lemur00 BSN, RN

While we aren't desperate or anything, SK is hiring. You do have to be willing to work in whatever field staff are needed however, because only certain units really need staff. And you have to time your application right (not in december when most g...

One need only work in rehab or convalescence for a while to see why doing "for" is often NOT helpful. As the old saying goes "use it or lose it" and if there's a nurse on the other end of the call bell willing to do everything for them, some people t...

When I was a student, I had a patient that got mad at me because I told her I would walk WITH HER to get water so she could get the exercise. She launched into a tirade about how I didn't care and obviously was just too busy for poor her until I remi...

In SK we get paid the extra hours. Full time lines are given 12 12s plus one "stat off" in 4 week blocks. The stat off is an 8 hour paid day off in lieu of working the holidays (part time employees are given a portion of this based on what percentage...

I am now in a position where I'm being forced to work days after working all nights for years. I hate everything about day shifts. EVERYTHING. Most people hate nights and want to trade with me so I get rid of a few of them, but they're awful. I think...

In my practicums we were instructed on our first meeting with our preceptor to ask for the 10 most common medications and the most common procedures done on the unit. Then we had to research them and send the med research to our faculty advisor, alon...

I do know at least one person who was able to write the CPNRE after dropping out of the BScN program back in the early 2000s (though typically they frown on this). IENs are also able to get licensed as PNs while awaiting assessment from the SRNA (...

Well, we are frequently told that a PN education isn't the same as a BScN education. It's one of the reasons "bridging" is discouraged. If, as is argued, the focus is different (with PN being more practice or trade based, while BScN is more concerned...

Do you consider the post LPN program at Athabasca to not be a "bridging" program? I don't know that much about it, but it was always kind of portrayed that way by people who took it. SIAST/U of S actually had a pilot bridging program for a very short...

Ugh the person all "Where are we supposed to get qualified nurses?" Try Canada. We have a few newer nurses on my unit who moved from BC and AB because they couldn't get full time jobs in those provinces. I think it's probably a good thing to not be ...

WAT. There are actual nursing boards there? Does this mean those people we're paying our professional fees to are just pretending??? Man. I feel so used.

Saskatchewan?

They're usually pretty accurate. The only time I've found that they aren't is if the patient has a very irregular heart beat or is overly afraid of the machine.

Actually if the OP gets the physician to order it as a scheduled med, the nurses who are currently not giving it will give it if they have to sign for it. So that would be a way to ensure she does get the med and therapeutic levels are reached. Same...

Ever read William Faulkner? No idea how the dude scammed a Nobel Prize for literature and two Pulitzers with grammar like that.

Like I said, it is up to the manager. Ours would not hire anyone who didn't have their course at any time.

This depends on whether the manager of a facility wants to hire people without education. They can, but they don't have to. In the facility I worked in, our manager wouldn't hire us until we were actually finished the course. Others would hire us as ...

Around here, public health is the position to covet. One usually has to have years of seniority to get into it. In nursing school our entire program was geared toward community nursing. Public health nurses are also on a higher pay scale than other ...

Depends on your feet really. I have high insteps and also a scar on my right arch. As a result I can't wear shoes with arch support, and I have to be able to adjust them for my instep. So it's really individual. For example I was already limping in ...

Yep. That's the management I used to work under. Meetings with union reps and the whole deal to discuss the "problem" of making a patient wait for five minutes to have pillows fluffed or some silly thing because we had the nerve to attend to others' ...

I really think a "patient thank you note" meme would be pretty hilarious.

Yeah it's likely the same thing (pt orders for life sustaining tx? We call it my voice or MVLST). The protocol here is that the proxy usually only speaks for the patient if the patient's wishes aren't known. So if they have already filled out specif...

Yeah, there's been a fair amount of research here showing that "no fault" reporting means that people do a lot more reporting of themselves, and more errors are prevented. And fewer report others out of spite or manipulation. "Accountability" too oft...

There's a reason "Work to Rule" is an effective labour resistance technique if followed consistently. Employers have policies and best practice guidelines primarily for show. They claim to be committed to such standards, but in reality no unit I have...

Yeah the ones whose families want us to do everything while they pray every day that God will "take me home". Painful. Not entirely convinced that a slow code is a terrible ethical violation in those cases. Our health region is moving away from the ...