I was practicing reconstituting antibiotics and one of my facilitators asked me to research why PICC lines are flushed with 20 ml saline instead of 10 ml saline flush. Does anyone know why?
I’m looking for some career advice from nurses who have been in a similar position.
A few months ago I left a clinical nursing role to take on a management position in aged care. The pay is better, and it seemed like a good career move at the time, but I’m finding that management just isn’t for me. The workload feels endless, and instead of enjoying the challenge, I mostly feel drained.
I still occasionally pick up shifts in my previous clinical role to keep my registration and skills up. The more I go back, the more I realise I genuinely miss direct patient care, the team environment, and finishing a shift feeling like my work is done.
I’m seriously considering applying for a clinical position again, possibly even back at my previous workplace if something suitable becomes available. My biggest hesitation isn’t the job itself—it’s feeling embarrassed about going back after leaving for a management role. I can’t help but worry that people will think I made the wrong decision or couldn’t cope.
I also don’t want to leave my current employer on bad terms. They’ve been supportive, and I appreciate the opportunity they’ve given me.
Has anyone here stepped away from management and gone back to a clinical nursing role? How was it received, and do you regret the decision? Did it affect your career in the long run?
Hi y'all,
I'm under the Victorian Mental Health EBA and I have always worked both weekends as 0.8 EFT. But now I wanna start having at least Saturdays off and only work Sundays now that I'm debt free and can focus on building a social life. If I do this, will I still be eligible for the extra annual leave? Or does it have to be 10 weekends consecutively ie. having to work both saturdays and sundays in the same week 10 times a year? Hope that makes sense and thanks!
Hi all! I am currently a 2nd yr Nursing student in SA. I picked nursing right after my gap year because it was my first choice at that time and second, because I didn't see myself doing anything else. It also is a stable job. When I had my placement during first year, I had fun, and I thought to myself if I can't stand this, I might just move on to another degree BUT I had fun and stayed. After that placement, I became an AIN for an agency and was happy I got to make a decent amount of cash for the skills I learned at uni. I was working for as much as I can. Then after a bit I applied to be a casual AIN in a local LHN at my state and got in months after. This is my job at the moment. I bounce between two hospitals and can be put in whichever ward needs an AIN. They give us shifts 1-2 days before and only give the allocation an 1-2 hours before the actual shift starts. It was fun at first, having this new opportunity, but lately I find myself getting really anxious each day before a possible shift. I'm not motivated and I count the hours before my shift ends . I have this feeling of fear before going to the hospital to work my shift. The feeling of being anxious goes away when I'm settled in the ward I'm working though. I try to fill the void of uncertainty with buying myself new stuff to somehow motivate myself and I don't know if it's going to work.. did any casual pool staff feel this way? How do you cope?
i know they say gender equality eta but realisticly in the nursing world where most nurses are female i was wondering if theres certain discrimination on male nurses? have you seen discrimination on male nurses? is it harder for them to advance? do you feel unconfortable around male nurses?
i know its a sexist question but as a male studing right now i thought i would ask beforehand
Hi!
Sometimes it’s hard to get in touch with interpreters as my hospital only has a few available
Does anyone know of any apps I can use? Just something where I can say basic things to the patient like “can I take your blood pressure”
I have the CALD assist app but seeing if there’s other options
Edit - as per my post it would be for very very basic things like “do u want a shower” or “are you hungry”. Anything more than that I would be using the hospital interpreter when they are available
Doing this out of desperation as I'm such an unlucky person and can't work with someone frequently enough to vouch for me. Every shift I work is in a different hospital and/or different ward, sometimes I only return to the same hospital once in 2-3 months. I'm being floated literally everywhere. Other times the shift I sign up for cancels on me 2 hours before and I don't get to decide what happens.
I've just passed the 100-hour mark since starting work. My goal is 1040 hours by mid-2027.
The two wards I've returned to - everyone looks different and no one remembers me because the last time I worked with them was 2 months ago. The turnover of their staff in that ward is already so bad that more than 50% of the staff in the ward are from the hospital's casual pool and 30% agency. I usually do weekends and afternoon/night shifts so I don't see any nurse educators or NUM around. There is literally no one who can attest to my work except maybe the TL for the shift, who has no time to bother with me.
I'm so disappointed and heartbroken. It's almost impossible to network (and not the time to) during a shift. I'm grabbing at every chance yet I can't get allocated back to the ward where I met that nice CN/TL to exchange contacts with him because I just keep getting cancelled on. I have booked in monday night with the hopes of meeting that TL again but I'm pretty sure they're going to cancel on me again.
My applications with QH are just being outright rejected without any communication. I've emailed in to ask for feedback with no reply. The listing is put up by the central staffing team and there is no name or email or contact number. It's like I've been locked out forever. I can't even update my application with more recent information. Things are starting to look quite hopeless.
I would appreciate if I could somehow network and make friends or find a mentor from QLD/AU on here. I just need a referee that badly. I don't want to resort to illegal means or paying someone to pose as my supervisor. It just sucks how no one wants to take a chance on me if I don't have the two golden referees that they want. My friends in nursing are my peers, not my supervisor. I've not met anyone yet who holds a conversation beyond "how's it going" during shift. I don't trust anyone at my previous workplace (2 years ago) after my work senior backstabbed me and gave me a bad reference that made me lose the job offer with QH.
Yes, maybe me not having work referees is a red flag. but why is a referee a non-negotiable disqualifying requirement in a job application? Why must the referee be my direct work supervisor and it can't be educational or HR? What about those from hospitals with no-referee policies? My direct work supervisor and everyone who was higher-ranking than me were abusive and they are the reason why I left. I had a willing referee from a senior EN however QH rejected this saying that referee was 'not high ranking enough'.
I don't know anymore... I want things to change but it seems like nothing's within my control.
edit: for clarity
I didn't do any science in high school so I'm behind on anything like Biology. Any survival tips on what I can study before hand?
Hi everyone I'm starting a diploma of nursing soon, I got told by the admin who enrolled me that we can wear anything smart casual,
we get scrubs in our material pack but I think it's reserved for placement and practice days.
I legitimately have very few options as I mostly wear scrubs when working as a DA or gym wear and trackies when I'm on my rest day for gym. Or plain black jeans. (I have recently lost 25kg through gym and am not where I want to be yet so haven't gone about getting any new clothes tbh.) I do have just plain black dress pants.
Would it be weird for me to wear my scrub pants that I use for Dental assisting (they are plain black airmed.) my nursing shoes and a plain longsleeve tee or tee with my mesh sketchers nursing shoes as I only have heels or some sneakers.
Like.. why tf not, right? Am I wrong?
I am an offshore nurse. I am enrolled in an agency in my country that has tapped by Ramsay Health. From what I have read in Glassdoor, it is a bit dire. Can someone who works for Ramsay Health share some insights with me please? My anxiety is really getting the best of me, I'm sorry.
After being a new nurse on a full time rotating roster for 2 months, I have noticed that my clothes are getting tighter and I'm feeling more bloated, then found I have gained about 6kg already. Luckily I'm tall but it's still enough to make a difference to my confidence and clothes fitting well
I think I'm mostly looking for advice because I was surprised at how quickly this happened. I still eat a lot of the same meals as before, however snack more due to things like donuts at the nurses station, or picking up takeout on the way home instead of cooking because I'm so tired, or skipping the gym because of late-earlies messing up my routine and also general fatigue.
I've never been one to track calories or anything but my weight has always stayed stable, as I was working a job before that was set hours and lower stress as I worked part time only.
I know what I need to do is eat less and move more, but I'm hoping you guys have tips for things like reducing stress eating, resisting sweets and treats at the nurses station, making time for the gym with a rotating roster, filling but healthy recipes, etc. Any tips at all that helped you personally
Hope this post doesn't seem too trivial or vain but I'm wondering if anybody else has experienced this, really appreciate any tips anyone has!
So got bored IPSing a MH patient who was fine and started calculating my super amount and found out that it’s not 12% of either gross or net and that the percent changes from payslip to payslip ( varied from about 11-11.5% of gross) so what am I missing? Do certain penalties/allowances not count for super?
So, I'm off to Ireland next year.
If anyone here is originally Australian qualified, can you tell me how the registration process went for you? Anything I should be wary of, or any hacks for the process?
Also, how was the job finding process? I myself will be looking for ED work.
Hi! I am a US based Nurse Practitioner with 5 years of experience as an NP, as well as registered nurse experience since 2014 before that. I have a skilled 189 allowing for full working rights and I have a relocation plan for December which I have stated in my cover letter.
I have applied for multiple NP jobs within WA and gotten declined interview for many of them so far. I did ask for some feedback from a director of nursing who stated that I needed to “address the selection criteria” of the JDF, which I thought I had done, but I do think that perhaps applications and CV and cover letters are different in Australia.
Would anyone be willing to share any insight on how they address these things on CV or cover letter? Or share examples of applications that have landed you roles? Or even someone who could assist in refreshing my application package to better suit Australian needs?
Edit: also already have AHPRA endorsement and only applying for NP jobs (not RN)
hi everyone, i’ve accepted a grad at a public hospital but my passion is theatre nursing. I wanted some advice as the private hospitals in the state are about to open their applications for theatre programs but I have not heard good things about them. Would it be better to stay in public and transition to theatre once my program is over or go private?
Thank you
Would you rather find out your allocation of room the day/night before your shift or would you stick to finding out on the day?
I recently just learned about the existence of Hospital in the home (HITH) ward. That's a nursing job that doesn't need to do ADLs. I was wondering if there were more wards or roles in nursing that don't do ADLs?