Shenanigans

Shenanigans RN

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  1. How do people manage?

    Shenanigans posted a topic in Emergency

    I'm sure there's many a thread here devoted to this topic, so apologies. I'm a student on my elective (final) clinical placement at an emergency department, and I've only done it one day. (And I think...

  2. Personal emergency...forget how to be a nurse?

    Shenanigans replied to jessiern's topic in General Nursing

    I'm still just a student - though a month off rego exam. But this "emergency" happened the same day we'd learnt about the subject in class. I came home and found blood all through my ratties' cage and...

  3. How do nursing students look for jobs?

    Shenanigans replied to spotliter's topic in General Nursing

    I've done heaps of internet searches. Think of a place I'd like to work, type in google the name of that place and "new grad nursing programme" and hey presto info. Then I email the peeps involved...

  4. Is this wrong? Death and Dying

    Shenanigans replied to Karynica, RN's topic in General Nursing

    How horrible to loose two children!! My sympathies. Anyway, our lecturers always use stories from their nursing practice, and oftentimes turf in stories from their personal lives. One lecturer said...

  5. what is "grey matter"

    Shenanigans replied to yuyu75's topic in General Nursing

    That poor doctor!! That poor patient? Did the family catch up with the pooches? But it is interesting, on placement I was sent out with a nurse manager for the mental health services, what he told me...

  6. Define Nursing in 3 words

    Shenanigans replied to FutureNurseSaga's topic in General Nursing

    More money,

  7. How Much in Student Loans Do YOU Have?

    Shenanigans replied to Brookes1129's topic in General Students

    I just got my statement - I'm in the hole for: SEVENTY-TWO THOUSAND, NINE HUNDRED AND FOURTY SIX DOLLARS AND EIGHT THREE CENTS I orificed about at uni for a few years

  8. I know a CNA who's name badge says nurse!

    Shenanigans replied to RNFROMTHEHILL's topic in General Nursing

    There are some novety badges I've seen, you get them custom made with your name on them, and I've seen heaps of CGs with "Nurse... so and so" on them. Most of those CGs like to be mistaken for an RN...

  9. Subordinates

    Shenanigans replied to bollweevil's topic in General Nursing

    I started working as a caregiver about 6 months into my nursing training, and already at that point I had more "knowledge" then the caregivers I found myself working along side. Over time I started...

  10. Will you work during a Pandemic?

    Shenanigans replied to Goju's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I was walking through one of the older cememetries in my town and I found a grave from 1919 that bore memory to a 26 year old nurse who had "died doing her duty". As the war had ended, I figured she...

  11. Why are some nurses and aides such liars?

    Shenanigans replied to SuesquatchRN's topic in General Nursing

    Find out exactly who's doing it, then prawn shells and fish guts behind their hub

  12. Time to Come Clean,,,,slips of the tongue

    Shenanigans replied to Calgon-take.me.away's topic in General Nursing

    I hadn't been doign the whole "student nurse" thing for very long and was showering an old man. Now, I have a habit of throwing the word "little" around, but more as a point of "its smaller than..."....

  13. Safe Staffing Saves Lives - ANA has started a campaign for us

    Shenanigans replied to BrokenRNheart's topic in General Nursing

    I wish they had something like that happening in NZL. Over the weekend my aunty almost died, she showed up at ED w abdo pain and was sent home, returned the next day and then waited for 2 more days...

  14. Are there any nurses who actually enjoy their jobs?

    Shenanigans replied to hollyjolly's topic in General Nursing

    I worked in an elder care hospital while I was studying (rego exam in JULY!!!!!!) and I loved my job. It was the peopel I had to work with who I couldn't stand. Some of them had a real chip on their...

  15. Patients who are too lazy to open their own splenda packets

    Shenanigans replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    I was once on clincal with the public health nurse who told me when she was a rural nurse a 60 year old guy rung her up at 2.30 in the mornign to ask if she could come round and butter his toast....

  16. am I to old to start?

    Shenanigans replied to mrs_truesdell's topic in General Nursing

    There was a lady who was in the year ahead of me at school, who was 65 when she started. And there are lots of other "mature" students in my school. Go for

  17. Student politely asking for help

    Shenanigans posted a topic in Emergency

    NOt sure if this is the right place to put this subject, but I have an asignment where I have to do a report on an acute illness - I've chosen the rupture of an ectopic pregnancy. The lecturers said...

  18. Student politely asking for help

    Shenanigans replied to Shenanigans's topic in Emergency

    Thanks for the help everyone, this is exactly the sort of stuff I was after. Happy Easter

  19. Healthy Clinical Lunch?

    Shenanigans replied to GypsyRose07's topic in General Students

    Have you tried eating your breakfast closer to the time you start clinical? Maybe 7am? You could take some chicken lasange or leftovers from a healthy meal, you just have to pack one of those cooling...

  20. who the heck are you...

    Shenanigans replied to loaparker's topic in General Nursing

    The uniforms nurses' wear at the local hospital have "Registered Nurse" sewn into them, so you at least know they're an RN. However, I think it can be a bit dodgey if pts know your full name. While I...

  21. Major Academic Problems Of Nursing Students

    Shenanigans replied to akalingwanku's topic in General Nursing

    As a student I have to say the biggest acadaemic problem faced by student nurses is the following: - Horrid spell checkers that don't pick up on medical terms - Horrid spell checkers that people have...

  22. Graduate Nurses vs. Experienced Nurses (Promise to be funny!)

    Shenanigans replied to Sammi15's topic in General Nursing

    I had a fantastic laugh at that! Oh crap! I'm going to be new grad in July! OH

  23. I have never been nasty to a student until now!!!

    Shenanigans replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with the majority opinion that you acted appropriately! I'm a student and what really irritates me is to see my peers walkign around with their cells in their pockets, and txtn when the...

  24. Males in nursing

    Shenanigans replied to byswe0525's topic in General Nursing

    Male nurses don't bother me, but I do know some ones who have chips on their shoulders. One male nurse (new grad) i know of is a total idiot, and thinks because he's a male, and there's so few males...

  25. Why do people think the hospital is like the Holiday Inn Express?!!! LONG...

    Shenanigans replied to shoegalRN's topic in General Nursing

    A pt once referred to me as "the help". Another pt said to her husband who was visiting, (I was just standing outside the door about to go in when I heard her), "go find the servant, she will