I am a UK Staff nurse currently working within an emergency department in the UK with a view to move to Canada within the next year or so, I have sent all my applications away and am currently waiting to see if I need to complete the SEC assessment before applying for my exams. I hope to be working in Alberta looking at Edmonton and Calgary at the moment and am hoping to stay within emergency medicine.
Here in the UK as a staff nurse within the emergency department we carry out standard nursing roles such as assessment, medications, IV therapy and so on. Also as part of my role in the UK we take on extended roles such as taking of bloods, insertion of Intravenous access lines, Male catherisation, Taking of ABG's from A Lines and Radial artery. We can also work up to insertion of ET tubes, running of crash calls as advanced life support graduates ( I believe its ACLS in Canada) and so on.
My question is within emergency departments in Alberta do nurses carry out these roles and if not are they able to learn them within their role.
