Bronte03 replied to Msmedic68w's topic in Psychiatric
Psych nurses are one of a kind. It's a specialty most don't care to go into but we all have the psych patients on our floor, the community, wherever we go. I have worked on many floors and there is...
I hear you. I worked ortho for 10 months with morbidly obese patients. I learnt a long time ago never to judge a person because I wouldn't have walked in their shoes.. By the 5th month I had 4...
It is a pet hate of mine as well. However after working in orthopaedics I finally got the hang of it and would literally rub the patients back and get the anti emetics into them asap. It is far...
How many of us have nursed the older generation with tatt's. I have often asked what it was supposed to be. Yhe sag no longer looks wonderful.. and most wish they'd never had it done. To answer the...
I had a manager who literally screamed at me in front of the ortho specialist's doing their morning rounds, patients and their families infact she just didn't care. the junior doctors on the floor...
Bronte03 replied to SKIteleRN's topic in Agency Nurses
Although I don't live in the US, nursing basics never change in our world. I have in my short career 2 yrs all up worked in 17 hospitals.. I could have written your post word for word. I basically go...
I am a EEN and we get a LOT of unfortunate remarks from our Uni students because we don't have the "knowledge" acquired by the new grads. We have the basics and in nursing basics is what makes a ward...
So as the title says it happened about 8 months ago. I worked in orthopediacs where I was bullied so badly by the manager the doctors on the ward would pull me aside and tell me that I was fantastic...
Bronte03 replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Nurses Rock
I work nights and I often get patients who dislike being disturbed and whinge when I come in. things like nurse I am trying to get some sleep do you have to keep waking me?? My reply is "you don't...
Initially we all feel incompetent and some staff will moan and groan about us. However, they too went through the same emotional trauma. You have worked really hard to get where you are' To quit now...
RESPECT staff - they are the people on the floor for the shift dealing with patients, NOT you. Always THANK them and mean it as they leave. If there is a complaint take the nurse aside preferably in...
I am in Qld so can't help you for SA but whoever you do end up with ask other agency staff members what they think of the company you end up choosing. I have worked agency for 16 months and in that...