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iNurseUK RN

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  1. Looking for an international nurse to have a global understanding of nursing.

    iNurseUK replied to JVattRN's topic in General Nursing

    Now where to start? Nurses in the UK certainly command less respect than in former years. We as a profession are often at the sharp end of media criticism particularly in the more right-wing sections...

  2. Looking for an international nurse to have a global understanding of nursing.

    iNurseUK replied to JVattRN's topic in General Nursing

    I have been qualified 20 years and most of my experience was in reconstructive surgery but I also worked in ITU. I am currently on an Oncology Unit at a very well-respected Cancer hospital Happy to...

  3. Just looking for opinions

    iNurseUK replied to Sanuk's topic in General Nursing

    Think yourselves lucky you are not in the UK! You get the standard uniform of whichever Trust you work for issued on joining and that is it. My uniform is a blue and white striped tunic of a heavy...

  4. Looking for an international nurse to have a global understanding of nursing.

    iNurseUK replied to JVattRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm happy to help if a nurse from the UK isn't too boring for you

  5. Why do Doctors think they are................God!!

    iNurseUK replied to RNdiva505's topic in General Nursing

    Do all you US folk work with fully qualified doctors? You don't get young inexperienced House Officers? They are a damn sight more terrified than you and rely on the nurses to get it right. We are all...

  6. My resident died yesterday. What should I have done differently?

    iNurseUK replied to NN2BVE's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I would never have called 911 but upped morphine, midazolam, diazepam. Those drugs that ease gently into the long sleep. What was your facility THINKING of to call a code on what was clearly a...

  7. Blood transfusions??? just say no...

    iNurseUK replied to macgirl's topic in General Nursing

    It is not an area of nursing we are excluding but a PROCEDURE which may well arise in any speciality. Now I'm English, by definition indifferent to religion. More than 94% of English people go nowhere...

  8. Employment Drug Test Questions

    iNurseUK replied to booradley007's topic in General Nursing

    Genetic testing? Are you carrying the breast cancer genes or the colon ones? Do you have a family history of diabetes? Are you perfect in every way? Hang on isn't there a name for this?

  9. Employment Drug Test Questions

    iNurseUK replied to booradley007's topic in General Nursing

    How long before caffeine becomes as demonised as tobacco and potential employers exclude people for using it? How long before they want blood work for cholesterol? Thank God the UK isn't there yet....

  10. Where to find articles for research paper?

    iNurseUK replied to tmitch8489's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Just do a Google search! Dosen't your school library subscribe to the relevant journals? I\d be surprised if they didn't. I'm English but surely US colleges have appropriate online resources and...

  11. types of co-workers/patients to be aware of. HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH THESE PEOPLE?

    iNurseUK replied to tater.jake's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    No

  12. Nurses targeted for real estate agents?

    iNurseUK replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    Reword that "Nurses are pretty amazing! Nursing is all about caring and dealing with challenging situations. Buying a burger is a big deal. It can be stressful. We want a clerk who is trained to weigh...

  13. types of co-workers/patients to be aware of. HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH THESE PEOPLE?

    iNurseUK replied to tater.jake's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The Altruistic Manager? What on Earth is that? Are they like ghosts, everyone swears they exist but no-one ever actually saw

  14. types of co-workers/patients to be aware of. HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH THESE PEOPLE?

    iNurseUK replied to tater.jake's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The Nurse Manager. Hasn't worked on the wards since 1972, breezes through your on its knees ward smiling graciously and announcing that you must take an admission into your only empty

  15. Just about to start!

    iNurseUK replied to gorgenurse's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    It is quite a high caseload but as these patients are not acute I'm sure you will do just fine. Congratulations on starting your job and all best wishes

  16. What's the craziest thing you've heard over the ambulance radio?

    iNurseUK replied to JeneraterRN's topic in General Nursing

    An ambulance tech I got talking to one time told me this tale. There was a man, very well known to the ambulance crews who lived very close to his local hospital, VERY close on the same road. Well...

  17. No Narc count????

    iNurseUK replied to ennylyecats's topic in General Nursing

    That's interesting. In the UK narcotics are never kept in the general medicine trolleys (with the exception of Oramorph which my ward allows to be given by a single nurse, no contersignature required)...

  18. What's the craziest thing you've heard over the ambulance radio?

    iNurseUK replied to JeneraterRN's topic in General Nursing

    Best one I heard was "Patient complains of cell phone lodged in rectum. Cannot answer incoming calls. Phone is set to

  19. Job Offer Rescinded Because Test Positive for.....Nicotine?

    iNurseUK replied to SunnyPupRN's topic in General Nursing

    Lord that's a bit harsh. How times change. My mother who was also a nurse remembers having to empty the PATIENTS ashtrays when she was a student nurse in the late

  20. If only somebody could help me to find the right school

    iNurseUK replied to Knifed's topic in General Nursing

    I have no clue what you are talking about or indeed expecting. Scholarships for Star wars? Not in this country my friend nor do I think in the US either. Nursing education is a long hard road with no...

  21. If only somebody could help me to find the right school

    iNurseUK replied to Knifed's topic in General Nursing

    The UK offers BSc and (more rarely) BA degrees in Nursing but it won't be paying for your education. Why not take a nursing degree in your own country then travel with it? The UK is usually fairly...

  22. Company picnic tomorrow

    iNurseUK replied to tokmom's topic in General Nursing

    That sounds like fun! My ward has a Ward Lunch every month. The nurses, doctors and ancillary staff cook up a big ol' mess of whatever their speciality is and bring it in and we all stuff ourselves....

  23. Ok, this one hasn't been done in a while....

    iNurseUK replied to FancypantsRN's topic in General Nursing

    iNurse...well I DO :) it's a play on the Apple iEverything as I'm a long-time mac user and Apple love to stick the "i" before a lot of their products. The UK bit is just factual. I'm

  24. Olde English in nursing

    iNurseUK replied to cristyanne's topic in Nursing Humor

    I always used to say to our Plastic surgeons when they got above themselves "You know what the difference between God and a plastic surgeon is? No? God dosen't think he's a plastic surgeon" Shut them...

  25. Can't wait to go to work tomorrow.

    iNurseUK replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Nursing

    I'm long past the bright-eyed and bushy-tailed phase but I can"t say I would begrudge it to a new nurse Depends if the job you choose is a good fit for you and your aspirations. One ward I knew of at...