frances81

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1. Risk Leaving Perm Position for Temp in Better Local?

   frances81 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Just curious if any of you would - or have - ever risked leaving a permanent position in a less desirable location for a temporary 18 month temp. position in your proferred, much-coveted location?...

2. Should nurses be able to listen to music at work?

   frances81 replied to RockinNurse2018's topic in General Nursing

   I'm surprised how many nurses/ units are listening to music. I've only encountered it a few times on night shift but more so in LTC, again almost always on nights. Considering on the acute units I was...

3. Should nurses be able to listen to music at work?

   frances81 replied to RockinNurse2018's topic in General Nursing

   I'm fine with it if it's a personal work area/ office and it's very quiet but I'm not a fan in shared nursing stations. I personally don't listen to a lot of music and easily get noise headaches - I...

4. PHN pay- what do you do?

   frances81 replied to sv714's topic in Public, Community Health

   Where I work it's based on our collective agreement as RN's - meaning all publicly employed RN's (majority) make the same. Start at $36ish up to $49ish CND I believe based on time worked (but it's a...

5. Visiting Nurse for Newborns

   frances81 replied to MHDNURSE's topic in Public, Community Health

   Also it's true about the documentation - home visits take forever to

6. Visiting Nurse for Newborns

   frances81 replied to MHDNURSE's topic in Public, Community Health

   It probably depends where you are but in my province PHN's do home visits for newly discharged mom&babe - ideally within 48 hours of discharge. In bigger cities there will be a specialty group of...

7. Is LTC a good route for getting into Public Health? What other experience would help me?

   frances81 replied to bluesocks's topic in Canada

   No problem. Glad you made a decision that worked for you. I just wanted to clarify - I wouldn't replace free online courses for everything - for example: an official 20-hour breastfeeding course with...

8. Is LTC a good route for getting into Public Health? What other experience would help me?

   frances81 replied to bluesocks's topic in Canada

   Also, if you're willing to go rural to be a generalist PHN, any experience &/or courses in communcable disease control, opioid addiction/ naloxone administration, travel health & vaccinations,...

9. Is LTC a good route for getting into Public Health? What other experience would help me?

   frances81 replied to bluesocks's topic in Canada

   I started in LTC and am now a generalist PHN Nurse but I don't know that the LTC experience especially helped. I'd say what helped more was that I had my perinatal specialty theory courses, neonatal...

10. LPN in AB vs BC

    frances81 replied to emmett's topic in Canada

    I moved from Victoria to AB for a variety of reasons - but a big one was cost of living. Cost of living and housing has been going through the roof the past few years; add to that lower pay, I cant...

11. Alberta vs BC nursing job prospects 2018

    frances81 replied to peppa103's topic in Canada

    I also always saw those ads while living on the Island and it was frustrating as meanwhile I'd been applying to hundreds of positions with no

12. New Alberta RN - Moving to Victoria -BCIT perinatal specialty

    frances81 replied to akire27's topic in Canada

    Having graduated from U of Vic in 2013 & taken my BCIT Perinatal Specialty theory courses & first practicum I can tell you: - VIHA/ Island Health is extremely hard to crack into. They have a...

13. Alberta Nurses

    frances81 replied to s307's topic in Canada

    I lucked out in that I found my dream PHN nursing position within about 6 weeks but I had to go super rural & isolated. Not my ideal location but the experience makes up for it. Hoping to move...

14. Bathroom Door Question/ Best Practice

    frances81 replied to frances81's topic in General Nursing

    There's 5 of us so I'm pretty sure they'd know who did it lol - and I can tell you now it would be *bad*. As it is I've already got the 2 older staff members purposely opening the door wide after I've...

15. Bathroom Door Question/ Best Practice

    frances81 replied to frances81's topic in General Nursing

    I think you're spot on. I was just super irritated yesterday but I've decided to let it go. Personally I think it's pretty disrespectful as I'm the only one in the back beside the washroom and...