Uknurse2314

Uknurse2314 has 2 years experience and specializes in Paediatrics.

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1. Pediatric Nursing

   Uknurse2314 replied to Mostlovely's topic in Pediatric

   I agree, parents can be a massive challenge sometimes - there's different types of parents. The over anxious usually first time parents, parents who think that we are not doing anything unless we do some kind of medical procedure (example, parents wh...

2. Stupid Nurse Tricks (Or How To Look Incredibly Stupid)

   Uknurse2314 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

   Ah, thanks :)

3. Funny chart entry

   Uknurse2314 replied to nurse lala's topic in Humor

   On a paeds ward we've had a bank nurse put in the notes 'patient states no social worker - yeah right'. The patients and parents can read notes at any time they want while they are in hospital, plus the notes are kept for 17 years in case of complain...

4. Stupid Nurse Tricks (Or How To Look Incredibly Stupid)

   Uknurse2314 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

   What are your normal blood sugar ranges in the US and how are they measured? I find it confusing when I read posts RE blood sugars because in the UK our blood sugars should be between 4-7 mmols/L (the highest I've known on a DKA patient is 48mmols/L...

5. Stupid Nurse Tricks (Or How To Look Incredibly Stupid)

   Uknurse2314 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

   Ah, we don't change nappies all the time, just when parents are not on the ward! Parents can stay with their child 24/7 and a lot of them do, I don't know about in America?

6. Stupid Nurse Tricks (Or How To Look Incredibly Stupid)

   Uknurse2314 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

   I also took a nappy off a parent once, opened it to see if the child had opened bowels normally, and a piece of poo rolled out of the nappy and onto the floor.., mum couldn't stop laughing.

7. Stupid Nurse Tricks (Or How To Look Incredibly Stupid)

   Uknurse2314 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

   Go into work with horrific abdo pain, collapse in the middle of the ward and proceed to loudly vomit repeatedly. Get put in a wheelchair and taken to ed reception by a student nurse, in your uniform, and continue to vomit while your colleague is regi...

8. Pyxis report question...being falsely accused!

   Uknurse2314 replied to Jasper676's topic in Medications

   I find this subject really interesting, I'm a paediatric nurse in the UK and we seem to do meds completely different to how you do them! We have 2 meds rooms, and oral one and an iv one, all iv's (and im and sc) have to be second checked, especially ...