nightmare

nightmare RN

Nursing Home ,Dementia Care,Neurology.

Scottish trained RGN now retired.

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  1. Post-Mortem care

    nightmare replied to rehabhereIcome's topic in General Nursing

    This was purging before they died ,Leslie.That's what made it worse,having to leave the room and leave them while they were

  2. Post-Mortem care

    nightmare replied to rehabhereIcome's topic in General Nursing

    The thing I hate the most about someone dying is when the body purges.That is the only time I have had to leave a room because I just could not control gag reflex.It was awful! Never in 30 odd years...

  3. Silly question about what is considered a liquid

    nightmare replied to queenjean's topic in General Nursing

    Our usual rule of thumb is that if it started out as a liquid in the cooking process then it can be counted as a

  4. Post-Mortem care

    nightmare replied to rehabhereIcome's topic in General Nursing

    No ,never had that

  5. Silly question about what is considered a liquid

    nightmare replied to queenjean's topic in General Nursing

    What kind of pudding was

  6. Competition for Masters Programs

    nightmare replied to SyncSix's topic in International Nursing

    Moved to Canadian forum for more informed

  7. Post-Mortem care

    nightmare replied to rehabhereIcome's topic in General Nursing

    I know what you mean,some just will not close,I've tried leaving the wet swab on for a while as

  8. Post-Mortem care

    nightmare replied to rehabhereIcome's topic in General Nursing

    Leslie,try a wet swab and gently stroke the eye lid down.The water moistens the eye which is probably dry and helps close

  9. Code of Conduct and Standardisation of Training.

    nightmare posted a topic in General Nursing

    In the UK the updated Code of Conduct has just been released. http://www.nmc-uk.org/aArticle.aspx?ArticleID=3057 Do US nurses have the same kind of code? In the UK failure to adhere to the Code can,in...

  10. Grades don't matter!

    nightmare replied to MissKitty21's topic in General Nursing

    Well I can't remember what I got in College.The only thing that mattered was that I became a registered nurse and what I have learnt since

  11. working on the old-style wards

    nightmare replied to RNperdiem's topic in General Nursing

    All the wards I trained in were Nightingale wards(yes I am that old!)They were scrupulously clean thanks to the ward maids who undertook with fierce pride the cleaning of these wards.Many the wallop...

  12. "English Only" Rule at Work?

    nightmare replied to Nurse!Nurse!Hello?'s topic in General Nursing

    My only moan about colleagues talking in their own language is that,if I'm trying to concentrate and chart it completely blanks out my thought processes!I usually tell them to go and talk where I...

  13. What is the dumbest most degrading, most unprofessional thing...

    nightmare replied to Chico David's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Oh please!!!We don't want anymore hare-brained ideas!! If I went round uttering that phrase I'd be the one with Dementia very

  14. What is the dumbest most degrading, most unprofessional thing...

    nightmare replied to Chico David's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I don't understand the methodology behind this.If all the nurses go round saying this it must be like the 'Stepford wives ' in scrubs.to me it would just sound so false if I were a patient and every...

  15. Female nurse uniform

    nightmare replied to donkey's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Well ,to me it looks like a tunic and trousers or a dress,difficult to

  16. Worried about the hours...

    nightmare replied to connieRNvsRPN's topic in International Nursing

    I can merge this one with the one in the Canadian

  17. difficult unit for just 1 nurse

    nightmare replied to makes needs known's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Yes ,I've lost a lot of pens that way! now I just shove it in my pocket when I'm not there!Med carts are like magnets to the corridor warriors.I don't know what your carts look like but we had a...

  18. 20 hours of CEU?

    nightmare replied to mamason's topic in General Nursing

    Medscape have free CEU's as well,with printable

  19. processing time for new zealand nurse

    nightmare replied to retronurse23's topic in International Nursing

    Moved to International for more informed input.If you read through the threads here you will see plenty of info on

  20. Missing narcs returned to med cart...sorry long

    nightmare replied to OklaLPN's topic in General Nursing

    :chuckle:chuckle We call them Controlled

  21. Suesquatch, GN

    nightmare replied to SuesquatchRN's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Congrats Sue..Knew you would do

  22. Hippa Gone Wild

    nightmare replied to 9309's topic in General Nursing

    As I see it you called,therefore you could have been anybody on the phone requesting this information..She is just covering

  23. LMO processing

    nightmare replied to breech's topic in International Nursing

    Moved to International forum for more informed

  24. crushing medications

    nightmare replied to file03's topic in General Nursing

    We are very rarely allowed to crush tablets.If we feel there is a swallowing compromise then we ask for a drug review.Either the tablets are discontinued if it is found they are not now necessary or...

  25. Is it okay to give an IM through clothing?

    nightmare replied to njinsky's topic in General Nursing

    Well you can quite discreetly inject under a table cloth in a restaurant just before your meal,straight through pants into leg and nobody is the