loriangel14 RN

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  1. You school's book store should carry anything required for your nursing program. Anyhting else you should be able to find on Amazon. I ordered my Mosby drug book from
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    My hospital is going SMOKE FREE!!

    My facility(a hospital in Canada) went smoke free a couple of years ago. You cannot smoke anywhere on the property and we do offer the patch to any pt that wants to quit and there is a program for...
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    Scope of Practice of RPN/RN

    The education for PNs is generally two years now and it is a diploma program and the RN has gone to a BSN degree for licensure in some of the provinces.I would expect eventually all will require the...
  4. Yeah I noticed that too. I thought maybe I should move there!!lol Nothing she says makes any
  5. The OP has not written the CPRNE. She was not given the green light by the CNO. I have seen courses for upgrading from the one year certificate to the new standard of two year diploma but they have...
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    Medication Administration Certificate (for RPN)

    Yeah, Medication Administration Certificate and Patient Assessment Certificate are upgrades to the old RPN education. New grads have all that stuff included in the program now. We spent over 100 hours...
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    Control of controlled medications

    We have med carts. Each cart has a drawer for stock meds, a drawer for each pts individual meds and a separate narc drawer.There are no keys, we all have our own codes and the lock has an electric key...
  8. You have to go back to your own country before you can change your visa to a student one. You cannot change it once you are already
  9. If you have a good read in the International Forum you will find a sticky at the top on SEC assessment. You will not be able to work as an LPN while waiting for the result and you cannot change a...
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    Use of Unlicensed Assistive Personnel in Canada

    Yeah this was the theory of our management as well Jan. Try to explain to a non-nurse that toileting a pt actually was an opportunity for assessment was lost on
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    Use of Unlicensed Assistive Personnel in Canada

    I live in Ontario so I can only speak of my experiences with this. We originally had a designation called Health Care Aid that was later changed to Personal Support Worker. The PSW education has...
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    Happy Thanksgiving

    Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!:hrnsmlys: I had dinner today with the family (25 of us!) noisy and excited as everyone caught up with each other. Anyone got snow yet?? haha We had some wet flakes...
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    The small pleasures you get out of your job.

    My favorite is getting a heavy flannel sheet out of the warming unit for LOL and LOM that can't sleep because they are so cold. The response from having one of those warm flannels spread over them in...
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    Daily assignments -- how are they made?

    Where I work the assignment is done by the outgoing staff for the next shift of that time slot.E.g. days staff makes up the assignment for the next days shift, evenings for the next evening shift etc....
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    RPN bridge in program

    Are you in a part time RPN program? RPN is only 2 years unless you are going part time like I did. If you take a bridge program afterwards it is another 3 years full
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    Funny Old Men

    I have worked with some pretty funny old guys too. We had one a couple of months ago that we were just keeping until a nursing home bed became available. He had always enjoyed a nightcap at home and...
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    Canadian comes to America for life saving surgery

    I have heard repeatedly about our supposed horrific wait times but have yet to see any of this happen where I am. The last 2 times I have been to the ER I have been out in less than an hour. A friend...
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    HELP with nursing assessment!!!

    Why can't you say" I need to check your skin"? It seems like a straight forward thing to
  19. And what would be wrong with
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    Canadian comes to America for life saving surgery

    And if you read more about this woman you will find that she did not actually have cancer, as she claimed, and her life was not in danger. She just wanted to waltz to the front of the
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    How did you decide your specialty?

    I lucked out.I did my final consolidation at the faciity that I thought I wanted to work at(complex continuing care) and it was a perfect fit. There was a job opening and I applied and actually had a...
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    options after graduation

    I will echo what the others have said. Floor nursing is at the core of your foundation as a nurse. There is no replacement for experience and you need that experience to rely on when called upon to...
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    Using Ampules w/o filter needles

    Oh good. I'm not the only one that had never heard of a filter needle. I asked some girls at work and got blank
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    IEN in Canada

    There is no way you can work as a nurse in Canada witout taking the exam and meeting the other
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    Salary for nurses in canada