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Food for thought, but if your desired program is for an NP qualified for all-ages, you may not have enough pediatric experience to get in (assuming you work adult med/surg). When I was interested in applying, they were turning away experienced adult ...

I'm starting in Fall 2014 at University of Alberta. Is there anyone else out there, Canadian or otherwise?

Hi Crisbiss, I haven't been back on this forum for a while, but I decided on MPH because I really like how diverse everyone's background is. We have lots of physicians, allied health, epidemiologists, environmental health, nutritionists, etc etc in t...

I would just like to add that AHS is not the only game in town! I work for a major university, get way better benefits, and an excellent schedule with summer holidays and a week at Christmas. What's more is that I am not one of 60+ nurses doing my sa...

Saw this going around FB and it's quite clever! [video=youtube_share;DxoAbK5Pc6w]

I had a homecare infusion client whose RN wife wanted to give his infusions via butterfly as she was not comfortable with IV catheters. His infusions only lasted for 15-30 minutes. All the research I turned up indicate that butterfly infusions are sa...

In my ED, there are a few NPs, but their role is to manage chronic disease patients. So there is one who sets up follow-up care for heart disease patients, and another who prescribes IV antibiotics for the IV clinic and decides when they are safe to ...

According to Lexicomp, these are compatible, and there are no warnings against infusing concomitantly - is there any reason you couldn't run them together?

Already have my grad school application in for 2014, and it's not in nursing..

I would recommend that you work in the specialty where you eventually want to work in research. I'm an emergency RN and I have been working in Emergency Medicine research since January; my experience on the floor has been invaluable. In addition, you...

I work for a university and a private homecare company. I don't regret leaving AHS for a second. The benefits are way better outside of the union negs, too. I kept my casual position to maintain my seniority, but it's really nice not feeling too worr...

I heard the radio ad. They are very disparaging... the whole campaign is baffling! Unless it's to try and justify bringing on more NAs and HCAs in lieu of nurses...?

Well said Jan!

Research nurses need to be highly organized and very detail oriented (ask me how I know). In life I am a very Type B, but at work I know the status of all my studies, my research patients, and all of their extensive paperwork. Typical ICU nursing exp...

Depends what area you work in. I'm in Emergency Medicine. Several of our studies get me in the heart of the action without TOO much responsibility. I also find working to tight timelines to be very fast-paced. Different strokes!

Yes, these are called Case Report Forms, and they are for officially documenting the data to be tracked at each visit: bloodwork, vitals, that kind of thing. We consider CRFs the actual study documentation (what actually gets put into the database fo...

I had 6 months of ED RN experience before I was hired as research coordinator in emergency medicine research. It was all about what I brought to the table from my previous experience. I think you'd be a solid candidate.

Hi everyone, I'm currently in the beginning stages of coordinating a new study. I'm pretty new to this role (just hit 6 months). It's a brand new study (the PI basically just handed me the grant proposal and said here you go, let's get started) Now t...

Amazing! Thanks for your help!

Me too

I'm curious about how "at-risk" the bonuses really are. I mean, AHS fell short by basically every metric they measured. OCP all the time, no decrease in LOS for subacute, deep cuts to disabled care. Not sure how they justified to themselves that they...

So happy my primary employer isn't AHS anymore. Although it's not so great working for a university right now either.

They aren't - we call RAAPID 24/7

They find beds and consults for patients who need to be moved from one place to another. All requests for beds and consults must go through RAAPID. The nurse on the phone ultimately decides what happens with the patient, and some nurses get pretty up...

Not sure what it's like to work for them, but I definitely know what it's like to call them... dare I say RAAPID is the bane of our existence in Emerg? It all depends on the individual nurse you speak to.