I live on Vancouver Island, but I am wondering how far North Vancouver is from Children's. North Van is nice. West Van is $$$$. Surrey is horrible. I work with a nurse from Port Moody, it sounds...
I thank God quite often that I am Canadian, and work in the Canadian Health Care system. Also my union is also so strong, that I can't imagine this happening here! I am so sorry you had to go through...
A couple points: - LPNs have a heavy burden of responsibility. Many places here can now have LPNs in charge (LTC) of a shift. -Some LPNs have a harder job than the RN on shift (more back breaking,...
I agree that being a care aide (what we call them in Canada) was a FANTASTIC way to decide if nursing was for me. In Canada, one must do a 6 month full time course to be able to work as a nurse aide...
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omg :chuckle thanks for the laugh...he does have an accent, but it would never make a "sp_" sound turn into a "sh" sound...but you wanna bet that's where our minds kept
My friend got me a chip...but I will get to a meeting any way...thanks so much...it has felt good just to reach out and communicate with other recovering
We have the same concept up here...but one must attend their home group at least once in a while to receive the lovely medallion. My home group is the lunch meeting, at the Alano club. Does the...
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Just yesterday a man with dementia, who has no history of hallucinating and is legally blind, started going on and on about "shanking a monkey"...first he asked "may I shank your monkey" then it was,...
Wow, thanks for all the great advice, support, wisdom, and stories. I am doing a pretty crazy 6 day in a row schedule since my original post, but I told someone I work with how I was feeling, (she is...
Today is my 5th anniversary of Quitting drinking. My 5th birthday as we call it up here. And I feel so lost. When I quit drinking I was waitressing and continued to waitress for the first...
So sad. Thank-you for posting this. The British Columbia government just paid out settlements to thousands of boarding school victims, that is a whole other subject as it is a very controversial...
Whoa! We are just venting about classroom issues really. And the LTC facility I work at treats our paramedics like Gods. I am an LPN, and I have never seen a paramedic treated poorly, we are...