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1. Quality Practice Environments : Quality Care

   vislandnurse replied to vislandnurse's topic in International

   Thanks for the info!! :)

2. Quality Practice Environments : Quality Care

   vislandnurse replied to vislandnurse's topic in International

   It is really great to hear different experiences. I don't think that one nursing experience can fit all. One of my instructors has explained that hospitals are now offering to assist new grads to get their specialties through BCIT. My heart has alwa...

3. Quality Practice Environments : Quality Care

   vislandnurse replied to vislandnurse's topic in International

   In your original post you did not qualify the type or area of nursing with any details, you only did this in your last post. So you describe nursing in a "giant metropolitan teaching hospital caring for the desperately critically ill". I live in a sm...

4. Quality Practice Environments : Quality Care

   vislandnurse replied to vislandnurse's topic in International

   Thanks fergus51!!! I KNEW that it is possible to be happy and love nursing. :)

5. Quality Practice Environments : Quality Care

   vislandnurse replied to vislandnurse's topic in International

   JMP...THANK YOU! HOPE...

6. Quality Practice Environments : Quality Care

   vislandnurse replied to vislandnurse's topic in International

   Hmmm...this is all sounding very depressing...Tell me what keeps you in this career? Tell me what is good in nursing? There must be some benefits, otherwise you would not still be doing what you are doing while facing so many challenges. Put aside my...

7. Quality Practice Environments : Quality Care

   vislandnurse replied to vislandnurse's topic in International

   Please excuse my ignorance, but could someone please explain what a QA cycle is?

8. Quality Practice Environments : Quality Care

   vislandnurse replied to vislandnurse's topic in International

   janfrn and JMP Thank you both for your words of wisdom. Receiving honest appraisals of the reality of the practice setting helps me to be realistic as I prepare for my entry into practice. Really, the concepts of respect and appreciation, input and a...

9. Quality Practice Environments : Quality Care

   vislandnurse replied to vislandnurse's topic in International

   Wow...I am speechless (it takes a lot to make me speechless). What can I say, except that I have gained increased appreciation for the courses in our BScN Program that teach about professional practice, and how to have a voice in nursing and have it...

10. The bachelor degree frustration

    vislandnurse replied to behumble's topic in International

    Yes, degree preparation is required now in British Columbia as well - and I couldn't agree with you more regarding education and experience...I am gaining the education and will eventually gain the experience!

11. The bachelor degree frustration

    vislandnurse replied to behumble's topic in International

    Sorry, can't agree with your statement that the requirement for degree preparation now implies that the quality of care provided by most diploma prepared nurses is inferior. It just means that with the increasing acuity and technology facing nurses t...

12. Do USA LPN's have to take any tests to become a Canadian LPN?

    vislandnurse replied to Blackcat99's topic in International

    Hi! I'm not an LPN, but a second year RN student in British Columbia, Canada. I have recently been visiting the College of Licensed Practical Nurses of British Columbia website as I am challenging the LPN exam here in the fall. There are some areas o...

13. Quality Practice Environments : Quality Care

    vislandnurse replied to vislandnurse's topic in International

    janfrn Thanks for the reply and your perspective on what your experience has been regarding quality practice environments, as well as the advice on how to attempt to change things when environments are not what they should be. You mentioned that nurs...

14. Quality Practice Environments : Quality Care

    vislandnurse posted a topic in International

    I'm a second year BScN student in British Columbia. I have recently been investigating the issue of maintaining or establishing quality practice environments for nurses. A quality practice enviroments is vital for nurses so that they can meet the sta...