Priti

Dominica is another one of my favorite places. Wow, it's been 10 years since I have visited. Have you been to the rain forest where there is a hot/cold waterfall that comes into a nice warm spring? i believe that's at trafalgar but i've visited the one at layou river since i live near there. hope you are planning another visit to dominica.

well students are very involved in patient care in antigua the care plans are done just for practice but what you have happening at your facility is that i'd like to see. laminating a copy of the NANDA approved diagnoses is a wonderful idea.

terrific reply couldn't make it simpler:kiss

thanks for the suggestion but i do have a copy of that book. what i am saying is that we use the nursing process in our day to day work as nurses but the step of writing the care plans we just do not practice, it was taught at school but it remained there as new grads you would want to continue using it but the majority doesn't and after some time the enthusiasm just deteriorate.monserrat is in fact beautiful but have you ever visited dominica comonly referred to as the nature isle. well i am now and i am having a blast bathing in rivers, going to rain forest the air is just so pure and clean.

well welcome to the league its a really great profession and good luck with your dream home.

as i said i try my best not to look. the thing is i do not just leave the patient alone sometimes if i have to take care of them i just simply tell them of my problem so that my reaction won't be offensive to them. there was this one time is was on maternity ward the patient vomit i took care of her but when i arrived in the sluice i just started retching it does not really happen often and i try my best to keep it in i look away try not to inhale and speak and just get it over with quickly. after leaving school i just happened into nursing that was not what i really wanted to do but right now i am in it and i love what i do so that was not a thought before entering, dealing with the dead weighed heavier on my mind than vomitus.

i am a resident of antigua.

thank god 'cause i sometimes felt like i did not have what it takes to be a nurse. i hate musus bad smelling bm and my worst fear is inserting NG tubes. i have this problem where i vomit if i see or smell someone else's. so as you said there's no way of dealing with it just look away. oh and my colleagues know of my problem so to avoid embarassment they usually deal with vomitus, thanks to them.

hi this site is awesome very informative. i am a 26 year old female, i live in the caribbean. i have recently qualified as an rn and has also done a post basic course - midwifery currently employed as a clinic nurse. i have one question in the country where i work written care plans are not routinely done. most of the students would put it to the nurse managers but its not used because most of the older nurses are set in their ways sometimes a student would start it and on returning to the ward the next day it would be untouched. i have found that its becoming increasingly difficult to remember standard nursing diagnosis because of lack of practice; i myself working as a staff nurse realize that its difficult to make careplans on admission because we are understaff (most times one staff nurse with one junior staff for about 20 patients). i read in my spare time but thats not adequate the nursing process defines us as nurses and i find it a shame that these nurse managers can't see it to implement the stage that allows for documented continuity of patient care. Do you have any suggestions? dedicated to nursing