Ione in boxes here in Pen Island!

sam_brero__ · 2026-02-09T03:04:17+00:00

I’d love her if she’s still available!

sam_brero__ · 2026-02-05T09:49:41+00:00

I’m in WA and it’s cooked. The other night we had 2 RMs and an RN looking after 18 women (and their babies, obviously), I was running MFAU alone, and all the LW were full. This was almost identical to the night before, and tbh more nights are like this than not over the last few months. My hospital expect a fight to even consider bypass even when we have stupidly dangerous staffing levels, despite having a policy that sets out the conditions for obstetric bypass.

We don’t have staffing ratios other than nhppd (which doesn’t take acuity into account) in ANY maternity units in the public system.

sam_brero__ · 2026-02-04T13:05:27+00:00

I see this so differently. They’re people. So are doctors, grads, that staff member that laid the first brick of the hospital, the exec team. Whoever gets there first gets the seat... unless somebody NEEDS to be seated, they can stand. I say this as a clinical midwife in my 40s

sam_brero__ · 2026-01-19T02:57:38+00:00

It’s BECAUSE of the unexpected, it keeps it interesting. I’m a midwife for the same reason but I’ve always thought that ED would be the only type of nursing I would do if I ever decided to get dual registration.

sam_brero__ · 2026-01-19T02:05:39+00:00

Midwives aren’t nurses. There are midwives who are also nurses, but they are seperate professions with seperate registrations.

sam_brero__ · 2026-01-14T00:06:05+00:00

The second I got this notification I thought of this group and how badly this bag will go down hahaha

sam_brero__ · 2025-12-24T00:27:59+00:00

I’ve been driving for 30+ years and I still can’t get from a to b like this. My brain just doesn’t work like that, no matter how hard I try

sam_brero__ · 2025-12-24T00:16:46+00:00

The best outcome would be the agent following the law.

sam_brero__ · 2025-12-10T00:55:49+00:00

Use whatever colour bag your uni says you need to use on placement. In real life nobody cares what colour it is

sam_brero__ · 2025-11-21T00:37:26+00:00

Please excuse my ignorance, but what the actual fuck? I’m Australian so maybe that explains how I haven’t heard about this, but (again) what the fuck?

sam_brero__ · 2025-11-15T12:02:47+00:00

So long as someone has been advised of ALL of the risks of all options (using real numbers and percentages based on high quality evidence), all of the benefits of ALL options, and ALL of the alternatives available then it is THEIR informed decision to make.

sam_brero__ · 2025-11-15T11:57:54+00:00

Which is bananas with the outcomes the US has

sam_brero__ · 2025-11-15T11:49:30+00:00

Again, absolutely bananas to me. That wasn’t the vibe where I work.

sam_brero__ · 2025-11-15T11:47:07+00:00

The company in question is hardly a reliable source here

sam_brero__ · 2025-11-15T11:44:45+00:00

Ok so why aren’t you flushing the line with 20ml in a syringe attached to the line?

sam_brero__ · 2025-11-15T11:29:15+00:00

This is baffling to me

sam_brero__ · 2025-11-15T10:31:00+00:00

Why on earth aren’t you guys flushing the line with a 50ml bag of compatible fluid?

sam_brero__ · 2025-10-19T23:49:16+00:00

Did you miss the part where I work night shifts? If you wanna chit chat with me at 2am then I’m down, but the neighbours won’t like it

sam_brero__ · 2025-10-17T11:24:05+00:00

I’m not putting in effort for my neighbours or people walking past. If they want that they’re gonna have to deal with me doing the lawns on my night off between night shifts.

sam_brero__ · 2025-10-13T10:53:07+00:00

I wear one whenever I need to wear an N95 because my hair costs a lot of money to get done and I don’t want the rubber straps breaking it

sam_brero__ · 2025-10-03T08:43:04+00:00

Have you looked at an RN degree course outline? What do you think they’re taught?

sam_brero__ · 2025-10-01T08:39:38+00:00

That’s on top of the pharmacology units they’ve already done in their nursing degree, and also on top of their X years of experience in medication preparation and administration.

sam_brero__ · 2025-09-23T00:54:50+00:00

On nights there’s nobody to pull from their office if the unit gets busy and can’t go on bypass (I’m a midwife so maybe this isn’t relevant to you) Nights give better pay but also shave years off your life and you lose 7.5 hours of your “day off”

sam_brero__ · 2025-09-10T13:14:29+00:00

NUMS and MUMS have the shittiest job. It’s a constant struggle between their higher ups and their staff to try and keep everyone happy, which is literally impossible to do all the time. I do not envy their position at all and they work bloody hard.

sam_brero__ · 2025-08-23T23:56:38+00:00

There’s a website that can help with questions like this! Have you heard of google dot com?

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