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I did the Nephrology exam, I worked full time the entire time while doing so. I studied mostly for 3 or 4 hours per weekend and the occasional weekend. Good luck!

Many years ago we had two pts on our floor with identical names (including middle name if you can believe it). They were in the same four bed room, and they were both blind diabetics on peritoneal...

I must say, my manager would NEVER tolerate any of her nurses being spoken to that way. She is like a mama bear looking out for her cubs. One does not abuse her nurses. She would have stepped in...

You are so right that until one experiences it, one does not "get it" about mental illness. I thought I did. I was wrong. I have been on meds and in therapy for well over 10 years. I have three...

I work in an outpatient clinic, one of our docs will write the letter to the family doc (I saw Mr X, I recommended this and that, he had no other complaints, return to clinic 6 months) before he even...

I haven't worked inpatients for a while so I am sure all my inpatient skills are rather rusty (although when I did I was good at most of them) but where I think I am really good is in palliative...

Yes, absolutely we need to advocate for better mental health care. In all countries. But what really bugs me is whenever something like this happens the media announces "had mental health...

Okay, I have to chime in..... We women all wore caps for grad, the guys in my class (6 of them) did not. All the ladies paid an extra $5 in fees that year for the cap. The guys decided THEY were...

Last week my Mom's goals of care at her LTC facility were changed to comfort measures only. I am so grateful for the nurse who has taken my calls every day, or called me herself to give me a daily...

Once on a night shift I rec'd a call from admitting to which I replied "We are full. Sorry, but you'll have to look on another unit." This was met with "HOw can you be full?" Me: "We have no...

I will be contacting the Patient Care Manager in emergency to say thanks and will be contacting the Patient Care Manager on the inpt unit about the "go in your diaper" thing. I don't work on an inpt...

I will contact the Patient Care Manager in the emergency deptartment and pass along my thanks. KitkatPRN, I know they are busy in LTC and they do have a podiatrist who comes around. Problem is, he...

Last night my Mom was taken from her long term care facility into emergency because she had a UTI that was not responding to treatment and they couldn't get her fever down. At one point my sister...

I remember thinking that my first clinical instructor hated me. I thought she as a really unpleasant well, witch, to deal with. She made may of the same demands on her students and yes, if we had a...

Wow, you read my mind. Almost. I just spent 4 days at the bedside of a dying Uncle - he is the last of my Dad's siblings, the end of a generation. I want so badly to fix things, to make it right. ...

Thanks for such an awesome story. We may not all be starting IV's or complex technical tasks, but each of us is equally vital to our patients. A number of years ago I looked after a gentleman in...

I can't imagine. Sending hugs.... Hoping your next shifts are better. Take care of yourself!

Aweome! So glad to hear it! You are eager to learn so I think that will make a huge difference. And yeah, always nice when the doctors want you there! When do you start? Did you find out about...

I'd say that sounds pretty promising.... Good luck!

Where I work none of us have anything higher than a Bachelor's degree (except our manager, she has an MBA). We have a couple of NP's that work with the renal program, but they don't work in...

The pharmacists in our clinic deal with refill requests. When pts run out and don't have a follow up booked, or haven't had bloodwork done recently, we will bridge their supply until we can get them...

Sorry, I can't comment too much on pay scale, since we are unionized here my pay is exactly the same as I was making before I moved. Although our position title is Transplant Coordinator we are...

Oh my that's a lot of people to go through - when I had my interview it was my manager, the assistant manager and the medical director of the transplant program. One interview, 45 minutes with all...

If you go the Canadian Diabetes Educator Certification Board website and look at their examination handbook there is a bibliography of suggested reading there.

I have actually been admitted to mental health; I am diabetic on insulin. I have had some of the mental health nurses come into my room with the glucose meter and say to me "I understand you know...