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dishes BSN, RN

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  1. Help with my approach to a career in nursing

    dishes replied to mgenerous's topic in Canada

    You can be a part a two different unions by working for two different

  2. Desperate idea needed

    dishes replied to millal's topic in General Nursing

    @millal, there are always positive and negative responses on a forum, it would be boring if posters all had the same point of view. I hope you don't feel to put off, there were more positive responses...

  3. Help with my approach to a career in nursing

    dishes replied to mgenerous's topic in Canada

    What grounds would there be for a greivance if the nurse is dual licensed and working in the PN job that they have held for

  4. Help with my approach to a career in nursing

    dishes replied to mgenerous's topic in Canada

    The majority of nurses that take a PN-BScN program, do so while already working in PN jobs, the ones that work under both licenses, do it by working in the PN job that they already have, not by...

  5. Desperate idea needed

    dishes replied to millal's topic in General Nursing

    One to seriously study? Do you mean you have researched the telemetry evidence based practice and have found a variety of sub-topics, but don't know which to consider a priority? If so, suggest you...

  6. Never had a job

    dishes replied to RN2b1995B's topic in Canada

    If a nurse has not had any nursing employment, they should list their non-nursing employment on their resumes, after they have had experience in a nursing job, they can leave the non-nursing...

  7. Raised my voice to dementia patient

    dishes replied to ellybean27's topic in General Nursing

    Can you work in a non-healthcare job and focus on recovering from burnout? It is probably a healthier option than staying in healthcare and being

  8. Help with my approach to a career in nursing

    dishes replied to mgenerous's topic in Canada

    The OP is in Canada, most Canadian nurses who read their licensing body's discipline decisions know in order to ruin their license it typically takes; a serious breach of the nursing practice act,...

  9. Help with my approach to a career in nursing

    dishes replied to mgenerous's topic in Canada

    Yes, they are held accountable to the higher level, but it is fairly common for a PN-RN grad to work a permanent PN job and work a casual RN job until they can obtain a permanent RN job. In addition,...

  10. I don't know what to do

    dishes replied to whichone'spink's topic in General Nursing

    In many places, the health informatics speciality has had a saturated market for the past decade, employees are often hired on contract and are disposable, this makes it easy for employer's to hire...

  11. Help with my approach to a career in nursing

    dishes replied to mgenerous's topic in Canada

    If you are licensed as both, you can work as a PN for one employer and a RN for another

  12. Moving to Ontario Canada

    dishes replied to jjeziorowski's topic in Immigration Advice

    Don't make plans to fast track to Toronto, wait until the NNAS results are in, then if your education is deemed comparable to a Canadian BScN, apply to CNO and wait until CNO responds. The process to...

  13. Request not to be placed at certain clinical site

    dishes replied to sheirry's topic in General Students

    Clinical placements are hard for schools to secure, nursing schools do not want to jepordize their privledges with a hospital because of a tension filled student placement at a hospital. Be honest,...

  14. Request not to be placed at certain clinical site

    dishes replied to sheirry's topic in General Students

    Be honest with your school, if you burned bridges with your former employer they likely don't want you onsite for clinicals

  15. Moving to Ontario Canada

    dishes replied to jjeziorowski's topic in Immigration Advice

    Have you received your results from

  16. Desperate idea needed

    dishes replied to millal's topic in General Nursing

    Do you know how to conduct an efficient database search? If not, I recommend you spend time on your school library website or preferably with the school librarian to show you how to search various...

  17. Athabasca U - Post LPN to BN

    dishes replied to Daniel01_'s topic in Canada Nursing Programs

    If the admission requirements are 1,700 hrs I imagine you have to have proof of the 1,700 hrs before applying to the PN-BN program. I don't think Athabasca cares if your total hours are at one...

  18. How do you saline-lock? / What is saline-locking?

    dishes replied to 757RN's topic in Patient Medications

    What kind of learning style do you have? If you're predominently a visual and tactile learner, you might be benefit from watching youtube video demonstrations on flushing a saline lock and asking...

  19. Feeling like the dumbest nurse on earth

    dishes replied to Aloe_sky's topic in First Year After Licensure

    The unit is dysfuntional, I would suggest the OP only hangs in there if the clinical educator agrees to work on the unit and provide hands clincal instruction and mentoring to the OP and the other...

  20. Feeling like the dumbest nurse on earth

    dishes replied to Aloe_sky's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Give serious thought to finding another job, there is no one to adequately mentor the staff. If you stay, there is a high possibility that you will see and/or be a part of preventable sentinal events...

  21. My dream of becoming a nurse has became a nightmare

    dishes replied to NurseKJ5's topic in General Nursing

    @missmollie the OP cannot stay on the floor because as they mentioned in their post, they were fired for not meeting expectations. They are now working in pedi home

  22. Feeling like the dumbest nurse on earth

    dishes replied to Aloe_sky's topic in First Year After Licensure

    High turnover, several nurses with only one year's experience, most of the nurses do not want to precept, one very burntout preceptor, are all red flags that it's a poisoned workplace, you might be...

  23. Nursing-Social Life

    dishes replied to xdrowe's topic in General Nursing

    I interpreted organizedchaos post as saying; when she was applying to nursing school, she wasn't sure if a career in nursing suited her and (prudently) she invested the least time and money in...

  24. Tips for a zero-experience nurse?

    dishes replied to honeyshota's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Diet clinics sometimes hire PNs to give vitamin B

  25. Tips for a zero-experience nurse?

    dishes replied to honeyshota's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Have you applied to any home health/private duty employers? Some IENs in your situation work for an agency, in these cases the agency employer may offer work as an aide at first, then after the...