Michelle123

I have just started on a medical ward. I had a week of supernumerary and then I started on my own. As you can imagine being a brand new nurse, I am overwhelmed to say the least. I'm frustrated that I am not able to spend the time with my patients tha...

Just curious, you are talking about continuous aren't you? Doesn't that cause issue with requiring the woman to lay in bed throught her labour? Or do you have portable monitors? Do you get many women that refuse? Or place their own restrictions? Say ...

I'm concerned with the 'us and them' mentality between the wards and emergency at my hospital. I'm just wondering if it's just me or does it happen in other areas? It feels like I am always inconvienincing them when I take a pt up. We get icy recepti...

Yeah seeing docs do IV's and stuff on TV. Doesn't happen in real life. The only time I see a doc routinely do IV's or bloods is in emergency. Actually the only time I see a doc routinely do anything practical with their patient (aside from assessment...

I must admit I'm pretty ok with most things now. I still get watery eyes from being up close to the really bad BM smell, and sometimes vomiting will do the same, but the one thing that really bothers me are babies/toddles crying, like really crying, ...

Hi everyone, I have just started a 2nd yr Emergency nursing program. I am in my 6th week of it. I rotate between a few different hospitals the main one being a major trauma centre, which I get to spend the most amount of time. The hospital I am at c...

I'm currently rotating on a busy surgical ward.. We have ortho, general surgery and a few urology as well as general medical patients (the overflow from the medical ward). Most days we are above capacity -44pts. The ratios are 5 patients to one nurse...

I am a new grad who has just spent the last 20 weeks rotating in a medical ward where we have a portion of palliative care patients. We have had patients die before. But there was this one patient who I had been nursing for a while, she was in hospi...

Over here they ONLY employ midwives in L&D. So this is the only way for me to get experience. So back to the original question, any tips?

Hi, I am currently a new grad RN and have just applied for the post grad diploma student midwife position. They will probably have interviews the end of this month beginning of september. Do you have any advice for the interview (if I get one?) also,...

Nope.

No, here you can't get experience unless you are a student or registered midwife. The whole point of the program is not only for you to complete the post grad diploma, but you are employed as a student mw throughout the program. I guess we do things ...

Some of the HTN that I come accross is because due to the length of time the person has been in ED, or due to their injury (I'm on a surgical ward), the person either hasn't had their regular antihypertensive meds, or their regular med weren't all ch...

The main thing that changed for me, was when I sat back and watched the other nurses. I listened to them in handover, and on the floor and I heard things like, "Oh I forgot to do that" or "I can't read my writing it is something about this" in handov...

Thanks for all the replies to my other thread. I feel like I keep asking the same questions over and over again.... How long does it take till you can do things quickly? It took me almost an hour the other night to mix up three (different) IVAB's, ge...

Last night was my first shift with my own patient load. In our new grad program we spend our first week doing the corporate, OHS, manual handling etc orientation, we then spend a day on ward orientation, then we have 5 days as a supernumery, buddied ...

This is the first thing I do when I come on shift after report. I do a full set of obs and an assessment. I also look through the chart for when meds are due and to see where they are up to with their care plan. To me, it is an essential part of the ...

I'm just curious about the serial assessment and the neuro obs that you would do on a pt that was brought in with a head injury. Here is what I we have been told in class: The basics Airway, C spine stabilisation (is suspested spinal injury) Breathin...

Hi, I'm not sure if there are differences between countries, which I am sure there would be, but I am interested in how you prepare for verbal handover (I think it is referred to as report in the US?) and the documentation/charting. Do you have a set...

This is something that I am interested in, I won't be doing perm noc's but a rotating roster that includes them. My son will be almost 18 months. We co-sleep and he is still breastfeeding. So far days have been managable, I express once on a shift, w...

I know that there have been a lot of us (particularly students) who have been helped by Daytonite, she has provided so much indepth information, links for further information and advice on how to improve and integrate our clinical knowledge with our ...

Hi everyone, I will be starting my new grad rotation in med/surg in Feb. It's like 7 weeks away! Anyway, does anyone have any advice or tips on things that I can do to prepare myself? Not that nursing school wasn't adequate preparation () but I just...

Thanks so much for that. I just wasn't feeling it with regards to flow organisation... Not sure if you've ever been there :)

Hi, As my final assignment, I am putting together a case study - this one is in relation to cataract surgery, which discusses presenting S&S, health history, co morbidities and how they impact on the surgery, pathophysiology and assessments, and ...

The bleeding could have been from something other than the CPR. It is a very unique experience, the feeling of ribs breaking under your hands as you perform CPR.... But it could have been a number of things. I assume that it wasn't a good outcome? We...