Tips for Interviewing for Specialty 1. Situational questions — Always ABC’s, patient safety, culturaly sensitive etc…. ○ knowing how to deal with families — distraught family members, ○ know who the demographic is of people that come in, ○ what are major problems that you may face (multicultural in hospitals in canada) ○ How you […]
NCLEX RN 2020 changed once again, here are the most recent updates from the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN). Please be sure to check out my free NCLEX guide at my website www.simplefitnurse.com Under the books section Beginning Oct. 1, 2020, both NCLEX-RN and NCLEX-PN exams will retain some of the characteristics […]
Before writing or studying for the NCLEX be sure to read this document. It changes every year, it will give you an idea of what the test is made up of and how it is it. This is important because the NCLEX is not like any other exam you’ve written. There are major differences in […]
Wanted to provide you information about the NCLEX. After hours of research I have figured out how to tell if you are doing well on the NCLEX. As some of you may know the NCLEX is trying to get you passed a certain threshold which they call 95 % Confidence Interval rule. This basically means […]
Question: Why did you apply to this school of nursing? Question: What will your challenges be if you are a student in this program? Question: What knowledge and qualities should nurses have for their practice? Follow up question: how do those knowledge and qualities fit for you as a person? Question: Tell us how do […]
I used to SUCK at inserting IV’s. It was terrible, I knew how to do them but no matter what I did I KEPT blowing the vein or going “through and through” and it SUCKED. IV access is probably one of the most important nursing interventions in all of nursing. I would put it as […]
Nurse practitioners in Canada are a great resource for the many Canadians who require care from a provider. It is important to note that there are many types of providers of care, the most common today is a physician but there are other disciplines such as nurse practitioners, physician assistants and holistic naturopathic physicians that […]
IV insertion analysis and explanation Hi everyone, In this video I am going to take my IV insertion short video, which you can see here and slow it down a little bit and explain the process a bit more. In this channel I talk about all aspects of nursing, if you are interested in learning […]
Canadian Physician Assistant versus Nurse Practitioner in 2020 There are Canadian PA’s in Canada but they can’t practice in all provinces. They can only practice in four. The schools for PA’s are only found on the east coast. However the nature of the job is very similar to nurse practitioners. Nurse practitioners are more well […]
In this video I will talk about different schools that offer this program and give you a general idea of what the requirements are as well as inform you about the scope of practice and general day to day of what it is like. However, I will preface by saying I have never worked with […]
