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All health authorities are hiring new grads so pick the area you would like to live in and apply to that health authority.

We raised a lot of money in 2 ways: 1.We asked musicians- singers, bands etc to volunteer to peform around an outdoor gathering place on campus(the reflecting pool). A lot of students ate lunch there in good weather. We then passed the hat and accepted donations. We did this on a regular basis throughout our training so no last minute panic fundraising. 2. We started a tradition of the nursing students masquerade dance at Hallowe'een. We solicited great door and costume prizes and charged admission.Other profits came from a licensed bar(only to students of legal drinking age of course).

You will be better able to control your own symptoms over time. A surgeon taught me a great trick for inserting NG's. Along with all the other tips about sitting up, head bent slightly forward, sip water if able- ask the patient to keep their eyes open at all times. Have you ever seen anyone vomit with their eyes open? Doesn't happen. If they do this, it controls their retching and makes the insertion easier for them and for you.

It might be worth your time to do a search on previous threads re plantar fasciitis. Rather than focussing on shoes as the solution to your problem, it would be wise to look into the cause of the pain and correct it. Often, we have tight calf muscles which shorten up, pull up on the achilles tendon, which in turn pulls up on the plantar fascia. Physiotherapy may be helpful both to teach you the proper stretching exercises, and also for other therapies, e.g ultrasound etc. I found that doing the stretching regularly(including at work during my shift)totally resolved my pain. I have had no flareups for more than 10 years and I could barely hobble before because of the pain.

A previous poster gave you the correct information re contacting the CRNBC. Their website is My understanding is that UK nurses often lack education in psychiatry, and pediatrics or maternity. I have heard that there is an initiative wherein you can be granted an license to practice as long as you do not practice in those areas until you have upgraded your education. Good luck. We welcome all the RN's who want to come to BC. We need you all.

If you have no desire to live in a big city why not consider something more in the interior of BC? The lower mainland is actually one big city from Vancouver to Abbotsford. If you don't know the streets that delineate the boundary of one city from the next, you would never know it wasn't all the same place. I suggest you look into opportunities in Interior Health:Kamloops(Royal Inand Hospital);Vernon(Vernon Jubilee) Penticton(Penticton Regional). Housing will be 1/2 [or less] the cost of the lower mainland(even Maple Ridge}. Access to the great outdoors is easier, cheaper and faster. If you want to come down to the big city for a weekend it is only a 4 hr drive. Good luck and enjoy your move.

If you look at the postings for other jobs you will notice that under "work status" some are per diem, some are full-time, while some are as you have quoted. That means that : 1/2 =half time 2/5=.4 of full time etc etc etc

All needlesticks should be documented and reported. Even if you poke yourself with a sterile needle that has never touched anything, you can be tracking organisms from your skin into the underlying tissues. Each needlestick shuould be screened using the protocol in place at your worksite. Not every needlestick will require blood testing or prophylactic medications, but all should be documented in case you develop a cellulitis, so that you receive pay for a work acquired injury if you are required to be off work.

This is another advantage of a publically funded, not for profit, publically administered health care system. We can just log in to the Pharmacare website and look up our patients medications, dosages etc.

It is very anxiety provoking to have a needle poke of any sort. I cannot answer your question with a reference but our lab told us it was useless to save the needle as they could not do testing on the amount of residue that might be left in or on the needle. Try to relax as your exposure carries a minimal (although not zero) risk. You make a valid point though. Even if you had kept the needle they would have had to do the testing anyway. Phone your local compensation board and ask them your question about the threat not to do more than one set of testing. Use this incident to improve the handling of sharps in your worksite. All sharps retuned from customers should be considered used and disposed of safely in an approved sharps container. There is no excuse for a pharmacy to have such slack procedures that they put employees at risk.

Have you looked at their website to gather more information? Might help to formulate your questions. Have you worked in the US before? You will want to know if the workforce is unionized, do you have a rotation(schedule)? what would it be like? are you sent home without pay if census is low? etc I liked phone interviews as I could have all my questions written out and in front of me along with answers to questions I though they might ask me- helps when you have those momentary brain freezes "Give us an example of ..." etc. Good luck although we need you at home too!

"Out of scope " means that the position is not included in the bargaining unit i.e. not a union position. This is because there are duties associated with the job description for this position that belong to management. As far as the salary goes, most hospitals pay all managers doing relatively the same job, the same salary. You likely will have very little room to negotiate. I don't know about Alberta, but in BC the public service employers are obliged to report on every employee who makes more than $70,000 annually. Try looking at the employer's website. See if you can find a few manager's names by their title, then look for their annual reports to see if you can get some idea what their salary ranges are. Good luck!

The information is on the website of the Department of Health for New York State. On the Department website find menu entitled site contents on right find laws and regulations and then click on title 18 find search box and type in 487.7 f,(resident services, medication management) . Under personal care services the operator provides medication assistance. Medication assistance doesn't have to be provided by a nurse. However the operator must provide training to the personal care aid in how to provide medication assistance to the residents. Hope this is helpful. Information like this should not be so hard to find. Unfortunately, it often is.

Yes, it does matter what diluent and the amount that you add. Some medications require specific diluents. Also, if you add 10 mls of diluent to the powder in a vial you do not end up with 10 mls as per your calculations. Your volume is just a little bit more.That is why you will often see "add 5.8 mls of diluent". If not having the package with the instructions is the real problem, I suggest that nursing address the problem with your pharmacy to ensure that directions are available with each dose.

I worked over 20 years in acute care and never once injured my back. How? I went back to school as a mature student so I had a heightened awareness(as you seem to) of the inherent dangers. Although there will always be totally unpredictable events, in some ways we can control our response. You should not be lifting anyone. Ensure that your facility has a "NO manual lift policy" and abide by it. Never attempt to reposition anyone without the proper training. See the physiotherapist at your worksite for additional learning if this is not part of your orientation. Do not do q2h turns until you have help.These are not emergencies- they can wait. Ensure that you have the proper equipment- turning sheets that reduce friction, transfer boards and belts etc. Practice what your reaction will be if you are assisting a patient and they fall. Assist them to the floor- ease their fall. Do not sacrifice your back to keep them upright. Wait until you have enough help to get them up from the floor. Remenber to use scoop stretchers- should be available in ER or elsewhere in your facility. Do not heroically lift a patient back up onto a bed if they arrest. The code team can conduct the code on the floor. After all, they are already on a good hard surface and they can't fall off it. NICU can be difficult as leaning over bassinets and isolettes is hard on the back. Ensure that you have safe footstools to use. If you work in the ER, check to see that guidelines are in place to assist patients from vehicles. Do you have the correct equipment and training to keep both you and the patients safe? If not, ambulance should be called to extricate the patient. What about codes that occur on hospital property but outside the building? Do you have a policy? If you have to respond, do you have a bag of necessary equipment including a gardening type knee pad to kneel on? Also in ER, push for all stretchers to be hydraulic and able to go low enough to enable a patient to pivot from wheelchair to stretcher. Allow patients to do most of the work. Even someone with a broken leg can stand on their good one and pivot with support. Ask your Health and Safety Committee to do preventive safety assessments to ensure that you have an ergonomic workplace.