JDZ344

JDZ344

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  1. London nurses--are you okay?

    JDZ344 replied to babyNP.'s topic in International Nursing

    Do you have any idea the hoops the police go through when they carry a gun? All your police are armed- ours are not, and for good reason. They defiantly do not carry Machine guns, so you are at the...

  2. Tips for bed baths with combative patients.

    JDZ344 replied to bloodlikefire's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    can you ask your agency to overlap the shifts, so that for the first half hour of every visit there are 2 nurses to bath/change the patient as

  3. London nurses--are you okay?

    JDZ344 replied to babyNP.'s topic in International Nursing

    Even if he WAS shot for no reason (which I don't believe is true) it hardly excuses the behaviour of these "people" over the last couple of days. I'm ashamed to be young and British, I really

  4. when a male patient pulls foley out..

    JDZ344 replied to Ms.RN's topic in General Nursing

    Always makes me want to cross my legs, and I am

  5. London nurses--are you okay?

    JDZ344 replied to babyNP.'s topic in International Nursing

    I'm just outside the City, we have been unaffected so far. And yes, the idiots are using twitter, the stupid fools clearly don't realise they sign up with IP addresses, even if they use their real...

  6. Falls prevention

    JDZ344 replied to pmshiftrn's topic in General Nursing

    I think waving everyone up every 1 hour is cruel, and also not very productive. You (general you, not you specifically) do not get up every hour to go pee as a rule, if you were you would be hopefully...

  7. ODP's and administering drugs

    JDZ344 replied to debbieuk's topic in International Nursing

    Wow. I'm a HCA. I've seen some scary things done by HCAs. The good ones are bad. The bad ones are scary. I hope I am in the first

  8. Work Hours

    JDZ344 replied to Kaylesh's topic in International Nursing

    I'm hoping once it goes "live" the issues would have been ironed out. At the moment, it's a mess! One person got 10 days in a row, someone else is getting 60 hours one week and 10 the next, and so on....

  9. Work Hours

    JDZ344 replied to Kaylesh's topic in International Nursing

    E rostering was a PITA when I had a permanent job. Not so bad now I am bank and don't have to use

  10. What is the one thing you will absolutely not tolerate from a patient?

    JDZ344 replied to Yiggs's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

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  11. Fed up with a tech. Long- sorry.

    JDZ344 replied to missladyrn's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I opened this post this thinking "maybe I can explain it from the tech's point of view", but NOPE, what is is doing is INEXCUSABLE and when (not IF!) she seriously harms a patient then guess who will...

  12. Work Hours

    JDZ344 replied to Kaylesh's topic in International Nursing

    Then surely finishing at 9.30pm and being expected to be back on shift at 7am the next morning is illegal under EWTD?

  13. Patient fell, Forgot to reset alarm

    JDZ344 replied to PedsHopeful's topic in General Nursing

    OK, take a deep breath. I bet you will NEVER forget to check again! We learn by making mistakes. One of my patients once fell whilst I was RIGHT THERE, talking to them. I felt awful. I cried when I...

  14. What do you think of nurses who can't spell medical terms?

    JDZ344 replied to Mini-Murse's topic in General Nursing

    I have mild dyslexia and find some words really hard to spell. Like diarrhoea and catheter. (thank goodness for spell check in my browser!). At work, I keep a list of words I struggle with in my...

  15. What's the L&D visiting policy at your hospital?

    JDZ344 replied to byrd262's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Do you have your own unit security who deals with this?: No. We have buzzer entry and the nurses check who is entering at the door. Visitors have to be "let out" as well, so that the risk of baby...

  16. Fictional vital sign charting

    JDZ344 replied to Rabid Response's topic in General Nursing

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  17. Funny ways little kids describe how babies are born

    JDZ344 replied to shhhh's topic in Nursing Humor

    I love the way kids reason things

  18. Reporting resident abuse- right or wrong? :(

    JDZ344 replied to shix's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    You did the right thing. Even if you SUSPECT mistreatment, you have to report it and let the manager decide the rights and wrongs of it. Whoever told the other aides was wrong. It's nothing to do with...

  19. Taking good body mechanics too far?

    JDZ344 replied to kool-aide, RN's topic in General Nursing

    I suffered a muscular injury to my back in Jan. Still twinges sometimes. If there is an alternative, I ain't lifting. Next time it might not be "just"

  20. Health Care Assistant

    JDZ344 replied to happy23's topic in International Nursing

    Happy, how are you doing? It's great to meet a fellow HCA on here. Take your induction time to ask as many questions as you

  21. Nursing School 1900's Style - You Thought Your Program Was Difficult?

    JDZ344 replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in General Nursing

    I have a couple of books written by nurses from various eras. My favourite is Monica Dickens (Charles' grand-daughter), who trained as a nurse during one of the wars. Very

  22. Anyone ever have a famous person as a patient?

    JDZ344 replied to JRP1120, RN's topic in General Nursing

    Ruby Vee that is an awesome story...did the POTUS call

  23. Anyone ever have a famous person as a patient?

    JDZ344 replied to JRP1120, RN's topic in General Nursing

    Actors, singers, authors, comedians, etc...? All I can say is that I have treated a family member of a well known person. Never looked after a celebrity/famous person myself. If so, how did he/she...

  24. Health Care Assistant

    JDZ344 replied to happy23's topic in International Nursing

    Hi, we have the "Early/Late/Long Day/Night" system too. I choose to do Long days, so I work 3 days a week with 4 off. Those who do "shorts" get 5 days a week. Nights are normally 4 nights per

  25. Worked hard all night

    JDZ344 replied to beeble's topic in General Nursing

    I once worked a night shift. We knew the day shift were going to be short because 4 (yes 4!) people phoned in between midnight and 6am. So the nurses rushed around doing some of the morning IV drugs...