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I work in a level 2 special care nursery and discharge teaching varies depending on the needs of the infant. Are you supposed to focus on mom's discharge from postpartum without her baby? Maybe her discharge with a 36 week late pre-term infant who ...

I am a new grad and had the great fortune to be hired into a level 3 NICU. I have finished my class based orientation and am starting my preceptored shifts this week. During our orientation I learned that our unit does sterile line changes. Essen...

Thanks for all the feedback! Looks like the poll splits us 50/50. Glad to know it's not just us. I was going to ask the educators on my next set in whether I had misunderstood in training! I definitely hope it will get faster, right now I feel like...

Hi rlsdhounds, I am just finishing my fourth year in the BN program at Humber so I can't tell you too much about the PN program. I will suggest that you might find more helpful advice in the Canadian forum (you might want to ask a moderator to move...

Trillium in Mississauga runs a Clinical Nurse Extern program every year. The app usually goes up around March I think on their website. They hire for the summer but often extend into the school year.

Oh- and I'm going to ask a Mod to move your question to the Canadian forum just so you might get more information from other sources who are familiar with the various options.

Ok. So, I'm not completely familiar with the Sheridan program. I am however really well acquainted with the Humber program. If you have taken university level courses in high school and maintained an over 80% average then all three options are ava...

Hi Dawntoearth - second year was way different from first year. Second year was tough! I actually try not to scare people but go into second year expecting to study more and to adjust your study methods. It was tough but definitely do-able. Just ...

I took a LTC placement in Oakville. Got an awesome instructor (although she's on mat leave now so you wouldn't have her). Honestly, first year I would just pick the location closest to home for you. There is so much excitement for the first clinic...

I graduated with about an 83 as well, but I was applying as a mature student. I got into Humber/UNB and I'm really enjoying the program so far.

Where did you graduate from? Your best bet is usually to check with them as some schools only offer the bridging program to their grads. For example, Humber's bridge is not found on their website because it's currently by invitation only based on g...

Hi everyone, I'm working on my first NCP and am feeling like I'm failing miserably. We were given no direction at all, just welcome to clinical, please have two NCP ready for Thursday (3 weeks after starting clinical on Maternal/Child). There's a b...

Thanks NicuGal for all the help - I just got my feedback yesterday during my last clinical. My instructor actually asked me to email her my care plan (they were submitted in hardcopy) so that she could use them as examples for future clinical groups...

Thanks! I've now moved on to the mother half of the care plan. This one is going a little easier :)

Hi NicuGal! I wound up going with imbalanced temperature given his low birth weight and prematurity. But I'm happy to think this one through. So, the phototherapy was complete. The bili levels should have been taken the day I was there (although th...

Sorry, it cut me off. Bili levels were: Day 1 108 Day 2 (am) 103 Day 2 (pm) 89 Day 3 108 On the day I was caring for Twin B his vitals ranged quite a bit HR 125-165 RR 16-62 (irregular) T 36.8C - 37.2C We transferred him from the isolette to the c...

Thanks Esme! I've seen you post this before and it's the only reason I'm close to completing a care plan :) I decided to go another route. We were not really told how to go about this, and it's based on a child that I've already spent the day with a...

Yup - waiting is the absolutely, hands down worst part of the whole process. I'm dying waiting for timetable options to be posted and I know that it won't be for weeks As for the lab kit, it's included in your fees. The uniform scrubs were $40 I t...

I haven't really gone through the kit in full. Inside there was the stethoscope, BP cuff and individual packets for each year. Mostly looks like general supplies to practice things like wound care, iv starts etc.... In all honesty, I wouldn't wo...

She And thanks for answering. I really wish this was something available to all students, that's an incredible opportunity. Good luck on the CRPNE!

Hi jordynnmac! I wish I could answer your question for you. Unfortunately, I'm actually asking one of you instead :) You said you completed a BscN to RPN bridge at Georgian but I can't find any trace of it on their website. I wondered if you could...

1 - classes can be anywhere within the school, and for some reason, mine always seemed to be 3 floors apart Overall there's enough time to get where you need to go, the school looks massive but once you get to know your way around, it's actually n...

Hi sweetpeony, I'm sorry you've had such a bad time of it already. I'm getting ready to start second year at Humber and I've had a pretty good experience overall. To be perfectly fair however, I wasn't a fan of the admissions office and I haven't ...

When I started the nursing school application process, I was given assurances that I would be able to keep my fairly well paid call centre job during school - as a part-timer instead of the current full time. Well, July 2012 rolled around and I had ...

Well, fingers crossed, but if I get the casual position, it's actually unit clerk on an inpatient psych unit. The community access centre is essentially helping case managers with data entry, phones/reception, calling in appointments that type of th...