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 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 rudeness on your part about your colleagues

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 well

3. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

   celticqueen replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Humor

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

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 dangerous?

5. Frontline staff to lose jobs

   celticqueen replied to XB9S's topic in International

   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...

6. Stolen Identity

   celticqueen replied to manornurse's topic in Humor

   you could have told him that he was your evil twin! lol

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

   celticqueen replied to charmen20's topic in International

   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 oth...

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

   celticqueen replied to charmen20's topic in International

   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

9. What grosses YOU out?

   celticqueen replied to JenTheRN's topic in 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 something...and i think to myself "yeah, gottcha!!!"

10. What grosses YOU out?

    celticqueen replied to JenTheRN's topic in 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 (bleurgh!!!!)

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

    celticqueen replied to abbaking's topic in Relations

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

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

    celticqueen replied to abbaking's topic in 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 informed her that we had made just as much noise when...

13. 1st year AU nursing student, need guidance for working in the UK after graduating

    celticqueen replied to Metal Health's topic in International

    ooooh karaoke!!!

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

    celticqueen replied to charmen20's topic in International

    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 ...

15. ever think you are jinxed

    celticqueen replied to ayla2004's topic in UK

    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 o...