kristen38

We used to for TA, but the container dropped one day and now we don't keep formalin in the room in large quantities. We do keep the small specimen collection containers that are pre-filled with it. We filled the larger containers at a specimen statio...

Sorry for a lot of the typos, I was using my ipod and did cut and paste. Kristen38

I know it's a little long but it is a study about plume smoke Smoke from tissue burning tools like lasers can be toxic to surgical team By: The Canadian Press March 18, 2009 TORONTO—The surgeon touches an area of exposed flesh with a cauterizing tool...

Hi, I was a psych nurse for four years and moved to the OR this past January. I had to take a course before I could apply so that helped me with the review of med-surg and IV, and other skills that I lost while in psych. The course helped me a lot. ...

From ebay, http://stores.ebay.ca/michellemariesaccessories The person who makes them has many different styles and will customize them. I asked for a few alterations and she accomodated them and still go the hats to me within in a week.

Hi All, I have been in the OR for five weeks now and I am really enjoying it. One thing that I have been having problems with is when I am scrubbed I find that my shoulders hurt a lot. Does anyone else experience this and if so what do they do about ...

I am not wearing lead. I still have to do orientation in Ortho, Vascular, Neuro and the other services that use lead a lot. I am going to try to build up some strenght in my shoulders (I am a member of a gym, I just have to make the effort to go and...

Hi, Congratulations. Humber/UNB has the best program everI graduated from the Humber/UNB RN program in 2007 and I thought it was great. I got the placement that I wanted and (I'm not sure about other nursing programs) we did extra time in clinical i...

I work on a busy acute care psychiatric unit, and I am often busy, nights can be busy as well. However, I find that I still have lots of downtime and during that time I like to play on my ipod touch. There are so many mindless games that I can downl...

I am new to the OR and the hospital that I am at gives the scrub nurse the option of wearing paper or cloth gowns. I have been using the cloth gowns and find that I get really warm while scrubed. I was wondering if the paper disposable gowns are cool...

I found that when studying patho, and treatments for illness that the NCLEX book was laid out better then Mosby and easier for me to use. It's all the same stuff regardless of where you live. I made sure to study the parts in Mosby that were specific...

I did the CRNE last June and found that the Mosby book was terrible. I only used it for the parts that were specifically Canadian, and the long tests at the end of the chapters. Otherwise I used the NCLEX guide. I liked it better because I was able t...

I also just graduated and passed the CRNE (Canadian version of NCLEX) and thought about doing something other than psych, espcially after doing my consolidation on a psych unit. In the first month I had to do a couple of catherters, had a pateint so...

On my unit each patient has a locker in their room that is locked with a pad lock. When the patient arrives in the unit (most often already in hopsital PJ's) all of there stuff goes into the locker. They can keep their toothbrush and stuff (razors ar...

I work on an acute unit, and we were street clothes. During the week it is business wear, but fortunatly on weekends and nights we can wear jeans and sweatshirts. It's so nice to just wake up and throw on a pair of jeans. I have seen a couple of pat...

I got a message from my friend who says got a msg. I called the CNO and we should get our results back within the week because the scrapped all the SA questions (because they were compromised). I still haven't gotten my results but I live a little f...

WHO" World Health Organization. There was a short answer question regarding WHO. I did not write the short answers in capital letters. I did make sure that I printed and that I was neat. I did a lot of erasing because I was messy or because I needed...

I found that there were times when I thought that I was doing well and then other times I felt it was awful. I studied a lot for it. I guess if I look over some information from WHO then maybe I wouldn't feel so bad about the short answer. Oh well. I...

I am done in late April so this is close enough. I can't wait, it's been a long four years. I am looking forward to my consolidation this semester in psych. It will be great. Kristen

I am going to be graduating soon and I love psych nursing and I can't wait to start working in a psych unit. I like surgery, but I know what my passion is and I just love it. I even worked the summer as an Extern in a Mental Health Unit and loved eve...

I am going to: Make sure that my lecture notes are legible Obtain a B+ in every course (these are the marks that I need to get into a school for my Masters) Kristen

Hi All, I will graduating a year from now, and we have been asked to pick a hospital where we would like to our pre-grad. I love MH nursing (I am even working as an Extern in a MH unit for the summer to help me gain experience) and I know that I want...

The hospital that I am at has a no smoking policy for the whole property. Before my psych. unit applied this policy they had signs up and informed the pt. of it months ahead of time. When it came time to have the building no smoking pt. (with our ass...

Ont. promises full-time jobs for all nurse grads CTV.ca News Staff Ontario students graduating from nursing school will be guaranteed a full-time job in the province starting next year, Health Minister George Smitherman announced Monday Read More ht...

I had the surgery done in May '03, and like the others said it was the best decision I have ever made. I was off from work for six weeks (but I had complications, I had planned on five weeks). As for your two year old I would get someone to help you,...