DOUGIE Will Appeal Bill 124 Decision WTF

[Mad Mike]

My youngest daughter just started her nursing career this past summer. She's already finding it tough.
I'm a tradesman so I know what your stating is true. One caveat I'll add is many in the trades don't finish at 8 hours a day if they want to earn
better $.

My daughter has been a nurse for 2 years now, 2 of my nieces and my son's gf are freshly minted, between 1 and 4 mos on the job.

My daughter loves her job - I think she would live in the hospital if they let her. The others... not so much.

It seems to me the workplace makes a difference. My daughters hospital, nurses self schedule, so they can balance get in life, the others are scheduled by coordinators and sometimes feel the process is unfair.

Another thing that seems to impact new nurses (observation), is education. While any nurse can get employed, there is always competition for desirable hospitals/nursing positions. For example, a opening on a mental health floor in the Kap may have 1 applicant, where an ICU opening at Sunnybrook could have a thousand. I've also noticed nurses from top nursing schools can go anywhere, not the case for those from other schools.

 

[GreyGhost]

My daughter has been a nurse for 2 years now, 2 of my nieces and my son's gf are freshly minted, between 1 and 4 mos on the job.

My daughter loves her job - I think she would live in the hospital if they let her. The others... not so much.

It seems to me the workplace makes a difference. My daughters hospital, nurses self schedule, so they can balance get in life, the others are scheduled by coordinators and sometimes feel the process is unfair.

Another thing that seems to impact new nurses (observation), is education. While any nurse can get employed, there is always competition for desirable hospitals/nursing positions. For example, a opening on a mental health floor in the Kap may have 1 applicant, where an ICU opening at Sunnybrook could have a thousand. I've also noticed nurses from top nursing schools can go anywhere, not the case for those from other schools.

My cousin has a phenomenal nursing resume (including sickkids, sunnybrook and fly-in). She'd had enough of stupidity and switched to RMT before 40. Big loss to patient care, she was great.

 

[Mad Mike]

My cousin has a phenomenal nursing resume (including sickkids, sunnybrook and fly-in). She'd had enough of stupidity and switched to RMT before 40. Big loss to patient care, she was great.

Nurses can always return, my late MIL nursed for 1 year after graduating then stayed home to raise her kids. She returned to nursing 30 years later in 2008 at age 60.

 

[Baggsy]

Why? Hard to access apprenticeship? Social pressure to go to post-secondary?

Union I was in you could walk into the office and sign up as a journeyman. Now I've heard they want a course before you apprentice. Some other trades, you pretty much need a friend with a business that you can apprentice for.

 

[ToSlow]

I’ve heard of companies hiring, doing interviews and then never following up.

 

[mimico_polak]

I’ve heard of companies hiring, doing interviews and then never following up.

Happens all the time. A lot of times the job already has someone lined up, but they need to go through the motions to ensure proper paper trail should any questions arise.