DavidFR BSN, MSN, RN

Oncology, ID, Hepatology, Occy Health

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    What are they teaching?

    DavidFR replied to egglady's topic in General Nursing

    You have hit the nail on the head. The days of 14 days for a cholecystectomy or a 15 day post MI régime and back to day 1 if you have any chest pain are gone. The self-caring inpatient has largeley...
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    Team nursing?

    DavidFR replied to emergencynurse2011's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like just an excuse to up your ratios. Resist, resist, resist. Are you
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    Favorite type of documentation style?

    DavidFR replied to guest1154907's topic in General Nursing

    As stated above your question is vague, but I think I know what you're getting at. When I trained and first qualified in the UK (1980s) we had a "Kardex" which was just blank sheets. You free texted...
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    Favorite specialty? Why?

    DavidFR replied to SillyFever's topic in General Specialties

    Oncology. Combines fast acute nursing with the softer side of human relations. If you get a hospital that gives the right staffing levels, it can't be beaten. The courage of some of the patients has...
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    New grad looking for first job in Singapore! Is it possible?

    DavidFR replied to Monica Gupta's topic in General World

    Don't know anything about nursing in Singapore, however a friend of mine lived there for 5 years and adored it. I would say a good place to start is always the nursing regulatory body in the country...
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    Interview for a faith based hospital; advice please!!!

    DavidFR replied to shakabrah's topic in General Specialties

    I don't know where you are but have you looked into the legality of such questioning? In many European countries such questions are not allowed at interviews, along with not asking about political...
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    New Job Stay or Go?

    DavidFR replied to NurseGuy92's topic in General Nursing

    Go to your neuro step-down. It will stand you in good stead for doing ICU later on, whereas if you lose your licnese there'll be no ICU
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    Weekend Requirements

    DavidFR replied to Beaux2011's topic in General Nursing

    Alternate weekends is normal in most inpatient environments I've ever worked, nothing to do with seniority or length of service. Our Sunday hours come with an enhanced rate of pay. Each whole Sunday...
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    Night shift

    DavidFR replied to nikki1018's topic in General Nursing

    11 years on nights - love it! I echo many of the tips above but I would say try to live a normal day pattern on your nights off or you risk inversing your cycle altogether. My first night I have an...
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    What did you do with your old nursing school textbooks?

    DavidFR replied to coopman712's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sure that's still true today. When I qualified in 1986 there was a call put out in the nursing press (I was in the UK at the time) for a nursing school in Botswana and I sent my books there. It...
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    Transition to bedside shift reporting

    DavidFR replied to BRoBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Let's be honest, some patients are difficult and you need privacy to dicuss inappropriate behaviour. Some patients are stressed out and hearing their treatments and problems repeated at the bedside 2...
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    Any nurses wished they had become doctors?

    DavidFR replied to Future MSN's topic in Retired Nurses

    No, for the simple reason that medicine's too limiting. You become a cardiologist for example, you're generally a cardiologist for life. Become an oncologist, oncologist for life, usually. Nursing has...
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    Transgender nurses?

    DavidFR replied to munkyfusic's topic in General Nursing

    I do hear where you're coming from. I guess it's the difference between the trend in the uptake of surgery rather than being trans itself being a trend, or the trend in gay people coming out rather...
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    Transgender nurses?

    DavidFR replied to munkyfusic's topic in General Nursing

    I hate to be picky but I agree that calling it a trend makes it sound like people have a choice, like it's a fad. People don't wake up and decide "I'll be trans today" in the same way as people might...
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    Frazzled New Nurse Stuck on Rotating Shifts

    DavidFR replied to JustAnotherNewGrad24's topic in General Nursing

    If your health is suffering, can you involve occupational health? I don't know how it works where you are, but in my experience in both the UK and France, it's possible for occupational health to...
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    Cisplatin Pre & Post Hydration

    DavidFR replied to DowntheRiver's topic in Oncology

    I have actually had that happen with young people, not often, but it does
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    Where Were You...9/11

    DavidFR replied to Daisy4RN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not American but I had American neighbours at the time who are still very close friends. I had been out shopping with one of them, said my goodbyes and went home (afternoon Paris time). No sooner...
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    Transgender nurses?

    DavidFR replied to munkyfusic's topic in General Nursing

    I know a health care assistant (nurses aide or "aide soignant" here in France) who is transitioning male to female. The hospital and most staff have been very supportive. Of course there have been the...
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    Careers outside the hospital?

    DavidFR replied to hcurry1's topic in General Nursing

    Have you thought of occupational health out in a company, factory or organisation? Occy health can be very stimulating if you choose the right setting. I did it for 5 years in an international...
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    Working as a shy/socially anxious nurse

    DavidFR replied to peach2218's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with all that's been said but I would add that I don't tolerate rudeness, not from patients, not from families, not from doctors. If somebody expresses their displeasure at being bothered for...
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    Cisplatin Pre & Post Hydration

    DavidFR replied to DowntheRiver's topic in Oncology

    Not shocked at all by the hyper-hydration, and in fact, we go further. Depending on the protocol, 1 - 2 litres pre-hydration. The patient must have urinated a litre minimum before we proceed. Our...
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    Hospital Shifts - Days, Nights, or Both?

    DavidFR replied to kaitfinder's topic in United Kingdom

    Correction, many European countries have permanent night workers. I work in France where in most hospitals you're a day nurse or a night nurse. I'm a night nurse on 12 hour shifts doing 12 nights in...
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    Haunted Hospital??

    DavidFR replied to Breathing16's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    As a student nurse on night duty (1986!) we heard a woman screaming in pain. Running down to where the noise was coming from, that room was empty. Patients in surrounding rooms sleeping peacefully....
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    Why do some nurses use their titles as a big ego boost?

    DavidFR replied to Hellostudentnurssee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I started as a Nursing Auxilliary (Nurses' Aide in the UK) and was as proud of myself then as I am now with a masters. When asked what I do I say I'm a nurse (and in my last days in the UK when I was...
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    Misconceptions/truths about specialities

    DavidFR replied to vintage_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Oncology is people dying of cancer. You never deal with emergencies. They are all not for resus. The reality is that oncology is a very acute speciality indeed. Many of our patients are very unstable...