As a practice nurse,I am often alone with no one to ask about best practice or new methods and ways of delivering patient care. I do have the doctors with me but often I just want to speak to another nurse!
Luckily, our practice has just employed a delightful second nurse. She is an experienced and wonderful nurse with many years of hospital nursing behind her..and I know this because she is my dear friend of many years! We have worked together in our previous specialty of interventional radiology often assisting the doctors for 6 or 7 hours at a time, inserting complicated stents and wearing heavy lead aprons and jackets in our role as circulating nurse and scrub nurse.
Nurse #2 ( as I will call her ) has been busy as a full time mother for the past 4 years..and now she is making a comeback in the field of general practice. I am thrilled not only that such a kind and caring person has joined our team.. but that I have the opportunity to pass on to her all the knowledge that has been given to me or that I have picked up over the past year. I love to be the mentor, watching people blossom and reach their potential in a new field. I am lucky indeed to have Nurse #2 on board.
Not all of you are blessed with a Nurse #2. Here is a website that has been helpful for me many times. It’s a British website called Practice Nursing Forum. I have found that even though some things are different in the UK (such as immunisation schedules) the nitty gritty of nursing is the same wherever you are. It’s good to share with other practice nurses the dilemmas that are faced every day. Give it a try, I might see you there.
Love you Mrs Nurse
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