Which Toronto Hospitals Don't Hire RPN's?

loriangel14, RN · Jul 5, 2011

I know that Mount Sinai and Sick Kids don't.

dishes, BSN, RN · Jul 5, 2011

Sick Kid's has been hiring RPNs for the past 18 months.

loriangel14, RN · Jul 5, 2011

Sick Kid's has been hiring RPNs for the past 18 months.

Really? Cool. I didn't know that. Thanks.

joanna73, BSN, RN · Jul 7, 2011

St Mikes downtown doesn't hire RPNs, but St Joes and Toronto Western does.

2bNurse-88 · Jul 7, 2011

Sick Kid's has been hiring RPNs for the past 18 months.

that's awesome news! thanks

future_hero · Jul 21, 2011

Sick Kid's has been hiring RPNs for the past 18 months.

Hi there, i was interested as to what line of work the RPN's would perform at sick kids. I was trying to find out if they hired RPN's too. I just didn't think so because I saw them to be a prestige teaching/research hospital. Please advise. Thanks.

27400 · Jul 21, 2011

Hi there, i was interested as to what line of work the RPN's would perform at sick kids. I was trying to find out if they hired RPN's too. I just didn't think so because I saw them to be a prestige teaching/research hospital. Please advise. Thanks.

Many downtown Toronto Hospitals are "prestige" teaching/research hospitals that hire RPNs. It just depends on the unit and budgeting. My last placement use to have RPNs, and then they decided it was "too acute" for RPNs for awhile. They switched it back again because of budget issues and also because they were getting a lot of chronic "frequent flyers".

27400 · Jul 21, 2011

Hi there, i was interested as to what line of work the RPN's would perform at sick kids. I was trying to find out if they hired RPN's too. I just didn't think so because I saw them to be a prestige teaching/research hospital. Please advise. Thanks.

There's not a lot of RPNs on the floor. There was 1-2 RPNs working with ~8-10 RNs per shift. Overall I think there were 2-3 RPNs working in the unit I was on for my last placement. My unit was 2 units in 1 (i.e., it's a big unit), so yes they hire RPNs but sadly, not a lot.

future_hero · Jul 22, 2011

Re-written below

future_hero · Jul 22, 2011

There's not a lot of RPNs on the floor. There was 1-2 RPNs working with ~8-10 RNs per shift. Overall I think there were 2-3 RPNs working in the unit I was on for my last placement. My unit was 2 units in 1 (i.e., it's a big unit), so yes they hire RPNs but sadly, not a lot.

Thank you for your reply 27400. I'm guessing those few who were hired were the cream of the crop.

At Sick Kids, was the RPN scope dramatically limited compared to what an RN would do?

27400 · Jul 22, 2011

Thank you for your reply 27400. I'm guessing those few who were hired were the cream of the crop.
At Sick Kids, was the RPN scope dramatically limited compared to what an RN would do?

Sorry, I'm not too sure. I'm not an RPN and I don't work for Sickkids. But by the looks of it from the last floor I was on the main difference was that the RPNs mostly had "stable" chronic patients while the RNs had most of the post-op patients. I haven't seen a dramatic difference in floor nursing but of course, if your interested in leadership/managerial roles then yes there's a difference.