Apollonia

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1. What am I entitled to as a Canadian RN traveling to US

   Apollonia replied to Apollonia's topic in Travel

   Thanks for your reply :) I found this link http://www.crosscountrytravcorps.com/cctc/about-travel-nursing/canadian-nurses.jsp#visa-asst with CrossCountry. From the look of it, they would walk me through the entire process, which seems daunting. If I ...

2. What am I entitled to as a Canadian RN traveling to US

   Apollonia posted a topic in Travel

   So I want to travel down to the states. I'm just in the very begining stages of making it happen. I spoke with a recruiter with "Clinical One." She said that I have to handle all the visa issues myself (she told me to google it and when asked whet...

3. Advice needed from fellow Canadians

   Apollonia replied to Apollonia's topic in International

   Thanks guys :) I think I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna travel. I know I should be working towards my future etc. but I don't want the "if only" to be on my conscience, have too many of those already. I think the doubts mean I want to go simply beca...

4. What is OR nursing like in the U.S.

   Apollonia replied to Apollonia's topic in Operating Room

   Thanks for the reply. That's too bad about the scrub techs doing all the scrub work. I'll miss that. If I go, I'll make sure to ask for a teaching hospital. I work in one now and I love it, the surgeons and anaesthetists are on their best behaviour ...

5. What is OR nursing like in the U.S.

   Apollonia posted a topic in Operating Room

   I'm in Canada. Thinking of going to the US to work in the OR. Please tell me what it is like down there. In Canada, we have circulating and scrub nurses (both RNs), there's 2 of us assigned to a room, we alternate scrubbing and circulating or whatev...

6. Advice needed from fellow Canadians

   Apollonia posted a topic in International

   So to give you a brief background. I'm in my late late late 20's. Graduated 1.5 years ago, went into the perioperative program and as soon as I finished the OR program, I was displaced from my full time line for which I was hired. I've been working ...

7. Want to hear from Canadian nurses who travel nurse abroad

   Apollonia replied to Apollonia's topic in International

   I'm an RN. but I was thinking more along the lines of traveling to make money as opposed to volunteering with the red cross. Thank you for your reply though :)

8. Want to hear from Canadian nurses who travel nurse abroad

   Apollonia posted a topic in International

   I am an Operating Room nurse out of Vancouver. As shocking as this may be to hear, I actually don't have a job now. I lost my full time line and work casual (budget cuts and all...). I want to do some travel nursing with the goal of number 1. makin...

9. Anesthesia - induction/ emergence question

   Apollonia replied to Apollonia's topic in Operating Room

   Thanks for everyone to your responses. This makes helping the anesthetist much more clearer. I thought I had to be focusing on the monitors and everything along with being that third hand for then. Thank you.

10. Suture help

    Apollonia posted a topic in Operating Room

    Does anyone have any tips on knowing what sutures to use when? Like CT needles or SH needles and what type of suture to use when? i'm so confused. I'm new to OR nursing and there's a surgeon who is an absolute nightmare. He doesn't tell you what h...

11. Anesthesia - induction/ emergence question

    Apollonia posted a topic in Operating Room

    Hi, new OR nurse just started who needs help. when you're by the patient who is being intubated what are you monitoring for? Do you look at the patient? The anasthetic machine? When you look at the machine, what do you monitor, the 02 sats, pulse, b...

12. ECG help please

    Apollonia posted a topic in General Students

    Does anyone know of a good website that goes through how to read an ECG? I just want the basic info on knowing what type of abnormality I'm looking at. Visuals would be great. I searched but havn't come across anything really helpfull. I don't need ...

13. Change - what would you want to see ?

    Apollonia posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm writing a paper on a change within the health care system. What would you like to see implemented within your setting. The change can be something specific from implementing a new pain flow sheet to something a bit more general. I'd love to hear ...

14. Writing letter to newspaper, need help

    Apollonia posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm writing a letter to the newspaper and I need some help. It's nursing week in Canada and I want to write a letter to the editor hoping they put it in the paper. I want to say how nurses have lots of different roles, they are advocates, educators...

15. Need advice

    Apollonia replied to Apollonia's topic in Operating Room

    Wow did I need to hear that. I think I pretty much made up my mind to go the trauma center but I'm just nervous about doing it. This makes so much sense. It might be harder to go the other way and I can always switch to a smaller hospital if I'm not ...