synkitty

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1. Job related Stress and Anxiety

   synkitty replied to sharonorn's topic in Stress 101

   I have been nursing for three years and each shift feels like a decade. It has gotten so bad lately that I cry before I go to work because I feel so useless and completely unable to cope. I have never had any problems or complaints at work, apart f...

2. CAN you believe this! - Bad Portrayal of nurses in my local paper

   synkitty replied to purseOnalityRN's topic in General Nursing

   You have to ask, why would there be a nursing shortage if we all get paid so well, just to sit around on our butts all day long!!

3. I want to travel/work in Scotland, any suggestions?

   synkitty replied to synkitty's topic in International

   Thanks

4. I want to travel/work in Scotland, any suggestions?

   synkitty posted a topic in International

   i apologise if anyone has a thread relating to this topic already. i am a second year registered nurse from australia and i want to travel to great brittain (preferably scotland) for a few months and work. i have never travelled before so i'm not re...

5. want to cry all the time.... can i make it in this profession?

   synkitty replied to LPN2RNmommy's topic in Career Support

   One more thing, some people do find night's really hard to manage with family and their life, but it really does decrease the extra workload you have to cope with and gives you an amazing amount of time to focus on patients and their actual care, rat...

6. want to cry all the time.... can i make it in this profession?

   synkitty replied to LPN2RNmommy's topic in Career Support

   Hi, well I understand exactly where you are coming from, it got so bad at one point that I actually had a break down at work, the Director of Nursing had to come in on her night off and fill my shift and they called the doctor to see me as well. It ...

7. Time Management

   synkitty replied to LouisianaNurse2006's topic in New Nurse

   I always carry Panadol and Nurofen as well, because they are allowed to be nurse initiated on our ward and it saves a hell of a lot of time not having to walk and get it all the time.

8. horizontal violence towards grads

   synkitty replied to disappointed's topic in International

   I am 6 months into my grad position and although I am not facing the bullying that you obviously have Disapointed, I have been having a few problems myself. My post-grad placement has been in a tiny little town, where there is only ever one RN and o...

9. The Bullying Thread

   synkitty replied to gwenith's topic in General Nursing

   Throughout my nursing training I met a lot of nurses and medical staff who constantly put me down. Some were direct, like those who badmouthed me from two metres away to their friends in a very loud voice, to indirect, like the doctor who I gave inf...

10. Rural Remote Nursing

    synkitty replied to BermudaBasedBrissie's topic in International

    i am currently working in a tiny little town on the qld border and it is amazing. it is so different from anywhere else i've been, there is just so much more flexibility, in a few weeks you know nearly everyone and their medical history - which make...

11. Hand Washing Training

    synkitty posted a topic in Disease

    i am the infection control officer for a small country hospital and i am currently doing an audit and teaching people the correct method of hand washing. this issue is particularly relevant for our town as we have a community based mrsa spreading th...

12. What's the funniest thing you've heard a patient say?

    synkitty replied to MistyDawnRN06's topic in Humor

    this one comes from the days of patient restraints. we once had to restrain a man who continually climbed out of bed and fell. the next day walking past the room i heard him call out "does anyone have a knife? anyone, i just need a knife". i walked...

13. Random Acts of Lunacy

    synkitty replied to TitaniaSidhe's topic in Humor

    i got sent this in an email, i have no idea where it is from, so i apologise to anyone in advance. number one idiot of 2004 >i am a medical student currently doing a rotation in >toxicology at the poison control center. today, this >wom...

14. No Internet access at work

    synkitty replied to pricklypear's topic in General Nursing

    we have internet access, i don't know for how long though, they are throwing a fit about games being played. but when there are no patients in the hospital for more than a week (i work in a tiny little town with a very healthy population it seems) a...