celticqueen

celticqueen has 18 years experience and specializes in medical with other stuff chucked in!.

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1. Bitter dried up nurses that need to RETIRE

   celticqueen replied to mindlor's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   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...

2. I Feel Like The Most Incompetent Nurse Ever!

   celticqueen replied to tonet0908's topic in General Nursing

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

3. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

   celticqueen replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Nursing Humor

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

4. What's the most dangerous thing that's happened to you while working?

   celticqueen replied to Aly529's topic in General Nursing

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

5. Frontline staff to lose jobs

   celticqueen replied to XB9S's topic in International Nursing

   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...

6. usa LPN(license practical nurse/license vocational nurse)looking to work in UK

   celticqueen replied to charmen20's topic in International Nursing

   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....

7. usa LPN(license practical nurse/license vocational nurse)looking to work in UK

   celticqueen replied to charmen20's topic in International Nursing

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

8. What grosses YOU out?

   celticqueen replied to JenTheRN's topic in Nursing Humor

   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...

9. What grosses YOU out?

   celticqueen replied to JenTheRN's topic in Nursing Humor

   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

10. "The Code Blue Disturbed The Other Patients" - Shame on you bad nurses!

    celticqueen replied to abbaking's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    OMG! i think i would have liked to slap her

11. "The Code Blue Disturbed The Other Patients" - Shame on you bad nurses!

    celticqueen replied to abbaking's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    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...

12. 1st year AU nursing student, need guidance for working in the UK after graduating

    celticqueen replied to Metal Health's topic in International Nursing

    ooooh

13. usa LPN(license practical nurse/license vocational nurse)looking to work in UK

    celticqueen replied to charmen20's topic in International Nursing

    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...

14. ever think you are jinxed

    celticqueen replied to ayla2004's topic in United Kingdom

    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...

15. Frontline staff to lose jobs

    celticqueen replied to XB9S's topic in International Nursing

    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...