Nursing Society

DrIndy

There's a nursing society on the cards for the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth, Near Dublin aka TCD!

Go on the nurses and their truly wonderful nights out!

Agent Smith

i will deff join this society......

Chick

I heard about that!! There's gonna be like nights out organised, and there'll be ads put up all over campus to let everyone know! Sounds like a good laugh, I'm deffo joining

So Indy you'd go to a nurses night out? Is it gonna be a whole nurses n doctors thing only then? Anyone can join though can't they?

Chick

Chick wrote:

I heard about that!! There's gonna be like nights out organised, and there'll be ads put up all over campus to let everyone know! Sounds like a good laugh, I'm deffo joining

Actually just thinking there, is there already a nursing ball?

Chick

Yeah it was at the start of the year

Mainly all girls though!

DrIndy

And me........ I was invited by the third years........ Priceless night out, I won the bubbles by leaping up to the stage before everybody else.

I helped set the society up so am super proud its kicking off.....

Chick

DrIndy wrote:

Priceless night out, I won the bubbles by leaping up to the stage before everybody else

Desperately trying to remember you...! I remember prizes, big ones like DVD players or stereo/something? But bubbles... hmmmm I do know a few 3rd years though.... could find out!

Chick

Chick wrote:

Desperately trying to remember you...!

So tempted to put incriminating pictures up right about now...

Chick

Of Indy at the nursing ball? oh were you there too?

No wasn't there, just random incriminating pics of indy!

Of course then there's so many pics of me floating around the place. That and rumours. I hate rumours.

Chick

Incriminating eh... hmmm

Yeah rumours are worse than pictures because you haven't got proof to confirm or deny it!

Crash

Donal once threw rocks at a small child then waved his willy at passing traffic.

Chick

:eek: :eek: :eek:

Please tell me you're making that up crash?

Crash

I'm so joining the nursing soc. hell, i'm single now, i can do these things :P

Chick

Yeah do!!

Do whatever you please I'm liking the free and single thing too (I don't mean you, I mean me!)



Hey does this mean that if all you guys join then I've to introduce myself
(well those of you who actually want to meet me

crash_000

crash_000 wrote:

Donal once threw rocks at a small child then waved his willy at passing traffic.

Heh heh heh, I hadn't heard that rumour...

Agent Smith

it was in lorna jennings email, iirc

agent smith

agent smith wrote:

it was in lorna jennings email, iirc

Yeah, I never got it

Kevin_rc_ie

hell, i'm single now, i can do these things

so DCU was too far away.

Crash

not exactly, more just other stuff. ah well, it was a good few years while it lasted.

DrIndy

I'm going to the inaugural meeting anyway later this week - chick if your're going, I'm 6', skinny and with a donegal/scottish accent......

Nursing nights out are priceless! You guys are so cool..........

Kevin_rc_ie

indy,

what do you do when you finish college? work for a year in a hospital, decide whether you're going to med or surgeon and then get trained up? my mate told me you dont become mds straight away unlike the usa. ...

DrIndy

We don't become MD is ireland - we become doctors aka MB's.....

Its semantics, in america medicine is a postgrad course so everyone is a POSTGRAD Doctor whereas we are BACHELOR doctors here.....

I am still equally qualified however.....

I do my one year internship, 6 months surgery, 6 months medicine and then specialise initially into Medicine or surgery (or psychiatry or paediatrics or obstetrics/gynaecology etc...) This is General Specialist Training....

After 2 years of that then I start my Higher Specialist Training after doing my Membership exams.

This should last about 5 years and then you do your Fellowship exams and become a consultant or other specialist.

I'm going to Scotland after my intern year because the training is better and its good to see how the health service operates in a different country.

I do intend to return however.

Medicine in America and Ireland is not comparable. In the USA you specialise from day one into medicine or surgery and you graduate as a "consultant" general physician aka Chief Resident (aka Dr.JD) and then you do further specialising into Chief Attending (aka Dr. Kelso).

I finish college in a few months..........

Kevin_rc_ie

well cleared up. thanks.

now if the gonorrhea would only do the same.

joking.

Agent Smith

who you catch that off?

Kevin_rc_ie

the internet. beware.

Agent Smith

dear god.....

Nietzschean

god does everything decend into drivel around ere ?

Agent Smith

it would appear so....

Kevin_rc_ie

Drivel
n.

1. Saliva flowing from the mouth.
2. Stupid or senseless talk.

Only when the expert mods aren't around to promote a regime of intelligent and insightful conversation.

Agent Smith

like what you were insinuating last night?

Kevin_rc_ie

and what was that? and what are you talking about? are you talking to me AS?

Agent Smith

perhaps

Kevin_rc_ie

sorry you must have me mixed up with someone else, maybe chick, if you think I'll entertain this one word board tennis.

Pet

agent smith wrote:

it would appear so....

And I wasn't even responsible this time..

We don't become MD is ireland - we become doctors aka MB's.....

Its semantics, in america medicine is a postgrad course so everyone is a POSTGRAD Doctor whereas we are BACHELOR doctors here.....

I am still equally qualified however.....

I do my one year internship, 6 months surgery, 6 months medicine and then specialise initially into Medicine or surgery (or psychiatry or paediatrics or obstetrics/gynaecology etc...) This is General Specialist Training....

After 2 years of that then I start my Higher Specialist Training after doing my Membership exams.

This should last about 5 years and then you do your Fellowship exams and become a consultant or other specialist.

I'm going to Scotland after my intern year because the training is better and its good to see how the health service operates in a different country.

I do intend to return however.

Medicine in America and Ireland is not comparable. In the USA you specialise from day one into medicine or surgery and you graduate as a "consultant" general physician aka Chief Resident (aka Dr.JD) and then you do further specialising into Chief Attending (aka Dr. Kelso).

I finish college in a few months..........

So..wait..you're saying it takes 15 years to become a consultant!?!?

DrIndy

Yupp! Minimum - you also would need at some point in time to pick up a PhD or a MD (Doctor In Medicine - which is the Postgrad of MB)

Its a tough life, but rewarding...........

Kevin_rc_ie

if i wasn't repeating second year science I wouldn't mind the opportunity to repeat second year medicine.

i think the ability to heal people is one of those all important skills that one would love to be gifted (or well trained) in.
I would hazard a guess that Medical Doctors are the most highly respected individuals in modern irish society, along, probably, with westlife.
i think a lot of people have lost faith (no pun) in the clergy of this island. Also, I think most people think solicitors, barristers and judges (and obviously politicians too) are crooked also.
However, the medical profession isn't without it's scandals either.

Just to be a little contraversial, who would be favour of the Irish educational system rearranging it's admission system and make all medical schools admit 80%+ republic of ireland students and leaving only 20+ for other eu and other international students. I know there's an obvious financial issue here but....anyway care to agree or disagree?

ApeXaviour

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

Just to be a little contraversial, who would be favour of the Irish educational system rearranging it's admission system and make all medical schools admit 80%+ republic of ireland students and leaving only 20+ for other eu and other international students. I know there's an obvious financial issue here but....anyway care to agree or disagree?

Not really controversial, many countries do similar things for their own. Australia for instance protect their graduate positions. However having said that I would disagree. Why? It's just a general thing, pretty much anything that promotes favourable internationalisation (I possibly made that word up) I'm in favour of.

DrIndy

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

Just to be a little contraversial, who would be favour of the Irish educational system rearranging it's admission system and make all medical schools admit 80%+ republic of ireland students and leaving only 20+ for other eu and other international students. I know there's an obvious financial issue here but....anyway care to agree or disagree?

This is something on the cards and there is a working group in the government looking at this issue that are due to publish next month. Part of this report has already been leaked to the media over the summer of last year. I cannot comment further due to my own involvement in this report.

It is important to note though that we cannot restrict admissions to Irish only under EU law - but it is possible to make 80% EU admissions and hope that only irish students will apply.

Its a conundrum.

Kevin_rc_ie

is it a countdown

conundrum

?

dededediaddee.

Agent Smith

but where's carol vorderman?

Chick

DrIndy wrote:

I'm going to the inaugural meeting anyway later this week - chick if your're going, I'm 6', skinny and with a donegal/scottish accent......

Actually yeah! I just checked my T-mail there and there's a thing on 2moro in D'Olier St at 5pm if we wanna sign up. See you then I am totally watching out for you now

DrIndy wrote:

Nursing nights out are priceless! You guys are so cool..........

Think it's cos we're all so quiet, that when we go out, we really go on a bender cos we deserve it after workin so hard! :cool:

Kinda like convent school girls when they're let out on the tear :cool:

DrIndy

A gang from the psych nursing crew I used to hang out with got so rowdy once in the Pav they got banned!!!! This unheard of unholys happened.

It because there are so many of you and when you go out, then there's 30 of you there........ that adds to the craic. Its also the nature of the job you do that has an effect in my opinion - you all end up very sociable......

Defo going to D'Olier street tomorrow - may be late because I have a psychiatry case assessment in Tallaght and you occasionally get an examiner who likes the sound of their own voice....... but will be there nonetheless....

Chick

True, we do go out in huge groups lol, but it's SO much better that way! Definitely makes an impression anyways lol.

Pysch assesment in the Adelaide and you wanna make it back into town for 5pm? Goodluck....

Oh by the way did you see the thing on C4 tonight about patients who gain conciousness during anaesthesia? Scary ****. And they can't alert the surgeon, because of the muscle relaxants that thry're given?



Wait! wait! re-reading email.... It's only if you wanna be a committe member that you go 2moro... But hell maybe I'll give it a bash

DrIndy

its an AGM and the first one ever - you need to go to become a committee member or vote for the committee members. Since its the inaugural a trip to the pub will be mandatory.........

Chick

Well why didn't you say so! Count me in

Agent Smith

committee's are fun... you get into stuff for free!

Chick

Smith, I decided I was in on this from the word "pub"!

DrIndy

mmmmmmmm.......... beer

should be a good one anyway!

Chick

How come you's are only setting it up now though?

DrIndy

I'm not directly connected to the running of it although I poked and prodded it along for the last year or two...... I wrote the constitution etc for it....

I also have a long standing bet with your Dean of Nursing from 3 years ago when I swore there would be one by the time I finished college....

The real credit goes to Ray however in your class because he has done all the hard work for this one........ I was only an advisor to the process and he deserves all the credit....

Its as good a time as any to set it up - its a new thing so its better to be done when all the first years are settled in and can take part....