ElectricCabbage

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1. Gender Pay Gap in Nursing: 2017 Salary Survey vs. 2015?

   ElectricCabbage replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

   I can't comment on people taking time off to care for family, nor did I in my previous post. I would disagree with your initial statement though- I think that many, many women do like taking time off to raise families. And I'll say it again- that's g...

2. Gender Pay Gap in Nursing: 2017 Salary Survey vs. 2015?

   ElectricCabbage replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

   As the saying goes, you can't have your cake and eat it too. Women who would like to take time off for their families- that's fantastic. Good for you. But don't come back to work and complain that you're making less money than the nurses (male or fem...

3. Multiple position changes... same organization

   ElectricCabbage posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi all.. a quick question for my more experienced colleagues. I started working 14 months ago in long term care and after 8 months transferred into public health. Both positions are for the same employer (the municipal government). I have now been in...

4. 2016 Salary thread

   ElectricCabbage replied to kbrn2002's topic in General Nursing

   Ontario, Canada Public Health $38 and hour, plus benefits and M-F 8:30-4 COL: My husband and I own a 3 bedroom 2 bathroom home, our mortgage is $1500/month

5. Do you ever wish you were a doctor?

   ElectricCabbage replied to adventure_rn's topic in General Nursing

   Nursing is a career. Medicine, is a lifestyle. I am happy to have a a great career, that lets me have the lifestyle I want!

6. Nursing in Canada vs. the US

   ElectricCabbage posted a topic in General Nursing

   I've been following this forum for quite some time now, and what strikes me the most is how different nursing seems to be in the the States than it is here in Canada. The biggest things I've heard talked about a lot that I've never heard of in Canad...

7. What Is The Most Disrespectful Thing A Colleague Has Said To You?

   ElectricCabbage replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Relations

   While on orientation for my full time LTC job as a new grad (my area of choice, by the way) the battle axe of an RN I was working with that day looked me eye and said "I always feel so sad when I see new grads working in long term care. What a waste"...

8. Hot spot/picture question

   ElectricCabbage replied to djay11's topic in NCLEX

   I passed the NCLEX with 75 questions, and the only questions I got were SATA and MC (I'd 40+ SATA). As the PP said, however, there are all types of questions both above and below the passing standard. The best way that it was described to me prior to...

9. Am I wrong for thinking that this APRN was wrong?...

   ElectricCabbage replied to bekind_andtrue's topic in Relations

   I began working in LTC 9 months ago as a new grad RN, which means that after 2 months of orientation I am now often the charge nurse- responsible for 130 residents, 25+ staff, and the building itself, including when management is not in the building....

10. Administering PRBC's -alone or with NS?

    ElectricCabbage replied to IamSecond's topic in General Nursing

    In hospitals that I've worked at blood products are always set up with Y tubing so that saline is available in case of a transfusion reaction and to sit in the drip chamber over the filter to prevent lysis of the blood products. The tubing and drip c...

11. Why are so many nurses against unions?

    ElectricCabbage replied to Icunicenurse's topic in Union

    I appreciate everything about the union I belong to except for seniority in hiring. I think that it is short sighted to have to give internal job postings to individuals who have been with the organization longer, even if they have fewer qualificatio...

12. How do you saline-lock? / What is saline-locking?

    ElectricCabbage replied to 757RN's topic in Medications

    Flush with saline and just slide the little clamp across tubing. Easy peasy :)

13. The right to an opinion

    ElectricCabbage posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have been working as an RN for 6 months now. Enough time to rub the innocence and naivety off of anyone I think. My position is in a long term care, and seems to be equal helpings of caring for the geriatric population and providing support for fam...

14. New grad BSN--no night shifts?

    ElectricCabbage replied to esrun77's topic in General Nursing

    I am a recent graduate from a BScN program in Canada (I finished in December 2015) and I got a permanent full time days/ evenings posting in long term care. I was a good candidate because I am interested in working in LTC long term, which seems diffi...

15. Stable job vs. well rounded experiences...

    ElectricCabbage posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am a recent graduate from a BScN program in Canada (not sure what the American equivalent would be...). Where I am in Alberta full time jobs are scarce for RNs, but I was extremely fortunate as a new grad to get a permanent, full time job in long t...