RN58186

RN58186

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  1. Transplant nursing

    RN58186 replied to emilynorth's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Sorry, I can't comment too much on pay scale, since we are unionized here my pay is exactly the same as I was making before I moved. Although our position title is Transplant Coordinator we are...

  2. Transplant nursing

    RN58186 replied to emilynorth's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Oh my that's a lot of people to go through - when I had my interview it was my manager, the assistant manager and the medical director of the transplant program. One interview, 45 minutes with all...

  3. med/surg nurse needing feedback from Psych nurses

    RN58186 replied to kcmylorn's topic in Psychiatric

    I have actually been admitted to mental health; I am diabetic on insulin. I have had some of the mental health nurses come into my room with the glucose meter and say to me "I understand you know how...

  4. Nursing intervention for schizophrenic patient having sex?

    RN58186 replied to robinslapsRN's topic in Psychiatric

    Can I chime in from a bit of a different viewpoint? I was admitted on a mental health unit, sharing a room with a young lady just diagnosed with schizophrenia. It was July, she had the window bed,...

  5. Transplant nursing

    RN58186 replied to emilynorth's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Did you get an interview for the transplant coordinator

  6. Funny & Cute Things Our Demented Patients Say

    RN58186 replied to TheCommuter's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Two things come to mind: Elderly lady from the Caribbean, blind on dialysis. About 22 years ago. In a four bed room and she would spend much of the night calling "God, help me! Please God, help...

  7. Transplant nursing

    RN58186 replied to emilynorth's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    We don't have inpatient coordinators here, just outpatient. When they are in hospital their care is totally managed by the inpatient staff. My day? Well, like I said, I do case management for...

  8. Is This What We Have To Look Forward to With Privatized Healthcare?

    RN58186 replied to Fiona59's topic in Canada

    Some small communities here are losing their LTC centres. Residents are being forced to move away from the community they have lived in all their lives to a place where they may not know anyone or...

  9. Is This What We Have To Look Forward to With Privatized Healthcare?

    RN58186 replied to Fiona59's topic in Canada

    I would really like to move her and at least try somewhere else. But she would rather be close to us - my Mom has a history of people she loves leaving her so she wants desperately to be somewhere...

  10. What a coincidence. . .every single student nurse who shadows me. . .

    RN58186 replied to thesundowner's topic in General Nursing

    I was totally convinced when I went into nursing school that I wanted to do either L&D or mission work overseas. Well, I fell in love with one specialty just before I graduated and have worked...

  11. Is This What We Have To Look Forward to With Privatized Healthcare?

    RN58186 replied to Fiona59's topic in Canada

    My Mom is in LTC (privately owned) and honestly, it is appalling. There is one nurse I trust, I don't believe a word the rest of the staff says to me. They are saying that they are turning her q2h...

  12. Experienced Nurses Should Leave Legacies to New Nurses

    RN58186 replied to jasnms's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    A number of years ago one of the RN's who oriented me to my first job retired. She was a wealth of knowledge and never too busy to answer a question. I remember looking at her on her last shift and...

  13. Discouraged from pursuing Nursing...

    RN58186 replied to mimi26's topic in Canada

    If I had it to do over again I would do it in a heartbeat. I have had plenty of bad days over the years, but so many good ones too. Some of my favourites? The three year old who came up to me the...

  14. Adventures in Psychiatric nursing-

    RN58186 replied to Guest717236's topic in Psychiatric

    Hats off to the psych nurses - I couldn't do it! I have been admitted to psych units and have seen what the nurses have to deal with and I could not do it. (And yes, I have been one of those pts who...

  15. Just want to thank you all

    RN58186 replied to clousehaus's topic in Psychiatric

    I have the most respect for psych nurses. I am a nurse, but have been admitted many times to inpatient mental health units. I know first hand that I do not have what it takes to be a good psych...

  16. med/surg nurse needing feedback from Psych nurses

    RN58186 replied to kcmylorn's topic in Psychiatric

    I am not a psych nurse and don't have an answer to your question but one of the things that is helping where I live is that one of our hospitals has opened a inpatient medical psych unit - where the...

  17. Why do some RNs hate this?

    RN58186 replied to nursingstudent2458's topic in General Students

    For a long time my best friend repeatedly told me that nurses were underworked and overpaid. Then she got sick..... Now she says that one can never pay enough for a really good

  18. Transplant nursing

    RN58186 replied to emilynorth's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Most of us in our clinic came from either the inpatient renal unit or dialysis. The liver and lung nurses all came from ICU, heart nurses came from inpatient cardiology and CCU. If any of the...

  19. Transplant nursing

    RN58186 replied to emilynorth's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I am a Transplant Coordinator; I have a case load of approx 200 post transplant pts that I do case management for. I follow them from the time they get their kidney or kidney/pancreas until they...

  20. Totally lost! Need Help..(Canadian Immigration)

    RN58186 replied to che_RN's topic in Immigration Advice

    According to the assessment posted by Silverdragon102 they are asking for paid work experience: You must have at least one year of full-time paid work experience, or the equivalent in part-time work....

  21. RN in VON- Victorian Order of Nurses .

    RN58186 replied to MarinaH's topic in Canada

    I think it depends on the VON office involved. Yes, they are a well-established institution and well thought of in most places. I did some work for them here during flu vaccine season one year and...

  22. What is it like to work in a clinic?

    RN58186 replied to JZ_RN's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    I work in a transplant clinic. I have a case load of around 200 pts that I follow from the time they leave hospital with their new kidney or kidney and pancreas until they either are back on dialysis...

  23. RNs what do your weekly/monthly schedule look like?

    RN58186 replied to teeheeuhoh's topic in Canada

    I am spoiled - I work Monday to Friday 0800 to 1615, every 4th Friday off. (I work in an outpatient clinic). When I worked inpatients I worked 8 hour shifts, full time days/nights. My last rotation...

  24. My first patient death

    RN58186 replied to katielam616's topic in Medical-Surgical

    The first one is the hardest. You did well, glad you were able to help the daughter through it all. I have worked renal for 22 years. In some ways that makes it easier, but in some ways harder as...

  25. Stethoscope for fall 2012

    RN58186 replied to Mrs.Priss's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I have a Littman Classic that I got when I started Nsg School in 1987. It still works but I retired it in favour of another Littman a few years back. Still in great shape, I just decided it had...