I had an IV study day today, it was good - a lot of brain work but should be helpful for practice, and it's something to put in my portfolio.
Tomorrow is my first shift in my new A&E placement and I'm really looking forward to it. Hopefully it shall provide something of interest to fill my blog with!
I'll be off to bed with my A&E notes shortly to brush up before tomorrow. I'm still trying to get these darn acrylic nails off, I've cut them down but after hours of soaking in nailvarnish remover they've still not totally come off so I'll be giving them another soak and scrape tonight. I'm very aware of infection control and of how they could harbour infection, I'll have to be particularly stringent with my handwashing until I can get them off completely.
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I hope you had a good day in A&E today. Is this the fist time you have worked in A&E? I presume you work with adults as well as children while you are there? Is it just one of those things that you need to do - I mean like some people specialise in a certain area (like you with kids) but they have to be fully qualified in lots of other areas too? So when you qualify you could work in any area of nursing, but you specialise in children?
Did the nails come off? I would have thought they would leave your nails feeling rough for a while as well. Looks like you'll be carrying a nail brush around with you for a while!
Sorry, I just noticed your other post where you say you want to work in A&E. I'm confused, I thought you were training to be a paediatric nurse? Or will you be a paediatric nurse in A&E?
When I qualify I will be a registered nurse child branch - a paediatric nurse. Which means I can work in any area of children's nursing. Some hospitals have a paediatric A&E department, like the one I'm at now, and others aren't large enough for that and will just have paediatric nurses working for them for their paediatric patients.
I don't work with adults when I'm in A&E, unless it's quiet and there's something interesting going on with them. In A&E do they share eachother around if either side is short staffed so you may see a Paeds nurse on the adult side or vice versa. However, it tends mostly to be Paeds borrowing adult nurses.
It takes 3 years to train as a nurse, the first is a Common Foundation Year, after that you have 2 years branch specific, so I have had training relevent to adult nursing but very little experience with adults. To work with adults full time I would need to do a further 18 months training.
An adult nurse is a RGN - a General nurse, but you can also work with children with this qualification providing there are a certain number of trained children nurses on the shift.
I think I've made that sound a bit complicated. Basically, I've trained to work with children specifically and that can be any area of nursing - A&E, wards, community, theatres.
I think most, if not all, nurse training programmes send you to A&E as part of your training. I had preciously spend 5 weeks there, which was long enough for me to love it and decide I wanted my elective (current) placement and my career there.
I hope that made sense and answered your questions without being too confsuing!
Oh, and I forgot to mention, no the nails still aren't off completely. I filed them flat/smooth and will trya gain over the weekend!
Thanks Angela, you explained that all very well!
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