Forum Posts from practicenursing.co.uk http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/ 2012-05-18T09:23:44.3196061+01:00 PNrss 47 year old ? Entering early menopause- amenorrhoea for 6 mths. Would this lady require bloods to check if menopause started or any oestrogen as on.... 2012-05-17T10:48:57 Posted by cupcakes921 - Topic read 50 times today (0 replies) 16260 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16260 Is qvar 50 1 puff bd a good dose to start 14 yr on who requires ventolin++? 2012-05-17T10:43:22 Posted by cupcakes921 - Topic read 49 times today (1 replies) 16259 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16259 I am tearing my hair out! I have been practice nursing for nearly 3 years now, most recently as a lone nurse at a small surgery. Previously I was mo.... 2012-05-17T07:29:32 Posted by Snuffle - Topic read 36 times today (9 replies) 16247 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16247 Would like to draw on my learned colleagues expertise please. Hubby had sudden visual loss in left eye one week ago ... Didn't tell me for 2 days ..... 2012-05-17T07:22:36 Posted by jan17 - Topic read 32 times today (7 replies) 16258 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16258 Next week I've been invited to Downing Street no 10, to celebrate leaders in nursing !. I'm the only representative flying the flag for practice nurs.... 2012-05-07T01:19:27 Posted by Dignity - Topic read 28 times today (42 replies) 16120 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16120 Hi Need your advise please.What type of mouthpieces should I be using with the in-dial check device.I tried using the mouthpiece with 1 end filter.... 2012-05-17T12:12:20 Posted by jally - Topic read 24 times today (5 replies) 16251 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16251 Hi im new to this site and only bin in practice nursing for 1 yr.Just quickly reading through some of the discussions its like hearing myself talk lol.... 2012-05-17T01:06:24 Posted by Frizz - Topic read 19 times today (6 replies) 16252 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16252 Advice needed please What do you do re. malaria tabs Discuss with pt then print out script get GP to check and sign? Give GP list of suitable reg.... 2012-05-11T06:06:52 Posted by samfiddle - Topic read 17 times today (67 replies) 16193 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16193 I'm an experienced PN and have just started a new post where there is a very inexperienced Practice Manager (never worked in Health before and only in.... 2012-05-16T10:52:07 Posted by Nohandmaiden - Topic read 16 times today (19 replies) 16246 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16246 Hi is there anybody out there that is a newby like myself, have been working as a practice nurse for 1 year this month. Would be nice to hear from oth.... 2012-05-17T02:02:34 Posted by Frizz - Topic read 16 times today (9 replies) 16253 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16253 Have been asked by GP to give depo into a rather slim arm. Will try hard to get her to accept buttock but (a)is buttock always best and (2) what needl.... 2012-05-12T01:52:18 Posted by Jackie2 - Topic read 13 times today (20 replies) 16203 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16203 Asthmatic not doing too well with inhalers gp requesting spiro how long should patient refrain from taking his qvar prior to spiro? Thank you in advan.... 2012-05-17T10:52:02 Posted by cupcakes921 - Topic read 13 times today (0 replies) 16261 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16261 how often would blood be monitored if on vit b12 inj. and what tests done. 2010-04-28T10:42:20 Posted by jinty1 - Topic read 11 times today (15 replies) 7829 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7829 Dear Everyone... I once worked in a practice where we had pictured COPD action plans for those who were illiterate... I now work somewhere where lo.... 2012-05-17T06:02:17 Posted by joy1 - Topic read 10 times today (0 replies) 16257 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16257 What brand of meningitis imm do people use for adult post splectomy, travel, university age students who have never received a meningitis jab in the p.... 2012-05-17T10:02:45 Posted by lualua - Topic read 9 times today (3 replies) 16250 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16250 I know we have to given Epi-pen in the thigh, but am I right in saying that ordinary adrenaline is given into the thigh in babies under 12m + arm in .... 2009-10-17T03:57:52 Posted by Jackie2 - Topic read 8 times today (24 replies) 5964 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5964 Well guys I think I need some reassurance advice or something I dont know! Ive been on anti-depressants since xmas started to feel a bit better. Then .... 2012-05-15T09:51:19 Posted by smelly.melly - Topic read 8 times today (26 replies) 16224 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16224 Does anyone have a good book recommendation for a teaching and mentoring course at Masters level. I just did my first lecture and I havent got a clue .... 2012-05-17T05:49:54 Posted by willow - Topic read 7 times today (1 replies) 16256 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16256 Sorry gone brain dead --- just done revbersibility ? copd sounds like it with smoking hisotry but even tho guidelines say just post broncho dilator sp.... 2012-05-17T03:17:03 Posted by nursejules - Topic read 6 times today (3 replies) 16255 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16255 Am very proud to be celbrating this tommorrow.Think we are few and far between these days xx 2012-05-01T09:14:18 Posted by JAZZY999 - Topic read 5 times today (22 replies) 16048 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16048 Dear All,I need to ask if we can reinatate 10 oclock time for a while. For any newbies who dont know about this I`ll explain. 10 oclock time started a.... 2012-05-06T03:58:27 Posted by willow - Topic read 5 times today (62 replies) 16114 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16114 I am doing the Manchester 10k run this coming Sunday. Believe me when I say that looking forward to physical exercise is a new experience for me. Bu.... 2012-05-17T08:18:04 Posted by mrsjasper - Topic read 5 times today (8 replies) 16248 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16248 Hi, I have a patient who regularly attends the surgery with severe pain,nausea and lightheadedness around mid-cycle nearly every month. Doctors have s.... 2009-08-23T02:58:59 Posted by tubbydrawers - Topic read 4 times today (9 replies) 5522 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5522 Hi, We have a gp who does a minor ops session for us ocassionally. The nurse who assists him expressed a concern to me that he used the same pen fo.... 2011-06-10T09:31:13 Posted by catfish1 - Topic read 4 times today (17 replies) 12826 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12826 Hi all, sorry to post this as I know not direct nursing, but thought I may pick the brains of my fellow PN's...... I am currently doing WW with litt.... 2012-02-18T07:42:37 Posted by jasper - Topic read 4 times today (19 replies) 15378 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=15378 Hi Realised today once patient had gone that I had given a 1 year old her imms while she is still on antibiotics - Mum didn't say and the child was w.... 2012-02-28T11:23:41 Posted by dogsbody007 - Topic read 4 times today (6 replies) 15456 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=15456 I have a family of 4 off to Vietnam/cambodi... for 6/52 in july/aug. They do not have a set itinerary and will be staying in various types of accom.... 2012-05-15T05:09:19 Posted by notnets - Topic read 4 times today (2 replies) 16228 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16228 Watcha!I was wondering whether any of you fine people could recommend any on-line training? I want to give my PNs something useful to do on the next P.... 2012-05-09T10:53:49 Posted by avreede - Topic read 4 times today (27 replies) 16144 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16144 Need lots of replies to this post please to reassure a friend that I have given her the correct advice.Hope I have?!! Friends son is now 11.Went do.... 2012-05-10T05:01:40 Posted by Nemesis - Topic read 4 times today (42 replies) 16170 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16170 Think I made mistake had poorly child (2yrs) in today, Dr adminstered benzylpenicillin mixed with water for injections as ? meningicoccal. dr looked i.... 2012-05-10T06:24:24 Posted by jules97 - Topic read 4 times today (5 replies) 16172 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16172 Hi all, I have a lot of patients booking in for travel vaccinations normally they just need tetanus, Hep A +B and Typhoid and are they are given a .... 2012-05-13T08:56:51 Posted by Nurseflorrie - Topic read 4 times today (6 replies) 16205 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16205 Do you tweet or not ,? I'm new to it. # nurchat on 22.5.12 is discussing the nursing and care quality forum. Nursing in practice has a respect.... 2012-05-13T06:31:25 Posted by Dignity - Topic read 4 times today (13 replies) 16208 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16208 I am going to sound a little stupid here but i would really like to know from colleagues here which patients you have really asked to come back for th.... 2009-11-20T07:28:08 Posted by angelika - Topic read 3 times today (14 replies) 6244 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6244 Afternoon, is mirena coil contraindicated in a woman with family history of ovarian cancer? 2010-07-21T03:45:07 Posted by dragon - Topic read 3 times today (2 replies) 8826 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8826 hi all, Anne Baird has kindly agreed to let me post the prescribing agreement template she wrote and which I used when first qualifying as a prescr.... 2010-09-04T05:18:25 Posted by karen.rudd - Topic read 3 times today (1 replies) 9511 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9511 Did anybody see it tonight. Followed the experiences of three people nearing the end of their lives (under cover filming). One chap with copd had suc.... 2011-02-28T10:20:37 Posted by carlisle - Topic read 3 times today (13 replies) 11605 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=11605 Evening! Just wondering how you all ensure women return on time for their depo injections. Started practice nursing in sep and now doing family planni.... 2011-03-01T08:36:51 Posted by nutty78 - Topic read 3 times today (16 replies) 11625 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=11625 Based on the extremely positive feedback I have started the book club. Lala was the first to volunteer to start the ball rolling and has chosen La.... 2010-04-06T07:50:47 Posted by bernie - Topic read 3 times today (57 replies) 7589 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7589 Hello, do any of you have any bright ideas/gadgets etc for saving backs in practice Nursing? We have an elderly population and get a fair few pt's ne.... 2012-05-14T03:50:30 Posted by Flo111 - Topic read 3 times today (5 replies) 16215 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16215 Hi does anyone know of any reps in the Derbyshire/Staf... area that work in family planning or sexual health?? Why is it that when you want one.... 2012-05-14T07:55:19 Posted by looby83 - Topic read 3 times today (2 replies) 16219 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16219 A chap visiting 14 countries, Europe and Asia, 3 months away, lots of them ending in 'stan' but not even Pakistan, camping, off the beaten track, alo.... 2012-05-16T02:31:25 Posted by lualua - Topic read 3 times today (11 replies) 16236 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16236 There is a good programme on Channel 4 about people who say they do not eat much & can't understand why they can't lose weight. Sound familiar ? !![:).... 2012-05-16T08:55:30 Posted by pollyanna - Topic read 3 times today (0 replies) 16244 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16244 Does any1 know of a research tool for quantitative research? I know that theres the CASP tool for qualitative. I cant remember but im sure years ago I.... 2012-05-16T10:19:15 Posted by smelly.melly - Topic read 3 times today (6 replies) 16245 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16245 Bernie,Here's a challenge for you...Is there any way to allow each user to arrange the order in which the forums are displayed? So, for example, t.... 2012-05-17T02:15:43 Posted by avreede - Topic read 3 times today (0 replies) 16254 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16254 HELLO ALL, DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN DO A PRACTICE NURSE TRAINING ONLINE ,OR ANY PLACE IN THE LONDON AREA WHERE I CAN DO THIS.I WOULD ALSO NEED A .... 2007-11-15T08:05:12 Posted by tinamarie - Topic read 2 times today (3 replies) 2671 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2671 Just wondering if anyone out there has a protocol for warfarin i.e. initial dosing, monitoring etc. We currently use Dawn software. Thanks 2008-03-13T02:03:31 Posted by rosie - Topic read 2 times today (0 replies) 2918 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2918 Can anyone tell me their normal dressing routine after toenail removal? The patient arrived 1 wk post op with many layers-bandages pressure dressings .... 2008-10-09T10:13:14 Posted by yorkshirenurse - Topic read 2 times today (15 replies) 3677 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3677 The communty forums are only accessible to community members and are recommended for posts where the subject is confidential. The other forums are acc.... 2009-02-16T08:37:01 Posted by nomdeplume - Topic read 2 times today (9 replies) 4296 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4296 I've been asked to measure someone for TED stockings. I tend to insist that when I am involved somewhere on the prescribing process for stockings, I .... 2009-05-11T08:13:49 Posted by tiredandemotional - Topic read 2 times today (2 replies) 4780 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4780 Hi Got a patient in tomorrow who has got an over granulating wound. Doctor has ordered a silver nitrate stick but not sure how to use it!! Instrucv.... 2009-07-16T05:00:42 Posted by pindi123 - Topic read 2 times today (13 replies) 5219 http://www.practicenursing.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5219