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yes, that is an important part of my job.

My students have all kinds of piercings, ears (multiple), nose, eyebrow, lips, tongue, between their teeth, navel and I guess other places too. They also have all kinds of haircolouring, from bright red, pink, green to blue. Some have tattoos visible on their arms or hands. No, I personally don't like it looking like a christmas tree, but times have changed. My own daughter looks pretty weird to me with her pink hair and nose and navelpiercing, but well, I looked pretty weird to my mum with my "big hair" looooooonggggg time ago! I hope,they are going to be good nurses, no matter how many piercings, tattoos or haircolour they have.

sharing notes on lecutres is not cheating in my eyes. There always were and always will be students who cheat. When nobody notices, they did a good job on the cheating too! When I notice someone cheating his/ her test is automatically negative. He/ she may take the test once more under strict regulations. But, even for those who cheated and nobody noticed it, when the verbal exams come, there is nobody else but him-herself!

love it! We even had a small elevator-system in one of the hospitals in Holland. you could put one of those small crates (you know, similar to the ones you can put in you car for your ´groceries) in it. The normal tubes are great too though! But I have to say, we are not alowed to put blood in it anylonger, becuase quite a few tests were broken.

Wow, Carol, I am really relieved! breaks my heart to think of all those bonbons getting drunk in your martini! LOL Heather, please one Spritzer white for me and another for Carol, thanks! And put some nuts on the bar.

Holy Mary and Joseph, girl you are not going to put these delicious, precious Godivas into your martini, now do you? Be glad, to walz a real good Spritzer over to you, though. edited to write glad instead of glas.

geleesa, I do hope you won't forget it yourself in a few years. ( I know what I am talking about since I am an educator over here and have had 100 of students complaining.........a few years later, I hear complaints about them from the new students!)

"night nurse" from Simply Red

Well, sorry for your instructor, but team nursing is still done here in most hospitals. And I personally like it a lot! First of all, when your unit (up to 15 patients, depends on the speciality of course) is "done", you always look at the other units whether you can help there. And the other way round, when something comes up, there are always others of the team to back you up. You know a lot of patients, so when you are on nightduty, not everybody is "new" to you. Normally a unit is upped with 2 RN, 2 Lpn and a few students (we still have the "old-fashioned" diploma course too!) I worked the functional nursing system too. Still know a few wards, where they work like that. For them it is ok. I never liked it! One RN is on the admin. site the whole day, phoning, making appointments etc. Another or two others do the "real nursing" on the patients, bathing, change the dressings etc. Staffnurse is there and organizes all the other things and goes on the big rounds with the doctors.

I was trained in a catholic hospital and worked in a few others afterwards. In all these hospitals, management was "worldly", simply because there aren't enough nuns around any longer. The few left, work on the ward and as with other collegues, some good, some bad. Policies regarding anti-baby-pills, abortions and tube-ligatures were different in all of them. Most didn't do abortions, but the tube-ligatures were done and all doctors gave the pill. No praying over loudspeaker at all. Once a day a priest came with the communion for those patients, who wished to get it.

Must tell my hubby immediately! LOL

The benies might be great in at a government job, but you have to work till 65.

Congrats, Tracy and good luck!

Farsi is spoken in Iran.

good nerves and all the qualities you summed up yourself.

MeL D, I am even smaller barely 5 F and weith under 100 pounds- never had trouble getting a job. What about all these petite Asian nurses? Like Nightingale stated: &%&/($(/ to this recruiter!

that would mean instant kick-out here! that is something we did 25-30 years ago! No healthy newborn will dry out in the first 24 hours after birth! No bottle in the mouth of a newborn when mum doesn't want it. When baby needs (very seldom) fluids, we give H2O on a spoon, never formulas!

Wow, how awful Country! Although I have to tell you, with real Alzheimer patients, Validation hardly ever works. that is the difference between "physilogical" dementia and the illness Alzheimer (don't ask me the details, I am sure you yourself know them better as I do) But the holding and cuddling is always good, as is the singing of old lullabies from ages ago (or other famous, quiet songs). What I noticed top, is that "uniforms", especially white ones or green ones, set these people of immediately. As do smells. Wearing a nice, sweet perfume (I personally hate them, but what the hell) often helps too. As for music, NEVER let them hear marching music or something similar to military music, I really witnessed patients going nuts, just because somebody put on some radio station. You just got to know your history (and I know you do very well indeed, my compliments for your knowledge in this occasion too! honestly, I always admire your posts) and then it is not so hard, to liquidate (no that is a word not to use in their presence) the triggers for these patients. Take care, Renee

Did you try to do the Validation-method from Naomi Feil with her? You'll need trained people for that though, but it always work. Naturally, I have been caring for a lot of old people who survived WW2 in camps (either in Nazicamps or Japanese camps) and most of them were never able or had the possibilities to talk about their camplives. Now when they get old and demented all these horrorstories are being relived. Naomi Feil calls this "a person's rucksack". And not until this rucksack is empty, the demented people will calm down. (I am sure there is a internetadres on Validation) I only had a basictraining, that took a week, but it is a miracle what you can do for these poor people! Take care, Renee PS: NEVER take Nazicampsurvivors to an empty bathroom!

So, maybe it is not like a lot of papers and studies say, that every where in the USA and Canada, nursing is based on this kind of teaching. I was wondering about this anyway, but hey no answer is an answer too, isn' it! Take care, Renee

Mattsmom, I know what you're talking about! Just don't have much time at the moment to answer you question. The only thing I can say, it not the problem of a nursingprogram to teach your students English (or mine German), they have to take care of that themselves. We test our future-students (all of them, not just the immigrants) on their language skills and when they fail that test, they can't start nursingschool, until they improve the language. (Different system here of course, since our students get pays, insurance etc.) We help them find a language institute where they can study for not so much money and they can try again the next year. This is it in just a few words, I'll tell you more about the testing, when I have more time, ok? Take care, Renee

hi you all, Maybe you noticed (or not, LOL) that I haven't been posting quite a lot here lately, well, that is due to a very heavy work- and education-load. I am in the middle of a course for EBT and it is quite a lot of work, very interesting, but very time consuming. Especially since there is not much literature around in German, so I have to read and translate most of the background information from English and Dutch. My question to you: do you personally have experience with the pbt-methode? Is it better or worse then "normal" classroom teaching? When better, why? When worse, why? Please, prettiest please, give me some answers, so I can put experiences in my paper from people I know and trust. (When you allow me to use your answers of course) Thanks a lot, in advance, take care, Renee

Hi, there, yes Madeleine Leininger was the first nursing theorist, who put culture diversity and caring on paper and did a lot of fieldstudies. Nowadays, there are quite a few others, who have similar, but a bit more realistic theories about diversity in culture. being from Europe, automatically means, caring for people from all over the world and their differencies. For patients this means, beginning with admission, not only questions about religion and do you want a priest/ Mulah, when necessary, but also about diets (religion related or not) and culturel or religious habits to be considered. Of course we have interpreters here and a lot of staff from all over the world. Want to know more about Madeleine Leininger: http://www.tcns.org or try http://www.transculturalnursing.org have fun and take care, Renee

ok, I've got alot sites I really like, here a few of them. (mind you few of them are in German of course): http://www.pflegenet.com http://www.nursingnet.org http://www.tcns.org http://www.icn.ch http://www.worldvillage.org (no nursingnet, but very transcuturell) http://www.sykeplejen.no http://www.tfs.dk http://www.careplans.com http://www.anthropology.org http://www.lastacts.org http://www.nursingtheory.org http://www.amnesty.org http://www.terre-des-femmes.de http://www.xculture.org http://www.evidencebasednursing.com http://www.nursing-standard.co.uk http://www.aahn.org http://www.aciendo.net http://www.verpleegkunde.pagina.nl http://www.griefnet.org And more and more!

sleepeyes: olé!!!