betsy1963

What are the 6th right of medication?

If I can manage to keep my full-time job for the next 13 years I will retire at 55 and then volunteer some place. I live in Canada so I don't have to worry about paying for health insurance and my husband will keep his drug plan when he retires.

The diabetics can use the glucometer and inject their own insulin under our supervision. The insulin is drawn up for them in the medication room. The lancets and syringes are safety ones to prevent needlesticks after they use them.

Through ONA there is insurance coverage available, but I can't remember the company. However, it doesn't seem like a very good deal-there is a $1200 a year limit on drugs and a $10,000 lifetime. I forget how much it is per month. Also if you have a p...

I,m sure the person just phoned to see if you had given it and just forgot to sign for it. They then could give it late. Everyone is human and I'm sure that most people have forgotten to give a med with how busy things are. I know it shouldn't happen...

Ontario has a requirement where new graduates have to have their BSN.The rest of us are grandfathered. I have mixed feelings about this. While I appreciate the value of a degree, the downside is that there will be a shortage of nurses here that will ...

I wouldn't worry about your height as being an issue, as I'm 5'1" and I haven't had any different problems than taller nurses. The important thing is that you are able to use common sense, are able to say no when you need too and are able to follow p...

This show may have been on awhile ago, but I just came across it. It is about how many mentally ill inmates there are in the prison system. Very interesting and very, very sad. I work in an institutuion that is for inmates with mental health, addicti...

We have a computerized MAR program where I work but I don't know whether it was made up by our IT department or is a purchased software. I work in a jail/Schedule One Psychiatric Hospital. The doctor writes the order originally on a blank MAR sheet ...

I tried to find the contract online, but I couldn't find it this time. I have before but some of the locals websites aren't working. You could try some other time by going to Google and searching sites from Canada and type in ONA. This will give you ...

ONA is the main bargaining unit for nurses, but there are others. Those of us who live in rural areas live well on what we make compared to Toronto, but how would you draw the line otherwise? Wages are bargained centrally.

I can only answer for my experience with ONA. As far as I know type of experience has nothing to do with the pay level."A nurse is a nurse."I don't have a copy of the contract with me, but if there is extra money for BSN it isn't much more. I have no...

The main union for RN's in Ontario is ONA and the pay scale is 22.44 to 33.75.It takes 7 or 8 years of full time work hours to get to the top rate. If you worked fulltime at one place for 3 years and 4 years at another you would be at step 7. The co...

The basic guidelines, for Ontario for example, would be covered under the labour law for the province. You could look at this by doing at search at www.gov.on.ca. Most hospitals and nursing homes have unionized staff and they build on the laws-that i...

There is no across the board entitlement to vacation in Canada that I know of. This is something that is negotiated in contract. Some places you start out with only 2 weeks, but 3 seems to be the norm. A lot of places would also have 10 or 11 stat (h...

We remain RN's by being grandfathered. I believe that they will allow people who are college educated to come into Ontario and get their licence also.

Go to Government of Ontario site and look under education (pull down menu in the upper right hand corner.) www.gov.on.ca Have you considered going to a province where they don't have the BSN requirement, you may get through quicker.

You will have to go to university. I would think that you would need to contact the universities directly to see what credits you will need. I will do a bit of a search and come back with some websites you can look at for contact info.

I'm not sure how many provinces it is now, but I know Ontario will have that requirement as of January 1, 2005. I think it will hurt quite a bit because of the expense of going to university for 4 years instead of college for 2.5-3 years. The communi...

1. I went to a community college and graduated with a diploma. I was a RPN and went to school for 13 months straight to get my RN 2. I work in a prison and look after inmates with mental health issues both Axis 1 and 2 diagnosis' and issues such as a...

The hospital I work in hasn't:o had a contract since Oct. 2000 and are making 19.49. The union is OPSEU. At CHEO, in Ottawa, I hear they make around 24.00 and are nonunionized.

I'm glad to say that when I went to school last year I only had to buy one book for research and the rest were optional. I did buy a drug book and a lab book. Our teachers rationale is that we could use the library or the textbooks that are on line o...

I took mine in October and out of my college class only 1 person failed that I have heard of. I studied from the CNA book and also other questions like in NCLEX book. The questions were similar, but I came out of it not knowing if I passed or failed....

You have to take a community college course that is 2 years long to be an RPN in Ontario. To be a RN you have to go to university for 4 years.

I work in a correctional facility that is also designated as a mental health hospital for those inmates with mental health and addiction concerns. RNs and RPN (LPN canadian equivilant.) look after the inmates.We look after the inmates and correction...