Yingtsay BSN, RN

Yingtsay has 1 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in 1 year experience in ER.

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1. Landing a job with AHS

   Yingtsay replied to newbieRN4's topic in Canada

   Hi, I'm an RN working at RAH ER. It'll be two years in October for me, and I also started in rural ER. Make sure you do ENPEP modules, that will help you get into urban ER.

2. New Grad RN: Moving from BC to Alberta

   Yingtsay replied to jpgk17's topic in Canada

   If you're willing to commute, consider rural hospital as well, there's fewer applicants there which may help you land position there. Background: AB Aug 2017 grad, started in rural ER now working in trauma centre ER

3. How important is your preceptorship placement in regard to job prospects?

   Yingtsay replied to anthonyyy's topic in Canada

   Your preceptorship can affect your first job placement -to a certain extent. As a relatively new RN (graduated August 2017), I can share my prespective. Background, I did my final preceptorship in a rural community hospital medicine unit, I did not g...

4. ED RN Duties

   Yingtsay replied to Mary3010's topic in Emergency

   I work in a rural emergency department so this may not apply very well to all other cases. As ER RN my duties includes: *patient registration (if the unit clerk is unavailable), triage, collecting patient information *the ADPIE of nursing *provide a ...

5. Career change into Nursing: Accelerated BScN, Pre-Health, or start from scratch?

   Yingtsay replied to denielle's topic in Canada

   I did the accelerated program (After degree) here's my input. I don't think its a lot tougher than regular stream. The biggest problem is that they tried their best to squeeze everything in two years which leads to this wild roller coaster that you ...

6. Took NCLEX today...and the wait begins

   Yingtsay replied to Raven Sierra's topic in NCLEX

   How was the exam difficulty compared to those asked by NCLEX mastery and Saunder? How well were you doing novel NCLEX mastery/ saunder questions going in for exam?

7. University of Alberta - After Degree Program 2017

   Yingtsay replied to alyembo's topic in CA Programs

   I guess they haven't change the admission process. If you folks have any questions, feel free to ask, I'll be starting my final practicum next week (graduating from this program in August) Best of luck!

8. Need Insight! Nursing or Med School?

   Yingtsay replied to claytonaleksander's topic in CA Programs

   Things to help you consider: 1) What's your academic achievements? In High school, if you're not an 'A' student at minimum, it's tough to aim for medical school. MD school is very competitive, many have set their goals right out of high school and wo...

9. Fast-Track/Accelerated/Compressed Nursing Program Reviews

   Yingtsay replied to Thar's topic in CA Programs

   I'm currently finishing up my BScN After degree in U of A so take this with a grain of salt: - when you enrolled in the program: September 2014 (I had to take a year off due to medical reasons) - workload (heaviness and difficulty): Depending on the ...

10. Men's shoes for nursing school.

    Yingtsay replied to Smc0910's topic in Male Students

    Geez, I guess I'm lucky to be able to choose the type of shoes. I just went with running shoes like New Balance

11. University of Alberta - After Degree Program 2017

    Yingtsay replied to alyembo's topic in CA Programs

    Rumour has it they changed BScN AD admission process. It used to be first-come-first-serve to those who meet the competitive average cut-off and fill the remaining spots with those that don't meet competitive average from the closest GPA down (You ca...

12. Grant MacEwan 2016

    Yingtsay replied to RoaaRamadan's topic in CA Programs

    The new UofA's collaborative program are lecture based like MacEwan instead of CBL (MacEwan had CBL aswell in the past). UofA and MacEwan aren't that much different anymore. The nursing education board (NEPAB) ensures education meets the standard. It...

13. University of Alberta Nursing After Degree 2015

    Yingtsay replied to bint_adam's topic in CA Programs

    Partially true. The new collaborative program are moving towards the lecture based learning similiar to MacEwan. Class of 2016, 2017 aftrer degree cohort still used CBL. The best way to describe CBL is self-directed learning; you need to teach yourse...