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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 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...

  3. 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...

  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. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. 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...

  10. 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....

  11. 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...

  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...

  16. replacing the CRNE with the NCLEX

    knina replied to baby_nursling's topic in Canada CRNE, CPNRE Exams

    When the news about the switch to a computer based, NCLEX type exam came out (while I was in nursing school) I was 100% against the change and signed the petitions against such a switch. My thinking...

  17. Irish RPN moving to Canada

    knina replied to psychonurse86's topic in Canada

    I work in mental health in Calgary and have run into RPNs from the UK and Ireland working in psychiatric settings over the past couple of years. I don't know the specific details, but basically it...

  18. Nursing in Alberta

    knina replied to UK_RN_AJ's topic in Canada

    And yes, AHS is currently making budget cuts again. I'm looking for a job in mental health so that is what I'm hearing about, not sure what is happening in other areas. One manager said that there...

  19. Nursing in Alberta

    knina replied to UK_RN_AJ's topic in Canada

    nursesmarty, I still think it is worth pursuing taking the CRNE in Canada and finding out what else CARNA would want you to do to be able to practice in Alberta. I recently talked to an RN from...

  20. Nursing in Alberta

    knina replied to UK_RN_AJ's topic in Canada

    joanna73 speaks the truth, sigh. Good advice. The profs at my faculty of nursing totally believe the hiring initiative propaganda. One would think that they would have a clue about the realities of...

  21. Nursing in Alberta

    knina replied to UK_RN_AJ's topic in Canada

    Just to add to what others have said about the job market. I'm currently finishing nursing school in Calgary and my classmates have found it much easier to get job offers in Saskatchewan and Manitoba...

  22. Moving from US to Saskatchewan- I don't think I want to work at bedside any more.

    knina replied to blarn's topic in Canada

    I talked to a nursing recruiter at a job in Alberta recently and he said nursing jobs in urban areas of Saskatchewan are pretty saturated and to think

  23. Prospective international nursing student in Canada

    knina replied to vimge4's topic in Canada

    if i were applying for jobs in the us, i would be tempted to say i had a bsn, thinking it was equivalent, since they would not be very familiar with bns. i can't really see any difference between...

  24. Prospective international nursing student in Canada

    knina replied to vimge4's topic in Canada

    Congrats on surviving fall prep vimge4! Working as a PSW is a great idea. I am around both younger students who tend to work a lot while in nursing school and older students who tend not to (because...

  25. Prospective international nursing student in Canada

    knina replied to vimge4's topic in Canada

    thanks you guys for the info about sending a copy of our post-graduation work permit to be submitted for approval when registering for the licensing exam. this might delay when we can take the exam...