Rhi007

Hey kids. So my pondering is how many of you play a sport/hit the gym before and/or after work? I'm a solid build and only 5'7" so I tend to play basketball during the week and hit the gym for a few hours on the weekends. I find it keeps me sharp, fi...

Washing a lady when I was a student who had pus oozing from her vag

I was in a youth advisory team with a girl named Pixie Stardust...apparently her parents are hippies with a huge fascination for ziggurat stardust so the changed their last name to stardust

Level one trauma centre so we get everything from cat 5 paper cut on the finger to patients being flown in by helicopter with fatal crush injuries, MIs, Stroke.

DO NOT EVER rip off a dressing on an elderly patient!!! Did you fall asleep during the part of your education that dealt with Aged Care and the frailty of their skin?? *facepalm*

Nah, but that's not to say you don't have bad days.make sure you have a support network that you can chat to when you need to

I lost 10kg just eating either fried rice from the cafeteria for dinner, sandwiches for lunch and toast for breakie. It made for an expensive 4wk 3day stay

I have never waited longer than 20mins to be taken through....due to the type of condition I have mostly

You can get exemptions from jury duty with a letter from your DON or CN.

Hot male doctors= neurosurgery, urology, ED and ICU.

Hang on, if she was fully under how would she have known what they were doing and that they took a photo?? Did said co-workers post it in the tea room, FB, tell her??? This story has enough holes that if told in court won't hold up for her to win! Do...

Love it! But I'm an adrenaline junkie

I think only people that work in the health care system understand that this is true!

The drunkards come in 7am for breakfast, 12pm for lunch and 6pm for dinner....not a minute before or a minute after!

Jack, jim and Johnny do a great job to!

I volunteer for an ambulance and at events we use the Wong baker pain scale with kids...

IV 3000 and hyperfix?

Communication is the key!

It all comes down to interpretation of instructions I guess

I think it's like an agency,

You need to get more information! A GSW could be anything from a BB Gun to an AK-47 so depending on where the patient was shot, what type of gun was used, are they breathing or has CPR commenced, can they walk etc VS crushing chest pain should always...

One of the docs I had was very detached from both patients and nursing staff, House officer, bit unsure, got stuck with me....I had him baking cookies and cakes for the nursing staff in 3wks and all it was, was a barrier that needed to be broken down...

Just an FYI, the pain from a tattoo gun is nothing compared to having a cannula placed! I have had 4 IVs placed in my foot, it's a whole new pain category!!!

One of my coworkers has for some reason nicknamed me 'sexy knickers'...I don't mind coz he's gay...would be a different story if he was straight!! I also have been called 'the lion tamer' (we had an aggressive psych patient that I got calm with out m...

I'm in two minds about this; on one hand you could spend idle time reading/studying etc but on the other hand if your a ward nurse why not do your charting in your idle time so it's done and you can leave on time?! Anyway what is this idle time you s...