carolmaccas66

carolmaccas66 BSN, RN

Med/Surg, DSU, Ortho, Onc, Psych

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  1. One of the best...Invaluable to the unit

    carolmaccas66 replied to NENE RN's topic in General Nursing

    Go as your DON why you're not being hired, then get back to

  2. My CNAs dont seem to respect me...

    carolmaccas66 replied to CCFCP's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I disagree with u being 'more helfpul'. I don't know ur facilty but as the RN, or charge nurse if u prefer, being 'more helfpul' & crawling to staff is not ur job. Your job is to be in charge,...

  3. From a student, to, hospital floor nurses...

    carolmaccas66 replied to mindlor's topic in General Nursing

    I'm lucky. All my students have been pretty much good. If they don't work when they're with me I don't push it now, I just think boy, you will have an extremely hard time getting organised when u have...

  4. I'm an Idiot....

    carolmaccas66 replied to ChristineN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm surprised you can't renew ur license online. We do all of ours like that now, then our work just checks online it's renewed - no problems now. You need to set up a reminder system for urself maybe...

  5. Communicating with patients that don't speak English

    carolmaccas66 replied to CalidthreeN's topic in General Nursing

    I had an indigenous patient in our ED not long ago. I was told no interpreters were available, or even used, it seemed. Luckily there was another indigenous lady who helped out, & my patient could...

  6. Legal implications of free-text charting

    carolmaccas66 replied to EmmieRN's topic in General Nursing

    What do u mean by free text charting? I haven't heard this term. Is it like a running sheet that night staff use sometimes, ie: when everyone has done their main notes, if anything changes it is put...

  7. New Grad-Hate my Job

    carolmaccas66 replied to ajb96278's topic in General Nursing

    I worked at a GI clinic in Perth, & in the morning, the psychotic NM said I would be trained for one day only (which I didn't know prior to going in that morning). When I expressed concern, I was...

  8. First interview went great...and then this happened.

    carolmaccas66 replied to HelpMeNewGradRN's topic in General Nursing

    I don't understand the connection you make b/ween leaving ur wallet & thinking u won't get the position. The 2 have nothing to do with each other. You are just getting nervous & hysterical for...

  9. Are any of you loyal?

    carolmaccas66 replied to MzTayTay's topic in General Nursing

    This happened to me too, xtxrn. I left a job in my own home town with a small hospital, as the staffing was inadequate & the CNs, CNCs & some of the young RNs were lazy as all hell. I...

  10. Offensive or not??

    carolmaccas66 replied to peekachoo's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I don't speak to people like this. But I've worked with nurses who call people luvvy, sweetheart, petal, etc. No-one got offended, I think it made some really sick patients feel wanted and cared for....

  11. Saline in a bottle not for injection?

    carolmaccas66 replied to Hushi05's topic in General Nursing

    You only use saline bottles in theatre. Once they're opened, they're not sterile. It's the same as the saline you use for injection. The bottles only have a twist open cap, and no rubber port for...

  12. Psychiatric Nursing Advice

    carolmaccas66 replied to amacdon's topic in Psychiatric

    You're

  13. Does Australia have a registration exam?

    carolmaccas66 replied to madascanbeRNtobe's topic in International Nursing

    Don't u have any nursing agencies in Canada? That seems really weird. I thought they were all over the world

  14. Does Australia have a registration exam?

    carolmaccas66 replied to madascanbeRNtobe's topic in International Nursing

    Yes my net went down when I was going to post an answer for a university assignment. So annoying! I copy & paste everything now b4 I post so I don't lose

  15. Does Australia have a registration exam?

    carolmaccas66 replied to madascanbeRNtobe's topic in International Nursing

    I don't understand grades, we have divisions here, but when I enquired thru QLD health, I think as a year 3 RN I would be a grade 5, depending upon what the hospital wants to grade you as. There is...

  16. Bad Experience with Nurses at hospital, rethinking my major now.

    carolmaccas66 replied to Lindsey-Student's topic in General Nursing

    If you love nursing school that is great, stick it out. But remember: you won't be practicing medicine, you will be practicing nursing care - there is a big difference, you keep saying u like...

  17. Are any of you loyal?

    carolmaccas66 replied to MzTayTay's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you very much Leslie. I always enjoy reading your posts & your words of wisdom. It was so awful to see my friend marched out like that. She was an older, not very good-looking very religious...

  18. Why are we as Psych nurses seen as bottom of the barrel?

    carolmaccas66 replied to dreamingofbeing's topic in Psychiatric

    What an awfully sad story. How dreadful. I really admire people who can work in paeds, especially psych paeds. I've worked paeds lately and even with kids who aren't emotionally traumatised, it is...

  19. Why are we as Psych nurses seen as bottom of the barrel?

    carolmaccas66 replied to dreamingofbeing's topic in Psychiatric

    My gf is a Clinical Nurse, and couldn't undertand why I went into studying psych nursing for my Grad Dip. After the way I've been treated lately, I'm even beginning to question myself. You won't be...

  20. Facebook almost cost me my job

    carolmaccas66 replied to ReginaPhalange's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I am on a mission to get rid of FB and am extremely anti-FB. I closed my FB account 2 days ago. After I opened it a while ago now, I had inadvertently posted my mobile number (b4 the new privacy...

  21. Are any of you loyal?

    carolmaccas66 replied to MzTayTay's topic in General Nursing

    Be loyal to no-one but yourself. A friend of mine told me this, after she was 'sacked' from her job - for no reason - and marched out of our hospital, by security guards on each side (as per hospital...

  22. Bad Experience with Nurses at hospital, rethinking my major now.

    carolmaccas66 replied to Lindsey-Student's topic in General Nursing

    Where did all this happen? Was it in an ED/ER? You don't say. If it was in an ED, then it sounds like the one I worked in last night. People coming in drunk, shouting, screaming; nurses getting angry...

  23. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    carolmaccas66 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    NO SHE CAN'T HAVE ANY MORPHINE!!! Hee hee

  24. Smells like...

    carolmaccas66 replied to LouisVRN's topic in General Nursing

    Is he on a medication that could have caused this? Also I've heard people say their urine/stools smelled different when they changed their diet or are dieting, or when they use herbal remedies...

  25. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    carolmaccas66 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    No, you can't have morphine. No, you can't have morphine. No...once again...you can't have morphine. Again....yes I did speak to the consultant...she is not going to give you morphine, you are going...