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All the Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Critical Care Nursing. Every Day is R U OK? Was an advertising creative whose father, Barry, committed suicide nearly 20 years ago. He found himself trying to stop the pain of grief his family endured, and decided to do this by asking one question – Are you OK? In 2009, he established the R U OK? To enable everyone, in all levels of society, to encourage and ask Are you OK? Based on the work of Dr Thomas Joiner. Occasionally, we hear of a colleague from anoth...
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Nursing Student 101: What Am I Supposed to Learn Here? | StefanTheNurse
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All the Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Critical Care Nursing. Nursing Student 101: What Am I Supposed to Learn Here? A Nursing Student on Reddit recently asked the r/nursing sub reddit for advice on how to manage an ICU placement as a third year student. They were understandably scared, and uncertain as to what they could achieve that would be useful for them in their future career. On the other hand, as an undergraduate nursing student remember you aren’t there to learn How To Be An ICU Nur...
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R U OK? | StefanTheNurse
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All the Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Critical Care Nursing. Every Day is R U OK? Was an advertising creative whose father, Barry, committed suicide nearly 20 years ago. He found himself trying to stop the pain of grief his family endured, and decided to do this by asking one question – Are you OK? In 2009, he established the R U OK? To enable everyone, in all levels of society, to encourage and ask Are you OK? Based on the work of Dr Thomas Joiner. Occasionally, we hear of a colleague from anoth...
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The Sellick Manoeuvre: maybe you’re doing it wrong… | StefanTheNurse
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All the Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Critical Care Nursing. The Sellick Manoeuvre: maybe you’re doing it wrong…. I was NEVER going to write a post about cricoid pressure (it didn’t appear at all in “101 Tips for Anaesthetic Nurses”). The Sellick Manoeuvre, better known as “Cricoid Pressure”, was first described in 1961 by Dr Brian Sellick in a paper titled. Cricoid pressure to control regurgitation of stomach contents during induction of anesthesia – preliminary communication. In 1961 there was ...
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Sometimes the “Critical” in Critical Care is Actually Pretty Basic | StefanTheNurse
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All the Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Critical Care Nursing. Sometimes the “Critical” in Critical Care is Actually Pretty Basic. I’ve never been a ward nurse. Theatre, then ICU. Lots of nursing roles within those areas, but never ward nursing. And increasingly, I’ve been bringing the ward nursing back to ICU. Oh well. The dialysis was now coming off anyway. We were committed. Another endoscopy. Another intubation. I fetched the FFP, the platelets and the packed cells. His nurse gathered the i...
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self care | StefanTheNurse
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All the Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Critical Care Nursing. Every Day is R U OK? Was an advertising creative whose father, Barry, committed suicide nearly 20 years ago. He found himself trying to stop the pain of grief his family endured, and decided to do this by asking one question – Are you OK? In 2009, he established the R U OK? To enable everyone, in all levels of society, to encourage and ask Are you OK? Based on the work of Dr Thomas Joiner. Occasionally, we hear of a colleague from anoth...
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Communication | StefanTheNurse
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All the Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Critical Care Nursing. You aren’t psychic. Neither is anyone else. When I started in Anaesthetic nursing I was preceptored for one and a half shifts. I was task-oriented, which was good as I had demonstrated I could undertake the tasks expected of the role but had no real idea of how much I did not know. I discovered about the joys of gas dissolvability, of nitrous oxide as a carrier gas (with caution in bowel surgery and never in cranial neurosurgery), of Me...
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Social Media | StefanTheNurse
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All the Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Critical Care Nursing. Many Apologies For The Delay…. I would like to apologise for the delay between posts. Busy is an understatement. In other news, we now have a backyard! It's a place! And this is where I am writing from…! I have been adding to my list of topics that I would like to cover while I've not been able to write. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Click to share on Google (Opens in new window). Click to email (Opens in new window).
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Uncategorized | StefanTheNurse
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All the Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Critical Care Nursing. Slightly Shitty SuperpowersWhat’s yours? I was in the middle of a reasonably-under-control shift the other day and suddenly was struck with a feeling that fans of Monty Python will recognise as wanting to be A Lumberjack! Except that wasn’t quite all there was. Or rather, the feeling I was experiencing was that despite my work performance, the only person able to appreciate the day I was having was me. Now, I’m not perfect and I did not...
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peer support | StefanTheNurse
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All the Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Critical Care Nursing. Every Day is R U OK? Was an advertising creative whose father, Barry, committed suicide nearly 20 years ago. He found himself trying to stop the pain of grief his family endured, and decided to do this by asking one question – Are you OK? In 2009, he established the R U OK? To enable everyone, in all levels of society, to encourage and ask Are you OK? Based on the work of Dr Thomas Joiner. Occasionally, we hear of a colleague from anoth...
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