DavidFR BSN, MSN, RN

I'm not sure the new dislike function is a positive move forward. It's to open to being abused and isn't that the reeason many other platforms have disabled it? I'm fine with people disagreeing with me. Debate is the whole point of a forum and p...

I'll be honest, if a thread is brought back up to the top of the board I will often not even notice when the OP actually started the thread. Sometimes it's good to come back to old discussions. New perspectives or things changing over the years ...

On psychiatry when a student. Pateint who menstruated all over the floor as she took off sanitary protection, then went off her head: "Placed in seclusion for a short period" As a CNS I once received a referral letter: "...on biopsy hi...

Missmollie, On the one hand you admit that "nursing is overwhelming" (your words) and then you go on to claim you never get anxious, and you do it in the most disparaging way to other colleagues. I rarely cry, though a very traumatic death ...

Would like to have done something creative like being a writer. Never got near my dream apart from once coming third in a poetry competition. I did have a novel rejected by publishers - righly so, it was awful. There's the funny ha ha bit, that I tho...

I once quit when I was passed over for a charge nurse post I had basically been assured of, only to see the post given to a part timer in a money saving drive. Meanwhile the staff nurses were expected to complete the charge nurse responsibilites the ...

Make the most of it! Years ago I worked in a four bedded CCU. We were always 2 nurses, no care assistants. So just 2 patients each but we did everything from A to Z. For me this was perfect since the esence of CCU is I believe, observation and b...

Check out the international section of this forum - there are numerous threads on specialist UK nurses wanting to work abroad. Sadly, there can be difficulties for people who don't have a general adult training. Good advice above - always contact the...

Another oncology nurse here who agrees with the above. Port needs to be reaccessed and flushed. And yes, we all make omissions sometimes.

And I still can't spell! d'Oh.

Lots of these when we went from no longer using commercial brand names to using the name of the molecule only. Oh for the days of Zophren! Several colleagues sitll can't get their tongues around Ondansetron (you'll hear Onstaneron).

I had an occy health job that wasn't anywhere near as quiet as you describe, but still had certain periods of very little to do. In those periods I surfed the net, I read, but yes that's gets boring after a time. There are initiatives you could ...

One more I see all the time on here. In British English an EKG is ALWAYS an ECG.

For years I used to slip up and say "He's a diabetic induced steroid". I've finally got it right now.

Do you have Smecta in the US? An anti-diarrhoea medication. I had a patient who told me she was fine now since she was taking Smegma. I worked in the South-West of England in the 80s where everybody made "s" into "sh". Inshulin was a...

I can only really help you on the tax question. I live in France and have dual French/British nationality. Several years ago I had a UK income in addition to what I earn from my regular job in France. I was told by both French and British tax au...

Breast surgery, usually in an oncological context. After some procedures you have to verify that the breast is warm and supple. Some patients have a flap after breast surgery and standard flap observations as are common as in burns and plastic surger...

Try not to. You're human, and you've done the right thing.

Everyone makes mistakes. Don't beat yourself up. Expiry dates are a largely precautionary safety measure. The product doesn't magically lose all its potency on the given date. Some countries have a policy of donating expired medecines to develop...

This exact system is used where I work. People like it as they know where they are for the year. They request those extra days off (public holidays in lieu etc.) as and when they need them. The only difference being in France our legal working week i...

I remember needles with wings but haven't seen one for about 10 years. When we switched to Qimoflow+ we thought it strange that there were no wings, but like most changes, once we got used to them we now think they're much better. That said, I s...

Having worked in a nursing home or having "only" 5 years experience as an RN are not excuses. Don't make excuses for her. Any trained nurse should know what to do when a patient falls and hits their head on a concrete floor having been punched. ...

We have a foam block which goes underneath the arm of the needle to support it, which is then fixed in place by 3 steri-strips which are placed over the arm of the needle but not over the insertion site itself. We then cover with a transparent dressi...

I once knew a UK nurse who didn't have enough hours psychiatry. She wrote places asking to do an unpaid placement and a psychiatric hospital accepted her to do the number of hours required, giving her a written statement that she'd undertaken x hours...

Is his rôle what used to be the 2 year trained ODA (Operating Department Assistant - back then a City & Guilds Certificate)? My sister was an ODA in the 80s and it was very much a UK specificity. There were virtually no other countries that...