u/Direct-Key-8859

Hi,

I had a patient who was pallative. His daughter (a nurse) asked my student for some anti sickness.

He went up to the patient and basically done is own assessment and before just blindly asking for clyclzine, excatly how he should have. He still gave the anti sickness. I observed the entire thing play out.

The relative basically got annoyed because he went to speak to the patient first and "didnt take her word for it". The student was proffessional but firm in that he cannot give medication without first seeing the patient. She complained to me (in which she had to tell me she is also a nurse) saying how he is destorying trust and was rude to her.

I suspect she got annoyed because she felt she lost control which is the main reason relatives kick off. I however firmly defended the student. She really kicked off at me after I asked her to lower her tone and stop pointing at me (which I hate). I walked off mid conversation as was getting rude. Very rude. I immediatly documented everything.

For the rest of the shift (it happened early) she was complaining about me and my student to the nurse in charge, my HCA and even the nurse next door. Saying random stuff about how I was constantly coughing (the AC makes me cough), how my student was rude to other patients (he wasnt).

Now I am pretty confident. I can deal with rude patients and their relatives. What makes me annoyed is when my team dont back me. My nurse in charge later in the shift asked me to swap bays with someone else at the request of the relative which I immediately refused as I did not want to take a whole new set of patients 8 hours in my shift. My student also got told of for "his attitude" again not even listening to his point of view. I emailed his assessor and told her to please ignore any bad feed back he may of had for this shift.

What is with this "customer is always right" attitude?

I think this is a ward thing as when I bank in ED, I am always supported against rude patients and relatives

I made a post yesterday about how to combine marathon training with gaining muscle in crossfit and the consensus was you cant.

I enjoy running and I dont wanna give it up. However (at least for now) I want to focus on gaining muscle and improving my lifts.

What is the most running I can do?

How much is a good amount that can compliment my crossfit (and maybe improve my running) without comprimising strength gains?

I have recently got a job doing IV vitamin's in a local high end health club. 1 day a week and I make almost £300. I would do it more but they cannot afford to give me more days.

All I do is cannulate someone and start a 30 min drip of Vitamin what ever. Someone else prescibes it. Now these Vitamin's don't really do anything as you piss it out in a few hours but for the price of £60, you can feel slightly energised for those few hours. I don't judge but I would never do it as its a waste of money.

99% of the customers are mums who have seen something on Tik Tok and have convinced them self this is better than exercise.

I have heard some nurses get really passionate about how this and beauty nursing should be banned.

Soon the law will change regarding botox. You will only be able to do it if you are a registered proffessional meaning there will be a huge opening for nurses to take advantage of the lack of supply. However I know the NMC (totally agenda driven) is trying to discourage nurses from doing this which is bonkers.

I am Nurse working in London. I make about 45k a year (with anti social hours and overtime). My student loan is small because my degree was parlty funded by my hosptial.

I have looked up jobs abroad (mostly Australia where I went last year and loved) and I would make about 30% extra, in a cheaper area but still in a city. There is also the famous work life balance there?

Will it be worth it to be a "high earner" in London or start my career in Australia where the pay rises for promotion are way better than here.

Will it be worth it to work in the NHS in a few years?

I work in ED and I decided a few months ago I would commit more time to patient education on their health. I try my best to use the "Making every contact count initiative"

However after giving basic health advice which Intry to talior around them after asking them a few questions about their lifestyle, 99% either don't care, don't believe me or are in complete denial.

Surely the morbidly obese man who came in for crushing chest pain doesnt see him self as an healtly person because "I walk a mile and back to the pub every day", or the patient struggling to breathe doesnt think his COPD flair up is unrelated to his heavy smoking.

I try to be un judgemental and kind but also very clear that they need to make major changes to the lifestyle but I have often been told "I dont know what I'm on about".

It also get's to me a bit that my tax is happily funding these bad choices

This article is just one example of how NHD staff have been treated like shit under the old and current gov.

It's stuff like this, low wages, no protection from violence and hostile remarks about strike action which is pushing thousands of university trained staff to better countries every year.

As a NHS nurse, this is close to me. In my hospitial we can't seem to keep anyone under the age of 30 for more than a year or two as they are all going to Australia. This of course has many direct and indirect conquencses for both the NHS and the Tax payer.

The last I heard was Nigel saying "indentured service". As far as I know Malaysia is the only country with indentured service for it's healthcare staff.

Wales have a happy medium in my opinion in which they pay no tution fee's for 2 years service.

This for me also reflects how as a nation, we are happy to piss on our young while sucking of the older population. The government could end this (now 3 year problem) overnight with more funding but it's "unafforadable". However I don't think I need to go into details on what other things the government spunk billions on which is apparantly, afforadble.

I'm have just come of a 5 month cut where I did a full body workout 3x a week (sometimes 2 if I was busy) and a half Marathon training programme. My running got a lot better while I lost a bit of strength.

I am now going to eat about 200-300 over every day while doing a 10k programme (less weekly milage). I will still do 3x full body a week and 3 runs a week.

Realistically how much stronger will I get in 5 months? I am running because I enjoy it but my aim is to put as much muscle on as I can before I cut again.

I have been doing weights for a few years now. I don't have (or never had) massive numbers but I'm defo not a newbie. My diet and sleep are usually pretty good.

My predicted current weights are

Squat=95kg (no where near my all time PB)

Bench 95 kg (could defo do 100 before cut)

Trap bar Deadlift= 130kg

Clean=80kg

Pull ups=20 in a row (only thing that improved as a lost weight)

Strict Shoulder press 1x8 45kg. (Was doing more reps before cut)

These are the numbers I want to improve. During my cut it felt like my weights were at a managed decline which is fine as my main targets were to cut fat and improve running

I did a 12 week 5k plan a while ago and honestly, my time did not go up much, no where near what Runna predicted. I did an 18 week (I know, it, was longer whuch made it more effective) half marathon plan where I did much better what Runna predicted. I went from a 2 hour to a just under 1:40 half marathon.

I was doing 3 runs a week, 3 weight sessions and eating in a calorie deficit.

I really really want to get a sub 20 min 5k. Over the next 3-4 months I will be doing more heavy weights (hopefull big compound weights), 3x runs a week and eating in a calorie surplus. Should I do another half marathon plan or a 5k one and trust the Runna process?

As far as I know, Reform have not said anything about the student loan system apart from cutting courses which suggests to me they wont do anything.

Many graduates are getting shafted for working hard in school and "doing everything right". Many people like me would also have a decent chance at paying it off if not for the intrest.

Of course ending our wage stagnation would be the best thing to help uni graduates who traditionally were high earners but are now just above minumum wage.

I am waiting for the next Labour round where hopefully they will announce changes to the loan system rather than freeze the threshold which Reeves announced (not optimistic).

For me I will be voting either Greens or Torys as they are the only parties who have actually directly announced policies to help graduates

Age-27 30 points

English-superior 20 points

Skiiled employment- less than 3 years 0 points

Aussie skilled employment- less than 1 year 0 points

Qualifications 15 points

Partner skills 10 points

Total 75 points

What are my chances to get it within the next year?

Should I go on a WHV and apply when I have 80 points (extra 5 from doing a year in Aus?)

Hey,

I am a UK RN in the process of applying for my APHRA.

I currently have about 10 months experience (will probably be 12 when I go out).

I have done my ILS, Manchester Triage and other courses that although are not necessary, do look good on a CV including a few critical care courses (which I paid for privately).

Will I struggle to find a job? From what I have gathered Aus is like here, tough to find a job as a new grad but 10x easier when you have experience under your belt especially somewhere acute.

In the UK it was a thing that you needed 2 years of acute experience before going to ED or critical care but that has slowly been phased out. No extra studying is needed unless you want to promote into neiche ED roles like a education nurse or something.

Of course I would need sponsorship so that may be a barrier

I feel one of the best things about ED (at least my one) is that the seniors have much less torelance for patient abuse. I only bank in my ED yet the staff will look out for me. In my experience when a patient us abusive and the RN pushes for it, the patient can very easily get a yellow card. I feel its also 10x more culturally acceptable for nurses to tell off rude patients.

In the wards however its the other way. Band 6 and 7's will make every excuse under the sun for a patient they dont know vs their own staff. I had a patient vervally abuse me. I went to the band 6 expecting it to be escalated for a yellow card. Instead the band 6 went and made a cup of tea for the patient as "he is just stressed out". I hate this customer is always right attitude.

Why are the wards so behind on this. Why do they let the patients get away with so much compared to ED

Inspired by another reddit post.

Those who you who did loads of extra reading as a student and continued as a nurse, went way out of your way to do extra courses, really bust a nut working shifts (stuff like that). Where did it leave you?

I have seen many nurses who really put the work, commitment and investments in their career when they started and it clearly paid of. Like wise I have seen some nurses who will do 3x as many steps in a shift than everyone else, really hold the ward together and have never gone past band 5.

Hi,

I am a RN thinking of moving to Sydney. I will make 75,000 with the option of overtime.

I am happy/ would prefer to live in a flat share for the first few years until my salary goes up.

I wont be partying every weekend.

I'm a big eater so probably a decent amount on Groceries.

A decent gym membership.

I dont expect to be living the high life but will that be enough initially to not live on the bread line?

I honestly think we could save billions in the NHS in waste and poor choices.

I have a scale at home. Cost me £5 from Amazon. I see the excat same one in my unit. I find out they brought them all in bulf for £70 each.

I dont like the comparisions between the private and public sector as they are two different beasts but in the private, someone would righly so get sacked for that. Even investigated for fraud.

Red slide sheet. Cost £30 each i'm told. Can be wiped down immediatly. But they are single use.

I'm sure people have many more examples.

I thought the NHS was really getting looked into for waste but apparantly not

Honestly I love this weather. I wake up early for a run, I have more energy, me and my friends are going out more.

BBQ's, outdoor swims, running with my top off, enjoying a beer garden are things I am doing now that I can't do in the heat.

I work long shifts with poor AC. Yes it's sweaty but I would rather this than waking up in the morning freezing just to watch it get dark at 4pm.

All I hear are people complaining.