc?

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

    For those of us that are not in the technological soaked USA where we do not have monitors wired to a central station it is dangerous to attach a portable VS machine to a pt and set it for 15 min...
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    rehab goals

    K+MgSO4 posted a topic in General Nursing

    We were reminiscing about a traumatic brain injury pt that we looked after on my ward last year. He was under the trauma service for some reason instead of neuro so that's how we ended up with him....
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    Violent Patient Issues

    K+MgSO4 replied to Lynx25's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Call the cops to take the pt down. I can't blame the other nurse for standing by. You don't know is she pregnant? Is she recovering from surgery? Is she scared and froze? Is she a slight nurse that...
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    Stretching the truth...

    K+MgSO4 replied to FaithGurl93's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    No. This is not experience in nursing. It is experience as a student etc but you are NOT the nurse you do NOT have the experience. I have just been culling applications today. One stated that she...
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    Favorite things you bought during RN school to help your studies?

    K+MgSO4 replied to northmississippi's topic in General Students

    bottle of
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    Moving to Victoria!

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

    Ceridwyn that is
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    Moving to Victoria!

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

    Really? RMH has a 1;4 for both day shifts. Pan room duties are split between clinical assistant and nurses. Linen & dishwasher = CA pans and bottles = nurse vases = me I think most days! My...
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    Moving to Victoria!

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

    welcome to Victoria. and the public health system! Ratios are 1:4 with 50% loading in the acute setting. So if you have a 26 bed ward you will have 6 nurses. We also have a charge nurse without a...
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    Current pay scale for nurses in Melbourne?

    K+MgSO4 replied to blu3b0yz's topic in Australia, New Zealand

    ok here it is. it is between $960.00 -$1271.00 Depending on how long you have been qualified. That is the base rate, weekends, nights and evenings are
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    Current pay scale for nurses in Melbourne?

    K+MgSO4 replied to blu3b0yz's topic in Australia, New Zealand

    It depends. Ig you are working in a public hospital it is based on the ANF agreement. I will look them up tomorrow. The private hospitals are indivdual as per group but are about a dollar or 2 less...
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    Things You Need To Know To Be A Nurse...

    K+MgSO4 replied to Joe V's topic in Nursing Humor

    an order for a stool spec is the best cure for
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    Pyxis for the uninitiated

    K+MgSO4 replied to goats'r'us's topic in General Nursing

    Same. Our ED and APU has pyxis but nowhere else has an appropriately sized or shaped drug room. We usually put all the non narcotic meds into the pts bedside drawer that we lock. Stocks of all our...
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    Survey: Impact of Design of hospitals on nurses

    K+MgSO4 replied to LambyLou's topic in United Kingdom

    done. Natural daylight is my biggest bug bear. I worked in a medical assessment unit that did not have windows. MAU = older people = dementia = sundowning. No windows makes that
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    Top 10 Reasons Against Unions

    K+MgSO4 replied to PICUPNP's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    There is a world outside the
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    Top 10 Reasons Against Unions

    K+MgSO4 replied to PICUPNP's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Have you guys heard about what the Australian Nurses Federation (Victoria Branch) have done. They are a nursing union that obtained a WORLD FIRST by mandating patient ratios 1:4 in a general acute...