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I got my results today (Edmonton area), and I PASSED! Several of my classmates in the Edmonton area also got their results today too, while others are still waiting.

No mail from CARNA for me today, but I checked online earlier and I also have the link to apply for my permit. I'm taking that as a positive sign!

Well, I got mail from CARNA today, but it wasn't THE ENVELOPE, it was the Alberta RN magazine. Is that a good sign?

Up until this point, it hasn't been too bad waiting, but now that it's coming closer to the time when the results are mailed, I'm starting to get anxious! I'm in the Edmonton, AB area, I'll post when I get my results :)

If you are planning on gaining into nursing, go in with your eyes WIDE open - it's a mess now. Also consider if you want to work at the bedside or not - it's looking more and more like if that's what you want to do, go for LPN. I am in my final year...

I'm lucky that I have the freedom to work anything from casual to full time, and would actually PREFER what so many people seem to dislike, such as night shift. Unfortunately, most of my contacts are in Edmonton, so I'm not sure if they will be helpf...

I'm scared for two reasons - one is that my parents are aging, and it scares me that they might not get the nursing care they need when the inevitable health issues pop up. I can see myself spending all of my free time at the hospital to make sure th...

I wrote a paper this semester about the whole workplace transformation issue. If you can find a copy of the Clinical Workforce Strategic Plan 2011 - 2016, March 16, 2011, Version 8.10, on Insite, it is an interesting read. What I don't understand is...

If you are accepted in the winter intake, don't worry about taking your CPR course until the summer - you don't need it until your second semester and you need to renew it yearly - you probably don't want to renew it in the middle of the school year ...

UNA released the number of job losses expected AHS plans to reduce RN 'head count' despite ad claiming it's seeking more nurses - UNA

Lol, and look at the job postings - most are for part time or casual lines (for both RN and LPN). UNA has commented on it AHS misleading Albertans on nurses work hours - UNA

I agree. From what I can see, their plan (if it even works) will provide a short term fix until the boomers start retiring in large numbers. In the mean time, nurses will have left the province in search of employment elsewhere. So many in my grad cl...

I'm currently working on a paper regarding the whole workplace transformation that's going on in AHS. In some of their areas of their documents they are saying that if they are able to increase the FTE average to around 0.8 then they will no longer b...

MacEwan is 3.0 - they will accept anyone with a GPA at or higher than that average, in order of application (basically apply on the first day that applications are open for that intake). I got in with a 3.88 (I think) on 21 credits, plus a high schoo...

Congrats! You will get a letter saying what you need to do, but you will need CPR (which you will renew yearly, and you need it before clinicals - maybe plan to do it in the summer so that you don't have to worry about renewing during school) as well...

I'm starting my fourth year at Grant Mac, and I don't think they have a specific orientation for the nursing program. We did have someone come and talk to our NURS 170 class about some vague stuff, but nothing specific about the program. If you have ...

http://www.una.ab.ca/190/elimination-of-frontline-nurses-in-edmonton-adds-to-provincial-total "UNA representatives were told that Alberta Health Services plans to eliminate twenty-three Registered Nurse positions and four Licensed Practical Nurse pos...

Fiona, did she say what her increased responsibilities will be? Did she say how AHS seems to think this will work?

I'm working as a health care aide in home care right now. My coworkers and I were talking about it, and they agreed that there is no way they would feel comfortable working on those units.

I think if you live in the city, you have to get it from the city police, which can take awhile. Those of us living in areas where there are RCMP are lucky because we can have it done in a much shorter period of time. Some of my classmates ran into t...

Well, I managed to get the casual Health Care Aide position for the summer, and have an interview for a UNE position later this week. Both are rural; the Health Care Aide position is an hour away from me, the UNE position is 2 hours away from me. I'm...

I keep trying to warn my classmates about this (starting 4th year BScN next fall) but everyone seems to be in denial right now about how bad things are. I graduated from high school in 1993, and even though nursing wasn't something I was remotely int...

I'm considering myself lucky that I have an interview for a casual home health aide position...rural...an hour away from me. I've all but given up on a UNE position for the summer. I'm just hoping that getting into the system will make it slightly ea...

I graduate next year, this is very discouraging. Thank you for sharing the information though - I've been warning my fellow nursing students about this.

I've just heard that they are only hiring internal applicants for UNE positions right now (U of A, not sure about other sites), so good luck to anyone that is not already working for AHS