GrumpyRN NP

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Retired ENP, 35+ years of experience. From Scotland.

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    Band 6 Interview Preparation

    GrumpyRN replied to uniquenurse's topic in United Kingdom

    You will need to find out if it is a powerpoint or verbal presentation. Once you know what you are going to put in the presentation reheorifice, reheorifice, reheorifice. Also think of any questions...
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    Texting & Driving: Must See Video

    GrumpyRN replied to AllieSparksRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Even using a mobile (cell) phone while driving is illegal in UK. You get fined and points on your licence. 12 points and you lose your licence. Still some morons insist that their conversations/texts...
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    I'm a sexless nurse

    GrumpyRN replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    In UK nurses do not routinely listen to heart/lungs, this is a medical task. We do not wander around with stethescopes the way American nurses do. In the UK the expectation is that females...
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    I'm a sexless nurse

    GrumpyRN replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, but she loves me
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    I'm a sexless nurse

    GrumpyRN replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    That was the idea. Let me make this clear, I am not asking you to catheterise my female patients, I am just not doing it. It will be a female who does this or it will not get done. This is nothing...
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    I'm a sexless nurse

    GrumpyRN replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    I managed to read about 200 of the comments before I gave up and came to the end so that I can add in my two pence worth. I understand exactly where the OP is coming from. After 30+ years as a nurse...
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    OMG - I broke a nail!

    GrumpyRN replied to hppygr8ful's topic in General Nursing

    You should have immediately gone to the
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    Unwanted 'diagnosis'!

    GrumpyRN replied to WinterLilac's topic in General Nursing

    From
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    Unwanted 'diagnosis'!

    GrumpyRN replied to WinterLilac's topic in General Nursing

    You have a psych background, why not tell him he looks like a borderline sociopath and has he had CBT? Same thing. Herbalists, training or otherwise are quacks. In a 2010 survey of the most common...
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    Unwanted 'diagnosis'!

    GrumpyRN replied to WinterLilac's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry, double
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    69 Medications Every New ER Nurse Must Master!

    GrumpyRN replied to Michael M. Heuninckx's topic in Emergency

    After 20+ years in an ED and 30+ years as a nurse I understand about 40% of those medications. Different country, different names. Very Americancentric. Not a complete criticism, merely an...
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    Kudos to ER Nurses

    GrumpyRN replied to ttaylor20's topic in Emergency

    No shame in admitting that ED is not for you, some nurses just hate it. 5 months is a very short time though. I always tell our new nurses, "It takes 6 - 12 months to turn an experienced nurse into an...
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    How old are you?

    GrumpyRN replied to 1_fit_male_nurse2b's topic in Men in Nursing

    60 yrs old. Still fighting the good fight and upsetting doctors and
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    Muses of a Male Nurse

    GrumpyRN replied to Brian's topic in Men in Nursing

    You just gave me a mental image of the Steve Martin film "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid". With willy's and breasts all out of
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    Best way to start practising nursing?

    GrumpyRN replied to xalis's topic in United Kingdom

    Sorry to say this, as someone who has interviewed for staff I would probably throw out your application. I would be looking at what you have been doing for the past 4 years and asking myself why you...
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    Looking for the right place

    GrumpyRN replied to Dan_lnd's topic in Immigration Advice

    I'm afraid that what you want you will not get with nursing as your career. Unless you get very far up the promotion ladder. No-one comes into nursing to make their
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    Looking for the right place

    GrumpyRN replied to Dan_lnd's topic in Immigration Advice

    Move away from London, somehow every other nurse manages. London is expensive - what did you
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    Looking for the right place

    GrumpyRN replied to Dan_lnd's topic in Immigration Advice

    Scotland!
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    Australian Trained Nurses be advised

    GrumpyRN replied to aine.mckenna's topic in United Kingdom

    Sorry, what's your point? Seems to be plenty of Australian and NZ nurses working in UK so it must be feasible. Actually, I recall my manager doing a telephone interview with a nurse who was in...
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    Pros & Cons: Working as a U.K. Staff Nurse in the Hospital and Nursing Home

    GrumpyRN replied to pandabear_19's topic in United Kingdom

    Sorry, should have been DAVID
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    Pros & Cons: Working as a U.K. Staff Nurse in the Hospital and Nursing Home

    GrumpyRN replied to pandabear_19's topic in United Kingdom

    £11.50 is bottom of the Band 5 grade for newly qualified nurses. In NHS you would expect to move up an increment every year (Davis Cameron not withstanding). In nursing home you will earn that for...
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    persistent vomiting despite antiemetics?

    GrumpyRN replied to Infofreak411's topic in General Students

    Isopropyl alcohol
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    about contract terms working in the U.K

    GrumpyRN replied to sapphire_aster's topic in International Nursing

    It means exactly what it says, you are contracted to work for 1 year or 2 years or whatever and then the contract ends. You are then unemployed unless your employer extends the contract or you find...
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    Pros & Cons: Working as a U.K. Staff Nurse in the Hospital and Nursing Home

    GrumpyRN replied to pandabear_19's topic in United Kingdom

    You do not say where you are from, if you are from USA then nursing homes in UK are different. They tend to be (depending on type) full of elderly people who are not sick. They just need help and...
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    Can I accomplish becoming an RN at 26?

    GrumpyRN replied to honeyforasalteyfish's topic in Men in Nursing

    I started nursing aged 26, I took it as a job to do until something better came along (UK, different system - I was paid as an employee to train). Here we are 30+ years later and I still haven't found...