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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? From speaking with managers there, it’s almost impos...

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 on we weren't even allowed to have our cell phone...

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 know nursing can be noisy but adding more noise on ...

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 higher cost of living & higher taxes up here).

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

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 nurses who do this. As a generalist in a smaller t...

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 a clinical or some perinatal/ neonatal credit cou...

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, sexual health/ birth control, & routine child...

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 resuscitation, fetal heart monitoring, breastfeedin...

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 see ever being able to afford going back. And defini...

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 response.

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 new grad hiring program and guarantee anywhere from...

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 back to the city - or within an hours drive - in the ...

Hi everyone - Can you please let me know exactly how crazy/ obsessive/ petty I'm being - if at all. LOL. I've recently started working in a small public health clinic and my office as well as our clinic room (mostly for well child clinics) is direct...

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 just closed it....can't win. I'm going to let it ...

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 unprofessional, but you're right - it's not worth the str...

I'd love too! Unfortunately we can't even afford tea and coffee for our public health flu clinics so I seriously doubt that would be approved! But I was joking about that today with a co-worker.

Oops. Sorry about the typos. Good luck! Lol

I actually got here by googling "meditech sucks" that's how much I dislike it lol

Just moved provinces to start a new job - which I love - but *cannot believe* there's a program this bad and outdated. I'm used to the user-friendly Powerchart - I never even needed training for it it's that simple and straightforward. Meditech on th...

I just started a PHN position in a small town. Looooving it! I think what helped me was: -my perinatal and breastfeeding post-grad specialty online courses is taken - my excitement and desire to work in PH -my non-judgemental nature -how I stressed p...

I've read a lot of posts stating that taking a rural position can be the best way to find a job when they're not readily available in the city. My question is, how long do most people stay to get enough experience to transfer back later? A year? Two?...

To clarify, I don't see rural nursing as worse or less-than. I'd be honored to be offering the position and have that opportunity. And I'm also not necessarily planing on staying just the one year - just trying to gauge what is appropriate and if rur...

Agreed. I've only ever gotten 5 shifts of orientation for LTC. My understanding is the place I'm looking at gives 2-3 weeks of orientation and then you're on your own. Obviously there will be a learning curve but not sure how that's all that costly f...

in nursing school almost every single instructor said to get at least a year of med-surg nursing, which would imply that at least among instructors - that a year would be considered acceptable (?)