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Howdeehoo people. My first post at this forum after lurking here for a while, so im thinking a little introduction probably is needed: Male nursing student, half-way in a 3-year bachelor of nursing in Norway (which automatically leads to an offici...

The food loaf stuff is the most stupid corrections penalty i've ever heard of. We as nurses have a responsibility of ensuring that our patients are getting enough nutrients, and motivate our patients to eat it. Silently sitting by watching inmates ...

Most of the dangerous elements in hi-security psych have a lifetime of experience when it comes to dealing out damage. Although physical fitness and some classes in basic self-defense might help you in a confrontation, chances are they wont if youre...

My workplace (forensic psych ward) does debriefs whenever someone on the shift feels the shift has been a bad one. The debrief takes place after the new shift has started (we get payed for an extra half hour), and is in a non-formal setting where p...

Im just wondering, how is the procedure done over in the Us? Do you do the same stuff as us booring europeans (local anastesia with xylocaine, rubber banding the toe/finger to empty it of blood, cutting the piece of nail out and then fenol to etch t...

Extrakul: you have pm :)

I work in a norwegian security ward, most of the patients have a history of violence or other serious offences, and the rules are similar to the ones you have in malmô. We dont use restraints very much though, we most usually manage to cope without ...

One patient of mine was very paranoid about beeing spied on by various governement agencies, and believed his room was bugged. Instead of telling him there were no problem, I took the "well, if the room is bugged we need to find the bugs and remove...

Im thinking its not the formaldehyde in the emmbalming fluid that the users are mostly interested in, more likely it is the pcp (also called angel dust) that is found in some types of enbalming fluid. Weed lased with pcp make the high much more prof...

A lot of prosthetics use high-tech ceramics. Googling gave me these hits (and a lot more). http://www.science.uts.edu.au/cmfs/knee.html http://www.wmt.com/ceramic/patients/treferences.asp And, ceramic materials are the preferred materials for dent...

A couple of patients at my hospital have been treated with greenbottle fly larvae to cure problematic necrotic wounds. Anybody seen this done before? What results did you see, and would you recommend this treatment?

There are a lot of good absorbent bandages on the market , and a couple of them also have a charcoal filter (smith and nephews carbonet for example). Why dont you try that before you bandage the wound with something you know is not sterile and dont ...

Has it occured to any of the aids sceptics on this board that the posts you are making may cause someone with an hiv infection not to take their coctail? Or maybe to continue unsafe sexual contact or whatnot?

snorting out all the maggots from a homeless persons sacral decubitus without disinfexting your nose afterwards

I sure can answer, but the relevancy of my answer is maybe somewhat limited, considering i live in Europe, and not in the Us. In the psych facility I work (max security for violent patients), all staff except for the docs and the cleaning crew do s...

Do like me, get a tibia fracture and try convincing the ER staff (in the middle of the night) that the codeine/paracetamol combo tablets they gave me earlyer didnt work

Im a nursing student, and currently in ob/gyn rotation. When doing pre-rounds at the maternety observation ward today I heard one of the midwifes on the ward cry out for help, and rushed to see what was going on. The patient she was with had all th...

I usually just tell angry/snotty mds that if they want, I will be happy to take it outside. Usually shuts them up quite fast (weighing in at 220 pounds usually have that effect).

Thanks for the information, good to hear that you and your kid didnt suffer any long time consequences.

Just one little question: do you have any recognition of the seizures? Most books and articles i have read states that pts are usually not concious during eclampsia seizures. But then, the books may not be right. Edit: And did they do an emergenc...

At the hospital im working at 5 out of 27 telemetry units get interferrence from cell-phones. Only work at close range though (the phone has to be less than ten meters from the unit to cause interferrence)

So, on thuesday im going to a job interview. The job im gonna apply for is as an orderly/nursing student at a max security psych ward (one of four in the country). The first question the head nurse there asked me over the phone was how much I weigh...

Excavating half a pound of poo-poo from a demented womans vagina is by far the grocest thing I have ever done. In addition to stuffing in in there, she also had done a little "nursing home redecorating" with it. Lost my apetite for several days aft...

Just wondering if anybody knows about any free, informational (for nursing students?) childbirth videos on the www. Because of the fact that I am gonna be at the pregnancy observation ward during my clinicals, chances are that i am not gonna be seei...

Only downside is that i have neither a tv or the dicovery channel