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dishes BSN, RN

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  1. surrending your license voluntarily?

    Contact a lawyer through the American association of nurse attorneys
  2. foot check on diabetic at dialysis clinic

    Fax an objective note of your findings to the nursing home, keep a copy of the note in the patient's chart, next phone the DON of the nursing home and give the facts to her, let her know you have...
  3. CAS(Competency Assessment Supplement

    manpreet, look at care4nurses org it is a centre for internationally educated nurses and they offer three day workshops on
  4. Occupational Therapist or RN?

    Occupational therapists generally work Mon-Fri 9:00- 5:00, whereas nurses work shift work, some people prefer shift work but others prefer to be with their family and friends during evenings, weekends...
  5. pay

    It is sad and a sign of poor leaderhip, many staff will distrust a manager who resorts to this
  6. pay

    Yes, employers use it a constructive dismissal tactic in hope that the employee
  7. New CNA

    Quit while you're ahead, staying in this place will do nothing good for your
  8. temporary registration

    In addition to having met the requirements and waiting to sit the exam you also require an offer employment, since Ontario's job market is saturated with licensed nurses, employers are not considering...
  9. temporary registration

    Which province are you applying for
  10. There are nurses living with depression, as well as doctors, lawyers, teachers, in every profession there are people living with depression. Seek help from professionals soon, they can help you with...
  11. Horizontal violence in the workplace

    @soulshine, is your research project going to be run by the hospital's research ethics board? Also, do you have a qualified counsellor available for the research participants to speak to (if they...
  12. Which tape to use?

    There are wound care articles with tables that compare medical tapes that can be used as a decision
  13. Student Loan Debt

    I did not take out loans for school, it's just not right for me, I do not want to work hard just so I can pay interest to a bank. The interest on 100,000 is more than I paid for a diploma program, RN-...
  14. Horizontal violence in the workplace

    soulshine, there are countless publications on the topic, in many of the publications the authors included the survey tool they used in their study, have you considered using a survey tool that has...
  15. Student Loan Debt

    I doubt that debt of $100,000 is common, $35,000 or less is probably more
  16. @nomadnurse, it will not be enough for you to take the NCLEX, check with the IEN application instructions on each state BON or provincial college of nurses websites. When you apply to a US BON or...
  17. Scanning in the supply room

    Use of coercion from senior administrators carries on down and normalizes it in the workplace environment, the more prevalent workplace coercion is, the more likely it will be used against
  18. Scanning in the supply room

    This practice is the one that hospitals should adopt, the results will be more consistent and managers will not need to resort to coercion or carrot and stick
  19. Scanning in the supply room

    This strikes me as coercion, if a manager is committed to patient safety, they proactively purchase medically necessary
  20. Scanning in the supply room

    Have you asked the staff their reasons for not scanning? Have you listened to their answers with an open
  21. Do you have well oiled hair? Maybe you can land a role on the American television soap opera 'General
  22. Anything is possible when it comes to responses from provincial college of nurses. The only thing that is assured is that you will not have to write a licensing exam if you are already registered in...
  23. CELBAN exam in Canada

    @nerdynurse do you know about care4nurse org? If not check out their website they are an organization that helps internationally educated nurses. The main office is in Toronto but they have other...
  24. New Grad in Toronto Cannot find job

    If you are contacting RNAO about your struggle finding a nursing job, can you ask them to include advice from a few hospital human resources managers? Your thread has brought up many points for...
  25. New Grad in Toronto Cannot find job

    @lesley find out if the employer accepts general external applications and if they hold them on file for six months, (the information is sometimes on the HR