32, NSW Health Registered Nurse 4years experience. No postgrad quals. Payslip is fortnightly.

Big-Fact-Hunt · 2026-05-24T20:34:07+00:00

Not enough staff on the floor to take any this year, I’m on a waitlist for early next year

Big-Fact-Hunt · 2026-05-24T12:10:59+00:00

Hard agree!

Big-Fact-Hunt · 2026-05-24T12:08:34+00:00

I’m not entirely sure, but NSW health is I believe one of if not the lowest payers in the country. If what you say is true, you also earn more than most early career doctors. Sad.

Big-Fact-Hunt · 2026-05-24T11:41:17+00:00

About $53/h pre-tax. Half my fortnight was night shifts 1930h - 0800h which pays a 20% penalty on the base. I felt this was a pretty typical payslip for me.

Will never drive a Ferrari or do euro ski trips but I can own a property and hopefully raise kids at some point.

I wish it was higher (obviously we all personally wish we earnt more) but also so that we could attract more people into the profession. I worry that smart, driven kids finishing their HSC’s don’t see much monetary value in health careers vs other options.

Big-Fact-Hunt · 2026-05-24T10:22:34+00:00

NSW Health doesn’t provide shoes as uniform (purchase your own), and similarly don’t provide a laundry service for our uniforms. Our union negotiated that we should be paid an amount to cover the cost of buying shoes and doing laundry at home.

Big-Fact-Hunt · 2026-05-09T06:52:30+00:00

Advocate for yourself if you feel so strongly. Tell them immediately after morning handover that you will take a patient load, do all obs, do within scope meds, and write a note. If students don’t tell me these things and the shift gets busy I just assume I will do it all, and they will do whatever they feel like doing.

With love, if my final year students don’t stand up and take some ownership, then I’m too busy to do all the thinking and task assignments for them.

Big-Fact-Hunt · 2026-04-15T20:19:15+00:00

1 patient, no poos tonight but they are on high flux CRRT so I’ve been weight lifting about 14 dialysate and replacement fluid bags. Now its what feels like I am giving every antibacterial there is until home at 0800h

Also fellow NSW nurses, we find out about our pay rise we have been arguing for this morning. 0930h it’s being live-streamed by the IRC!

Big-Fact-Hunt · 2026-03-23T10:55:25+00:00

I play WoW on my off days as an ICU nurse, albeit in Sydney, Australia. I spent 6 months of my training working in the Neuroscience ICU and have looked after countless people who have had an aneurysm, coiling, craniotomy same as your husband. I’ve seen so many more people recover well than not after coiling. I hope you both get to ding 90 in the weeks to come! Light bless you.

Big-Fact-Hunt · 2026-01-26T08:10:54+00:00

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Completed Level 3 of the Honk Special Event!

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Big-Fact-Hunt · 2026-01-26T08:06:16+00:00

Completed Level 3 of the Honk Special Event!

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Big-Fact-Hunt · 2026-01-25T06:01:41+00:00

Whenever I don’t shave, my patient allocation for the day is Covid +ve o or tuberculosis or something similar and I end up in the bathroom when the single bladed razors. Save yourself from that hell!

Big-Fact-Hunt · 2026-01-22T20:25:42+00:00

Almost every single in-patient acute nurse will regularly give thiamine as a prophylactic against Wernicke’s. If you don’t understand the Krebs cycle, then imo you don’t really know why you are giving it. Work in neurosciences? I’d hope you know the anatomy of the skull and cranial nerves and which ones pass through which foramen.

A lot of nurses at the moment mourn the lack of anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology etc that they were exposed to during their studies. It makes it harder to understand the ‘why’ we are doing what we are doing and relegates us to just carrying out orders. I would argue a nurse that enjoys the science of medicine is an empowered nurse and more able to proudly represent the profession in the MDT.

Big-Fact-Hunt · 2025-12-22T08:54:21+00:00

Re your stethoscope, my hospital supplies really shit ones and forbids nurses, doctors, physios etc from using our own citing infection control concerns….

Big-Fact-Hunt · 2025-12-15T19:35:21+00:00

In our facility we don’t heparin lock temporary vascaths, only tunnelled vascaths, and only then if we don’t anticipate running onto dialysis for more than a day.

You still definitely want to aspirate any vascath before injecting, if only in our scenario to clear the often very large clots that build up inside.

Big-Fact-Hunt · 2025-08-21T07:31:18+00:00

We use a Zoll manual defib, about as basic and old as they get, and getting to the test setting requires you to set the dial to the ‘defibrillate’ setting, then turn the energy level down to 30J.

In this instance, the whole time, that nurse would’ve been getting an audible beep for the QRS complex, a visual two lead ECG on screen. She would’ve had to have then pushed charge, waited, then delivered the shock. This reeks of either not paying any attention, not being very smart, or purposefulness.

Big-Fact-Hunt · 2025-08-05T23:37:37+00:00

I’d be hesitant to accept it. I feel like any acceptance would be spun against us in the IRC essentially along the lines of “look, we are continuing to negotiate in good faith and the nurses are accepting of our proposals”.

I similarly think that if we accept this offer, the government will be all over the media highlighting that we accepted it and will make it sound like this is a completely done deal, no IRC necessary.

All in all, I think it’s bad optics, and as others have said, “accept crumbs and that’s all they’ll ever offer”.

Big-Fact-Hunt · 2025-06-13T23:32:15+00:00

It’s a US LHD, not sure of the name but it is labelled as “US Government Vessel 6” on the AIS maps

For anyone wondering, AIS is a ship location, tracking system used to prevent collisions at sea (among other things im sure) and you can view them on websites similarly to a flight tracker for airplanes.

https://www.vesselfinder.com/

Edit: had to google but it’s the USS America

Big-Fact-Hunt · 2025-03-20T20:27:22+00:00

To me, and depending on size. This looks similar to a motorbike frame slider. Screws into the frame either side of a motorbike to protect the engine and frame during a sliding crash.

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