CaffeinePOQ4HPRN BSN, MSN, LPN, RN

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    What should I do Rn or LPN?

    CaffeinePOQ4HPRN replied to dewers90's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Please!!! For the love of god!!! Go and get your RN, forget about the LPN route. This is coming from a Registered Practical Nurse (aka RPN/ LPN). Please, just trust me and do the RN from the get-go!...
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    Leaving Nursing for Another Career

    CaffeinePOQ4HPRN replied to cocoa_puff's topic in General Nursing

    Hahaha, eventually we all crave roles with minimal patient contact. Most of my friends have transitioned into research positions or freelance. It's amazing, as human punching bags, that we nurses last...
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    Do you still have energy to cook after a 12 hour shift?

    CaffeinePOQ4HPRN replied to chunkalunk's topic in General Nursing

    No. Nope. Not at
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    showering: before or after work

    CaffeinePOQ4HPRN replied to peachypurple's topic in General Nursing

    Both, before and after work... but especially after work!!! Must remove all those nasty hospital germs
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    Nursing is the Biggest Mistake of My Life

    CaffeinePOQ4HPRN replied to almost_nurse's topic in General Nursing

    1 million times YES to above comment. It's difficult to keep "calm" when you're under so much stress and your support network is anything but supportive. Your fiancé sounds like a jerk, showing...
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    Nurses living/working in British Columbia?

    CaffeinePOQ4HPRN posted a topic in Canada

    Are there any nurses out there (i.e. LPN/RPN/RN) who are living and working in British Columbia, Canada? If so, where are you (ex. Victora, Vancouver, Nanaimo, etc?)? What's it like to live there?...
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    Botox

    CaffeinePOQ4HPRN replied to savotinaRN's topic in Canada

    Seriously! Meanwhile, the OP (who has very poor knowledge of the law, let alone her own scope/controlled acts) is someone allegeding to be an RN for 7 years... Yet, she didn't know that she needed a...
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    Botox

    CaffeinePOQ4HPRN replied to savotinaRN's topic in Canada

    You claim to have been practising as a Registered Nurse in Canada for 7 years, and yet you're ignorant of pretty basic legislation. It's astonishing to me that you didn't immediately contact CNO or...
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    Do all BC Nursing programs have waitlists based on seat availability?

    CaffeinePOQ4HPRN posted a topic in Canada Nursing Programs

    Do all LPN to BScN programs in British Columbia have wait-lists for seat availability? I have been doing some research and this seems to be a common stipulation for BC. Meaning... a person with all...
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    Botox

    CaffeinePOQ4HPRN replied to savotinaRN's topic in Canada

    The truth, which is very clear and evident from your statement quoted above, is that you are looking for a workaround to avoid working under an MD (and paying whatever fees would be required for you...
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    Botox

    CaffeinePOQ4HPRN replied to savotinaRN's topic in Canada

    As a Registered Nurse in Ontario, I am surprised and concerned that YOU are not aware of CNO's policies or relevant provincial legislation. When and where did you acquire your BScN and registration...
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    Need Help to go to Bridge to University

    CaffeinePOQ4HPRN replied to danothemano's topic in Canada

    This is incredibly TRUE! Majority of the BScN programs (in Canada) not only require an extremely competitive GPA, but university level perquisites (i.e. Stats, Anatomy, Psych, to name a few)... and...
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    Nurses living/working in British Columbia?

    CaffeinePOQ4HPRN replied to CaffeinePOQ4HPRN's topic in Canada

    UPDATE: I was accepted to UVic, too. And...because of my honors undergraduate degree, I'm eligible for a direct entry masters of nursing program in Hawai'i. Whereas most schools in my home country...
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    Nurses living/working in British Columbia?

    CaffeinePOQ4HPRN replied to CaffeinePOQ4HPRN's topic in Canada

    I agree with what you are saying, and I'm doing all I can to recover from all this. Unfortunately, I can't live here anymore. My dad was my only family, with him gone i have no reason to stay in a...
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    Botox

    CaffeinePOQ4HPRN replied to savotinaRN's topic in Canada

    Exactly! She was arguing with me and had the nerve to say that because I'm "just an RPN" that perhaps I didn't understand the role of an RN. I bit my tongue after she said this... Because, I realized...
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    Botox

    CaffeinePOQ4HPRN replied to savotinaRN's topic in Canada

    I have a friend, not a Nurse by any designation, who finished an aesthetic certificate at George Brown college. She is opening her own business (with the help of family money) and asked me if i knew...
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    Be honest, what pt behaviors do you find annoying?

    CaffeinePOQ4HPRN replied to CrunchBerries's topic in General Nursing

    At the end of the day we Nurses are human and we are affected by the things we're exposed to on the job!!! We are not robots and people forget that... they treat us with little respect or dignity,...
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    Nurses living/working in British Columbia?

    CaffeinePOQ4HPRN replied to CaffeinePOQ4HPRN's topic in Canada

    I previously lived in Hawai'i and have maintained friendships with some locals. So, i will be able to get my old job back working as a yoga teacher on a resort... But no matter where I live I will...
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    Nurses living/working in British Columbia?

    CaffeinePOQ4HPRN replied to CaffeinePOQ4HPRN's topic in Canada

    Probably less feasible, but no Canadian schools (except Athabasca U) would accept me for the BScN. And if i have to tolerate another winter on top of the losses I've recently suffered i will loose my...
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    Random question of the day: What's your baseline blood pressure?

    CaffeinePOQ4HPRN replied to LDAthleteNurse's topic in Health, Stress Management

    120/70
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    Nurses living/working in British Columbia?

    CaffeinePOQ4HPRN replied to CaffeinePOQ4HPRN's topic in Canada

    @Fiona59 How long ago did you live in
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    Nurses living/working in British Columbia?

    CaffeinePOQ4HPRN replied to CaffeinePOQ4HPRN's topic in Canada

    I got into school to complete my BScN in Hawai'i but I'm trying and was hoping to stay in Canada. Right now I'm trying to make a life change, move somewhere warm where I can settle into a new life....
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    Nurses living/working in British Columbia?

    CaffeinePOQ4HPRN replied to CaffeinePOQ4HPRN's topic in Canada

    I dont live in BC. So, I have little concept of the REAL work/life/culture situation, but I ask because I am a RPN and I wouldn't mind keeping BC as an option to relocate to. However, I keep seeing...
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    How can we effect positive change for the profession?

    CaffeinePOQ4HPRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    I've adapted this from a comment I made on another thread, because I am seriously interested to know how we can make things better for nurses? Is there anything we can do? Short staffing and...
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    Needy Ned pts & end of shift requests

    CaffeinePOQ4HPRN replied to CaffeinePOQ4HPRN's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly, we don't want to enable him...but we feel helpless because he's gotten so many nurses in trouble already over trivial things and our manager is not standing up for