gingereh

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1. Frustrating CNO process for IENs

   gingereh replied to kakeru's topic in Canada

   Mount Royal still has a bridging program. As an IEN who did have all her "ducks in a row" when I came to Canada, the attitude from some long time posters here towards any immigrant asking how to fulfill nursing gaps has always come off as a little h...

2. IEN in Alberta- any luck with jobs?

   gingereh replied to tokidoki7's topic in Canada

   Responding to aywl, since I haven't posted enough to send you a private message back... I have a BSN from the states and I came to Canada on a marriage visa. I applied to CARNA right after I got permanent residency and it took them about 4 months to ...

3. IEN in Alberta- any luck with jobs?

   gingereh replied to tokidoki7's topic in Canada

   I am an IEN from the US and I was hired on as a casual employee with AHS a few months after I moved to Canada in early 2012. What a mess it was then, and seems to have only gotten worse. Now I am working in a private clinic downtown and have been sin...

4. CARNA IEN processing times

   gingereh posted a topic in International

   Hello all, I searched this forum and the CARNA website for approximate processing times for an IEN applying to be an RN in Canada, the best I could come up with was about 10 weeks but that was from posts in 2008. Has anyone applied recently, and ...

5. Crabbit Old Woman

   gingereh replied to snoopy29's topic in General Nursing

   Our instructor in an older adult class read the original poem to us just last week and it made me get teary. I didn't know about the nurse's reply, which is also beautiful. Thank you for posting it.

6. So very mad!!!

   gingereh replied to CrunchyMama's topic in General Students

   I took fundamentals last semester and I remember getting the wedding band question as well. The textbook we used (Kozier & Erb 8th ed.) mentioned it in the paragraph about preparing the patient's body for the family to view. They said that "all j...

7. H1N1 vaccine... why it should be MY choice!

   gingereh replied to miss81's topic in COVID

   This video has been circulating around facebook as well. If you watch the video they say it was the seasonal flu shot that caused her dystonia, not the H1N1 vaccine.