NotReady4PrimeTime RN

NICU, PICU, PCVICU and peds oncology

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    First day on the job...

    NotReady4PrimeTime replied to OneHappyRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Nope, no preference. I had to put food on the table so I worked whatever I could. I've worked rotating days and nights for 20 years and likely will until I retire. Where I work, the patients don't...
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    Failed crne 3 x

    NotReady4PrimeTime replied to GymGirl8's topic in Canada CRNE, CPNRE Exams

    The people in the registry sections of the Colleges of Nursing are definitely not stupid enough to automatically accept an applicant's NCLEX-US pass without cross-referencing. Unless a person is...
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    I think I'm gonna be sick.....

    NotReady4PrimeTime replied to dsb_fam's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Magnet status isn't a recognized designation in Canada. The thing about throwing money away is something I've pointed out many times. But in somebody's mind, recruitment is more important than...
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    I think I'm gonna be sick.....

    NotReady4PrimeTime replied to dsb_fam's topic in First Year After Licensure

    That sounds like nirvana. On my unit, there's no such thing as a residency. New grads are given 16 weeks of orientation, but are rarely paired with the same person twice. They're "attached" to...
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    First day on the job...

    NotReady4PrimeTime replied to OneHappyRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    That seems to be a common denominator with new grads over the last several years, despite the obvious 24/7 nature of the job. So who "gets" to work all the
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    can i become a nurse with pending charges ?

    NotReady4PrimeTime replied to psw2rn's topic in Canada

    Let's not forget that the OP is in Canada. The College of Nurses of Ontario have specific requirements that must be met before a person may become registered as a nurse with them. As you can see, the...
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    Phenylalanine testing...once or twice?

    NotReady4PrimeTime replied to SilleLu's topic in Pediatric

    They have to have been fed some form of milk before they can be tested. Neonates who are too sick at birth to be fed will be tested later, but I've never heard of any peds offices testing them at...
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    If you took the CPRNE previously....

    NotReady4PrimeTime replied to momofmen's topic in Canada CRNE, CPNRE Exams

    That is just one in a long line of myths about the exams. It's not true, any more than the envelope is a big one if you pass, or a small one if you pass, or the envelope's a different colour if you...
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    PICU new grad job offered

    NotReady4PrimeTime replied to RN_stucky621's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    meanmaryjean is right. PICU nurses have the broadest scope of practice there is. We look after neonate bodies and adult bodies and everything in between. We see most of the same problem lists that...
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    PICU new grad job offered

    NotReady4PrimeTime replied to RN_stucky621's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    I've moved your thread to the PICU forum where it'll be more at home. There are lots of similar threads on this topic. Here are a few. Specific to making a move to PICU from another area or as a new...
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    question about picu and vented

    NotReady4PrimeTime replied to IHeartPeds87's topic in Pediatric

    Generally speaking, it's the need for mechanical ventilation that causes most PICU patients to be admitted, particularly in the fall and winter, when respiratory viruses are at their peaks. The...
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    Stenberg College

    NotReady4PrimeTime replied to IntelCorei72600k's topic in Canada Nursing Programs

    Maybe, but there's no
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    CRNE questions confusion

    NotReady4PrimeTime replied to Jessiee's topic in Canada CRNE, CPNRE Exams

    Text speak is not only difficult to decipher, it is also not permitted on this site. Our Terms of Service insist on proper professional English only. Having multiple threads on basically the same...
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    CRNE questions confusion

    NotReady4PrimeTime replied to Jessiee's topic in Canada CRNE, CPNRE Exams

    Have you thought of looking up these answers in a text
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    NP clinics in Alberta?

    NotReady4PrimeTime replied to X-treme's topic in Canada

    Because there never was any specific structural or functional plans for Alison Redford's FCCs, that's a difficult question to answer. There are three pilot clinics in the province, but it's quite...
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    What Docs Don't Understand About Nurses

    NotReady4PrimeTime replied to Music in My Heart's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Our unit and a couple others at our hospital have a semi-annual contest called Nurse for a Day. All the attending physicians have a donation box and every dollar placed in the donation box is a vote...
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    Struggling New Graduate 😥

    NotReady4PrimeTime replied to Jasmine2691's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Every. Single. One. Of. Us. Has. Been. There. Nursing school only scratches the surface of what we need to know to be a good nurse. We all start out feeling like we're the dumbest thing on two legs,...
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    The future of nursing. Everybody is impacted. Big discussion in SK.

    NotReady4PrimeTime replied to magnoliya's topic in Canada

    You do understand that MPs (Members of Parliament) are federal representatives and that health care is a provincially-administered program with responsibility to meet the standards laid out in the...
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    Suitable Pediatric Nurse

    NotReady4PrimeTime replied to ConfusedSoul94's topic in Pediatric

    The most important trait a pediatric nurse can have is patience. Patience for your patients and for their families. Having a child in the hospital, no matter how minor the reason for the admission,...
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    Why do we hate admissions?

    NotReady4PrimeTime replied to firstinfamily's topic in General Nursing

    I haven't taken an admission for quite a long time. Not since we switched our EMR software for sure. BUT... as I'm quite often the resource nurse on my unit one of my responsibilities is to assist...
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    If I hear this one more time, I'm going to lose it!!

    NotReady4PrimeTime replied to pixiedu2's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I've heard that phrase far too often too. I find those who speak it are those who have never worked anywhere else and have no idea that what they're espousing is poor practice, detrimental to the...
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    "nursing issues" ideas

    NotReady4PrimeTime replied to Tammy90's topic in Canada

    Well, here's a timely topic, one that I'm researching at the moment. "What constitutes a safe patient assignment?" It's a complex topic but one that has the potential to be distilled into something...
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    The future of nursing. Everybody is impacted. Big discussion in SK.

    NotReady4PrimeTime replied to magnoliya's topic in Canada

    The proposed changes to the SALPN bylaws are necessary to ensure that those LPNs with specialized knowledge are properly regulated. I read them and nowhere in there anywhere does it say that LPNs are...
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    The future of nursing. Everybody is impacted. Big discussion in SK.

    NotReady4PrimeTime replied to magnoliya's topic in Canada

    Just as I predicted this thread has already become a bit of a battleground. It doesn't matter whether I'm an RN or an LPN. There are things that RNs do as part of their scope of practice, which are...
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    The future of nursing. Everybody is impacted. Big discussion in SK.

    NotReady4PrimeTime replied to magnoliya's topic in Canada

    This isn't a new argument. It was going on when I graduated 20 years ago and it will go on forever. It's a terribly divisive and contentious issue that only results in a lot of very heated words being...