jrennie15

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When I was in nursing school we were taught that your job wasn't to make the patient healthy but to give them the necessary tools and education to enable them to make themselves healthier. That's always kind of stuck with me.

When people refer to their family as "the famjam". Drives me crazy.

I didn't read all of the comments so I apologize if someone already said this.... but Khan academy on YouTube has excellent videos. I also struggled work A&P but I am an A student in all of my nursing courses and in my clinicals. You can get through it, I did, as did many of my other classmates who struggled. Use flashcards, buy an anatomy colouring book, look at the A&P made ridiculously easy series. Those sorts of things might help you if you are a visual learner. Don't get too discouraged, figure out a learning style/study method that works for you and work your butt off. You can do this, you sound like you have all the other traits that would make you a great nurse, don't let A&P get in the way of that if there is anything you can do about it. Good luck :)

I don't know much about the gun/homicide stats but I hardly think Wikipedia is a credible or reliable source. ....

As a Canadian, we are not allowed to carry concealed, I find the idea of health care workers carrying concealed absolutely horrifying. I totally understand where people are coming from with feeling unsafe at work, but are guns to fight guns really the answer? The problem in the U.S is so much bigger than just fighting gunfire with gunfire. I know a lot of Americans will disagree with me but in places like Canada or Australia where the gun laws are a little bit tighter you don't really see these mass shootings but the U.S is have one on average per day. Up until recently you could buy assault rifles at Walmart, I was shocked to hear that! I understand the personal feelings of feeling unsafe, and of course you will want to do whatever you can to make yourself feel safe- that is human nature. I personally just couldn't imagine my nurse packing heat on one of the floors of our hospital. Even having a gun sitting in a car as someone else said is would be considered unusual here. Different mentalities between the two countries about rights and gun laws I suppose. Stay safe everyone :)

I am not an IEN, but I am well versed in the situation Alberta nurses are in. I work for AHS myself. Right now they are currently "reorganizing/restructuring" our health care system. This is consisting of making nurses work full time in order to reduce the head count, as well as replacing educated and regulated nurses with unregulated HCAs. Approximately 400 nurses will lose their jobs according to an AHS document released to the public by one of our government opposition parties. The last hired, will be the first ones to be laid off. Nurses educated in Alberta (including new grads and experienced nurses) are leaving the province to find work somewhere else. Meanwhile- AHS is falsely advertising that they are looking to hire more full time nurses and they are even going as far as recruiting to the east coast of Canada. They say they need more full time nurses- however... depending on the job postings on average only between 20 and 30 percent of jobs listed are for permanent full time; the rest are all temporary, part time or casual. Coming to Alberta to work as a nurse is not a promising career move at this point in time. I'm sure though in a few years once all of the nurses have either: quit, moved or changed professions that AHS will be all shocked when there is an actual nursing shortage and it will be because AHS drove them all away.