MaryAnn_RN

MaryAnn_RN

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  1. Essay help please

    Tissue viability theory, not the most exciting of subjects. It will get done, just not very enthusiastic about the whole thing. Just did a word count and have about 1600 words and only need
  2. Violence in the work place

    That is one thing about ICU, if there is any sign of trouble then we have things like Vitamin D, Vitamin H, mmmmmmmmm. Trouble is we can't give it to the
  3. Yelled at yet again

    I have once shouted back down the phone 'WHAT? SORRY! CAN'T HEAR YOU' then 'IF YOU CAN HEAR ME, PLEASE RING BACK ON XXXX' making sure that they were given the Charge Nurse extension
  4. Essay help please

    I have to get an essay finished for Monday and have no more than a few hundred words done :uhoh21::uhoh21::uhoh21: so looks like I will be busy this week. Anyone want to come round and help me do it?...
  5. Update on Transgender nursing Student

    What an awful position to be in. You need to be true to yourself and if other people don't like it...that is their problem. I wish you all the best and hope that you manage to get into another, more...
  6. Do you have a unit-based pharmacist?

    We mix all our own drugs on the unit (except for morphine sulphate 50mg for pca). We spend so much time ordering drugs, chasing orders and going to collect them, it is a real waste of time. The...
  7. Patient is a famous star

    Ben Affleck Owen Wilson Ben
  8. What kind of learner are you?

    Multimodal, visual scored
  9. Tell me about your shifts, I'm curious!

    We work 3 x 12.5 hour shifts each week (paid for 34.5 hours) and then every 4th week we work one extra shift to bring the hours up to full time. We have RosterPro and can request our own shifts as...
  10. Merry Christmas

    I was so lucky this year, got Christmas Eve and Christmas Day off so spent the whole day yesterday with family. My little grandaughter is 2 years old and really got into the whole Christmas thing,...
  11. Merry Christmas

    Merry Christmas to everyone
  12. Did I handle this the right way with my coworker?

    Nipping it in the butt is very apt and I could just see the op doing it,
  13. I hate nursing

    I didn't love nursing school but I do love nursing, it was a lifetimes ambition finally achieved. Hang on in there and see what you feel like when you are actually a practicing RN and it might be a...
  14. from Poland to Uk....

    I sent you an email off
  15. must have qualities for a nurse

    And the ability to work for hours without adequate food or
  16. Both parents ate everything organic, fridge full of bottled spring water, but also smoked 60 a day each and spent the afternoons working their way through a bottle each of whisky and
  17. Best way to get rid of visitors

    Years ago as a student nurse I asked some visitors if they had a home to go
  18. Exposure Prone Procedures? Please HELP !!!

    ITU involves lots of invasive procedures so that might be a problem too. What about working as a practice nurse? Or community nursing might be an
  19. Story in the press today about BCH at http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/nov/09/royal-college-surgeons-birmingham-childrens-hospital-scandal-report Draft commissioner review here...
  20. AAA rupture

    Last one we had was thought to be leaking, and we were literally going out the door to theatre when it was very clear she had ruptured (massive brick hard abdomen) and she died very quickly...
  21. Struggle with self-confidence/fitting in

    That is very perceptive and you sound like a dedicated student nurse. Thinking about wards ... the best ward I worked on as a student was a care of the older person ward where they specialised in...
  22. Snotty doctors come in all shapes and sizes. There is a new female doctor at work, very sharp with all concerned. Then the theatre matron had words with her and she - the doctor - came crying to the...
  23. Nurses Defibrillating???

    We recently had a patient who survived cardiac arrest precisely because someone had been appropriately trained to defib. He arrested at
  24. Productive ward releasing time to care

    Hi there is information here http://www.institute.nhs.uk/quality_and_value/productivity_series/productive_ward.html on an NHS website. Some of the wards in my Trust have been implementing this, but we...
  25. Anyone had a "moment" recently?

    Ever noticed that when an alarm goes everyone listens up really