Nursing question - Ontario
Jun 22nd 2012 | 10:44 am
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Re: Nursing question - Ontario
I have to say, there's pro's and cons.
I was trained in paediatrics, so I have had to go back to university to do a one year full time course in "general" nursing (but it's all adult, really). I have to do placements on elderly wards, but this seems ridiculous to me, as when I started my training in the UK I did my first foundation year in adult wards doing this. Then I bridged over to paediatrics for the 2nd and 3rd year. So I've done adult in my training, but they still want me to be a general nurse.
But like you, I want to go straight back in to my speciality. I don't like nursing adults, never have, I love paeds and wouldn't want to do anything else.
Once this course is finished, I apparently may need to continue in college by doing a post-grad course in speciality paediatric nursing which I'm just outraged at! And I have to say, the course I'm on is good as in it's giving me an insight into the Canadian hospitals and health care system, but I'm with people who speak very basic English so the learning is also very basic stuff that I did as a first year student.
But it is what is right, and hopefully everything they put you through will be worth it!
I was trained in paediatrics, so I have had to go back to university to do a one year full time course in "general" nursing (but it's all adult, really). I have to do placements on elderly wards, but this seems ridiculous to me, as when I started my training in the UK I did my first foundation year in adult wards doing this. Then I bridged over to paediatrics for the 2nd and 3rd year. So I've done adult in my training, but they still want me to be a general nurse.
But like you, I want to go straight back in to my speciality. I don't like nursing adults, never have, I love paeds and wouldn't want to do anything else.
Once this course is finished, I apparently may need to continue in college by doing a post-grad course in speciality paediatric nursing which I'm just outraged at! And I have to say, the course I'm on is good as in it's giving me an insight into the Canadian hospitals and health care system, but I'm with people who speak very basic English so the learning is also very basic stuff that I did as a first year student.
But it is what is right, and hopefully everything they put you through will be worth it!
Yeah, I remember 1st year being in a class with paeds students, learning disability students and mental health. We didn't go into their fields but they all had to do placements on adult wards.
Surely they wouldn't make you do a post grad paeds course!? Actually, it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest, maybe i'll have to do a post grad adult course too?
