CanuckNurse1

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1. Staff on Resident Sexual Abuse?

   CanuckNurse1 replied to carbaminohemoglobin's topic in Geriatric

   Given that the two residents who have reported incidents of her abusing them sound like they were A+Ox3, I would highly suspect that this may have been happening with other residents as well, who unfortunately are unable to communicate what is happen...

2. Cut my losses now?

   CanuckNurse1 replied to snow_bear's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I just Googled "nurse with RA" (with the quotation marks), and got a bunch of hits, several from our own allnurses.com. The stories and experiences of other nurses with RA may help you with your decision-making. And if you do decide to keep going, I ...

3. Five Problems with Transferring Critical Patients From A Rural Hospital

   CanuckNurse1 replied to stattransfers's topic in Rural

   BTW, here's the BC Bedline website if you want more info: https://www.bcbedline.ca/

4. Five Problems with Transferring Critical Patients From A Rural Hospital

   CanuckNurse1 replied to stattransfers's topic in Rural

   Wow! It's much different up here. I work in British Columbia (BC), Canada. For the past two summers, I've worked in an extremely rural area, and had several patients medevaced by plane to a larger city due to critical illness/injury. The way it works...

5. TKA - Muslim pt kneeling to pray?

   CanuckNurse1 replied to CanuckNurse1's topic in Student Assist

   Thanks, Dianah :)

6. TKA - Muslim pt kneeling to pray?

   CanuckNurse1 replied to CanuckNurse1's topic in Student Assist

   Thanks to Jahra for the info (I don't have PM privileges yet, so I can't PM you back). Is there somewhere I should be posting to get feedback about alternatives to kneeling for Muslim patients? Can this post be moved to the general discussions?

7. TKA - Muslim pt kneeling to pray?

   CanuckNurse1 posted a topic in Student Assist

   This is a hypothetical situation for a class presentation to my surgical nursing class, 4th year students. A Muslim patient is admitted for a total knee replacement. What can I, as a nurse, do to help him fulfill the Muslim requirement of kneeling 5 ...

8. Student not feeling prepared to graduate. Advice?

   CanuckNurse1 posted a topic in General Students

   I'm a nursing student in my 3rd year, will graduate with my RN degree in 2012 if everything goes as planned. The problem is, I don't know if everything should go as planned. In high school, I easily got good grades, so I got used to not really studyi...