HenryH0

HenryH0 has 2 years experience.

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1. Tax deduction as RN in Alberta

   HenryH0 replied to doublea08's topic in International

   in alberta the starting wage is $30 but with previous experience that would be different we get taxed about 25% on our wages. evening shift diff is 2-3$ night shift dif ins 5$ weekend diff $2 charge pay 2$ alberta rns are very well looked after if yo...

2. Registered nurse vs Registered Psychiatric Nurse?

   HenryH0 replied to bigtoque's topic in General Nursing

   Are you talking about psych nursing in Canada if so there are a few options: 1) there is the rpn program that allows you to graduate as an rpn and work in a psych facility, if however you at some point want to leave psych it is next to impossible for...

3. Checking placement on a PEG tube?

   HenryH0 replied to Skwidward's topic in General Nursing

   We always confirm placement on all tubes such as these not only through a bolus of air but always with an x-ray before using the tube. This is to ensure that we are not in a lung. Once the tube it confirmed as placed, the md calls and tells us to adv...

4. post-op question

   HenryH0 replied to GingerSue's topic in International

   We use a sliding scale if they are just going to be npo for a while. If they are going to be npo for longer than we use an insulin drip. usually we do not give dextrose iv to a diabetic patient even if they are npo. They just usually give ringers lac...

5. IV start trouble

   HenryH0 replied to JoniL&DRN's topic in General Students

   Another great tip I learned from an ER nurse is to float the insyte in . So you puncture the vein and you get a little flashback then remove your needle a little bit. Now this would be the part where you advance your catheter. dont. occlude the vein ...

6. Why you want to be a nurse?

   HenryH0 replied to ilovenursing2009's topic in General Nursing

   I am a third generation nurse and my grandfather was a doctor. So I was brought up around medicine and knew from a very young age that I wanted to be a nurse. I throughly enjoyed teaching and really was conflicted as I had no interest in teaching any...

7. Please Help!!!

   HenryH0 replied to TruDivaRN's topic in General Nursing

   You can also use other diagnosis such as risk for second mi as many people who have one will have another this can then lead you to help the person change their lifestyle exercise and diet changes to improve their chances of having a second mi you co...

8. an appropriate pre-op medication

   HenryH0 replied to GingerSue's topic in General Nursing

   I work on a surgery floor and the doctors are great they usually prescribe different analgesics to try like prescribing T3's, demerol and morphine until the patients find one that works for them and then the nurses use the one that works for the pati...

9. Nursing diagnosis

   HenryH0 replied to Liebchen's topic in General Nursing

   I just completed my RN program and I found that the thing that helped the most for diagnosis was NANDA you use the diagnosis and elaborate Like: Pt at risk for uncontrolled pain due to inability to take meds due to vision and dexterity changes with d...

10. Moral Issue Question...

    HenryH0 replied to Thepreacherswife's topic in General Nursing

    I always wondered how I would feel about letting a pt go. I think that people sometimes glorify what a really sick, close to death person in the hospital looks like and what they go through on a day to day basis. I always thought that it looked like ...

11. Pre-Nursing Student Trying Which Route is Best to get her BSN

    HenryH0 replied to Cinderella21's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Well in Canada you have the option of applying to the college under open studies you can get a list of courses from the college and take many first year courses and then apply to the nursing faculty. You can also just apply to the nursing faculty but...

12. Is it customary to give clinical instructor's gifts at the end of a rotation?

    HenryH0 replied to lizmatt's topic in General Students

    we always gave our instructors a gift at the end of clinical rotations but then again our school kind of set the bar on that one the students would buy a gift for the unit, the college would buy a gift for the unit, the students would buy a gift for...

13. Name hospital and salary--everywhere

    HenryH0 replied to mistydave's topic in General Nursing

    i live in alberta canada and starting wage is about 28 per hour i am a diploma completion student soon to be rn

14. Where do you purchase your scrubs???

    HenryH0 replied to couldntbhappier's topic in Uniform/Gear

    i like scrublovers.com for nice scrubs but wallmart sells cheap ones that are nice 14.00 for the top and 14.00 for the bottom they have the wrap around style, plain colours and prints

15. Help Please~

    HenryH0 replied to rebecca830813's topic in General Students

    i am also a third year student and everything you do as a nurse should be evidence based you do your 5 rights to medication administration because it has been proven to decrease med errors you only give certain volume amounts per injection site becau...