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iNurseUK RN

Plastics. General Surgery. ITU. Oncology

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  1. Beautiful photos

    iNurseUK replied to iNurseUK's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for kind responses. Opacity always has interesting things to look at I'm glad you liked

  2. Why so much competition between nurses?

    iNurseUK replied to MrsCrypes's topic in General Nursing

    Perhaps because the job market is less competitive in the UK and because we ALL work for the single organisation the NHS I haven't noted this. We tend to share the same moans and groans about the NHS...

  3. Comfort Food After a L o n g Shift

    iNurseUK replied to EMSnut45's topic in General Nursing

    LOL Moogie. "Butty" is a word for sandwich mostly used in the North of England. It has nothing to do with...erm the posterior regions of human

  4. Comfort Food After a L o n g Shift

    iNurseUK replied to EMSnut45's topic in General Nursing

    Well Canada sounds like a good place for a nice bacon sarnie Silverdragon But coffee? Give me builder's tea so strong you can stand a spoon up in it any day. I'm from the North originally. Could you...

  5. Medication problems

    iNurseUK replied to healthstar's topic in General Nursing

    No-one can ever hope to know every drug off by heart, not even the pharmacists!. If you don't know it is fine to look it up in the book. If it's any help I've been qualified 20 years and I'm still...

  6. Comfort Food After a L o n g Shift

    iNurseUK replied to EMSnut45's topic in General Nursing

    Bacon sandwich with lots of hot, strong tea. Yes well I'm English. What did you

  7. Charting Bloopers

    iNurseUK replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    Not strictly a blooper but moderately amusing anyway. Remember the old observation charts we used to keep at the foot of the patients bed? The ones with temp, BP and so on recorded on them? One day a...

  8. IF you WEREN'Ta nurse, what would you be???

    iNurseUK replied to sjoy's topic in General Nursing

    Historian, archivist or archaeologist

  9. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    iNurseUK replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    'Twas a dark and stormy night on the Plastics ward I worked for at the time. Well actually it was about 8.30 pm and I was working the Late shift. But it was winter and it was dark. Manifesting...

  10. What have other nurses done that have freaked you out?

    iNurseUK replied to texas_lvn's topic in General Nursing

    A newly-qualified nurse on my ward drew up 15 mls of insulin instead of 15 units. Thank God for our two-nurse checking policy and that she came trotting up to me to check the dose. No harm done and...

  11. Being Sued / Losing License

    iNurseUK replied to Meraki's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Just look at the website of the national governing body of the UK the Nursing and Midwifery Council for some truly scary strikings-off The Nursing and Midwifery Council: Safeguarding health and...

  12. Do you "allnurse" at work ?

    iNurseUK replied to Keepstanding's topic in General Nursing

    My particular Trust intranet tags allnurses as "Having no relevance to the business of the Trust" and the ward computers won't let me on it. This same intranet does however permit access to such...

  13. Could I like OB even if I'm an "all natural" kind of girl?

    iNurseUK replied to lalalalexi's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Sorry but this is a bit of an aside. What is the legal status of midwives in the US? In the UK midwifery is a specialised branch of nursing with it's own training and certification and no RGN would be...

  14. First nightshift down

    iNurseUK replied to gtoko's topic in General Nursing

    Although I'm English and work the usual system of internal rotation (a mixture of Earlies, Lates and Nights) my particular hospital, bless it's old-fashioned heart, does a rotation where you get seven...

  15. Elderly Care ward...

    iNurseUK replied to xAmyRose's topic in International Nursing

    I wasn't disrespecting those who work in the care of older folks at all. What I was saying was that this care area often suffers the most from staff

  16. Elderly Care ward...

    iNurseUK replied to xAmyRose's topic in International Nursing

    Are you having a laugh krh81? The last Elderly Care ward I was floated to was hell on Earth. The only question the day shift were interested in was "How many patients have you washed?" the night...

  17. Last Offices

    iNurseUK posted a topic in General Nursing

    It occurred to me the other day when carrying out last offices that much of it is ritualistic with no basis in evidence-based nursing practice. Why wash the body? (unless obviously soiled.Often not...

  18. blackpool victoria hosp or northwick park hosp?

    iNurseUK replied to weird0406's topic in International Nursing

    Circle of Moms - welcome to Circle of Moms And this UK drug trial disaster the official report - health - 25 May 2006 - New

  19. blackpool victoria hosp or northwick park hosp?

    iNurseUK replied to weird0406's topic in International Nursing

    Don't choose Northwick Park. It has a very bad reputation and some serious incidents have occurred there. It is my local hospital although I don't work there, never have and never want

  20. woot! Im RN Today

    iNurseUK replied to alohanars18's topic in General Nursing

    :)I'm an atheist. They are all equally mythical to me. But congrats

  21. woot! Im RN Today

    iNurseUK replied to alohanars18's topic in General Nursing

    Restrains natural UK tendency to dismiss the "PRAISE DE LAWD" stuff as a joke. Congratulations. You did it by yourself. No mythical God got you

  22. Addicted Nurses.. Who to blame !

    iNurseUK replied to hoope's topic in General Nursing

    This is a relatively very rare scenario in nursing. I cannot think that "blaming" anyone is terribly useful nor constructive. People may engage in addictive behaviors for all sorts of reasons....

  23. skirts to work

    iNurseUK replied to eternalbride's topic in General Nursing

    All our (female) nursing uniforms in the UK come in a choice of tunic and pants or a dress. Lots of nurses have a few of both as dresses are cooler in summer. No-one takes any notice at all of what...

  24. Why are leadership skills an important attribute of a Registered Nurse?

    iNurseUK replied to Hopeful2011's topic in General Nursing

    Well you have to know how to motivate your team (I find pizza works

  25. What to do if family refuses to accept responsibility for deceased's body....

    iNurseUK replied to Ruas61's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Difficult situation for sure. When I worked in ITU we had this young guy (late 20's maybe) admitted with a brain abscess. The person who had brought him to A&E in the first place had quickly...