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Here we pay for the ambulance, free if you get hospitalised, but you have to present your discharge letter from the hosptal. Road accident, the car insurance pays, but you have to get a police report to prove it was a car accident. Intensive care ambulance, you pay 50%. If you don't pay, you get sued, plus you pay index rise and interest rate. If you still don't pay, the court sends people to your house and confiscate things to sell and pay off the debt. They can sue you up to seven years later. If you have to get to a doctor's appointment and need a taxi and are on welfare, you get reimbursed by social security or welfare. You can't abuse the ambulances here like I read on your posts.

I took care of a former president, former prime minister, former chief justice, can't remember who else. Their privacy was sacred, no one allowed to visit except close family, and they hardly came so as not to disturb us or the patient. Security everywhere, but they were outside the door. The only person who was allowed in was the prime minister who came to visit the president, and after half an hour when I noticed the president was tired, I told the prime minister and he just thanked me and left. The only person who did make a fuss was the son of a patient. The son is a famous comedian and he just barged inside the room (it used to be an open floor with 11 other patients, some critical), and when we asked him to wait, he ignored our request with the excuse he had to go to work. As if nursing wasn't work!! Or the patients' well being iwasn't important. I didn't keep my mouth shut and told him we too had work and his father wasn't the only patient there. Don't worry, I wasn't told off.

Find someone who can use the books you don't want to keep. They could be helpful to someone who is short on money. I left mine on the ward library when I retired. i used them at work because I also taught what I learned from them

Your sexual orientation or sex life is nobody's business, it's your private life, and if anyone asks you, tell them it's private, not public information. Also personal questions if you are married, single, engaged, how many kids, if any, whatever. Just say it's private and you don't want to answer, not that you prefer not to answer, but that you do NOT want to answer. That will shut them up.

For me it's my second cancer, had thyroid cancer 25 years ago but didn't have to be naked except in the operating theatre. Now I had breast cancer so of course I was naked, but I was asleep before I knew it. Today I finished my radiotherapy and the technicians were mostly men that I knew from work, but they were very nice and didn't think much of exposing my breast, made it look so natural so I wasn't embarrassed. I don't need any chemo, only hormone therapy. I had an Oncotype test done, so I don't need the chemotherapy.I did have PAF twice after surgery so now I'm on Coumadin (warfarin) and Rhythmex (propafenone) so I wonder what I'll get instead of Tamoxifen. Good luck to you and best of health. Hugs

Very sensible of you to have it double checked and good for you and the patient. That's why certain medications have to be checked by another person, to prevent mistakes. And you did it by the rules. Good for you. Remember we are all human, and we all make mistakes. Only those who don't work or think don't make mistakes. You have learnt by your mistake, you will remember it for a very long time, and next time you won't make the same mistake. you will be more alert. don't take the mistake personally, look at it as a lesson to you and your peers.

Ruby, I've been in nursing since 1967, I'm retired now, but reading your article brought back memories of the good old days in my nursing career. I was never sorry I went to nursing school or worked as a nurse. Training was different then, exams easier, work was easier, got tougher as the years went by, but I loved my work all those years. Patients got sicker and older, new machines invented, and I had to get updated all the time with courses, conferences, etc. Nursing in hospital is very rewarding, although not an easy job. You have to be a special person to do it.

I admire you. Wish you best of everything in your nursing career

You really make my blood boil after reading what you wrote!! You are so rude and arrogant!! For your information, I was the oldest nurse on the unit (I'm retired now), but I knew ( I still do) how to use the computer, I taught the others, yes, even the young nurses. Not all "older" nurses are technophobic or idiots when it comes to computers, and you, a young 9 month old nurse, can learn a thing or two from the older nurses, like respect and patience. Hope you will learn to think before you post anything on this site.

I was 17 when I went to nursing school, no university studies in those days. I finished my RN studies when I was 20 and worked till I retired at 58.5 (yes, early retirement!!!) Went for my Bachelor's at 40!! I was single at 17, but married with two high school boys and worked full time. If I did it, anyone can!!! I was never sorry I went to nursing, but was glad to retire. Good luck to you all.

We double checked Insulin and Heparin, and did prevent errors, but I remember when with the double check there were errors too. Also double checked children's meds. Better be safe than sorry.

I had very long hair when in nursing school, reached the back of my knees, did a pigtail and then made a knot with it, stuck some pins in, I was tidy all day long, no headaches or anything, and kept my hair clean and away from patients' bodies, beddings, etc. Maybe I'm the old fashioned nurse, but a strong believer of hygiene. I always looked professional, tidy and clean. Be proud of your profession, and wish you good luck and success in your new career.:)

I wish all of you good luck and success in your new career.

I know what you mean and how you feel, I went through the same experience, not in blood, but had two major operations. I think that made me a more compassionate nurse and person, more tolerant to others, and more patient. Since then, whenever I took care of a patient, I always put myself in the patient's shoes and remembered my experience as a patient. I wish you well and a full recovery like myself. I'm 22 years after those experiences and retired.

congratulations!! you did go through a lot to pass this exam! i am very glad for you, although i do not know you. i worked in nursing for 40 years, i am now retired, and i hope you enjoy nursing as much as i did. hope your nursing experience will be a lot easier than the exam:)