I got my results today (Edmonton area), and I PASSED! Several of my classmates in the Edmonton area also got their results today too, while others are still waiting.
Up until this point, it hasn't been too bad waiting, but now that it's coming closer to the time when the results are mailed, I'm starting to get anxious! I'm in the Edmonton, AB area, I'll post when I get my results :)
If you are planning on gaining into nursing, go in with your eyes WIDE open - it's a mess now. Also consider if you want to work at the bedside or not - it's looking more and more like if that's what you want to do, go for LPN. I am in my final year...
I'm lucky that I have the freedom to work anything from casual to full time, and would actually PREFER what so many people seem to dislike, such as night shift. Unfortunately, most of my contacts are in Edmonton, so I'm not sure if they will be helpf...
I'm scared for two reasons - one is that my parents are aging, and it scares me that they might not get the nursing care they need when the inevitable health issues pop up. I can see myself spending all of my free time at the hospital to make sure th...
I wrote a paper this semester about the whole workplace transformation issue. If you can find a copy of the Clinical Workforce Strategic Plan 2011 - 2016, March 16, 2011, Version 8.10, on Insite, it is an interesting read. What I don't understand is...
SurroDoula replied to _dindin_'s topic in CA Programs
If you are accepted in the winter intake, don't worry about taking your CPR course until the summer - you don't need it until your second semester and you need to renew it yearly - you probably don't want to renew it in the middle of the school year ...
Lol, and look at the job postings - most are for part time or casual lines (for both RN and LPN). UNA has commented on it AHS misleading Albertans on nurses work hours - UNA
I agree. From what I can see, their plan (if it even works) will provide a short term fix until the boomers start retiring in large numbers. In the mean time, nurses will have left the province in search of employment elsewhere. So many in my grad cl...
I'm currently working on a paper regarding the whole workplace transformation that's going on in AHS. In some of their areas of their documents they are saying that if they are able to increase the FTE average to around 0.8 then they will no longer b...
SurroDoula replied to loshki's topic in CA Programs
MacEwan is 3.0 - they will accept anyone with a GPA at or higher than that average, in order of application (basically apply on the first day that applications are open for that intake). I got in with a 3.88 (I think) on 21 credits, plus a high schoo...
SurroDoula replied to kchel329's topic in CA Programs
Congrats! You will get a letter saying what you need to do, but you will need CPR (which you will renew yearly, and you need it before clinicals - maybe plan to do it in the summer so that you don't have to worry about renewing during school) as well...