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iNurseUK RN

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  1. *Vent* RN's make toast?!?!?!

    iNurseUK replied to WickedRedRN's topic in General Nursing

    Crumbs! is the Great Toast Controversy still rumbling on? I thought you lot would be browned off with it my now having had a few crusty posts.... Seriously though when I trained back in the Dark Ages...

  2. *Vent* RN's make toast?!?!?!

    iNurseUK replied to WickedRedRN's topic in General Nursing

    There once was a nurse called Ned Who was bad at toasting the bread Once, in a fluff He burned the damned stuff And the management wanted him

  3. *Vent* RN's make toast?!?!?!

    iNurseUK replied to WickedRedRN's topic in General Nursing

    Quite. Toast is clearly a serious hazard in the healthcare environment. I think national guidelines governing sharpness of crust, crumb choking potential and butter dripping co-ordinates outlining the...

  4. *Vent* RN's make toast?!?!?!

    iNurseUK replied to WickedRedRN's topic in General Nursing

    To toast or not to toast, that is the question Whether 'tis nobler on the ward to suffer The knobs and levers of outrageous toasters Or to take up arms against a sea of bread And by opposing end

  5. *Vent* RN's make toast?!?!?!

    iNurseUK replied to WickedRedRN's topic in General Nursing

    Gracious Heavens! RN's making toast! Man the barricades My ward has been doing this for many years. So far there have been no

  6. No wonder we are getting nursing students who are only in it for $

    iNurseUK replied to JDougRN's topic in General Nursing

    Let us hold on the judgemental 'tude for a second. I have nursed for 20 years. I had no sense of vocation whatsoever. I thought it was an interesting job with secure employment. So it has proved to...

  7. Plastic disposable aprons - may increase risk of patients contracting an infection

    iNurseUK replied to icuinuk's topic in General Nursing

    BBC NEWS | Health | Plastic aprons 'infection risk' Original article is here http://www.electric-fields.bris.ac.uk/ALLEN%20Apron%20Paper.pdf All I can find on the

  8. Total procrastination mode

    iNurseUK posted a topic in General Nursing

    Ugh! I'm having to do a short (6 months) course at university to acquire some required skills and knowledge pertinent to my current employment in Oncology. Faced with (cue ominous music) the horror...

  9. LPN's role for grieving families

    iNurseUK replied to newdmh's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Neither do I. AlthoughI gather LPN's are much more highly skilled and better trained than our UK Health Care Assistants which is the nearest comparison it really dosen't matter what your title is. I...

  10. Literacy: A good quality in a unit secretary

    iNurseUK replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    We'd be lost without our excellent ward clerks. The great unsung heroines of the NHS. Never met an illiterate one yet. Some are better than others and my current one is brilliant. All hail the ward...

  11. Read this poem

    iNurseUK replied to Ashley752's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    What do we see, you ask, what do we see? Yes, we are thinking when looking at thee! We may seem to be hard when we hurry and fuss, But there's many of you, and too few of us. We would like far more...

  12. How many of you nurses do NOT have health insurance

    iNurseUK replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Nursing

    I don't find them objectionable at all. That is the reality of private health insurance. Even in this country (UK) insurance companies try every which way to wriggle out of paying. How do I know? My...

  13. How many of you nurses do NOT have health insurance

    iNurseUK replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Nursing

    Oh dear. Erm...well I'm English. I have 100% coverage. It's called the

  14. Any Regrets on becoming a nurse?

    iNurseUK replied to agresh1's topic in General Nursing

    Regrets? oh yes indeed. I haven't soothed enough fevered brows, plumped enough pillows. drifted through the wards like an Angel of Mercy or married a doctor....

  15. Lurkers

    iNurseUK replied to themoreyouknow's topic in General Nursing

    We have a strategy for this. If a visitor is glued to the nursing station and displays all the understanding of a developmentally-delayed ameoba to all the body language that is yelling "GO AWAY...

  16. Rant about ungrateful, demanding patients

    iNurseUK replied to KSU-SN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I am appalled by reading these tales. The NHS does not pander to over-demanding patients. Certainly a patient can complain but a senior nurse (Sister or Matron) will look at complaints and will 99% of...

  17. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    iNurseUK replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    I heard this tale from a lecturer on the Oncology course I am doing. A sprightly old gentleman in his 70's came in for his pre-treatment assessment. During the course of this he was advised to use...

  18. Thoughts on Christmas scrubs...Yea or no way?

    iNurseUK replied to GoECU's topic in General Nursing

    My colleagues and I don't get the choice as we have to wear Trust uniform but lots of people wear things like Christmas earrings or badges or even tinsel in their hair. It can't be much fun to be an...

  19. There is one more thing worse than a old nurse eating their young,knowing all grad!

    iNurseUK replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    Nah, use plenty of BBQ sauce. Goes down a treat with a side of cheese

  20. There is one more thing worse than a old nurse eating their young,knowing all grad!

    iNurseUK replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    Newly-qualified nurses can be a bit like that sometimes. One of my wards new nurses tried to hand me a lecture about checking the pulse before giving digoxin the other day. Digoxin can slow the...

  21. student needs advice from Cosmetic/Plastic or Derma RN's

    iNurseUK replied to rnintwo's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry hon. I worked in Plastics for many years but I'm English and the definition is different in the UK. My ward didn't do aesthetic surgery but reconstructive and functional procedures only. I can't...

  22. Total procrastination mode

    iNurseUK replied to iNurseUK's topic in General Nursing

    I hope you are pleased to hear I got an A+ for my assignment. Yes, I wrote it the night before it was due in and now I am procrastinating about the next

  23. Breakfast before a 12 hour shift..

    iNurseUK replied to MJB2010's topic in General Nursing

    It is a long-standing tradition at my hospital if you are on the Early shift at a weekend one person goes to the hospital canteen and gets breakfast. Bacon, eggs, sausages, beans, mushrooms, hash...

  24. Macaroni & Cheese

    iNurseUK replied to rjt027's topic in Nursing Humor

    Still don't get

  25. a video to share: what I leaRNed

    iNurseUK replied to rn-jane's topic in General Nursing

    Well that is a lot of sentimental claptrap. Nursing is MUCH worse than