Fiona59

Cannot like this enough. Clinics are hard to get into! It took me 15 years to get an interview in the clinics in my hospital. But so many new grads expect a clinic job with less than six months of working because ‘it’s Monday to Friday, day shift...

I went into nursing thinking LTC would be my future. Loathed it. Turns out I was meant for Acute Care. don't start school with blinders on.

Are you employed by AHS or Covenant Health, can’t re the name of the catholic system in Calgary? check the posting boards, they usually offer the training a couple of times a year.

I highly doubt it. The only extra jobs on units are due to Covid and are often staff drawn from clinics. The screeners are also drawn from reduced staff units. I know people who have been redeployed to general medicine units. The gove...

If you are currently in Alberta, you should be well aware of the UCP plans for healthcare. Pretty much every nurse with less than 10 years seniority is worried. Bumping lists have been drawn up in some areas.

The current government in Alberta has promised to cut healthcare spending. The plan is to eliminate 11,000 support jobs and 750 nursing positions. My unit currently has four lines that can not be posted and one full time line that is posted as ...

Read that posters other posts. There’s more to the story

Read up on the UCPs plan for healthcare

I guess when members of your family are attacked and murdered, driven from their livelihood, you shouldn’t warn people?

Where is the Walmart located? That would be a biggie in the equation.

We're metric. So learn kilos, centimetres (height and weight) Temps taken in degrees centigrade. Blood sugars are in mmols. Basic patient care? Minimal nursing aides on units, esp. ER (service workers are there to clean the bays, change stre...

As a casual, you can make yourself available for one shift only, but you usually won't manage to make full time hours. When I first started working, I could only do days due to family obligations. There were times when I had two days work for a pay...

Took nearly 17 years to get a one shift line. you just do what you have to do.

I don't work in Ontario but in my province, my ER has multiple shift patterns. There are 8 hour shifts that do D/N, D/E. Then there are 12 hour rotating A/B shifts. The shift starts are staggered and different from the rest of hospital to optimize...

Er, even AB government is planning on slashing nursing jobs. The economy sucks. I’ve got 20 years seniority and am worried if I will have a job this time next year.

You'll need to remember that the LPN carries her own patient load and isn't there to assist you.

The Premier wants to slash AHS to the bone and privatize surgeries. His government hates unions. how does that sound to you? Private LTC centres are always hiring

Alberta Health Services employs NPs in their Correctional contracts

Well, if you read my post correctly, I wasn’t responding to the OP.

UCP is wanting to slash healthcare spending. Our leader has promised layoffs and wage cuts. RTs have started to get lay off notices. It's a scary place to work right now.

The Pandemic is slowing everything down. You must have patience. My provincial college staff are all working remote. Audits were cancelled.

Going to nursing school with an infant is not easy. If the plan is for her and the child to move to the US, she'd be better off childcarewise being a teacher. No shiftwork to cover and school holidays.

Er, this is the Canadian Forum. Athabasca has had a bridge for nearly two decades and I've one coworker doing her NP currently. A couple of others are slogging away at their degrees. The NP degree was never meant to be used the way the Americans u...

Totally depends on the union according to some people. Everyone that I know that made the switch lost their seniority/start date. Seniority is when you start with an organization. Portability gives you credit towards pay rate. Vacation and sick ho...

The bridge gives you a four year degree. I know people who have gone LPN-BScN-NP