Kessadawn... Wow! You have a gift for storytelling. Thank you for sharing your experience so personally and emotionally. Reading it, I felt like I was there.
No educational program alone can prepare someone for the "real world", no matter what they are studying. Only the real world can prepare you for the real world. What we need to do is to stand up for new grads/new hires on our units and insist that ...
As others have stated, most costs associated with hospitalization are covered under our provincial health plans (some exceptions I have seen are the cost of splints or braces and medications not covered in the formulary that the patient's family may ...
Where did you do your master's? I'm starting to think about doing mine and I would love to know where you went and why you liked/disliked it. Also, has anyone out there done a joint NP/Master's program?
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Durham College in Oshawa hosts the (?only) online critical care course in Ontario. It's a new program started this year. It's designed to be finished within 8 months at your own pace, so far with September start date only. http://www.durhamcollege....
Kamy, I have to say that I really did not do that much studying. There were a few things that I knew I needed to brush up on (especially pediatrics since it wasn't much covered in my program), so those things I covered by reading textbooks. I felt th...
I just wrote the CRNE in June, and I really don't think that the CRNE Prep Guide is the book you want yet. Although it is great at helping you know what kind of questions to expect, it is very limited in the number of questions it provides - not nea...
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The Humber College - University of New Brunswick program is offered in Toronto at Humber College but is a baccalaureate program because of its affiliation with the University of New Brunswick. I don't have any information about those programs speci...
You should have your Hep B (or if you've already had it, you should have your titre checked), varicella if you have never had chickenpox, ensure that you have had a measles booster at some point (usually done at age 16), tetanus (if not current) and ...
i bought an anatomy colouring book to brush up before starting. It has just a short blurb on each page, enough to introduce things. I wish I'd spend more time on the muscle names - my prof really expected a lot!!!! Trent
I also struggled with the choice of programs as a mature student with a previous university degree. I ended up at Trent University in Peterborough where they have a "compressed" program that allows students with previous university degrees to finish...
Thanks for all your insight everyone! The paperwork is in now, and I guess I'll find out in October (isn't that a rediculously long wait?). I'm always interested to hear more, so feel free to share. Thanks again, trent
I'm a third year student thinking about ottawa for my consolidation. I'm interested to hear your opinions on how students are welcomed in different units of the ottawa hospital and/or queensway carleton hospital. Feel free to pm me if you'd rather no...
Hi! I'm a BScN student in Ontario, and thinking seriously about trying to find an OR placement for my independent practice/consolidation/preceptorship (whatever they're calling it this year at my school!). The placement director said that this migh...
Here is a link to the different provinces' regulatory bodies. http://www.cna-nurses.ca/CNA/nursing/regulation/regbodies/default_e.aspx www.workopolis.com has a lot of RN job listings, a lot of them in Ontario, but some from across the country. Good...
Just a reminder to everyone: it's not the colour of the polish that leads to infection control problems, it's the polish itself. Clear is no better than bright red, pale pink, etc.
this is kind of old, but i just came across it. what do you think? do any canadian nurses have experience with the lemonade? http://www.drgreene.com fasting before surgery one of the unpleasant aspects of my son's operation was not allowing him to...
I think my school's policy is that students can't see their final test papers before marks are released officially. This is what my academic calendar has to say: Graded examination papers are the property of the University and are not intended to...
I think my school's policy is that students can't see their final test papers before marks are released officially. This is what my academic calendar has to say: Graded examination papers are the property of the University and are not intended to...
Here's a link to the CDC's botulism page. It has answers to all of the questions you posed. http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/botulism_g.htm I'll keep your dad in my thoughts. trent
Here's a link to the CDC's botulism page. It has answers to all of the questions you posed. http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/botulism_g.htm I'll keep your dad in my thoughts. trent
Are you studying ethics right now? If this was an essay for an ethics class, I would focus on the ethical concept of autonomy and how it forms the basis for confidentiality, and the right to be free from paternalism (e.g. nurses deciding who needs t...