RNable

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1. Seeking employment in a new province

   RNable posted a topic in Job Hunt

   I recently moved to another province in Canada to be with my fiance, and am transitioning from a rural setting to a city one. I've been an RN for almost five years, with experience on a med-surg floor, in recovery room, operating room, and in communi...

2. T shirt idea

   RNable replied to ALJ1313's topic in Humor

   Our pre-and post-op unit is called the "Adult Day Care Unit" which sounds a bit to me like a preschool daycare setup. ? ADCU took on preoperative prep, postoperative (discharged from PACU) patients, but also manages cases from interventional radiolo...

3. Is it impossible to get in OR or what?

   RNable replied to bryan_del's topic in Operating Room

   Speaking from experience as a new OR nurse...I got into this program specifically through working at a small, rural site; we don't have the resources to have OR nurses *just* do OR, so they're trained to do OR, recovery, presurgical screening clinic,...

4. Tips for handling the stress of on-call

   RNable replied to RNable's topic in Operating Room

   Thanks for the input! We did go in today and do a couple of cases. I was with more experienced nurses and so felt very comfortable with things. I think you're right, @FurBabyMom; it's just going to take time to get a little more comfortable, but it ...

5. Orientation

   RNable replied to Sassy-RN's topic in Newbies

   For where I am in a small, rural facility, we are preceptored for our perioperative program (approx 12 weeks) and then set free on two ORs. We scrub, circulate, and work PACU in rotation. It's nice because you get to switch it up.

6. Tips for handling the stress of on-call

   RNable posted a topic in Operating Room

   I'm a very new OR nurse (graduated from my PeriOp program less than six months ago) and I'm currently working in a small, rural hospital which runs 2 ORs and an endoscopy suite. Because we are chronically short-staffed, new periop nurses are required...

7. I hate being a nurse

   RNable replied to Kmc12's topic in Stress 101

   I concur; I graduated in 2015 and have worked med/surg, community, and perioperative; in each, there was something to make me stressed, anxious, or consumed by the work. I kept hearing the recurrent phrase "nursing is not a career--it's who you are."...

8. I Want to Make a Difference in My Patients' Lives

   RNable replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

   Home Nursing in a small place might well be for you! I'm working in a smaller community and have discovered that home care does a heap of stuff that larger places either pass on to other departments or do in hospital. It's pretty cool, actually--we s...