fancee free

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1. Universal Healthcare/Nursing Salaries

   fancee free replied to JerseyGir1's topic in General Nursing

   "The top salary for a Canadian nurse, after 20 years is around $27 an hour" THis is not correct, choskins. I work in Canada and earn over $33 dollars per hour at a basic Nurse 2 rate. We are the 5th...

2. HIV Needlestick

   fancee free replied to drsrn's topic in General Nursing

   Dear drsrn: I am sending you warm thoughts and hugs

3. placed on unpaid adminstative leave today

   fancee free replied to jrbl77's topic in General Nursing

   I am really sorry to hear that this is happening to you. I am sending you positive thoughts :redbeathe. I hope everything works out for

4. How do you convice elderly people of certain things?

   fancee free replied to justme1972's topic in General Nursing

   This thread should be renamed "How to convince people of certain things". Young or old, we all are set in our ways, some of them right and many of them wrong, at least in the eyes of someone else. We...

5. Not being informed of when a patient of yours went to a procedure

   fancee free replied to hollyberry678's topic in General Nursing

   I work in a hospital where they rarely tell the nurse (me) when a patient is taken for a procedure. In addition, the chart is often taken with the patient, so I am left stranded looking for the chart...

6. Riddle me this

   fancee free replied to cmonkey's topic in General Nursing

   .....and this is considered a good

7. Do nurses, DR's, health care workers get randomly drug tested?

   fancee free replied to Imissthefall's topic in General Nursing

   Random or routine drug testing on staff is a invasion of privacy and I am suprised that people seem so passive about it. At what point do you draw the line regarding your privacy and your rights?...

8. Fired

   fancee free replied to Blades's topic in General Nursing

   It seems being fired was extreme for the situation you outlined. I am sorry for what happened and am quite suprised you were let go. If it was a repeat offense, then I would understand, but a one time...

9. Urine Dip question

   fancee free posted a topic in General Nursing

   When you do a urine dip, what are the main things you are looking for? I know this may seem a little silly, but there are a whole slew of possible results and I have a hard time remembering what is of...

10. Scary Side Effects

    fancee free replied to MA Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Well I was on effexor and developed really bad constipation, I mean really bad, but the docs never thought of that and diagnosed the pain as being related to gall-stones. I almost had surgery (I do...

11. nursing in the Canadian north

    fancee free replied to alianeco's topic in General Nursing

    No problem. I hope it works out for you. All the nurses I spoke with who do this love it. Don't be discouraged about having little experience, you gotta start somewhere. Good luck, let us know how...

12. nursing in the Canadian north

    fancee free replied to alianeco's topic in General Nursing

    If you go to the Health Canada web site,they provide a lot of information about it, http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fnih-spni/index_e.html. My understanding is that they provide you with education before you...

13. That Phantom Nurse

    fancee free posted a topic in General Nursing

    It's happened to me a few times when my patient will tell me how "that nurse" who worked last night gave them a sleeping pill or pain pill, however when I check to the orders they are not prescribed...

14. Who's got their hand in the Demerol cookie JAR?

    fancee free replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    am i the only one shocked that you had to take a drug test??? that is a complete invasion of your privacy and complete disregard to staff. i know that the saying "your innocent until proven guilty"...

15. Any Regrets?

    fancee free replied to nursedudeforchrist's topic in General Nursing

    Had I known that nursing can be so cruel, I would have never, ever gone into nursing in the first place. However because I found this out too late, I have to look at the positive aspects. Yeah, some...