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We have a computer program that we enter the patient's weight into and a list of pre-calculated emergency medication doses and volumes (for standard concentrations). 2 copies of our emergency med list stay at the bedside- one for the code team leader and one for the medication nurses and an additional copy goes in the patient chart. We re-print new lists every week (even if the weight hasn't changed) or anytime a patient has an updated "weight for ordering" in the computer.

Credit Valley has a pretty large level 2 NICU. Others in Toronto/GTA that I can think of are Humber River, Toronto East General, Brampton, Etobicoke General, North York General, Oakville etc. Some of these NICUs/SCNs are quite small however with minimal staff turnover. I know a couple of people who were hired into Level 2s as new grads through the New Grad Initiative but all of them either consolidated there or had strong internal connections. Good luck!

Absolutely no traffic (i.e. Sunday mornings) it's 25-30 mins door to door. Average daily commute is about 45 minutes but it is not uncommon for it to be upwards of 1-1.5hrs depending on traffic, road closures etc. Definitely not ideal.

Cincinnati Children's Hospital has an online encyclopedia of congenital heart defects with information on diagnosis/treatment/management etc. with videos that you might find helpful!

Here in Ontario nursing and midwifery are totally independent career paths. Midwifery is not a field/branch within nursing like it is in other countries.

I think for me it would have to be NotReady4PrimeTime. I'm still a student (starting my final semester preceptorship next week on a peds transplant unit!) but I know that peds nursing is where I want to be. I have spent lots of time reading the PICU and Pediatrics forums and her wealth of knowledge and experience is inspiring! Plus I'm also Canadian so I love reading things from her perspective. I hope I can be as great of a peds/PICU nurse as her some day! :) [h=1][/h]

Check out information on the Nursing Graduate Guarantee here in Ontario- it's open to all Canadian new graduate nurses within 6 months of graduation (you can work on a temporary license with the College of Nurses of Ontario for the NGG but I'm not exactly sure of the process for that coming from Alberta, sorry!). Be warned though, the job market is tough for nurses (especially new grads) in a lot of places in Ontario. Lots of competition and it takes a lot of nurses 6+ months to find a job. Good luck :)

Humber has a collaboration with the University of New Brunswick so all BN students (whether it is second-entry, generic 4 year program or RPN bridging program) will get a degree from UNB. You can definitely apply for Masters programs with this degree.

December 2018

I've never given it or received it myself, but I've heard that it's a seriously painful injection. A friend of mine mentioned that it felt like her backside was on fire for AGES after it.

1) It's a lot harder to keep a nebulizer mask on a 30 day old baby than I anticipated! 2) I want to quit my part time retail job sooooo bad. It is getting to be too much with school and clinical and work that I feel like I have no time for ME. Too bad I don't think I'll be able to afford to quit yet. 3) I found out that my grandmother is deteriorating really quickly at her assisted-living facility, it is likely that she will pass soon (next few weeks). And my grandfather's dementia is getting worse and worse. It breaks my heart to see them going through that. I knew it was going to happen eventually, but you can't really prepare yourself for it.

I didn't because of the mix up with my transcript. They basically told me I could either wait until my transcript was "official" and see if there were still any spots available then (which there probably wouldn't have been), take an acceptance for a general BSc degree for a year then transfer into the compressed program the next year (which I didn't want to do because I already have a BSc and it would have been a waste of time and money...) or wait and apply all over again the next year.

1) I honestly don't even remember my gpa from my previous degree haha I think my cumulative was around a B+ and last two years around an A-? 2) I got accepted in April I think? They do rolling admissions so people could be admitted all the way until late in the summer as people accept/decline their admissions for other schools. 3) I applied to the Western, Trent, York and Queens accelerated programs also. There was a mix-up with my transcript from my previous degree and the official transcript didn't get sent to those programs until after their deadlines. I was basically told that I would have to wait a whole year because the transcript wasn't "official" yet. Humber accepted me with the "unofficial" transcript and just required me to send in the official when it was available. 4) I'm enjoying the program quite a bit! There are some courses that I really love and it's nice to be learning about stuff that I'm interested in. Clinical for the most part is good here...I think we get more total clinical hours than any other program and theres a pretty wide variety of placements across Toronto and the GTA to pick from. I think the biggest con would be how completely unorganized the administration can be at times. It can be pretty hard to get an answer to a simple question because they just seem to have no clue what is going on.

No, there's three midwifery programs in Ontario (Ryerson, Laurentian and McMaster) and they are all 4 year Bachelor's degrees (previous nursing background plays no part in becoming a midwife in Ontario for the most part). There is one very small program at Ryerson where you can complete the midwifery education in 2 years IF you already have a bachelor's degree in a health profession (i.e. nursing) and experience working in maternity. I'm sure it would also be possible to get an international education and come back but I'm not sure how that would work, and there are probably hoops to jump through for that process.

Hey guys, I'm currently in my last year of the second entry program at UNB/Humber so if you have any questions at all let me know! :)