peripateticRN BSN, RN

I would say the best vaccine is any one you can get at this point in the game. Where I live you don't have the option of being picky, and I am thrilled to have gotten dose 1 of moderna.

While not a fantastic habit to get into, vaccines can normally tolerate a break for a short period of time. The markers we use show the period in which the vaccines were out of range... I believe my organization is OK with a (small) warm deviation of...

Hey All! I've been lurking on this board for the last year or so and finally made the leap to register an account. I'm on my way up the the Yukon for a 3 month Community Health Nursing gig and wondered if there are any others in this area on the bo...

Hey There, I've been up here for almost a year full time now (and another year of rotations before that). I'm really enjoying my work up here and generally pretty happy with life. There are challenges - probably similar to living/working in any sma...

I am a nurse in the Yukon - I have a little bit of a different role in my clinic and I don't personally take call (sweetest deal on the planet), but the PCNs in my clinic can be very busy in the off hours - most nights they get at least one call if n...

I've never heard of 'this RN'... we were taught to use 'writer'. Ie "Pt was placed in 4 point restraints after throwing fecal matter at writer"

Good luck on that... In my experience most places have little trouble finding part time staff and would not fill a FT line with a multiple part timers - they then have to pay benefits etc and train up two employees instead of one. You can apply of co...

Good Lord... that's just ridiculous... So.. ummm. good luck with that? :-/

Honestly, if as you say, they 'just don't seem to care' there is nothing you can say or do that is going to make them care. Dial back the lecturing and contests etc and focus on working with them on what their goals are - treat then as autonomous adu...

Yes - by pinching up the skin you very likely will miss the muscle unless you are using a 1.5" needle. That's probably why it hurts less - it's not going in the muscle which does tend to ache a bit!

Public health nurse here - never been asked to pinch the skin, nor have I ever pinched... the RN who gave me my flu shot the other day flicked me a couple times first, which I found odd - presumably she does this to decrease pain?? who knows. I don'...

Just to clarify - Shringrix - the new shingles vaccine - is not a live vaccine and should be administered IM in the Deltoid. I think you are thinking of Zostavaxx - the old vaccine that is live and admin'd SC. There is no reason both a shingles and ...

Honestly, blindly applying to every job on the board is literally what you have to do. As a new grad in Edmonton I literally applied for 100+ positions before getting an offer. Ended out getting a casual float position at the inner city hospital. Onc...

In our dialysis clinic we absolutely still use beef or chicken broth if pressures are too low post run.

Why does every incident have too be so punitive? Do you think that this PCA doesn't feel like absolute garbage about this and will ensure they never repeat the action? If they were cavalier about the incident that would be one thing .. but come on.

I graduated in the last few years and team nursing is all I've ever known. Seems to work pretty well to me - Honestly, I can't picture how it would have worked any other way (In medicine, at least). Our system works like this: Each unit typically h...

Also - This doc is pretty useful: All (most of) the agreements across Canada https://nursesunions.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/2017-11-08-Contract-comparison_for-web.pdf

Alberta has the best shift diffs!! $8.25 for weekend nights. I'll take that, thank you very much!

Did they tell you exactly how you are not qualified? if so, expressly state how you meet that particular qualification Otherwise, in terms of what to do differently, when writing your cover letter go one by one through each of the listed skills, qual...

All I can say is.. I remember those days and clinicals suck. You're always struggling to find your way, while someone is watching over you, wanting for you to do it THEIR way. This can be a struggle for many. I had a similar 'come to Jesus' talk wi...

You should probably talk to your Occupational Health and Safety person about potential exposure, but for piece of mind, it typically takes long exposures in close contact with an active case to become infected. While I'm not saying don't wear your PP...

So doing Public Health right out of school is not unheard of, but not typical. One way to get a foot in the door would be to do your final preceptorship in PH and wow them with your skills. Otherwise, you may have to put in your time as a floor nurse...

Fear not... It'll come. Unless it doesn't :-P Seriously.. check out the boards. Everyone feels this way. Just put your head down, try not to stress TOO much (a little stress is good, means you aren't getting cocky), and work through it. It never gets...

Having recently worked both 12s and 9-5 (well.. 830 to 5) they both have their advantages and disadvantages. Advantages to 9-5 include: Not feeling like an exhausted slug all the time. Since I've back to 'normal' hours (3+ months ago) I have napped...

THIS is the problem - uneducated 'experts' filling the minds of the public with fallacies and blatant incorrect information. Thimerosal in Vaccines Thimerosal | Concerns | Vaccine Safety | CDC Thimerosal is not dangerous - nor is it in childhood vac...