ClaireMacl

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  1. How to get experience? Please Advise!

    ClaireMacl replied to kwagner_51's topic in General Nursing

    How about appealing on the decision given that you had half the orientation that they said you had and their was no continuity? There is plenty in your initial post to work from, I'm sure you have...

  2. Blood in Urine

    ClaireMacl replied to Aneroo's topic in General Nursing

    In females, menstruation is an obvious one. Low key urine infections also do the same. I'm being treated for SLE and my consultant was worried about blood in my urine with no other symptoms, not sure...

  3. good Samaritan or emergency care doctrine

    ClaireMacl replied to Kristi Lee's topic in Emergency

    Hi Roxan, Yeah, I think it is different! On a different note to the topic, we had a debate with the hospital last year about the practicalities of ED nurses wearing scrubs and how it would be better...

  4. Helloo!

    ClaireMacl replied to missebony's topic in International Nursing

    Hi Misseboney, No doubt I am going to put the cat among the pigeons here... but... although you do partake in general training for a short time, your actual licence, I believe means that you are not...

  5. Afc

    ClaireMacl replied to paris2's topic in International Nursing

    Paris, I work in London, not sure where you are. Our ED ENP's are band 8a, which has caused a commotion between newly qualified ENP's and ENP's that have been top G for years, newly qualifieds are...

  6. good Samaritan or emergency care doctrine

    ClaireMacl replied to Kristi Lee's topic in Emergency

    Actually, a UK nurse was struck off because she drove past the scene of an accident in her uniform and someone at the scene wrote down her licence

  7. DMAT Nurses

    ClaireMacl replied to ABlackRN's topic in Emergency

    Hi, I'd never heard of DMAT as I'm in the UK, I guess it stands for disaster management action team? I'm on the major incident team for my ED, next month I'm on a committee for disaster management to...

  8. Shadowing

    ClaireMacl replied to lpnstudentin2010's topic in General Nursing

    Hiya, Do you have a pre-nursing programme in the US? I done mine in 1990, I took a few years out to do another degree after that, but it made my mind up it was for me... maybe working as a CNA I thnk...

  9. A Dear Abbey letter. What is your take?

    ClaireMacl replied to Faeriewand's topic in General Nursing

    I've seen some odd responses in the past in the ED, but I take them with a pinch of salt! When someone comes in, I usually ask someone if they mind seeing their boobies or chest (depending on sex,...

  10. propofol

    ClaireMacl replied to popbob's topic in Emergency

    Only docs push it in my dept in London. Interesting to see its also used for shoulders and hips, we use midaz for that

  11. Being an Agency nurse in the UK good/bad?

    ClaireMacl replied to TinaK's topic in International Nursing

    Lol, reading the other replies, I guess I forgot to mention that I live in London and agency nurses are ten a dozen, therefore there is lots of competition between agencies

  12. Being an Agency nurse in the UK good/bad?

    ClaireMacl replied to TinaK's topic in International Nursing

    Depends where you work and who you work for! Agencies are rated by NHS trusts and given contracts, some agencies only get a few contracts, some get many. I work in the ED, we have many agency nurses...

  13. what do you think of the doctors you work with???

    ClaireMacl replied to MagicalThinking's topic in General Nursing

    I work in the ED, so we've got quite a few docs permanently with us for 6 months. With those SHOs I find it sometimes takes a couple of weeks with some of them to get them to understand how nursing in...

  14. how many hours a week do you work????

    ClaireMacl replied to akerdonn's topic in General Nursing

    3 12 hour shifts most weeks, one week of the month, 60 hours in five days per month on

  15. Question on sisters visit to ER

    ClaireMacl replied to sydylo's topic in Emergency

    Don't know about the US, but in the UK we don't diagnose a UTI without Nitrites, Leucocytes and Protein in the urine, without that, its not a UTI. As for appendicitis, well, it can present oddly in...

  16. Improper Triaging

    ClaireMacl replied to NurseNewbie's topic in Emergency

    With us, any asthmatic or DIB has a chest assessment by a doc or enp (emergency nurse practitioner) before being downgraded to waiting for their turn.... esp with kids, asthma can be

  17. Lowest blood sugar...?

    ClaireMacl replied to Mr.N8's topic in Emergency

    Yet another thread where I wish I knew about US nursing! Our BMs go from 1mmol to 30 mmol, otherwise its low or high, above 11 is concidered high and below 4 is concidered low. No doubt soon we will...

  18. Med Errors

    ClaireMacl replied to UM Review RN's topic in Patient Medications

    Hiya, I'm confused, so I figure I'll ask! We don't work in CCs, so I don't understand them, but if I seen that the order was for 1/64 IM PRN and the vial said 1/32, I'd think that to get to 1/64 it...

  19. Good reads

    ClaireMacl replied to piscesgirl's topic in General Nursing

    Oh I sooo have to read this, its out here this week, I've read the rest of the Scarpetta series

  20. Worst patient experience

    ClaireMacl replied to HappyJaxRN's topic in General Nursing

    I try to block out all the paed arrest/trauma calls we get, if you dwell on them, you'll burn out so quickly, I still find it hard to forget some. The little kid is probably still looking down on you,...

  21. House, MD last night.....AAAGH!

    ClaireMacl replied to SteveNNP's topic in General Nursing

    We used to have an SHO who got bedpans for the patient, at one handover we were all at the board, he went to the dirty utility and got a comode and walked past the 20 nurses at handover with it, noone...

  22. Worst patient experience

    ClaireMacl replied to HappyJaxRN's topic in General Nursing

    Not one of my worst full stop, but one that sticks in my memory... it was one of my first days on orientation to the ED and was asked if I'd do a lying and standing blood pressure on the guy in 5...

  23. NHS lying about Staff Shortages?

    ClaireMacl replied to dave777's topic in General Nursing

    Foreign nurses do get promoted, I was the only UK born nurse to get promoted out of 6 who got senior staff nurse in my department. As for SHOs, as I understand it, there are less posts than candidates...

  24. Agency ban

    ClaireMacl posted a topic in International Nursing

    Anyone else found that their hospitals have banned agency nurses from booking shifts until the last minute? We, as of this week, are only able to book bank nurses and all agency nurses must be booked...

  25. From A&E to ER!! Help!!

    ClaireMacl replied to janejoeben's topic in Emergency

    I'm just guessing here, but I think she's concerned more about the different drugs etc and the sort of injuries you treat as regularly in some hospitals that we see once in a while, eg gsw's (although...