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  1. Universal Healthcare/Nursing Salaries

    "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 highest paid province in Canada (out of 10 province...
  2. HIV Needlestick

    Dear drsrn: I am sending you warm thoughts and hugs :redbeathe:redbeathe:redbeathe:redbeathe
  3. placed on unpaid adminstative leave today

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

    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 all get upset if someone tells us we are doing som...
  5. 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 like a lunatic wondering where the he** it went. T...
  6. Riddle me this

    .....and this is considered a good day:jester:
  7. 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? Where I live in Canada, the employer has no right to ...
  8. Fired

    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 incident while being new to the environment sound...
  9. Urine Dip question

    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 main concern.
  10. Scary Side Effects

    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 have gall-stones but the pain was related to constip...
  11. nursing in the Canadian north

    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 things work out for you.
  12. nursing in the Canadian north

    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 are actually sent to a nursing station. The length...
  13. That Phantom Nurse

    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 any sleeping or pain pills, and there is no indicat...
  14. Who's got their hand in the Demerol cookie JAR?

    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" has generally gone out the window, but this is insan...
  15. Where did our autonomy go?

    With all due respect, where is the autonomy is writing nursing diagnosis no one else recognizes or even cares about? Where is the autonomy in following protocals? I don't know about you, but I sure don't feel fufilled if I hold a med. due to a patien...