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    Detox nursing is sucking the life out of me

    GBC_Student replied to number41's topic in Addictions

    Being a detox nurse might not be for you. There's no shame in finding a different path. I did detox nursing for three years. I've been an addictions nurse for five years. It's draining and I...
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    Nursing Students COVID-19

    GBC_Student replied to Liam's topic in Canada

    I think a better idea would be fast tracking the licensing of foreign trained RN's into service. I'm not trying to put down nursing students but I think it would be a bad idea to push students into...
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    GBC Bridging Sept 2020

    GBC_Student replied to stonepod's topic in Canada Nursing Programs

    When I was in the bridge there were people getting offers a week or two into the start of the
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    New Grad

    GBC_Student replied to ag11415's topic in Canada

    I've been working as an RPN for over five years. I still experience a bit of anxiety before I go to work and I'm still worried people are going to figure out I don't know what I'm talking about. Like...
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    What Hospital Floors Have The Most Amount of Ambulatory/Independent Patients?

    GBC_Student replied to bnursing3's topic in Canada

    Try addictions. I've given zero showers and changed one diaper in five
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    Staffing Levels

    GBC_Student replied to ginalouise's topic in Addictions

    I work on a concurrent disorder post detox stabilization unit with 20 beds that's staffed by 2 Rn's and 3 Lpn's. The detox unit upstairs is a 12 bed unit that is staffed by 2 Rn's and two
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    Question: PN bridge to RN with a repeated course

    GBC_Student replied to stonepod's topic in Canada Nursing Programs

    Not that I was aware
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    Question: PN bridge to RN with a repeated course

    GBC_Student replied to stonepod's topic in Canada Nursing Programs

    I did my pn through GBC and like you failed my second semester patho the first time through. I retook it that summer, passed, got a much better grade and continued on my pn program without any other...
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    Anyone work 12 hour hospital shifts?

    GBC_Student replied to firlom44's topic in Canada

    What you're saying all sounds familiar. Some units have nurses in a line, a particular patten that doesn't change. Some may not have lines, like yours. As you gain seniority you may gain a line. I'd...
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    What pathway should I take?

    GBC_Student replied to bby.picasso's topic in Canada

    A big thing that can impact your hourly wage is shift differentials, if you're part time or full-time (in lieu of benefits) , if you're "in charge" (if you're the charge nurse) and OT. For instance my...
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    IS BSN way harder than Practical Nursing?

    GBC_Student replied to Chime dolma's topic in Canada

    The BScN is easier. Now this is coming from a person who did the RPN first so I had a lot of knowledge and a bit of experience before entering the BScN program. The RPN program is incredibly dense and...
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    Nursing in Canada

    GBC_Student replied to Offred's topic in Canada

    Usually on a medicine floor you'll see 4-5 patients during the days and 7-8 on nights. But you might find better or worse ratios in different hospitals in different provinces or cities. In Ontario an...
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    Nursing in Canada

    GBC_Student replied to Offred's topic in Canada

    The thing with health care in Canada is it's not uniform a cross the country. The workload of a medicine nurse in Toronto may be very different from the workload in Halifax. I work in Toronto in...
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    Best GTA/Ontario RPN Program?

    GBC_Student replied to FutureNurseCarrie's topic in Canada

    I also had a negative experience. I'm sure you can hear horror stories from any pn student about their school. I didn't go to anyone else's college. I can only tell you my opinion on GBC and that...
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    GBC Jan2020 (supplies?)

    GBC_Student replied to FlowKlyn94's topic in Canada Nursing Programs

    This might sound like odd advice, but buy yourself a big calander. It was the advice I got from a student during semester one orientation and I found it extremely helpful through the rpn program and...
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    New Nurse Feeling Overwhelmed, Terrified, and More

    GBC_Student replied to newnurse101's topic in Canada

    My first six months on the job I was convinced I wouldn't make it and that people would realize I was a fraud. Five years later I still do sometimes. I think it's natural to feel that doubt and...
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    How long did you study before writing CPNRE

    GBC_Student replied to stonepod's topic in Canada

    I studied every day, 12 hours a day, for three weeks before writing and passing my first
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    What pathway should I take?

    GBC_Student replied to bby.picasso's topic in Canada

    Right, but my post is about what the Ontario Nurses Association pay rate is like. As you're using the professional designation LPN instead of RPN I'm going to assume you're not working in
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    What pathway should I take?

    GBC_Student replied to bby.picasso's topic in Canada

    Sure, if you hit the 25 year cap in Ontario , work over time, or work in northern Ontario you can make more than $88,000 per
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    What pathway should I take?

    GBC_Student replied to bby.picasso's topic in Canada

    In the short term you will make less money, even if that short term is five years. An RN working full-time at the cap makes about $88,000 per year. It's going to be lean in the lead up but once you...
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    What's something you never expected as a male nurse?

    GBC_Student replied to Darth Practicus's topic in Men in Nursing

    I never expected the amount of casual sexism that comes my way as a man in nursing. Nursing teachers, students, preceptors, managers, floor nurses. It's never ending. When I first started as a nursing...
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    Wage difference between working in nursing agency vs staff nurse in Ontario

    GBC_Student replied to vthehack's topic in Canada

    Nope we're unionized. But our nursing resource team can't always keep up with demand which is when we go to an outside
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    Wage difference between working in nursing agency vs staff nurse in Ontario

    GBC_Student replied to vthehack's topic in Canada

    It depends on the agency. I work in a Toronto hospital and the agency we have come in apparently makes $25-30 for an rpn and $35-39 for an rn. We have an internal nursing resource team but still use...
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    Seneca RPN - Clinical 520

    GBC_Student replied to Xyrodon's topic in Canada Nursing Programs

    George Brown had one when I finished the rpn back in 2013. You had to get 60%. Most people failed it the first
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    Yukon outpost nursing

    GBC_Student replied to Crystal5683's topic in Canada

    Thanks so much for the info. I'd love to go for a year and do something very different than I'm used to. Just gotta convince the