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The fact that there is a nursing shortage has created a situation whereby the amount of money you do make is directly related to whether or not you have a life outside nursing. If you check out that website you will find that at Sunnybrook Hospital in 2005 there were 30 staff nurses who earned over $100,000 with a couple earning over $130,000. This tells me that opportunity is there, how motivated are you? :sofahider

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Hello there, Sounds similar to me. Origionally from Nfld and started nursing back in '65. I also went to Saudi back in '96. Stayed 3 years in Riyadh, worked at KKESH, (Mustashfa I-oon). Where did you go?

Good Luck!!! Education is very expensive in this country.

Don't pay attention to naysayers. I worked as an RPN for 20 years and went back to school when I was 38 years old. I graduated as an RN at 40 and am very happy I did. I have been employed full time since then. I have travelled and worked in the middle east, and experienced a totally different culture and have not regretted my decision.

Wow! Nice to hear from so many Newfies. I can't imagine where one would travel in this world and not meet up with one. So Anjeeh when did you graduate from Humber College? Who knows, we may have crossed paths?

hi, there is no way the treatment you got is acceptable. it is true that nurses and even doctors expect you to "heal thyself" almost, sometimes if they get even a suspicion you have nursing training. they seem to forget the human asapect of nursing and the need for assistance and reassurance when you are on the receiving end with health problems. whether it is embarrassing and/uncomfortable tests or, as in your case surgery, anxiety levels the playing field to a place where we often do not think like a nurse. it is situations such as these that difines a truely compassionate nurse from a career nurse with tunnel vision. i had a tah a few years back and having witnessed similar situations during my career i gave specific instructions to the staff in advance. on the first day postop i was in the shower when my surgeon came to see me and wrote a discharge order for the same day. when i was informed i instructed the nurse to contact him and say i would not leave until the following day and i needed instructions from him personally before i left as it was the first time i had had an hysterectomy. i did get my request as i felt it was his responsibility to me. don't be afraid to insist on getting your questions answered and demand to get the care the nurse is responsible for. it is your right as a human being and her responsibility as a nurse. let all of us who read such horror stories endeaver to be more understanding and compassionate especially to our peers. let us remember we are human beings first and nurses second. we have all the emotions, fears, and concerns the lay public has, and from time to time need to draw on the compassion of our peers.

I am from NFLD, currently living in Ontario. Trained as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) in St John's at the General Hospital in class of '66. Went back to school 20 years later and graduated from last 21/2 year RN Diploma course at Humber College in 1987. Have travelled and worked in the middle east and am still employed full time but have slowed down to nightshift on a LTC floor.

I find this topic rather interesting as it seems this is an international problem. What I have observed is that these so called managers are frequently in the "over 50" age bracket themselves with control issues. They have been in their positions for some time, have not kept their knowledge base current and could not even begin to do all that is required of a staff nurse today. They feel their positions are threatened by someone who can rise to the task at hand and therefore must get rid of them. Since most places are protected by unions they cannot just fire them so they make it as unappealing as possible to work there. They will often set staff against each other as well to discourage a united supportive group who might expose them for what they really are. After getting rid of good nurses they proceed to hire nurses who come from areas where subservience is the rule, and wages were the pitts. Those people will never question the antics of those narcicistic managers, and if they did they are not about to confront them about them. That secures the control managers feel is slipping away from them.