frances81

frances81

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  1. Just curious if any of you would - or have - ever risked leaving a permanent position in a less desirable location for a temporary 18 month temp. position in your proferred, much-coveted location? From speaking with managers there, it’s almost impos...
  2. Should nurses be able to listen to music at work?

    I'm surprised how many nurses/ units are listening to music. I've only encountered it a few times on night shift but more so in LTC, again almost always on nights. Considering on the acute units I was on we weren't even allowed to have our cell phone...
  3. Should nurses be able to listen to music at work?

    I'm fine with it if it's a personal work area/ office and it's very quiet but I'm not a fan in shared nursing stations. I personally don't listen to a lot of music and easily get noise headaches - I know nursing can be noisy but adding more noise on ...
  4. PHN pay- what do you do?

    Where I work it's based on our collective agreement as RN's - meaning all publicly employed RN's (majority) make the same. Start at $36ish up to $49ish CND I believe based on time worked (but it's a higher cost of living & higher taxes up here).
  5. Visiting Nurse for Newborns

    Also it's true about the documentation - home visits take forever to document!
  6. Visiting Nurse for Newborns

    It probably depends where you are but in my province PHN's do home visits for newly discharged mom&babe - ideally within 48 hours of discharge. In bigger cities there will be a specialty group of nurses who do this. As a generalist in a smaller t...
  7. No problem. Glad you made a decision that worked for you. I just wanted to clarify - I wouldn't replace free online courses for everything - for example: an official 20-hour breastfeeding course with a clinical or some perinatal/ neonatal credit cou...
  8. Also, if you're willing to go rural to be a generalist PHN, any experience &/or courses in communcable disease control, opioid addiction/ naloxone administration, travel health & vaccinations, sexual health/ birth control, & routine child...
  9. I started in LTC and am now a generalist PHN Nurse but I don't know that the LTC experience especially helped. I'd say what helped more was that I had my perinatal specialty theory courses, neonatal resuscitation, fetal heart monitoring, breastfeedin...
  10. LPN in AB vs BC

    I moved from Victoria to AB for a variety of reasons - but a big one was cost of living. Cost of living and housing has been going through the roof the past few years; add to that lower pay, I cant see ever being able to afford going back. And defini...
  11. Alberta vs BC nursing job prospects 2018

    I also always saw those ads while living on the Island and it was frustrating as meanwhile I'd been applying to hundreds of positions with no response.
  12. Having graduated from U of Vic in 2013 & taken my BCIT Perinatal Specialty theory courses & first practicum I can tell you: - VIHA/ Island Health is extremely hard to crack into. They have a new grad hiring program and guarantee anywhere from...
  13. Alberta Nurses

    I lucked out in that I found my dream PHN nursing position within about 6 weeks but I had to go super rural & isolated. Not my ideal location but the experience makes up for it. Hoping to move back to the city - or within an hours drive - in the ...
  14. Bathroom Door Question/ Best Practice

    There's 5 of us so I'm pretty sure they'd know who did it lol - and I can tell you now it would be *bad*. As it is I've already got the 2 older staff members purposely opening the door wide after I've just closed it....can't win. I'm going to let it ...
  15. Bathroom Door Question/ Best Practice

    I think you're spot on. I was just super irritated yesterday but I've decided to let it go. Personally I think it's pretty disrespectful as I'm the only one in the back beside the washroom and unprofessional, but you're right - it's not worth the str...