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shoot me on the spot - anything than spend time in the hands of health care professionals in a disease ridden hospital................... I have it in writing now!! Whoa but wait a second Cath.. how bad do we want to make things for dear old Rob? If he's unconscious there's always the matter of implied consent. He could be stuck full of tubes and catheters before he woke up. This is true. I could always intubate him without any muscle relaxant He would need a 14G cannula aswell of course... One in the back of each hand, naturally. Although it would be more fun to put them in if he was awake. Yeah, that's true. I could always have some Propofol handy around here in case he gets a liitle bit too tiresome. It would only work for 5 minutes or so but it would give us a break This is getting rather geeky but some sux would be good for a giggle...race ya! Watch out for those fesciculations!! [/medical clique-tastic!]

shoot me on the spot - anything than spend time in the hands of health care professionals in a disease ridden hospital................... I have it in writing now!! Whoa but wait a second Cath.. how bad do we want to make things for dear old Rob? If he's unconscious there's always the matter of implied consent. He could be stuck full of tubes and catheters before he woke up. This is true. I could always intubate him without any muscle relaxant He would need a 14G cannula aswell of course... One in the back of each hand, naturally. Although it would be more fun to put them in if he was awake. Yeah, that's true. I could always have some Propofol handy around here in case he gets a liitle bit too tiresome. It would only work for 5 minutes or so but it would give us a break

shoot me on the spot - anything than spend time in the hands of health care professionals in a disease ridden hospital................... I have it in writing now!! Whoa but wait a second Cath.. how bad do we want to make things for dear old Rob? If he's unconscious there's always the matter of implied consent. He could be stuck full of tubes and catheters before he woke up. This is true. I could always intubate him without any muscle relaxant He would need a 14G cannula aswell of course...

I have had that done to me. Luckily I knew the bloke who did it, so he escaped being beaten to a pulp

Hells bells - I'm no saint.

shoot me on the spot - anything than spend time in the hands of health care professionals in a disease ridden hospital................... I have it in writing now!!

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He doesn't love me anymore Maybe the wedding is off and he just couldn't face telling me

funnily enough a lot of peopel get better in spite of what is done for them I'm not playing any more

Cath, cath these are the things everyone else in the outside world has to deal with day in, day out budgets, targets, impossible bosses - I'll bet everyone else on here has the same problems we just don't go on about it Most people on here have at some point had a whinge about their job! I'm not exclusive! Exquisite perhaps, but not exclusive

Nope, just Scott being his usual cheerful self..

Although it would give Sammy the chance to use the obituary he wrote for him years ago...

Surely people of his age have an automatic DNR order? Hmm, you have a point. Unfotunately I'd have to see the signed document before I left him where he was...

Where is he? I miss him. It's like watching the muppets without Fozzie Bear being in it

We're also accountable to the public 24/7 aswell, even when we're off duty. So should I ever find Rob collapsed in the street, I have a professional duty to do something about it. Now therein lies a dilemma....

Rob, you're becoming tiresome and I can't be arsed to argue with you any more. May I respectfully suggest that as someone who has never worked within the health service, you haven't actually got the first clue about what it's like to do so. You don't know about the internal and external politics, the management and budget systems, the pressure of meeting government-set targets with limited resources, the feeling of being undervalued, the lack of support for staff from management and the true extent of the physical and emotional work involved in it. Am I whining again? Tough shit. It's a reality that we face every single day and we still manage to care for patients to the very best of our ability and with a smile on our faces.

Why do you think that a vocational calling and half decent pay should be mutually exclusive? Just sounds like you want an excuse to talk down to people. OED "vocation:-.... divine influence or guidance towards a definite career" nowt in there about the pay packet Nurses lowest pay (2005 numbers) is around £ 10,800 a year (without any of thy extra payments available ) for someone at the very bottom and goes up to £ 31,000 a year before becoming a matron I think that's a pretty fair range TBH Do you? Aye. £10K a year sounds pretty fair to me like. That's actually the wage for auxiliary nurses but it's still not enough. Sorry Rob, you may have missed my question before, or you may just have ignored it. Have you ever been admitted to hospital in this country and seen how things work on the wards or in A&E etc?

Is it a vocation though? Okay, maybe it does take a "certain kind of person" to do nursing (one that's not right in the head half of the time) but I wouldn't do it for nothing. And doesn't everyone have their gripes about their job, Rob? I'm certainly not the only person on here who whines about my job. So why pick me out to target?

No offence to anyone that does work in a call centre, but I didn't go to university for 3 years to do that. The wages are crap for what we do, but they're enough that I can live independently on my own and not have to worry about job insecurity. We do get put upon and guilt-tripped, but at the end of the day I love what I do and I'm good at it. I won't do it forever and I'm looking at other avenues to go down, but it's a secure job and it pays the bills. Have you ever had to be admitted to hospital and seen what actually goes on, Rob? Genuine question.

Wow! Proper landmark that! Not that the pressures on you at all there, Catherine! Sorted man. We're sending him on a surprise holiday It's just some little bits of pressies that I need to get now...

No idea what that is but I'm assuming its uni work. Every now and again, years after leaving uni, I still have the odd dream I've got an exam coming up that I haven't been to any lectures for. Fucking mint feeling when I realise it's a load of old bollocks. Did you used to write as much shite on your exam papers as you do on here? Shut it you failed journalist! I didn't fail - I just decided to do nursing instead. Stupid, stupid girl that I am. I'm going to pursue my dream to be a travel writer, I think Failing that, I'm going to be a gypsy with a caravan and a horse.

I have to go shopping for a 60th birthday pressie for mon pere. Tres bon.

No idea what that is but I'm assuming its uni work. Every now and again, years after leaving uni, I still have the odd dream I've got an exam coming up that I haven't been to any lectures for. Fucking mint feeling when I realise it's a load of old bollocks. Did you used to write as much shite on your exam papers as you do on here?