Topics About 'International Nursing'.

Dear Nurse Beth, I am an international nurse working in the Medical Surgical ICU of a healthcare facility. Being from Jamaica it is taking me awhile to get used to electronic documentation and other aspects such as different medications and equi...

I grew up in a small village in South Asia where many people don't have access to basic healthcare. On top of that mental health is such an issue that nobody seeks help for. If someone is mentally ill, the family members and the society will go to th...

My day in Dhaka begins with a slow awareness that the noise outside has sounded the alarm to awake. Banged-up autos at the intersection below my apartment blow their horns in urgent awareness that their drivers have no intention of slowing down. Most...

Today was a really hard day for everyone at work. One of our employees died at the hospital. He was just 24 years old, married with kids. Earlier today I was in a meeting and was called by one of my locally employed staff supervisors and informed tha...

March 29, 2008 On that day, at around 9:30 am, a patient was to be brought to another hospital for lab/pulmonary exam which was not available in our center. A pulmonary doctor and a nursing aide were with me to complete the team. The patient was brou...

To an American nurse, it seems like an upside-down system.The Policies and Procedures that fails to fall within any framework of prior hospital experiences. This is a place where the patients tell you when it is time for an assessment or for treatmen...

There are major changes ahead in the way the NHS in England will be funded Q&A: The NHS shake-up - BBC News This will mean what for the staff who work on the shop floor. According to this article, patients will not see any changes at all, what i...

His wife was a superstitious woman. She believed, as did many Brazilian farmers, that the enfermera formada Americana (college-educated American nurse) would perform some bizarre procedure that would render her lame or sterile -- or both. Her bravery...

February 8, 2007. This is the first time I saw him. At a first glance, there seemed to be nothing significant nor stunning in him, but still he melted my heart away by his innocent stares. There he was, just staring at me in his most vulnerable state...

So after my terrible night in a nursing home and my 2 weeks of trying to look like I knew what I was doing on a GI floor. I decided I would join the hospital nurse Bank as they were called in those days which equates to float nurse. I returned t...

Originally I am from Russia but I received my Associate of nursing degree in USA. After graduation from Denver School of Nursing, Colorado I had been working as a registered nurse (RN) for almost one year. I really liked to live and work in USA. But ...

I originally wrote this guide for family and friends who have been asking me about the steps to become an RN in the UK. I am currently on the process of acquiring my Tier 2- Visa and will be updating this as I go, and only when I have free time to do...