peepnbiscuits

peepnbiscuits has 10 years experience.

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1. Maternity leave length dictated

   peepnbiscuits posted a topic in Relations

   I have a question. I had a baby in November, and now I realize my manager hired me when I was 23 weeks along (or so) and so that was nice that she even took that risk, but I wonder about something. I was asking her, long about September or so how lon...

2. I don't think I like my job-now what?

   peepnbiscuits posted a topic in Professionalism

   Let me preface this by saying that I've been an RN for seven years, and I was an LPN for five years prior to that. I've been in job situations that have been challenging, frustrating, and certainly un-glamorus (come on, nursing has its own twisted g...

3. Is it normal that my school doesn't teach us IVs?

   peepnbiscuits replied to Annie_1101's topic in General Students

   No, IV's and Foley's are pretty standard nursing skills to learn. We learned Foley insertion when I was in LPN school, and again for my RN. You'll be doing those even in a clinic setting occasionally, IVs also. I'll admit when I worked inpatient ther...