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I haven't read the entire thread but I do see a double standard for male and female care providers as a guy who worked in special education then switched to nursing. When I was working in childcare for children with special needs, only the male care providers were asked to have another staff for toileting; and only allowed to work with male children for toileting, while female staff can work with both genders. So it is a double standard regardless of how minor it may be. As for nursing, in my area of Canada, male nurses are not allowed to work in female correctional facilities while female nurses are allowed to work in both female and male correctional facilities.

I would need to ask the manager but the rural hospital ER would have two nurses, with the med unit having 20 beds and 4 nurses.

Hello I am currently graduating from a Vancouver,BC nursing school in a couple months, and looking for some opinions from experienced nurses here regarding where would be a good place for me to start. The interest I have in nursing is for critical care and ER. I was wondering what you think would be a better option for a new grad nurse to develop nursing skills between practicing in a rural hospital or starting in a major city med unit. I have given myself two options. Option 1: I have a job offer from a rural BC level 1 tertiary hospital med unit, with transferring to their ER in 3 months. The hospital is going to pay for my ER education, with 18 month commitment, with between $4,000 - $5,000/year in government subsidy for student loan forgiveness (not a big factor for me) Option 2: I am currently finishing my preceptorship in a major Vancouver hospital med unit, and can apply for a position here once I am done. Or apply for other med unit jobs in Vancouver. If I were to stay in Vancouver, it may take longer for me to get ER training, but not too much longer. I am more used to living in the city, but I am also open to living rural for a couple years as well. I am eventually planning on coming back to a big city. So considering that I want to develop my nursing skills as quickly as possible, where do you think would be a better option? I realize there can be many individual and unit specific factors, but I want to hear some general consensus regarding what would be more appropriate. Some of the factors I am worried about moving to a rural hospital are: - Since the rural hospital is a level 1 community hospital, would I still get the acute care experience I would get in big hospitals? - How would the rural hospital work experience considered if I want to work in a bigger hospital ER later on? Beneficial? or Less so because it was rural? Thanks everyone!

Could you clarify what TN means? Thank you for the reply! And are all Canadians RNs considered IENs? Thanks!

I think that is the way it should work in ideal situations. But a lot of times people that do not agree with you can use that as an excuse to shut down your speech, as in the line of who decides what is discrimination and disempowering speech is very subjective. At the end of the day, if someone really is making a speech that is hateful, you can use your own speech to explain why he is wrong.

I have to agree with you OP. People need to understand that it is okay to disagree. It is unfortunate that the current media, corporations, and university education further contribute in creating a division among both genders, politics, and races, on every little thing to either sell news or to make money. Freedom of speech in short of inciting violence should be protected. I am also glad that there are other nurses who think like this.

Hey everyone! As a current ubc nursing student, I would not worry about CASPER too too much. Many of us got in including myself even when we left a couple CASPER questions empty due to lack of time. I did not do well on mine at all! I think CASPER is more to look for "redflags" than to use as a selection method. Before CASPER was introduced, UBC nursing posted that it is 60% grades and 40% supplemental to get an interview. I would assume it is something similar to that now. Good luck to everyone!

Hello everyone! I am currently a nursing student at UBC. I should be graduating in a year with a bachelors of applied sciences in nursing and be an RN. I am considering moving to the USA permanently from Canada and work as a nurse there. But I just want to hear from nurses who were in a similar position as me. If you would not mind answering, - which states would accept a Canadian NCLEX RN certification? - what was the time line for you to get your PR in the USA? - should I try to get some work experience as an RN in Canada before applying? - and any tips to increase my chance for immigration? I should be a Canadian citizen by the end of the year (currently a PR in Canada right now). I am 26 years old right now. I will be around 28 by the time I would like to apply for the American immigration. Thank you so much!

Yup I can confirm that you want to leave buying textbooks to the last minute. You will need a stethoscope, blood pressure cuff, and a cheap watch for the clinicals. Not sure how early your school would start that. I would say that you can search up some nursing videos on YouTube to get some general idea on the topics. It is easier than reading books; and you can cover a lot of materials in a short time.

It seems that it is around 20 to 25 percent chance of us getting in, which is really not too bad! At least we have it a lot better than pre med guys. Hahaha I would be interested to know whether the 600 applicants include the ones that simply registered to apply but did not necessarily complete the supplemental, or meet the pre req requirements, or whether it is 600 applicants that finished the supplemental and had legitimate pre req courses in addition too. Regardless, lets hope April goes by quickly for all of us.

Historically, last week of April. If youare put on the waitlist, you can get accepted up to one week before the program starts.

Hello EtherealRailgun! I hope you could answer my question. As I am not currently a university student, I need to fill out the Education has not been continuous section. Since Education has not been continuous section is technically separate from the supplemental application resume form below, can I explain some of the things I wrote in the Education has not been continuous in Other life experiences section in more detail?

Hello all! A prospective male nurse here. I am currently working in the early childhood education field, which is another field that is dominated by women in the work force. Being a man in a childhood education field, there were certain things that women could do that I could not do, such as toileting a female child, when my female co-workers would freely work with both female and male children. I have also been turned down a student support position for being a man (specifically mentioned by the parent) since the client was a 13 year old girl, when I see women working with teenaged boys all the time as a student support. I personally do not care whether I am working with male or female children in my education job, but I felt that if women could freely work with both male and female children, when I can only mainly work with male children, it gives me a disadvantage in terms of progressing in this field. This is one of the reasons I wanted to get out of childhood education field. So I want to ask the male nurses: are there any jobs that you are not allowed to do? And do you feel that it gives you a disadvantage in progressing in the nursing field?

Hi Maadddyy, I believe it is 60% gpa and 40% supplemental from their 2015 admission pdf presentation. They did not mention how they are weighed in the for the latest pdf presentations. I am also an applicant for the nursing program for this September. I graduated from UBC Bkin in 2014. I have been working as a behaviour interventionist for kids with autism for 3 years for kids aged from 4 to 17, with various behavioural and physical conditions. Other than that, I also worked as a personal trainer on the side. I am volunteering as a first aider through the ambulance services. I am hoping to become an ER nurse later on! According to the last 30 UBC credits, I have around 4.3 GPA. Best wishes to all of us!