chihuahuaman

I graduated with 65k in student loans. I'm 3.5 years into my 10 year repayment. Thankfully, for the Canada Student Loan Program we can make additional payments ! I'm planning on doing OT to speed up the process. My monthly payments are high and I'd rather be saving up a down payment for a house!

Thanks for your thoughts on this subject. I had my interview today and they didn't ask any questions about ethics! Yay for me!

Thank you. Now that you've mentioned your story, I too have been in a similar situation, but with physical restraints that I felt were being used just for the convenience of the management.

Thank you. I like your approach!

Hello, I have an interview on Monday for a new position and I'm trying to get ready for the questions. One of the common questions I just can't seem to wrap my head around is the "Tell us about a time you had an ethical dilemma and how you dealt with it". I've talked to friends who are nurses about it, I've searched this forum but it seems the scenarios I think are ethical dilemmas never are. Does anyone have suggestions or feedback to help me distinguish ethical dilemmas from ordinary difficult situations? Thanks.

Thank you for your comment. BC nurses should still make it a priority to fill out their surveys and mail them in the postage paid envelope before October 21! If we don't demand that our union leadership fight on our behalf we could very well end up working even more hours!

"Hey everybody! I just received a survey from BCNU regarding the next round of bargaining next year. I know many of us have been negatively affected by the poorly thought out changes to our health benefits, and I personally am not at all happy by the increase in the work week to 37.5 hours. This is our chance to let the union leadership know that we are not happy with the results from the last contract negotiation! PLEASE fill out your survey and send it in before October 21!!! Please ask every nurse you know to fill out their survey too! Nurses are the largest workforce in the health care system. Together our voices can make a difference! Thanks."

Where I work in Canada, an RN can pronounce death provided comfort care orders have been signed by the doctor and death is expected. This, however, has no bearing on what you can do in the facility where you work in California. Your best course would be to check your facilities policies regarding this issue.

In BC, only RN's insert IV's and yes that is taught in the hospital. IV insertion is outside the scope of practice of LPNs and they can only hang plain NS, no KCL or meds. Perhaps it's different in Alberta.

My unit has an LPN on per shift, but the acuity of the floor keeps rising so there might be fewer appropriate patients for them to care for.

I had a horrible term 7 clinical instructor when I was at Langara. She was very persecutorial, and not supportive. Even in the classroom, her anecdotes were about how she hounded someone under her supervision until the other nurse quit her job. PM me for the name if you want. Anyways... I think she was trying to fail me so I went to her supervisor and lodged a formal complaint. After that the instructor she had to write everything out all formal like, so she couldn't just fail me without cause. Like you, all my previous instructors said I was a good student. I was a mature student so maybe that made a difference? At some point you just have to smile and keep your head down. The end of term is only a month away, right?!

Your co-worker has a really sweet deal there! She's got the power!

I get an extra $100 a month with my BSN.

I agree with Esme12; Get a care plan book. Once I got one of those, doing my care plans became so much easier. The book I bought was Nursing Diagnosis Handbook by Ackley and Ladwig. It had all the NANDA classifications and plentiful interventions with rationales. It was really easy to use. I had the sixth ed. I'm sure there are newer out there. Erik

Some results were delivered today in BC. Got my certificate today. I passed. In Vancouver.