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Nurse In Australia
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From the perspective of an emergency nurse in Australia - about blood and guts and hospitals ;)
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Obese? Get to the back of the line, thanks…
credit: Kyle May An Ipswich MP has suggested that obese people who are unwilling to change their lifestyle should have to wait longer for medical treatment. From the article at Queensland Times: Jo-Ann Miller, Labor MP for Bundamba, said people who...
7 Tips to Survive a Late Night Hospital Shift
credit: the half-blood prince Guest post by Mary Ward Perhaps you are new to working at a hospital or just feeling out of sorts and just plain lousy. Working the late night shift at the hospital is incredibly challenging to many people in the medica...
Job security luring more students into nursing
credit: Shermeee Job security has always been a great factor of nursing. In my experiences on the job, it’s pretty rare that a nurse gets fired – you basically have to be grossly incompetent, breach some serious code of conduct or be so...
Can nurses light patient’s smokes?
An interesting situation regarding smoking and patient’s rights has developed in Tasmania this month, opening up a whole new world of questions on nurses obligations, rights and rules at work. The heart of the issue is that A wheelchair bound, ...
Are nurses injecting incorrectly?
This week’s interesting video comes from Western Polytech Hospital in America, where hundreds of people recently lined up for flu vaccinations in a makeshift clinic. What’s interesting about it is that a news story on the clinic sparked s...
Damning Hospital Reports, Government Takeovers… and all that jazz
credit: EMS_EMT Who should run our hospitals? Are our standards still comparatively high, or slipping further into embarrassing depths? Back in 2007 (before winning the poll, interestingly enough) PM Kevin Rudd vowed to fix the Australian health sys...
