celticqueen

the way i see it sounds like you want to be a manager more than wanting to become a nurse - should be the other way around. there is no excuse for rudeness, but i think there is a trinket of rudeness on your part about your colleagues

OMG!!! what a terrible thing to have happened. my thoughts are with you, and i hope everything works out well

one of my patients rang her bell today just to ask me if too much salt was bad for her, lol

i was sexually assaulted by a patient a few years ago, not sure if that can be classified as dangerous?

whose bottler broon? whatever government are in power, the nhs suffers. The Thatcher government in the 80's damaged the NHS with the "internal market" privatization debacle, where trusts (or health authorities) were in competition with each other to provide services. The damage that was done at that time had a knock on effect on the way the nhs has been run since. There have been countless studies that prove high mortality/morbidity outcomes of patients results from poor nurse/patient patio - which is common sense, if there are not enough nurses to look after patients then ultimately the patients suffer. Look at the recent Stafford hospital scandal The report said the trust was short of 120 nurses in 2007 to 2008 - about 17 in A&E, 30 in surgery and 77 on medical wards. In 2006 to 2007 the trust had axed 150 posts - most of them nurses - to meet £10million cost-saving targets. I must agree with you on the Clare Rayner comment though

yeah i was thinking of SEN's , but we don't have them any more. I referred to healthcare assistants with NVQ's (as ours on the ward take blood, do simple dressings, monitor observations, do ecg's etc. i know of some HCA's even taking biopsies and other invasive things unser the supervision of doctors). I was wondering if they were the equivalent of LPN/LVN's, as the lady who started this thread is. I wonder if she could apply for band 3 or 4?

struggling to find the equivalent here in the UK - we only have RN's or healthcare assistants. Sorry i couldn't be much more help

i quite enjoy suctioning.....i like the sound the the gunk makes as it goes up the tube...kinda find it quite satisfying for some reason. I like it when i suction and hit a real big patch of something...and i think to myself "yeah, gottcha!!!"

me too; toes, inbetween toes and toe nails (fingernails too). i will happily clean up poop, sick, phlegm, bogies, pus, blood...anything but manky feet and nails (bleurgh!!!!)

OMG! i think i would have liked to slap her face!!!!

i had a patient who complained bitterly about the noise while we were dealing with an emergency the other day ( it was 08.00 mane) and we woke her up (poor thing). She soon changed her tune when i informed her that we had made just as much noise when we were trying to save her life too ( she had an M.I a few weeks previously). She certainly saw things from a new perspective after that

ooooh karaoke!!!

Is an LPN/LVN like a health-care assistant? ( I note the "V" stands for vocational) Alot of health care assistants in the UK have NVQ qualifications (national vocational qualifications), is this the same? Although healthcare assistants are part of the nursing team, they are not qualified nurses. To attain RN even they with their NVQ's have to do the 3 year nurse training. Hope this helps? :)

yeah, i seem to have what i call "my black cloud" that tends to follow me around: If a patient on the ward unexpectedly deteriorates or a patient has a psychotic episode, yep it's usually on my shift!!!!!! and it's not just at work either, just the other day someone fitted at the bus stop - having taken an overdose an hour before, but luckily the paramedics arrived just as my bus pulled up so i didn't miss it

This makes me really REALLY mad. The government are morons. Do they honestly think that by cutting front line staff and services that people will stop being ill, or that people will stop having accidents?????? Of course not, so who do they think is going to look after these people when they need to go into hospital????? magical pixie nurses?????? It will only end in disaster when someone dies because there wasn't enough staff to safely look after them; this will only endanger patients. The newspapers will have a field day - patient neglected and starved as no-one available to feed frail elderly patients or give them a drink, patients left in soiled beds, waiting lists so long it wil be near on impossible to get seen...oh wait thats what is happening already!!!!!! And when push comes to shove, who gets the blame for all this? not the government, but the exhausted and disillusioned nurses who try their very best on each and every shift to deliver the best care they can, that's who!