Fox88

Ok so I went today... and I'm now leaning more on the "no go" side of things. Apparently they don't count all the training or summers into the time that you owe them and it would be almost a five year minimum commitment. I dont' think I can handle that at this point in my life. Not to something so strict and out of my control once I sign on that dotted line! Also, during all their Officer Basic Training I am not nursing at all, I really feel that because I'm such a new nurse that i need to keep at my skills otherwise I'll loose them quickly. Also, to be brutally honest I don't think I'd last the basic training. I want to be a nurse but I'm not the kind of person that wants to be yelled at because I didn't polish my boots at 5am (I'm over that, my mother yelled at me every morning all through high school to get my butt out of bed!)! :uhoh21: My big draw to them was the pay, I'm having trouble coming up with the money to pay for my last year and for them to pay my last year looked really good. I have loans but am now very possibly cut off because my co-signer recently got laid off. Don't want to apply for OSAP because when I graduate, if I can't get a job, i'm not sure if I could be able to afford to make two separate loan payments at once every month. The whole thing is so frustrating!!

Ok so today I think I'm going to go check out what they have to say at the recruitment office! Wish me luck! This may sound stupid but what do you mean "check out the reserves before signing on the dotted line"?? :stone I figure it can't be that bad, no one else is hiring "eagerly" around here. I wouldn't have job security anywhere else (they pay for my education, I think they'll keep me around till I've paid them back!)... who knows, maybe I'll go today and find out it's definately not for me. (Although money is running out and this school stuff is PRICEY!) :uhoh21: I'll let you know what I find out!

I was just at the Ryerson Nursing fair and was really discrouraged by most of the hospitals and recruiters there except for the armed forces. They really caught my interest. I'm now going to be looking seriously into what they have to offer. I keep hearing the good... what's the bad side??? From what I understood that the recruiter told me is that they'll pay for the remainder of my education (1 year) at my current University, so tuition and books and then give me $2000 a month allowance for living expenses. In return I need to give them two years service for every year they've paid for in school - so I'd owe them 2 years. I'd have to take physical training (I don't know what that involves yet) and bilingual training (I am already bilingual) as well as some other trainings. This all looks pretty good for me since no one else wants to give me a job! I'm going to the recruitment office sometime this week to find out more. Can someone else shed some light on this for me? Thanks

My aunt is a coordinator at an ACL (Assisted Community Living), residence for seniors and is getting a new client in the next couple of weeks who was recently sexually abused by an intruder into her home. The woman is in her eighties and although she is seeming to be handling things well now while she is living with her daughter, my aunt is worried that she won't be once she moves into this new apartment/residence and realizes the full impact that this has had on her. My aunt asked me to see if I could find any resources that she could use with this woman and/or her staff (PSWs, not nursing), to work with this woman. We live in Ontario, any help would be appreciated. She'd like ways to perhaps coach the staff on how to support this woman emotionally in an effective and appropriate way (even what to say and what not to say to this woman). I suppose that the organization that she is working with isn't giving her these resources already... Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

I'm a nursing student and this is what some of our courses are all about. CARING! One of our teachers says that she is trying to change and improve nursing one bit at a time through us. SHe doesn't say that people who have been nurses for a long time are bad nurses at all. She knows you're all WONDERFUL she just knows that it becomes crazy sometimes and wants to teach us how to not let that happen (or maybe not so often). Anyways, back to your question... I haven't worked in the hospital yet cause I'm only 5 weeks into my degree but they talk a lot about making sure the client is turned often (if bedridden) and that they have cream and massage used if appropriate. I know from being in the hospital as a patient, any extra attention, even comforting conversation while my iv bag was being changed made a world of a difference. Again, most of this may be completely irrelevant because you may be doing it all already! Hope it helps or leads to some ideas! ps we learned about those bath bags the other day in class and I was wondering...