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WOW!... Thats OT here in Canada... if you are working four 12 hr shifts in a row (2 days, 2 nights)... then we are given 5 days off and then start the cycle all over again. Anything more is OT. I feel bad for you, that is a long couple weeks of work

you will encounter math on any unit. Heck the unit i work on rarely has enough iv pumps for the amount of patients... we have to go back to good old taping the bag and counting drops..... try that with a continuous infusion going, intermittent meds etc etc... best to know the basic equations for all situations

changing patients sheets and cleaning the bedside... LOVE clean beds, and clean patients.

There is only one in our utility room. I only use the baggie if its an isolation patient. If its not, then i usually pop a gel pack in it to solidify and bring straight to the utility and drop it in the machine. If its a really large bm or something, ill usually just wheel the entire commode to the utility.

They have measuring lines, and also you are given the weights of the product, so you can weigh it and figure out how much the patient has voided

Its called VERNA CARE We have it at the hospital i work at. And they are VERY durable. Basically there are bed pans (the sliders) the ones for the commode, urinal, and the wash basin that come in a brown pulpie kinda material (carboard-like). Usually I put a gel pack in if im disposing of a bed pan to solidify the urine so it doesnt slosh everywhere. but you just bring it to a desposable for vernacare and it breaks it down and vanishes (literally... in the machine). http://www.vernacare.ca/product-overview/pulp-and-support-products.aspx

50,000 units? I dont think I have ever seen this concentration before? Do they even use this dosage? Im sorry for youre mistake and the emotional distress you are experiencing at this time... HOWEVER, you are a licensed professional.. and youhave the duty to report any mistake or error. I understand you may be scared to report it because you are a new RN... you are afraid of losing your job etc. but THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOU ANYMORE. This is a patient safety issue. The mistake was made yes... but you are a grown adult, be responsible, be a professional. and remember, we are all human, we all make mistakes.. and we all hope to learn from them :)

Hi everyone... I am in my 4th year of Nursing School, Vancouver, BC. Looking to move back up north once i have finished preceptorship, so if you have any advice for jobs up there.. pm me :)

Hey everyone, I was wondering if there is any nurses on here who work for Northern Health in BC. I am just finishing my last year at the University of the Fraser Valley in Chilliwack, BC in the BSN program. I am interested in re locating once i am finished nursing school, since I have a large amount of family members who live Taylor/Ft St John/Dawson Creek... even as far as FT Nelson. I was just wondering how the job market for RN's are there... I notice a new hospital in Ft St John is being built and I am serious about moving and working within that community.

Most do not work.. however we are finishing 3rd year now and here in Canada, BC you can be an ESN (employed student nurse)... so most of us are working as nurses in the hospital paid. I quit my other job going into nursing school though.. i am glad i did. but i enjoy making almost as much as the RNs do when i am working as an ESN.... but if you need to work to pay bills/family etc... try and do so to a minimum :)

60% is a pass... however for clinicals we have to do written evaluations in which if you do not meet at indictators you do not move on... and we have personal evaluations with instructors as well. we had one math test way back in semester 1 that needed 90% and over.. but honestly it was simple calculations. I think the hardest class is pathophysiology... you pray that you get 60% in that class.

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I worked in a chiropractic office before nursing. It was just me and the chiropractor... no nurse (i was a student nurse.. but she didnt hire me for that purpose) . However the pharmacy i worked at had an RN :)

surgical patients are those who are either pre op, or post op patients. Many have drains, picc lines, CBIs, epidurals, dematone checks, LOTS of IV meds, stuff like that. Medical patients are those who are all non surgical. so they come in with UTI, Sepsis, hypoglycemia, all the electrolyte imbalances, many for falls, CHF, failure to thrive.. and the list goes on and on :)

Nursing 305 multiple transitions 4 credits Nursing 307 Nursing research 4 credits Nursing 308 Nursing practice 5 credits and 20 weeks of palliative/medical clinical. HALF WAY DONE 3rd YEAR!!! I cant wait for next august to grad... oh my... i cant wait