tamdsandlin replied to tamdsandlin's topic in Pediatric
Thanks for responding! Noncompliance is a major issue! A lot of the positive kids I work with have mickey buttons so they don't taste their meds. and therefore don't mind taking it. I have one child in my setting that is a little over 1 yr. old and i...
tamdsandlin replied to jujubee's topic in Pediatric
I am a pediatric HIV/AIDS nurse and I love it! I have always pretty much known that pediatrics is what I wanted to do. There is ups and downs in every field and every profession. Good luck! We always need warm and caring people to help our children.
I used to be a GI nurse and I worked with a specialists. I am also very sorry that you had a bad experience with your c-scope. Most of the time patients say that the prep the night before was worse than the actual scope! Everyone is different though ...
In hosp. where I used to work, RNs wore navy and white uniforms and LVNs wore any other colored uniforms. The same as CNA and other hosp. staff! I hated it. I feel that RNs and LVN/LPNs should wear a certain color or be distinquished in some way from...
I went to school only a couple of years ago and we were taught how to make nursing assessments and evaluations! LVN/LPN and RNs should ALL know how to do that and be able to do that! I also feel IV insertion and fluid administration is within my scop...
I have been a LVN since 1999. I was 2 months away from graduating with my ADN and had to quite re: finacial reasons. There was really nothing new that I learned in the ADN program that I had'nt already learned in LVN school. Its just more community b...