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If you are willing to go further out of the GTA, you will have better success at gaining employment. Peterborough is where I'm at, and we are looking for nurses for home care. This involves driving from client to client, and we do have some remote areas. The greater Toronto area is saturated with nurses, so keep that in mind when you consider your move.

Hi there! Have you applied to home health care agencies? Especially in the Peterborough and Kawartha areas? They are hiring right now due to the new palliative care contracts that were initiated by the CCAC.

Peterborough, ON is hiring rpn's/rn's but you having access to a vehicle is mandatory for the community nursing agencies that are hiring

We got a letter to thank us for working for their company. That's it. Oh well, I got more thanks from my clients which means more to me than a letter mass printed.

Yes it is ltc or LTC long term care as in nursing or retirement homes

Have you tried applying for home health care? There are companies in the gta that are hiring. Same with ltc

Good for you! I'm just wondering though why you think you will lose your skills doing homecare though?

If you are worried about your resume, there are companies out their that will work with you to make your resume the best it possibly can be. I would also email it more than just the one time. Dont go overboard, and perhaps give their HR a call and say you are interested in their company and what can you do to apply there? I always fax my resumes but that is just me. The agencies are probably just offering on call because the "new year" for the access centres just started (april) so they have their new budgets and give out more contracts after then.

I know the Scarborough Hospital is looking for RPN's, part time I believe. Rivera INC is looking for RPN's. Rouge Valley, Toronto East General Hospital, and some of the home healthcare agencies are looking for RPN's as well. That's all that I can think of for right now. Hope this helps.

What part of the GTA are you looking at? Durham or Mississauga or somewhere else?

Alot of jobs require clean criminal checks and they state so in the advertisement they have. I know doing homecare I have to provide a new police check every year that has to be clean so I can continue to work with pediatric clients. It might be worth it just to have a clean criminal record so that you are not limited in the jobs that you can aquire, and especially with the tightened border securities as well.

Northern Ontario is CRAVING for nurses. Alot of reserves or cities are offering signing bonuses and relocation costs because of lack of population and/or health care options. Make sure you research where you will be living and what your duties will include. Sometimes, the more they are willing to pay you, the more remote you may very well be. Best of luck! By the way. If you are looking into doing visit nursing in the community, more jobs will open up in March/April as that is the beginning of their new year for contracts and budgets.

http://www.hospitalceo.com/category/compensation/ The hospital in my area (Peterborough, Ontario Canada) the CEO made in 2008, $310,982.92. Now, they just slashed about 150 nurses and cut about 31 hospital beds because they are running in a deficit. Fairness? no way.

He is trying to do this before they restrain him. So when he wakes up and asks for mom, they think that he is trying to rip stuff off and restrain his hands..I know this because one of the nurses stated to mom what he was doing and why he was restrained, then mom states what the sign for mom is. Again it comes down to communication breakdown

I dont know why you are taking this so personally..I know for a fact that this child is not screaming or biting because he is deaf/mute. I know that when he wakes up he is asking for his mom. The sign for this is an open hand being brought up to the chin and tapping the thumb against the chin. All he wants is his mom. I understand the use of retraints, I understand the placement of IV's, I understand the importance of COMMUNICATION, which is what this vent was about. If everything was communicated properly, quite POSSIBLY, he may have had his IV elsewhere, quite POSSIBLY he wouldnt of been restrained. THAT is what I'm venting about. Not the inadequate care that he is receiving at the hospital. The staff is highly skilled, and he does get good care there, but, one thing not being communicated leads to all of this. This was a vent to let people know this. That communication is important, and also just a view from a different perspective. That is all I was trying to do. Not headhunting PACU nurses.

I dont think that anyone has said that these people are being mean on purpose!. I started this post for knowledge about placement of IV's on Deaf clients and how important communication is. This has come down to a breakdown in communication among healthcare providers, NOT PEOPLE DOING IT TO BE MEAN. Not once have I said that it is being done because they want to be mean. I think that the main focus of this post was that his ARMS WERE RESTRAINED because of a breakdown of communication that this child is deaf and speaks with his hands. Mom is getting a laminate board made up of pictures that are most used so that she doesnt have to be present 24/7 because an ASL interpreter isnt available. Again, it was food for thought from a different perspective.

I dont think in all of my posts that I wrote that they put in his IV in his hands because they wanted to be mean. I know it is a very logical place, but, the kid uses his hands to talk. He is fluent in sign language, can sign over 1200 words. There are other places on kids to place IV's other than hands. ESPECIALLY a deaf child. It is written in his chart that he is deaf. Also, not once have they refused a surgery because they were told not to put an IV in his hands.

I have only been with him for almost 2 years now, and only for a handful of surgeries. Most of his surgeries were around the 6 month of age mark. It is on his chart that he is deaf, it is written on the pre-op paperwork and it is given verbally to the staff. Besides writing on the kid's hands, there isnt much else to do. I am homecare in one district, and the hospital is in another city. I write notes, but again, no one is listening.

For the past 2 years, all of my clients surgeries have not been "rush to the OR" type surgeries. They have been scheduled surgeries. The veins in his arms are not compromised and could be used as well as many other sites on other parts of him. And I disagree with "you have no say as to where they place an IV". Your body is your body and if you dont want an IV in a certain site, you have the right to refuse. Unfortunately my client is only 5 and doesnt know this. Mom does but again it gets lost in translation some where along the line

He is coming up to 50 surgeries so far. Unfortunately I am his homecare nurse and do not get to see him before surgery at the hospital. Mom is a great advocate for him and tells the nurses that he is deaf and not to place the IV in his hands, but it always gets lost in translation and he comes out of surgery with an IV in his hand and restrained. Its so sad.

When you are prepping a pediatric client for surgery, and you find out he is deaf, DO NOT place his IV in his hands! It is how he talks! And when he comes out from surgery, do not tie his hands down because he is not trying to rip out his tube, he is trying to tell you he wants his mom (IN SIGN LANGUAGE). I dont know how many times my client has come out of surgery with IV's in his hands and they are strapped down. Would anyone like an IV in their mouth and gagged coming out of surgery??? Sorry just frustrated.

I believe I answered your question already. I also said "I believe" thats what it is, because i went straight to RPN, i didnt bridge. They didnt have the bridging back then. Maybe before condeming something you should do the research and find out the truth. I was simply trying to pass on the information that some one was asking for, because this bridging program is so new. FYI - my program was 2.5 years as well.

www.flemingc.on.ca is the college website Sutherland Campus 599 Brealey Drive Peterborough, Ontario K9J 7B1 Ph: (705) 749-5530 Toll Free: 1-866-353-6464 Fax: (705) 749-5507 Peterborough has one of the highest average ages in Canada, so there are plenty of LTC centers here.

In Ontario, PSW's get a credit for the first Semester for the bridging program. They are put into second semester I do believe. I know Sir Sandford Fleming College does the PSW to RPN briding program, but they are in Peterborough - a fair ways away from Niagara Region

The hospital in Peterborough hasnt made any plans to cut RN's yet. What is going on is a Peer Review of the hospital because they are running a $12 Million Deficit. The Peer review suggested that the hospital CUT BEDS, therefore cutting jobs, not replacing them. The hospital is newly built, and the government has not yet handed over the promised $10Million to build it. Staff is overworked, stressed, and the hospital is underfunded for the area.