Pedi-Gree BSN, RN

The Health Sciences Centre is an inner-city university hospital and the largest trauma centre in the province. It's comprised of the General Hospital, Women's Hospital, the Rehabilitation and Respiratory Hospital, Cancer Care Manitoba and Children's ...

Which hospital are you interviewing for? I worked in Winnipeg for many years so maybe I can help. When you're having your interview and you feel an "um" or and "errr" coming up, just pause. Don't say anything until the urge passes, which will only b...

I'll bite. Just what EXACTLY do you do hushdawg, who do you do it for and why do you believe that you have a role to play at allnurses.com? You have a lot to say about things you have no first-hand knowledge of and seem not to be interested in hearin...

I worked in a hospital that used the PRN system of assessing acuity. There were dozens of criteria that when added up gave a score for the patient. It took the bedside nurse about five minutes to run through the list and circle all the interventions ...

This might offer some insight into the situation: Fired Filipino nurses seek reinstatement Anne Kyle, Leader-Post Published: Friday, November 21, 2008 REGINA -- Some of the Filipino nurses fired by the Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region said Friday the...

I think you would be surprised at how many people who posted to this thread (and who wrote the very same exam) are NOT IENs. To suggest that Canadian-born or naturalized candidates have a smaller and less-important stake in the results is rather sel...

Most IENs will be working more than 250 hours of supervised practice simply by being given their hospital orientation. That's only about 6 weeks of work. It's not such a big deal. Oh and if you think that references from previous employers are ignore...

Didn't see this answered anywhere. It just means to use printed letters and not cursive letters. Block capitals are usually easiest to read, and that's why they're asking that - they want to be able to read whatever you've put on the application

I'm not overly familiar with the collective agreements in place in Ontario. If your facility is a union one, there will have to be a copy of the CA somewhere in the building for you to look at. If you work at a non-union facility but you're consideri...

I think I just answered this question on another thread! As one of the other posters said, once the tubing starts to stiffen it's too late. But you can keep your new tubing (yes, you can buy just the tubing - Google the manufacturer) from stiffening ...

You want to be careful when you clean the tubing on your stethoscope. Too many applications of alcohol or Cavicide will cause it to stiffen and crack. Every once in awhile I use a tire dressing on mine. It's meant to keep rubber tires supple and lubr...

There is very little in the preceding 28 posts that relates to universal health care and how it would affect nurses' incomes. Could we get back on topic maybe?

So let me see if I have this straight. You're paying $3000 in premiums a year JUST FOR HER. In Canada that amount of tax money would cover an entire family of four under universal health care. No deductible, no copay.

A lot of that will depend on what province you're working in and the collective agreement in place. In Manitoba, a 12 hour shift is 11.625 hours of paid time. There are three 20 minute paid breaks and a 37.5 minute unpaid break in each shift. In Albe...

Sounds like we were really lucky with the 2 1/2 hour classes we got. We're rolling them out next week. We didn't get the PCA or the syringe pumps, only the large-volume pumps. I'm alarmed (no pun intended) to hear that they're so sensitive to air. Th...

I've watched a second-year peds resident intubate a toddler with a critical airway in a single patient room containing two patients, the other an adolescent who was on a low air loss bed and also trached and vented. To get to the child's head he had ...

I worked in a unit that used them for bigger kids. They worked very well. I remember on kid, an adolescent with Down Syndrome who was admitted in septic shock. Very ill on admission and several days before he started turning around. When he did, well...

Maybe you should deal with them directly and not use your sister as a go-between. Then you'd have the information directly from them and you could ask any questions that occur to you while you're in contact with them.

I'm surprised fiona59 didn't respond to your question since she's an LPN and is in Alberta. (Read some of her posts.) I guess you could try that but I don't think it will get you anywhere because you don't have practical nursing education, you have R...

I looked at the online postings at Capital Health and see that there are vacancies in both grades. However, of the actual postings there were 32 for LPNs and 212 for RNs (not including any that might have more than one position per posting number). O...

WOw, this is pretty basic, and in a large part self explanatory. Infusion volume = the amount of fluid in a given infusion ie a bag of IV fluid, a minibag of antibiotics, the amount of fluid in a drip chamber etc Drug dose = the amount of a drug orde...

I'm not sure I understand the question. Blood can only hang for four hours, so the minimum rate for a transfusion of 300 mL of PRBCs would be 75 mL per hour. That is basic information related to blood transfusions. In peds patients the amount of PRBC...

Your delay might have something to do with the fact that the temporary permission for Filipino RNs to work as LPNs in Alberta was a pilot project, an attempt to salvage a plan that went off the rails. When the Alberta health regions began recruiting ...

Didn't chinky give you a link to the form for SRNA's credit card payments? And the package that janfrn linked you to has the same form in it. You're applying for initial registration. Is that what has you confused? You can't be registered anywhere wi...

RPNs (LPNs) and RNs only share an educational track to a point. Many provinces won't accept partial completion of the RN track as entry to practice for the RPN/LPN field because there are specific differences in scope of practice and they prefer that...