Forcemaster

Ive worked in the ED for 3 1/2 years now, and before that i used to work on a trauma ward so ive seen both sides of it... Ive gotten round it mostly by 'making friends' with as many ward staff as possible. If im friendly and positive and all the init...

Thanks for reading... I am currently writing a dissertation for a BSc and am looking for some supplimentary information. What i need to know is what Nursing students and qualified nurses across the world are taught about respiratory assessment... Spe...

ah... thats the uk/usa difference showing up. in the us you probably had to do a thesis for your undergrad degree right? at universities in the uk, the term thesis is usually associated with phd/engd (doctoral) and research masters, whilst dissertat...

I think you might find a year long stint in any acute unit setting will be of benefit as it helps you get used to the idea of being 'the nurse' rather than 'the nurse student'. I started in trauma ortho and ended up doing it for 3 years before switi...

Are they making personal calls or are they talking to other members of the health care team??? I would have to say that any nurse making personal calls near patients while at work is acting in an unprofessional manner. It is one thing to use your mob...

I totally agree that the question is badly phrased and does not allow for much latitude. Yes monitoring their peripheral neuro-vascular state should be the first port of call, as well as securing additional analgesia a close second.... Though I woul...

Get ready for a looooooooong list... Litman 4100 stethoscope HP IPAQ Pocket PC & Medical software (Lexicomplete, Epocrates and several Skyscape programes) Aestehsiometer set Otoscope and Opthalmascope set Manual BP Finger Sats probe Arterial non-...

African Caribbean Abdominal circumfrence Acceleration capacity Acetate Acromioclavicular Acute Air conduction Anchored catheter antecubital anticoagulant anticonvulsnat assist control autologous cell alert & cooperative Astler-coller anterior cha...

TGA Theraputic Goods Administration TGV Thunder god vine (the short name for Tripterygium wilfordii) How about this one? LuesI

and every year when i start sharing clinical evidence related to hospital acquired infections (hais) i get inundated with contradictory responses... but hey...i'm a nurse and as such a glutton for punishment so here goes again... it has been suggeste...

Try using a Transilluminatior. I use the Venoscope to very good effect on my difficult sticks check it out at https://venoscope.secure.powweb.com/content/index.php

There is actually a very valid scientific reason why some medicines still come in glass ampules. Basically some of the medications interact with plastic, affecting their chemical structure and long term viability... The basis of the science (and you ...

In the case of Brittany, I believe that is how it is spelt in Galic... Dayvod is Welsh... not sure about the others but they too might just be the 'non-english-ised' versions of names.

Dear Doc... Decided not to give that Phosphate enema PO as the Pt is Nill by mouth! Dear Dr. I re-took the Urgent bloods from your patient. Please remember to either take the bloods to the lab, tell a nurse you have taken them or call the specimin po...

I seem to have ended up as 'The Funny Guy' on my ward. Some of the things I get up to have gone down in my hospitals' urban legends... For charity, I surfed a hospital dinner tray down 2 flights of steps at my second job... Ended up on my backside ha...

Uhm... how about the United Nations charter for Human Rights? Article 25. Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and n...

[color=#698de9] bearing in mind we all have clostridium difficile as part of our normal intestinal flora, it is just possible that if these patients were on antibiotics they are isolated cases and not related. the infection is usually assocate...

Have you met my brother then? :chuckle

I would say hopefully not... Individual studies have questioned the practice of hair removal, finding that hair removal with a razor results in increased rates of postoperative surgical site infections. Studies into the effects of hair removal with a...

The domino effect? I like that :chuckle I might have to include it in my latest teaching work for the students on my ward

This was not so much funny at the time as scary as hell... I work on a Trauma ward in the UK where we mostly deal with patients who need orthopaedics and/or plastics input. Well we only take admissions from the ED, and one night a couple of months a...

a fair point... unless it can be proven otherwise... it has been suggested that approximately one in ten patients admitted to hospital suffer from one or more hais at any one time (dh/phls, 1988). plowman et al (2001), estimated that hais cost the n...

I would just like to post this... from the Royal College of Nursing 'Wipe it out' website. Uniforms: infection control issues Studies show that uniforms are frequently contaminated by disease-causing bacteria, including Staphylococcus aureus, Clostr...

Glad to hear it... you can go to prison for that sort of thing Hmm... which chairs? The ones at the nurses station, or maybe the ones next to the patient's bed? I never actually said we were the most likely route of transmission... we ARE howev...

I totally agree, patients and relatives are also a huge cause for concern as they don't have our knowledge and training... But then part of our remit as nurses is to educate patient's and relatives... and our colleagues who might not be as up-to-date...