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In Singapore, there is a certain hospital that doesn't hire obese nurses. If your BMI is above like 25 or smth, you will not be hired.

I think the best is to be useful.

what? IM everyday? Tell your MD to stop torturing that poor patient.

Ask the doctor to write down in his notes when to restart vanco. Usually they will check vanco trough again before starting. It is important to ask him to restart when and check if bloods are needed! It is annoying because usually we do vanco trough at 6am before giving the morning dose (at 8am) but nurses in singapore are quick to give the antibiotics like 7 am and then we see the vanco trough results, we would be like oooops, we didnt get the results yet muhaha but usually it shld be okay unless they do vanco peak then its different to overdose the patient.

Yeah kinda so we have to pick it up. But learn to say no, that's the point if you don't want to work!

Hate calls like this. But unfortunately we have to pick it up in Singapore if not verbal warnings will be given. We have a call-tree exercise incase of national crisis we have to be activated immediately so any call from the hospital could be the exercise ANYDAY without warning, so we gotta pick it up. If you cant work or you don't want to work, just be honest and speak to them about it. Imagine you are the one calling your colleagues and none of them wants to pick it up...

Or.. kink it and tape it with micropore. works like magic too :)

Our official discharge timing is about 1-2pm. I try to get them out before 1pm so that I don't have to pass over. But sometimes the house officers are seriously slow in discharging pts and causing the ED to be flooded with patients who are waiting for beds. We have really bad bed crunches.

I had dreams about patients saying good bye to me in them and the next day when I returned, they were gone.

you can try googling guide to a newly graduated nurse

This is so true. Even for me a local Singaporean nurse, I can prove her words. It is really sweat and hard work for peanuts. Maybe to some Pinoys the money is good but the living standard is way too high. It is MF tough working in Singapore unless you work in clinics I guess.

Yes there is a chance but a slim chance because you have to work for at least 3-5 years before they want to CONSIDER to send you for RN classes as they need more ENs right now.

Some joker put it in right?

Spike it! Free flow!

Just as long your foam, field and techniques are sterile, put in and taking out the black foam is fine. Like what Shermbrn suggested, to draw the template out with the plastic cover after dropping your black foam on your sterile dressing pack. It is advisable to do that. It is better to be smaller because you can still stuff in smaller pieces. IMHO.