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1. Oil and Nursing

   knina replied to Fiona59's topic in Canada

   My manager says they expect to be informed soon about the details of the hiring freeze, but expect it to be more extreme than the hiring freezes of the last few years. I have heard that already...

2. working conditions - average or not?

   knina replied to knina's topic in Canada

   No, we don't get paid for missed breaks. The manager says to take them. It seems that a "no-break culture" developed out of a situation of long-term under staffing. I've noticed that I feel...

3. working conditions - average or not?

   knina posted a topic in Canada

   I was lucky to get a .63 permanent part-time AHS RN job in Calgary and am able to pick up to full time, of which I am appreciative. The problem is exhaustion. I'm more tired than I have ever been in...

4. Calgary South Health Campus job opportunities?

   knina posted a topic in Canada

   Nurses in Calgary (who have jobs and aren't applying there) tell me that there are lots of jobs at the new South Health Campus hospital and that jobs are going unfilled due to a lack of applicants....

5. community paramedics instead of home care nurses?

   knina posted a topic in Canada

   Any thoughts on why AHS would have laid off 200 home care nurses last year and coincidentally started a community paramedic program? It sounds like they are doing home care nursing to me. See below...

6. Jobs in Toronto and Canada in general

   knina replied to OUxPhys's topic in Canada

   People who don't work in or follow health care trends tend not to know what's going on. Most Canadians think that the "nursing shortage" means that that demand for nurses is greater than supply of...

7. AHS Media Campaign

   knina replied to Fiona59's topic in Canada

   Note that the document posted by UNA refers to Phase 1 of Staff Scheduling Transformation, and only comprises a couple of units at each site listed. More to come. It would be interesting to hear...

8. Dont ESN where you want to work?

   knina replied to kp1987's topic in Canada

   You would be lucky to be a able to be a student nurse on a unit you would like to work on! Or any other unit for that matter. That's weird advice from some other employment era. Nurses hardly get...

9. AHS Media Campaign

   knina replied to Fiona59's topic in Canada

   I didn't hear anything about how lay offs will work. UNA has recently been making reference to AHS lawyers suppressing information about planned lay offs -- this is likely what they are referring to....

10. AHS Media Campaign

    knina replied to Fiona59's topic in Canada

    The media campaign is PR paving the way for a planned "staffing optimization" in 2014. This is what I heard on a unit over the weekend, coming from a management source: AHS has hired a private...

11. Macleans: Health care workers may be immune to unemployment

    knina posted a topic in Canada

    Health care workers immune to unemployment? Or perhaps journalists are immune to accurate reporting on the nursing job market. Health care workers may be immune to unemployment; Aging population...

12. USA psych nurses doing it in canada

    knina replied to Treeskier's topic in Canada

    Yes, you could work in psychiatric nursing in BC with US psych experience and a RN/BSN -- provided you get the appropriate Canadian work visa and a license from the College of Registered Nurses of...

13. US New Grad applying for Ontario Board of Nursing

    knina replied to sunnycalifornia's topic in Canada

    I know an RN who has been nursing in Alberta for 15 years and is a Canadian citizen, but is originally from the US. It took her many months to get her Ontario license, so start early. Also, you...

14. Where would you go?

    knina replied to nev05's topic in Canada

    From what I've heard there are more opportunities in Manitoba than Saskatchewan at present and that recent BC RN grads are working all over the prairies. A friend who graduated in AB in Dec 2012 got...

15. CRNE to NCLEX

    knina replied to donk's topic in Canada

    > And the shift to the NCLEX is evident for people who just wrote their CRNE. The CRNE has dramatically changed from community and health promotion based to medical model based I agree with Steven...