irishicugal

irishicugal

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  1. St. Vincent's hospital dublin

    irishicugal replied to chernt88's topic in International Nursing

    Salary is identical for the two hospitals. Irish nurses are paid according to a national scale depending on your years of experience. It is non negotiable. There are few benefits, if you want health...

  2. St. Vincent's hospital dublin

    irishicugal replied to chernt88's topic in International Nursing

    Nmbi.org is the Irish board of nursing. Nursing and midwifery board of ireland. There is a section on international requirements. IELTS is

  3. Differences in US nursing vs the rest of the world

    irishicugal replied to irishicugal's topic in General Nursing

    Lol, I'd rather not say, we're a very small country after all!! Seriously though, if you want to come to ireland, contact the NMBI, cos they are sloooooow. Then once you have your licence, there are...

  4. Differences in US nursing vs the rest of the world

    irishicugal replied to irishicugal's topic in General Nursing

    Wow that's really interesting! We've sent quite a few students to Sweden to do placements, they all come back raving about it. Tell me, is your education in English, like they do in the Philippines,...

  5. Work declining vacation request?

    irishicugal replied to bunnynurse's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, US vacation times suck!! We get 7 full weeks a year (6 weeks AL and one week BH) I can't imagine having to work a full year before I could take holidays!! If you're a traveller or agency worker...

  6. Yellow Sashes for Med Passes

    irishicugal replied to Testa Rosa, RN's topic in General Nursing

    Yup, in ireland we have red aprons... BUT, it's slowly dying a death. It's more so the patients don't interrupt us rather than docs etc. There's posters up everywhere to educate the patients and...

  7. Scrubs: Are Colorful Ones Unprofessional?

    irishicugal replied to purplegal's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    In ireland every hospital has a dress code. Some hospitals even have a hospital crest on the top. Nurses, aides, physios, dietitians etc all wear the same as each other, a specific colour for each...

  8. Differences in US nursing vs the rest of the world

    irishicugal replied to irishicugal's topic in General Nursing

    Oh sorry, yes I didn't realise levels would also be different. Level 1 is wardable, level 2 is single organ failure, or inotropes, arts and cvcs etc. Level 3 is multiple organ failure, and vented. We...

  9. Do I aspirate too violently?

    irishicugal replied to lorelei13's topic in General Nursing

    I'm confused... Are you sure you're a nurse? Sounds like someone who's into bodybuilding looking for info on where and how to inject.... Sorry for the scepticism

  10. Differences in US nursing vs the rest of the world

    irishicugal replied to irishicugal's topic in General Nursing

    Irish accents are sexy [emoji12][emoji12] I think the main reason we're 1:1 in ICU is we've no RT's or techs, so we do everything! Also I seem to hear about patients in the ICU in the US that would be...

  11. Differences in US nursing vs the rest of the world

    irishicugal replied to irishicugal's topic in General Nursing

    We have very few nurses from Nigeria in ireland, the qualification isn't recognised - most nurses who come here work as carers instead. But yeah, with you on the pain medicine - we rarely use...

  12. Differences in US nursing vs the rest of the world

    irishicugal replied to irishicugal's topic in General Nursing

    Suturing in 2nd year? Cooool... Have met and worked with Spanish nurses, highly skilled people! Gracias for your input

  13. Differences in US nursing vs the rest of the world

    irishicugal replied to irishicugal's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, I checked actually... [emoji15] Mittens are allowed but only to prevent contractures or sores in someone who is paralysed and vented. We can't put them on a LOL with dementia, in that case it's a...

  14. Inadequacy and Incompetence

    irishicugal replied to vampirella's topic in Emergency

    Random blood sugar, I THINK

  15. It's not my fault they're brain-damaged

    irishicugal replied to Ronda89's topic in General Nursing

    I think it's safe to say that the OP may be the one who's brain damaged

  16. Differences in US nursing vs the rest of the world

    irishicugal replied to irishicugal's topic in General Nursing

    Do you have any aides or helpers or do the families do the personal care in

  17. Differences in US nursing vs the rest of the world

    irishicugal replied to irishicugal's topic in General Nursing

    I think we're allowed mittens, don't think it's considered a restraint... I'd have to check the policy book on that

  18. Differences in US nursing vs the rest of the world

    irishicugal replied to irishicugal's topic in General Nursing

    That sounds VERY similar to ireland, no wonder so many Irish nurses go there! And yay for the ratios, we keep holding oz up as the "ideal" when we're trying to fight for better conditions. Not that I...

  19. What is your Nursing Kryptonite?

    irishicugal replied to Lunah's topic in General Nursing

    You know when someone has had an epistaxis but it's finished? So they're spitting out this mixture of blood, sputum and snot!! Fine with any of those substances on its own but combine them together...

  20. Moving to Dublin to nurse

    irishicugal replied to B_Sampson1's topic in International Nursing

    You need to contact the Irish board or NMBI NMBI - Overseas nurses & midwives who want to practise in Ireland: NMBI Once you register, you can look at jobs by trying various recruitment agencies...

  21. Differences in US nursing vs the rest of the world

    irishicugal replied to irishicugal's topic in General Nursing

    From what I've been told, the reason we don't do male caths without the extra course is because of the danger of puncturing the prostate. It's a pain in the butt at 3am if none of the nurses on the...

  22. IV fluids after C/S, am I wrong???

    irishicugal replied to knufflebunny's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I would interpret "keep IV access for 24 hrs" as "make sure the cannula is patent for 24 hours" as a just in case there's a PPH or something. That just means 4-6 hrly flushes. As long as their BP is...

  23. Differences in US nursing vs the rest of the world

    irishicugal replied to irishicugal's topic in General Nursing

  24. Differences in US nursing vs the rest of the world

    irishicugal replied to irishicugal's topic in General Nursing

    I trained in the dark ages, so I can't remember exactly how many clinical hours we did, but it was lots! I was also "hospital based" rather than "university based" so some things did differ. To...

  25. Differences in US nursing vs the rest of the world

    irishicugal replied to irishicugal's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think their training is more intensive as we get waaaaaay more time in clinical training than us undergrads, but I do think their scope is wider. Most RN training actually seems to happen...