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1. want to cry all the time.... can i make it in this profession?

   LPN2RNmommy replied to LPN2RNmommy's topic in Career Support

   yeah people at mcdonald's hate their job and get stressed.. but at least they dont' have anyone's life or license on the line.. and if they quit or get fired they can always find another job makig the same (or more) money per hour.. if i lose my nurs...

2. want to cry all the time.... can i make it in this profession?

   LPN2RNmommy replied to LPN2RNmommy's topic in Career Support

   thanks guys.... about the long term care, tho... i've been doing it about 1-2 times a week since last year thru the agency i work for... the residents are on wayyyy tooo many pills.. come on. does a 93 yr old lady really need calcium every day and mu...

3. want to cry all the time.... can i make it in this profession?

   LPN2RNmommy replied to LPN2RNmommy's topic in Career Support

   hah.. i take ativan prn, but that's just to bring me down from my anxiety and to help sleep... does nothing to alleviate the overwhelming sense of unhappiness with my career or uncertainty of how i'm going to make a living....doens't help my depressi...

4. want to cry all the time.... can i make it in this profession?

   LPN2RNmommy replied to LPN2RNmommy's topic in Career Support

   imagining home health... afraid to end up working for a family that is highlly critical of me and wants things done a 'certain way' for their loved one... does that make sense? afraid of being watched.... even in the hospitals where i work... i felt ...

5. want to cry all the time.... can i make it in this profession?

   LPN2RNmommy replied to LPN2RNmommy's topic in Career Support

   oh believe me, i've looked into everything... checked the papers, local career advisement offices, no jobs available for LPN beside hospital or nursing home it was my dream at one time to work in labor/delivery or post-partum, or something with wome...

6. want to cry all the time.... can i make it in this profession?

   LPN2RNmommy replied to LPN2RNmommy's topic in Career Support

   ugh... i hate to say this.. but my life is in shambles.. i don't have the motivation to attend my classes anymore... i called in sick yesterday for my agency shift (the first one in two weeks) because i just don't want to do it anymore.. i'm tired of...

7. want to cry all the time.... can i make it in this profession?

   LPN2RNmommy replied to LPN2RNmommy's topic in Career Support

   hey guys thanks for all your advice...i cannot afford therapy for the anxiety but i do take ativan prn on occassion..right now, with watching the kids during the day (or working, with them at the baby-sitter) and going to school during eves and worki...

8. any other nurses feel workload is too much?!

   LPN2RNmommy replied to LPN2RNmommy's topic in New Nurse

   thanks for the input guys... as i may have mentioned, i am a full-time RN student, so i don't work full-time but i've been looking for a less-stress position... but none available...aren't too many LPN jobs out , and the ones i've found are in the ho...

9. any other nurses feel workload is too much?!

   LPN2RNmommy posted a topic in New Nurse

   seriously guys, maybe it is just me, but when i hear other nurses nonchalantly claiming to take care of 5+ med-surg type patients and it's no big deal, i am starting to freak out!!! i think even 4 pts is too many!! what's wrong with me?! maybe i don...

10. want to cry all the time.... can i make it in this profession?

    LPN2RNmommy replied to LPN2RNmommy's topic in Career Support

    well i am doing LTC now thru agency... but it seems i am a pill pusher and butt cream applyer.. notihing else.. there is too much work and too many meds to be able to give safely, IMHO.... i am a somewhat nervous person and don't like emergency situa...

11. want to cry all the time.... can i make it in this profession?

    LPN2RNmommy replied to LPN2RNmommy's topic in Career Support

    okay well i did do home health but it was more private duty.. and the child weighed 100#.... very hard to lift and it was too much on my back.. plus i din't get along with his mother.. but that's a whole other story (alcoholic-type/different man ever...

12. Anyone else frustrated with being a new nurse?

    LPN2RNmommy replied to asilmk's topic in New Nurse

    my sentiments to alll you guys that feel disillusioned... although i have had lpn license for two.5 yrs.. i took a year off to care for pregnancy and then my son for six months......then i went back to nursing, but agency doing ltc.. i love the elder...

13. good student, bad nurse...

    LPN2RNmommy replied to sophiajoy's topic in New Nurse

    guys you both sound identical to me!!! i was top of my class in lpn school... but i was picked on for being the 'booksmart but no common sense' girl... arrgh.. but who knows? i feel awful.. i understand the theory behind the nursing and disease... bu...

14. want to cry all the time.... can i make it in this profession?

    LPN2RNmommy replied to LPN2RNmommy's topic in Career Support

    thanks for the advice.. i haven't found any openings for clinical/office work but i hope they'd take me with my minimal experience... i think i need a job with a steady pace.... not chaotic running around with 5-6 seriously needy ill patients and run...

15. want to cry all the time.... can i make it in this profession?

    LPN2RNmommy posted a topic in Career Support

    hello everyone... this may be a long post, so to those of you that can manage to read it all and be able to give advice, GOD BLESS YA!!!.... Basically, i am a young LPN, working on my Rn, but i am doubting i can survive in this career... it's come to...