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It is really hard to answer this question. I'm a lpn er nurse but I also work in a rural hospital. I work pretty close to full scope according to salpn.

No I bought the guide. I had really good intentions of using it but I ended up moving 6 hours away. Between packing and Christmas and unpacking and getting the kids settled, that didn't happen. I walked into the exam on very little sleep, fighting mo...

Ours was 60% We had half our class graduate with distinction so just to keep that in mind if you're ever wanting to bridge. Our school has a 100% pass rate on the cprne for first write.

You and I work in the same province.

It really depends on where you are. I am a LPN who works in a trauma/er/acc acute medicine hospital.

I'm union so there is no negotiation here either but we get paid really well so I can''t complain.

It is very unlikely. When I was in school for CCA (the cna of my province) there was a PSW who was retaking the course because she moved to this province.

My class was all hired in the health region that we did our practicums in but for me. I moved shortly after graduation so I didn't have the advantage of the region already seeing my work. I applied for 7 jobs and got 3 of them. I did apply to smaller...

I passed. I don't have study tips because I didn't. My program prepared me well for the exam.

I wrote it. It wasn't as tough as I imagined it to be but I feel as though not everything in my program was represented. I admit I didn't study that much for it. Shortly after grad I was packing my house to move across the province and then Christma...

I did but before it was sask polytec. It used to be called siast and it is really the only program available for the province but you can obtain it in different locations. I took most of my course through correspondence but I had one lab day in Sask...

I was a cca in sk. I loved my job and the only reason I'm not a cca any longer is I have graduated from the practical nursing program and I'm waiting to move before I start nursing. I actually started as a cca before I finished the cca course. Wher...

Aide work is really sink or swim. I said to my preceptor this month that I made it as a CCA at *** I'll make it anywhere. He laughed because we both worked at that same facility and he knew what it was like.

FTR I know that PN programs in ON do not teach IV starts, my facility hired new grads from ON and had to get them the education.

Fiona please don't read this as snarky but that isn't necessarily true. I have seen new grad coming out of the same program I am in being able to start IVs without extra training. We have asked them and they said no they did not have to take more tra...

In my world, starting and IV is inserting them? I didn't realize there could be confusion on that. We did IV maintenance in 3rd semester (hanging a bag, just for clarity). In 4th semester we learned to insert them. We've been on the floor inserting I...

Isn't this in your classes? I'm just a little confused because I'm in a Practical nursing program and as a student I can start IVs without having to take a course because it was in our classes.

I very much doubt they would accept it. Throughout Canada all of our programs are pretty similar, PSW-HHA-CCA-SCA but each province does not recognize the other provincial training. I went to school in SK to be a CCA with some people who already took...

I would think all programs are different. My first semester we only had a practicum. We did all of our classes and then we went into ltc and did personal care. Second semester we did clinicals and practicum. While we still had classes we were also do...

I have the weirdest job sometimes. I answered a call buzzer and was asked if I went out to milk the cows and have we had any calves born tonight.

I'm not doing your homework. I would just like to know if you're really from Canada, because these questions do not make sense for a Canadian nurse.

This is what I did. I am in a 2 year diploma program. The first semester I didn't do anything but if I had known then what I know now, I would have done all the assignments I could have done before hand as possible. This is what I did do for second s...

All money being spent on healthcare does not stay here, that is false. I personally work with nurses who have immigrated here and send money back to their home countries. So yes, economies are doing better but not necessarily the Canadian economy.

It is the ministry of health that approached SALPN.

Lawyers get paid by individuals, privately. Are they accessible for everyone one? No. Have they priced themselves out of a job by only catering to those who can afford it? Yes. There are many people who can not get legal representation because they ...