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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:)

I really don't know what you are afraid of. We changed to national health services 10 years ago or so, sure, I paid more, got less, but now I'm retired I don't pay anything because my husband pays and I am covered by it. MY SALARY DIDN'T GO DOWN. Here children until 18 don't pay, then the army covers them, and after the army they pay according to income. There is a minimum payment, it's not for free for unemployed. We have private insurance too, but we don't pay that much for it because most of it is covered by national health. Most of western Europe is covered by national health, look at Scandinavia, they have wonderful medicine and nursing care, and everyone is covered from day one till their last day. They pay a lot of taxes, but everyone is covered. With your system, only those who can afford it are covered. Look into national health systems around the world before you think negatively about it, not just the UK.

Went to nursing school at 17 so didn't do anything before nursing, worked for 38.5 years always in nursing, and now I'm happily retired. Odd, I don't miss work, just my friends from work.

In Israel you could have pressed the call button. There are all kinds of patents for the orthodox. Call buttons have a sort of delay system so that when you press it doesn't ring at the station straight away. Shabat lifts stop automatically on every floor so you can go in and out without having to press any button, you just need patience!! Not all the lifts are for Shabat, and they are Shabat lifts only on Shabat and holidays. Easy life for Jews in Israel!!!

I live in Israel, and although I am not observant, i worked Shabat in my younger days, most hospitals keep kashrut and the shabat, and we have Jewish and non Jewish nurses working, also doctors. In israel it is more of a problem because the majority is Jewish, and although the majority is non orthodox, they like to rest on Shabat. Working on Shabat is pikuah nefesh, so it's okay in my opinion. BUt from experience as a Jewish nurse working in Israel, I can tell you you can always sort things out. We had many observant Jews, they did not work Shabat, but they did work Motsey Shabat night shift. There is an orthodox hospital there they have goy leshebat who do the work, like writing, answering the phone, etc. There is an ambulance service that have goy leshabat as drivers. There is always a solution, you just have to look for it. Wish you good luck with everything.

Was in nursing for 38 years, retired almost 2 years. I live in Israel and don't mind filling in your questionnaire if you email it to me. I assure you big difference between what it used to be and what it's like now. Good luck with your project:balloons:

Don't know why all the anti against circumcision. It is practised by Jews at the age of 8 days, though they must be at least 2 kgs by weight, and have a normal bilirubin. Mostly done by "Mohalim" who are trained to do it, or by surgeons. "Mohalim" usually give a few drops of wine to the baby to suck so he doesn't have pain, surgeon do local anaesthesia. Both my sons had it done, didn't cry and slept the night through. Have seen memberes without circumcision on patients mainly new immigrants from Russia, most of them were filthy. Moslems also get circumcised, but at a later age, and they suffer, also traumatic, and done with no anaesthesia as far as I know. Also, I remember reading there is less sexually transmitted disease in the circumcised and less cervical cancer among Jewish women. Don't remember which medical journal so can't give reference. So there must be some good in it. As for the one who wrote about Jews against circumcision, never heard of them, must be Reform Jews, who are known to to practise many of the Jewish laws.

I was 17 when I went to nursing school in 1964, was a Registered Nurse at 20, finished my Bachelor's at 45, and now I'm happily retired.

I would stay with the BSN programme, you would be sorry you didn't stay with it. When I went in the 60's there was no BSN programme and I did it in the 90's with working full time. ADN is also studying. :studyowl: You are studying now anyway, so stick to it and good luck.

I think we are lucky here in Israel. We get 30 days sick leave off a year that can accumulate, that is, if you don't use it one year you can use it in following years. If you take more than one day you have to bring a note from the doctor, but you cannot have more than one day off a month without a note from the doctor and not more than six such off sick days a year. Of these you can have six days off a year for a family member (first relative only). If you did not use up to one third of your sick leave that has accumulated by the time you retire, you get paid 8 days for every year you have worked, and if you have used up to two thirds of your sick leave, you receive 6 days for every year you have worked. We also have 26 working days vacation a year which you can accumulate for two years (i.e. up to two months). Maternity leave is 12 weeks, but we can take leave without pay for up to one year after birth. The hospital can't fire us for being sick.