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Yes I have tried to get them to understand how the schools errors have caused issues.. They simply do not care

What are our rights as grad students when the school messes up? I have been playing catch up all semester due to being blocked out of my online courses at the start of the semester for some "unknown" reason that was not my fault. I was also majorly delayed in starting my clinical hours which was also the schools fault. These things may not seem like major inconveniences to some people, but to me they were. When you are living out of hotels and attending clinicals almost in another state, doing class work, taking tests, studying, working, driving back and forth, and just plain dealing with life..... To top it off every instructor grades differently and follows thier own set of rules and all the students know it. The school takes zero responsibility for any errors while students are expected to be held to a higher standard. Do we have no rights? I've went up the chain of command but it's me against a million. What would you do?

The letter was in the mail when I got home from work yesterday. I was accepted!

I was eaten by my first nursing job.. the struggle is real

I applied for Dual track FNP and Acute Geront... Haven't heard back

I am about to take my first Dialysis travel position. I have talked to lots of travlers and called lots of companies. Foundation Medical Staffing is a company I trust and many others do as well. They linked me with a permanent position in the past and they do what they say they will. Many other travel companies give a dishonest vibe. People like Fortus. I decided not to go with fortus since they mostly have chronic assignment and i needed acute. Fresenius and Fortus are known for paying travelers well from what I have heard from other travlers.

It just takes a while to get into the flow of the unit. 2 weeks is very little time to make such a harsh judgment about your capabilities. Once u get to know the patients and schedules better you will be able to plan ahead for the busy turnover.

I believe it is pretty common. This is what the acute programs do in my area. Often the patients primary nurse can do some trouble shooting by calling the 1800 number on the machine and most patients know how to operate the cycler on their own.

There is no right or wrong answer to this. I did 6 months of med surg and hated every second of it before I switched to dialysis. If you start in a dialysis clinic you will be on your feet all day long non stop so I don't think that it's any less physically demanding then med surg. I like dialysis because I'm doing less dirty work and waitressing. Once you have a solid 6 months in a chronic dialysis setting you can move to acute dialysis. Once you move to acute dialysis you will be doing dialysis treatments on most of the units in the hospital. Your acute dialysis experiences will be respected and you could likely work on any one of those units that you treated dialysis patients on. I don't regret my little bit of med surg experience, but I don't regret disappearing from the med surg scene so fast either. I can make a lot more money as an acute dialysis nurse and not feel like a slave, servant, maid all day.

Ive Heard Those Same Negative Things. I Have Never Been A Kindred Employee, But Ive Done Dialysis Treatments At Kindred. None Of The Dialysis Nurses Liked GoingThere Because If You Or The Patient Needed Something You Would Not Be Able To Find Help.

I Don't Think That Its Harmful. I Find That There Is A Good Deal Of Respect For The Skills And Knowledge That Dialysis Nurses Have. I Have Heard ICU Managers Say That They Would Welcome Dialysis Nurses Into ICU Position AnyTime.

Acute Dialysis Offers A Lot Of Independence. I Enjoy It MoreThen Any Other Nursing I have Done. You Have To Like Needles And BeAble To Deal With Blood. Be Ok Making Many DecOnisions ON Your Own. You Would Learn A Lot In The Cardiac Program. I Guess It Depends On If You Wanna Focus on Kidneys OR Hearts. Both ARe Great Opportunities. As An Acute Dialysis Nurse I Rarely Even See My Fellow Dialysis Collegues, So You Have To Be Ok With Working Alone A Lot.

Try Something Different..I Hated Med Surg.. I LOve Dialysis! ...Many Options!

Hi Vhanesa... Thank you for the response... Good to Know!

My family is in Saskatchewan. I am in the States. Wanting to be with my family. My family ( one of my cousins is an RN) and friends in Canada tell me that Saskatchewan really needs nurses bad, but on this site it sounds like there is not much of a need. I don't know if my family is just trying to be optimistic about me getting a job offer or what the real situation is for nursing there. Even the border control people tell me that Saskatchewan needs nurses and would be happy to get a US educated nurse. When i look online there are not a whole lot of job postings for Regina area. Am i just looking in the wrong places or is there really not a high need for nurses in Saskatchewan? I have done everything i need to do to be able to apply for jobs. I have passed the CRNE. I am just not sure what types of nursing jobs are most in need and where. It is hard to rely only on the internet for job potential opportunities. It seems that mostly ICU positions are available and I am not sure i am a good fit for the ICU. I would like to do Renal Dialysis, Med -Surg, Outpatient Surgery, Psyc, home care, Infusion nursing, or work for blood sevices... i think i am a good fit for any of these previously mentioned areas... Does anyone know where i could find these types of jobs at in the Regina area?

You could be picky and get just about any specialty you wanted in Bismarck

Getting a job in Bismarck, ND would be easy for you.. Fargo too.. These are safer places with more housing options and plenty of Nursing jobs... You could choose just about any specialty you are interested in and get the job

I do have my bsn. My cousin works at a nursing home there. I could probably get a job there if needed as she said they need lots of help. I am very new. This isn't going to be easy. Hoping to take some classes to help me understand the differences between us and canadian health care. Thank you for the well wishes!

I figure it will be tricky. I wouldn't mind home care. I'm not expecting a office job, but hoping for no lifting or at least a lot less. I would probably enjoy psyc nursing.

Are there different options for nurses in Canada for non bedside positions? I love bedside nursing as it makes you feel very accomplished by the end of the shift but I also hate bedside nursing because flaws in the hospitals system cause errors to happen and the mistake is always the nurses fault. Even if the doctor wrote the order wrong or sloppy the nurse is the one taking the fall. I am tired of dealing with being set up to fail. I am taking care of my patients and I don't have time to babysit the doctors so that they put a route, frequency, and dosage on their medication orders. Doctors constantly write orders for drugs the patient already took without even talking to the patient about their medications. They constantly write orders for drugs from patient home med sheets that include meds that the pateint hasn't taken for months to a year. This then becomes my job. I need to practically rewrite the doctors orders and then get them approved(by wasting more time on the phone trying to get the doctor) after actually speaking to the patient about them. Isnt that the doctors job? Also I cant be expected to know that a doctor wanted to be called on an INR result when the INR result came the shift before and in the system it was already checked off that the doctor was notified of the INR results on the Previous shift. Anyway I love med surg because the patients I get to meet. I like to talk to them and learn how people live and how they view the world. I like that when I come in the room my patient said "You know what I see?" I see that everyone is really incredibly nice!" he goes on to tell me that he can talk to everyone and even joke with them and feel comfortable. He told me I am almost always smiling and that it makes him happy too. This is a hospice patient that I just met. It felt amazing knowing that something as small as me smiling could brighten up his day so much. I never was a constant smiling person until i started working as a CNA and I realize what a difference it made especially in the confused and combative situations. Nice is better. At first I had to actually try hard to smile, but now the smiles are real and I think it shows the patients that I am happy to get to know you, I am happy to do things to help you get better, I am happy to see you happy and hopefully getting healthier. I am 25 and I have already had back surgery, and my doctor thinks I should leave bedside asap (he told me not to take the job in the first place). I would still like to make those kind of connections with people in another area of nursing but my back cant handle bedside and my mind cant handle the possibility of serious error occurring that is my fault. I have not caused any serious error but I can see how easily they can happen when you are so busy. Where I work the nurses do all the order entries from the doctors scribbles and it is very very easy to misread the doctors scribbles and enter in something wrong. It is easy to just miss something when you have 5 pages of orders. There are just so many things that can go wrong with setting up orders while you are also very distracted trying to take care of your other patients on the floor. It seems like everyone else just quick checks orders and they are fine but for me I take extra time and still the and checker finds errors. I mean thank god they found my errors but it just makes me realize how easy and often errors can occur. Unfortunately there is not always a person to second check your orders before you give them. Tonight I am wondering if I could get into more of the cosmetic type nursing. Is there a demand for that anywhere in Saskatchewan? What non bedside nursing positions are in need in Sask where I could still feel that I did something important at the end of the day?

I worked as a CNA for a long time and that's probably a big part of where the problems are coming from. A lot of times on my floor they will have the CNAs stay home and the RNs do all cares. I don't mind doing that stuff but it is very hard on my back. Im only 25 now and I have already had one back surgery .. I feel like im setting myself up for a life time of back surgeries if I stay in this field. Makes me sad that I worked so hard for something that is killing my body.

I try to have good body mechanics but there is no way of truly knowing which little movement is going to cause another herniated disc to impinge on my nerves once again. The other day I simply picked up a mans cane off the floor and my back was miserable for a week almost to the point where I felt I might need a new MRI. It resolved it self, but I know one time it wont resolve itself. I don't really know where to go now or what to do. I was telling my doctor that I was really interested in becoming a psychiatric nurse practitioner because I have a bachelors degree in psyc too and the Doctor said that would be best. Everyone says that you need so much prior experience to be any kind of a good nurse practitioner.

So this med surg position was the only thing I was offered after over a year of trying to get a nursing job. The timing was off because it was just a month after having a microdiscectomy. My doctor initially told me to not consider working there as they have a 50 pound lifting requirement but I went ahead and accepted the job anyway because nobody hires new grads and I finally was given an opportunity. The next appointment I had with the doctor I told him that I planned to get some experience and then move to a part of nursing that wouldn't be so hard on my back, and he supported my plan. I have been there almost 6 months now. I hated med surg in school. The people I work with are all great so I kind of have a love hate relationship with my job now. I don't mind the fast paced days, not being able to get breaks to eat or go to the bathroom, but I have a problem with the lifting and bending. I feel like I am going to damage my back again and need another surgery. Is 6 months enough med/surg experience? Should I try for a year? Should I just hope for the best with my back and continue med surg because it is now what I feel comfortable doing (for the most part). Some days I love it some days I hate it. The days I hate it are usually the days where I feel like I am killing my body lifting and bending.

I had the hardest time finding a nursing job and i eventually gave up. At that point i got the phone call from a hospital I applied for about a year prior, got the interview, got the job. It will happen eventually. Applying to a bunch of places and being prepared for the call is the only thing you can do.