may 15, 2013 cpnre, opinion anyone??

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I took the exam last Wednesday and I am not sure what to think, what to feel, what to say....I honestly feel numb...

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Those two restrictions were never listed on my temporary license. Different province so different setup.

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Those two restrictions were never listed on my temporary license. Different province so different setup.

agree, different province, different set of rules....

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Yap, sorry guys I just found out that it only applies to 'conditional registrants' in alberta, Anyway, you'll find out yours next week for sure:)

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Yap, sorry guys I just found out that it only applies to 'conditional registrants' in alberta, Anyway, you'll find out yours next week for sure:)

thanks asitoja, hopefully it's a good news, you guys in alberta are lucky to kind of have an idea if you make it or not at least a week earlier, the waiting part is really driving me insane..:no: anyway, how's the nursing job market in that province? I heard that there are lots of nursing job in alberta just not sure if it's true or not??;)

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It's still exciting to know the exams are in the process of being graded! Fingers crossed over here :)

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, PCVICU and peds oncology.
tanyway, how's the nursing job market in that province? I heard that there are lots of nursing job in alberta just not sure if it's true or not??;)

Layoffs. Lots of them being done in small batches. Any vacancies are being filled by those whose positions have been eliminated. I just lost out on a new position because of that. The outlook for the next year or two is not great. It takes that long for this government to see the error of their ways.

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thanks asitoja, hopefully it's a good news, you guys in alberta are lucky to kind of have an idea if you make it or not at least a week earlier, the waiting part is really driving me insane..:no: anyway, how's the nursing job market in that province? I heard that there are lots of nursing job in alberta just not sure if it's true or not??;)

Well based on my experience, I would say it`s actually good here, it didn`t even take 2 weeks from the time I started applying to some LPN positions before I got many calls for interviews and got hired. I only started applying online 1 week before my exam (May 15, because I don`t want to be bothered while I`m reviewing for the test), Monday of the exam week I got 2 interviews right away, 1 is with Home Care agency and another one for LPN job in a hospital, the home care agency told me after the interview that she`s already hiring me and ask me for a reference, day after, I got a call from Alberta Health Services (Hospital) telling me that she`s going to send me an `offer letter``and ask me if I would take it, so I said YES Of COURSE!!right away, ergo, I had to call the Home Care agency and turn down the job offer:))... Also, I never heard of anyone getting laid-off here in Calgary as far as I know...so...i`m just speaking base on my experience;))

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https://allnurses.com/nursing-in-canada/ahs-youre-fired-832600.html

http://www.calgarysun.com/2013/05/22/alberta-health-services-cuts-nursing-jobs-at-rockyview-hospital-as-30-seniors-beds-close

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/health/Nursing+layoffs+Stollery+just+beginning+nurses+union+warns/8166467/story.html

Palliative care will ‘continue as it currently does,' despite nursing cuts AHS sayshttp://www.calgaryherald.com/health/Calgary+palliative+home+care+decimated+says+nurses+union/8379715/story.html

I wouldn't count on anything if I were you. As the most recent hire, even as an LPN, you're not safe from layoffs. You haven't even gotten your offer letter in your hand yet nor actually started your AHS job. Laid off employees have priority for filling vacancies by contractual obligation. If a laid-off LPN from anywhere in the province, no matter their experience, wants the position you interviewed for, they have to give it to her/him. I know it's true - it just happened to me. I applied for a new position on the unit where I've worked for nearly 11 years and it went to someone with no associated experience who was laid off from a position at another hospital. I can't grieve it either. I hope that you're lucky and the job doesn't evaporate on you, but nothing would surprise me.

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https://allnurses.com/nursing-in-canada/ahs-youre-fired-832600.html

http://www.calgarysun.com/2013/05/22/alberta-health-services-cuts-nursing-jobs-at-rockyview-hospital-as-30-seniors-beds-close

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/health/Nursing+layoffs+Stollery+just+beginning+nurses+union+warns/8166467/story.html

Palliative care will ‘continue as it currently does,' despite nursing cuts AHS sayshttp://www.calgaryherald.com/health/Calgary+palliative+home+care+decimated+says+nurses+union/8379715/story.html

I wouldn't count on anything if I were you. As the most recent hire, even as an LPN, you're not safe from layoffs. You haven't even gotten your offer letter in your hand yet nor actually started your AHS job. Laid off employees have priority for filling vacancies by contractual obligation. If a laid-off LPN from anywhere in the province, no matter their experience, wants the position you interviewed for, they have to give it to her/him. I know it's true - it just happened to me. I applied for a new position on the unit where I've worked for nearly 11 years and it went to someone with no associated experience who was laid off from a position at another hospital. I can't grieve it either. I hope that you're lucky and the job doesn't evaporate on you, but nothing would surprise me.

You're wrong, I'm already in my 2nd week of orientation in the hospital, and you know wha,there are 5 us newly hired in the unit, you should consuder moving to my area so you see it yourself:)

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That doesn't mean you're safe. Nobody is.

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I'm wondering Janfrn why you're so bitter about somebody else's happiness, you must be having miserable life that you don't evwn see a bit of positive things around. I pity you. I just notice from ALL your responses, all you do is contradict everytime someone would guve good news. Come on! Open up your mind:)

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I'm wondering Janfrn why you're so bitter about somebody else's happiness, you must be having miserable life that you don't evwn see a bit of positive things around. I pity you. I just notice from ALL your responses, all you do is contradict everytime someone would guve good news. Come on! Open up your mind:)

I'm an LPN in Edmonton. Trust me the layoffs have happened and are happening. Calgary has had layoffs as well.

We've been told that anyone with less than two years seniority is at risk for bumping by displaced staff. I know at my hospital there are displaced LPNs since February who are looking for lines.

Don't sound so smug. You are new to the world of nursing and unionized employment. Push come to shove, you can and will be bumped. It happened in the past and it's happening now.

Any unit in the current climate who has hired five new staff has serious problems. There are reasons experienced staff don't go there. Many of the displaced staff in my hospital wound up in the float pools, some went to Corrections. Over my working years, I've noticed definite hiring trends. Dialysis, the OR, and Emergency can't keep LPNs. Bullying is rife in some of these units. Emergency and the NICU started hiring LPNs in the last two years. The treatment of these nurses by their RN co-workers has been awful and grievances have been filed. You wouldn't catch me applying for a line there but naïve new grads do apply, get hired, and get their hearts and spirits broken.

Our minds are very open, it's dealing with smug young pups that wears us down.

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