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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.

"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...

Dear drsrn: I am sending you warm thoughts and hugs :redbeathe:redbeathe:redbeathe:redbeathe

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.

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...

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...

.....and this is considered a good day:jester:

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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 days I make a difference in peoples lives. There ar...

Healthy RN: I am there and doing that right now, I can relate. It's not in med-surg, but it is in acute care. What a dump!!! No one is oraganized, everyone does their own thing, and you're told by 5 different people how to do 1 thing 10 different way...

Well, it's no big suprise that management, administrators, and even other nurses live in some sort of fantasy land, I personally like to refer to it as "La La Land". They see the world in one way and then there's reality. In their world I'm seen as "...

Suesquatch, I have read many of your posts and some difficulties you have experienced in nursing. I know you will LOVE this book and will be able to relate to it and become infuriated in passionate sort of way (I hope you know what I mean :)). Once y...

It's an excellent book, one all nurses should take the time to read. Gordon isn't a nurse, but does an excellent job of discussing the problems of nursing, and how nurses are treated by their employer, the public, and how nurses treat each other. One...

At least the part of Canada I live, mat. benefits and leave is one year. This was changed from six months worth of benefits a few years back. You only get about 55% of your income with a max. allowance of $1600 per month. Maria22, what is the ca...

Just out of curiosity, what's wrong with Texas labour laws?

Hi: I was in the same situation when I first graduated. Though I didn't have to, I decided to tell potential employers that I was pregnant. It was solely a issue of trust, I personally did not feel right withholding that information. I did get hired ...

I've had a very similar experience. If you want to talk, PM me.

The term nurse is a bad one. It lacks any meaning of power, and is very feminine (not to imply lack of power and feminine go hand in hand, but in this case it does). With that said, as mentioned already, it is a universal term, and changing it would ...