YukonSean

Your state is probably not represented because its nurses are not unionised. The posted web link is for the United American Nurses (UAN) union. As a Canadian, I am quite surprised to see such little unionisation, only around 20% of American RNs. In C...

I am not sure which tertiary institution offers the "30 weeks" nurse practitioner qualification course. In Canada, where only 3 of 13 provinces and territories recognise and license NPs, the minimal entry to practice is a graduate (master's) degree, ...

I have family in Long Island (Baldwin, Rockville Centre). I've spent loads of time there; I don't think the cost of living is as unaffordable as in the City. I do not know how an RN could survive NYC financially!

Yes, you are correct. The patriarchal titles of "nurse", and especially "male nurse" have to go! From now on, I will be a "wellness consultant", because I've always wanted to be a consultant of one sort or another. You too, speak the truth, Twarlik T...

I am yet another Austin Powers clone, male RN. Excuse the pun, but alas, what has happened to us? Look at our emasculated society! Men cannot be, well... men, anymore. Consider our current crop of Hollywood heartthrobs: Leonardo Di Caprio, Val Kilmer...

I have very much enjoyed reading this thread. According to one of those RN salary comparator sites I viewed (I cannot recall the URL for the life of me), California nurses apparently rake in the most; I think the starting figure was around $56000 per...

Yes, in Canada, the vast majority of nurses wear scrubs these days. During my training, women were not allowed to sport gaudy or jingly jewellery, and were required to have only plain clear nail polish etc. Males had to have hair cut above the colla...

Recently, amongst a lengthy catalogue of numbered orders (pertaining to one of our "frequent flyers"), the doctor had written: "(13) wash this patient's feet ASAP please". I have also often seen etoh ordered for patients with alcohol dependence, or s...

High Velocity Lead Therapy; that is hilarious! I am in hysterics reading these. Many of these abbreviations and acronyms are common here, e.g. FLK, FOS, CYB or CYA charting, and of course, my whole ward has now adopted "Code Brown", because I use my ...

Moon rose, Around here, we refer to that phenomenon as "finger-painting". I recently had one confused fellow add some frank red to the chocolate: He yanked out the Foley, with 30 cc still in the balloon.

Katana Perhaps they should search for your turd monster (serpentis faecesentis) in Loch Ness.

My stomach is in knots from reading these vile stories. (Yet, I admit that, as in the "train wreck" phenomenon, I could not stop looking until I reached the last posting on this list.) Why do you think I do psych? I would rather be spat upon than sh...

I become somewhat frustrated when we on the list turn into apologists. The expression "drug seeking behaviour" describes just that: patients who come into the hospital looking for drugs. Psychiatric and Emerg nurses must know that we are not talkin...

I, too, have heard those Femalé stories! I also know that, tragically, fools do go in for soap opera names. Ironically these fads end up becoming normalised, so that the trendy names are suddenly themselves mainstream. Witness the legions of girls, ...

Hello Canoe Head As other subscribers have stated, contracting on admission is negotiated between patient and clinician in order to define not only inpatient rights, but also responsibilities and expectations of conduct while on ward. We all recogni...

Regardless of which nursing programme one attends (LPN, RN, diploma, degree, etc.), he or she acquires nursing abilities specific to the course requisites. While these skills are largely technical, there is also an attempt to impart objectivity and ...

I am now a staff RN at a hospital (inpatient mental health), but I was a "moonlighting" registry RN for many years. Why? The answer is simple: as the other nurses have described, the money and autonomy are both very appealing. There are other (prof...

I agree that we can become "ghettoised" as psych RNs. For example, this morning, when I d/c a patient's IV, the family member exclaimed, "I forgot: you must be a real nurse too!". I also trained in the big city tertiary hospitals (in Toronto, Cana...

RN in Canada's Yukon Territory, working as a mental health nurse

I too have heard the various "4 standard drinks per sitting" type of stats. This is an obvious attempt to quantify something which, as Kewl points out, cannot be standardised. I think I like Aimee's view of what constitutes a binge. The problem wit...

Although, strictly speaking, we do not have ADNs in Canada, there are also two streams of entry to nurse practice here. One may attend three years at a community college (graduates are reffered to as "diploma nurses" in the vernacular), or she can d...

I am wondering about the differences between CGFNS and WES credential evaluation services. It seems to me that the more populous states such as NY or CA ask for these services. Is there any advantage in one over the other? Is one more appropriate ...

One of the fringe beneifts in psychaitry is that we wear street clothes. The philiosphy is merely one of attempting to decrease the power differential a little bit, along with modelling normalcy (yes, I trained in the Orem theory!). Now, as a studen...

I am reading this discussion with much interest! My wife and I are both RNs. Julie does emergency, trauma, and orthopaedics; my background is in community mental health, crisis line service, and inpatient psychiatry. I have also trained in the PACT ...

Why is it that male nurses tend to gravitate to the ER?... We do? I thought that we went in for psychiatry and forensics! Actually, I do the triage for mental health, AODA, and psychosocial presentataions in our Emerg department, but I work out of ...