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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 am...

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 ever...

I wouldn't like to be your patient, that's certain!!! Also some of the other nurses after reading their comments!!! Never heard of aseptic methods????

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

Looks like you're not made for night shift, some people aren't, including me. I just told them if they didn't put me off night shifts I should have to go. It helped,and I never worked nights again. Now I'm happily retired. We had a nurse who worked o...

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. Ju...

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 t...

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 al...

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 easi...

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

Twice in my 40 years'career I was overpaid, and twice I reported it to payroll as soon as I saw my pay check. If I hadn't, they'd either think I was too stupid to understand the pay slip, or dishonest enough not to report it. I didn't was to seem nei...

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 t...

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 h...

I feel for you, I know what you're going through. My younger brother has advanced AD, he's only 61.He used to teach at the universities. He's going downhill like a free fall. He can't read or write anymore, can't talk, doesn't recognise us. He's home...

When there's a will there's a way!!! Good for you. I'm verey glad for you and hope you inspire others to be like you

You have to find a place that is pleasant for you to work in, that you find interesting, that is a challenge. I worked in the same place for 38 years, we were like one big happy family, it was interesting and challenging. We were the first in a lot o...

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 too was a patient at the hospital I worked in, and I think it made me a better nurse, I had more aptience than any other nurse.... I am a patient person, but I think being a patient puts one on the other side and influences you. You understand the ...

There was an article in the papers some time ago about someone who criticised her boss on Facebook and got her dismissal notice through Facebook in return. She just didn't know her boss was on Facebook too and had read what she had written. Don't rem...

You sound like a person with the right heart to be a nurse, a really true nurse and I think patients will ask for you to care for them, because you sound like you really care. I wish you success in whatever you decide to do.

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, beddi...

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...

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 ...

You are a great nurse, excellent. Nurses should work abroad to appreciate their home. I don't work any more, I am retired, but I too started nursing school at 17 and worked for 40!! What you described in your post reminds me of what it was like here ...