When we were younger new flegling nurses :D

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Following on from a thread we appear to have hijacked regarding nursing many moons ago and how we remember things done. Have started this thead :D

Right what I remember when training and qualifying in the 1980's

Hiding when consultant came onto the ward

Eating breakfast in the toilet

Enough people on the ward to ensure all care was given and time to talk to patients

Bed pan rounds (didn't do the pans piled on trolley tho)

Pressure rounds (set trolley at set times checking patients pressure areas)

O2 on pressure sores

trial on using maggots on wounds

Tidy clean wards

Right anyone else :lol_hitti

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Specializes in cardiac med-surg.

ward had a pt lounge---with ashtrays

nurses smoked w the pts !!!

not one pump per iv[now we do]

mixing iv antibiotics

never taking breaks[not now]

never signing in for OT

having an IV team

45 min. taped report...ughhhhh

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Specializes in RN, BSN, CHDN.
ward had a pt lounge---with ashtrays

nurses smoked w the pts !!!

not one pump per iv[now we do]

mixing iv antibiotics

never taking breaks[not now]

never signing in for OT

having an IV team

45 min. taped report...ughhhhh

Gosh I remember smoking with the pts-how bad was that:o

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Specializes in renal,peritoneal dialysis, medicine.
ward had a pt lounge---with ashtrays

nurses smoked w the pts !!!

not one pump per iv[now we do]

mixing iv antibiotics

never taking breaks[not now]

never signing in for OT

having an IV team

45 min. taped report...ughhhhh

we still mix iv antibiotics here and jeeze, it takes forever

the patient lounge now has 6 beds in it with no extra staff!!!

break? whats that?? :)

do you know what, i only qualified three years ago and the job has changed loads in that short space of time.

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Specializes in Advanced Practice, surgery.

Soap and water enemas:uhoh21:

bowel prep as an ng tube one end commode the other and water/ picolax running into the ng

Oxygen for pressure sores - we had just moved away from egg white

Anyone remember silastic foam bungs are they still around

We did the bedpan and commode rounds

Students jobs were to clean the sluice, bed pans (which were metal without this nice cardboard disposable) so we really did have to clean them before putting them in the automatic bedpan washer

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hey, dont you know that the states dont have disposable bedpans, nor a sluice, all plastic bedpans charged to the patient used in the rooms and then washed in the patients own bathroom, and then thrown away on patient discharge.

american nurses are amazed when you tell them that we have cardboard urinals and bedpans and they dont understand how that works.

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Specializes in renal,peritoneal dialysis, medicine.

no poo eating machine in usa?

am shocked

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

manual handling, australian lift, 2 people lifting patients up the bed when really should use more people, although now you use the hoist.

managing to shut wards in winter and summer... now it is a struggle to find beds and staff to man them

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glass bottles for IV fluid. To be fair, they were phased out just as I was starting in 1978, but I do remember them!

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Specializes in RN, BSN, CHDN.
manual handling, australian lift, 2 people lifting patients up the bed when really should use more people, although now you use the hoist.

managing to shut wards in winter and summer... now it is a struggle to find beds and staff to man them

Well they still do lifing here in the US-

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Specializes in RN, BSN, CHDN.
no poo eating machine in usa?

am shocked

NO:lol2:

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.
Well they still do lifing here in the US-

I know... It amazes me

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