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In my experience Patients cope well with Nurse's foibles. Being open and honest with them is often an ivitation to them to open up to you and tell you things they have never told anyone else. One of my favourite sayings is that" If you don't laugh yo...

I live in Australia and our winters are pretty short compared to you guys. I once met a woman from USA travellin g in Australia . She was the first person who I had met with SAD. She used to get quite manic in summer and severly depressed in winter...

CVP measures pressure in the Vena Cava which sits in the Thoracic Cavity. During inspiration we create a negative chest pressure in order for air to fill our lungs, and then a positive pressure to expell air.( Boyle's LAw) CVP should always be taken...

Definately Invasive. If they have an art line that is an invasive line and can be very painful even when local is used. ABG's via a an arterial stab are also invasive, and as the earlier post suggests, very painful. Oxygen Sat can be accurately read...

I know a girl called Dung...Dung is a common Vietnamese girls name. It is pronounced like the famous philopsher's surname, Carl Jung.

I'm male and I've had that experince too .Only once in 18 years, but it was hell at the time. What you are experiencing (isolation) is a covert form of bullying. Conversations suddenly stopping when you walk in the staff room, not being acknowleged e...

I used to work in a hyperbaric facility where we treated amoungst other things scuba divers with the Bends or decompression illness( DCI). Every once and a while we would get some one who had relatively severe symptoms given the nitrogen load they we...

I'm ambidextrous. Does that count? I do some things with the Left hand and some with the right.

I've worked in 3 teaching hospitals in Melbourne Australia. It is our custom to have what you would call open visiting. We limit to 2 visitors per patient, but people can visit 24/7. Having said that we stingly encourage relatives to go home and get ...

This sounds like a complex case. I think this kid needs a bit of "tough love". This kid has used food as a way to control his parents . Being a poor eater obviously gets him a lot of attention form the parents, albeit in the form of anguish, frustrat...

My wife is also a nurse. We met over a hot resus in ER. :rotfl:

There is no such thing as a stupid question, just dumb answers.

It looks to me that you've been set up, and you've been a victim of BAD management. Any manager worth their salt would have aske d for your side of the story, and then at least councelled you. It looks like it was premeditated adn someone wants you o...

1. 18 years 2. Acute. ICU 3. Major city hospital - Australia 4. BSN with Post Grad Cert 5. NO! No and NO. I used to have to wear cotton scrubs when I worked in a hyperbaric facility. That was for safety reasons. They were comfotable but any time ...

Melbourne, Australia. Hospital trained, Qualified 1990, working in ICU since 1992, would have serious difficulty looking after more than one patient now. Spent 4 years working in Hyperbaric Unit. Currently working as Post Grad Educator. Happil...

Here is an excerpt from the The Journal of Clinical Nursing which throws some light on this discussion. Hope you find it useful.>> >> Volume 10(5) September 2001 pp 682-696>> ...

I've seen Droperidol used in ICU as a sedative with confused patients. Like Haloperidol one of the side effects are alpha receptor site suppression. The most common side effect that I have witnessed therefore is hypotension. As most of our patients ...

I'm sorry to hear about the loss of your father.I've been here.In my experience it is really hard to make decisions at such a devestating time. I suggest you just need to take one day at a time and make your decisions accordingly. Take as much time a...

I don't know why the bully with the bomb hoax wasn't sacked. It certainly wasn't because i didn't say anything about it.It was a saga that I have loast a lot of sleep over. Being further down the food chain I wasn't my decision. It ( sacking) was so...

There is an old joke that goes something like....What do you call 2 orthopaedic surgeons reading an ECG? A double blinded trial... boom boom! Here's a couple more. How do you hide a $ 5 note from an Orthopaedic Surgeon? Put it in the Medical note...

Good on you. I am constantly saying to the students who I support that the academic content of their course is only a fraction of what they learn. Communication and personal development is the biggest part , and yes you are right, it's not on the cur...

Have a look at this site. You'll find alot of really good advice. http://www.bullyonline.org/ Goodluck

I tend to agree with Triage 34 and redservo. I'm an educator and I agree that you are not going to learn anything from her if you fear her. There are good and bad in all professions, Educators included. Saying nothing just perpetuates the problem, an...

I picked up a really good line form an ED Reg years ago. The reply to the cadiologist would have been. "if you treat me like a dog, I might just bite you". Retort #2 would have been...." It's obvious monkeys could never be Cardiologists; they hav...

Why is bullying so rife in nursing compared to other professions? Rats and nurses eat their young! I work in an Australian ICu, and have really gone through a steep learning curve regarding bullying. Several of our post grad students have exper...