HotmaleSPN

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1. student needs Help please - medical terminology- what is an effective method to

   HotmaleSPN replied to tiffany311's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   Hi, med term was my favorite subject in Nursing school, I ended up with a 99 in that class and I still remember all the words. What we did was make a fun game like Jeopardy only using the med term words. You can practice this in your study group and ...

2. Does bad experience count as experience on resume?

   HotmaleSPN replied to HotmaleSPN's topic in LPN/LVN

   Thanks for your reply, I am happy to receive your advice coming from a managers point of view. I never really thought what a manager would think about venting about a previous job. I think I will just tell them I left the job to get another job where...

3. Does bad experience count as experience on resume?

   HotmaleSPN posted a topic in LPN/LVN

   Ok I have to vent a little here, I just resigned from my first Nursing job after being there for 9 months. I worked per diem, which is like full time with no health benefits. They made me pass meds to 70 patients and do all the treatments. One of the...

4. Excelsior questions :)

   HotmaleSPN replied to MadamMermaid's topic in LPN-RN

   Mudwoman, do you still have the study guides? If they are not too far out of date I may be interested in purchasing them from you. thanks

5. Tattoos?

   HotmaleSPN replied to kamon8404's topic in Men

   I am a male nurse, and I have a full sleeve of flames on my left arm. I always wear a long sleeve labcoat because I am tired of people asking me where I got my ink done and if it hurt and so forth. But every one that has seen it loved it.

6. Finding an LPN job w/ benefits loosing battle

   HotmaleSPN replied to HotmaleSPN's topic in LPN/LVN

   Oh, I am from South Jersey, if you dont mind could you please tell me where you found those advertisements of full time jobs with benefits? I have been looking on the career builder web site but its mostly those Bayada jobs for home care.

7. Finding an LPN job w/ benefits loosing battle

   HotmaleSPN replied to HotmaleSPN's topic in LPN/LVN

   Thanks for writing back to my topic, yes I am an LPN, I passed my NCLEX back in september and I am still looking for a job. The place I am at now is a nursing home which I am just per diem, and you have to work your butt off and kiss butt for about 5...

8. Can Anyone Tell Me The Real Role Of A Lpn??

   HotmaleSPN replied to luvlilbit119's topic in New Jersey

   I can tell you the role of the LPN in the hospital and LTC since I have worked in both. I dont know about other states but NJ its hard to find a Job as an LPN in a hospital, the ones they do have are underpaid and really just a considered a CNA that ...

9. Finding an LPN job w/ benefits loosing battle

   HotmaleSPN posted a topic in LPN/LVN

   I never thought it would be so hard to find a full time job with benefits as a nurse with the so called shortage and all. I have went to about every place I can think of in my state and I get the same thing everywhere I go. They offer me per diem job...

10. College Network

    HotmaleSPN replied to Ms.RN's topic in LPN-RN

    I was just wandering if you could tell me how much the LPN-RN program you are doing costs, I talked with a guy from that Indiana College on the phone but the conversation was very vague. Seems like it could be a scam, I am weary of anything online th...

11. Finding a job harder than school and NCLEX put together

    HotmaleSPN replied to HotmaleSPN's topic in Men

    You may have to get a job no one else will do, when your first starting out, like a Prison or a methodone clinic..... I wish someone would have talked some sense into me before I went to nursing school, I feel like quitting my job every day and gett...

12. I'm about to crack...read this and help!!!!

    HotmaleSPN replied to SaharaOnyxRN's topic in Geriatric

    Dont Crack, that is what they want you to do, I would stay at that job, because the next place you go to will be even worse. I work in LTC and I experience high pt loads, staying late every day, ect... A little trick I do is Flag all the priority tre...

13. Help! is this Normal/legal?

    HotmaleSPN replied to LegginMF's topic in LPN/LVN

    I got one of those cool electronic wrist BP cuffs from CVS drug store, it is a great time saver, because everyone is always using our electric cuffs, and there is just no time to do a manual on 60 patients. ANd it fits right in your pocket, highly re...

14. Please tell me this isnt normal!

    HotmaleSPN replied to Coloradogrl's topic in LPN/LVN

    Someone should email them and ask them if they were smoking crack when they wrote that add, hahaha I dont know anyone that would work for that, CNA's make more than that around here

15. Feeling spread way too thin

    HotmaleSPN posted a topic in LPN/LVN

    :uhoh21: :uhoh21: I am two weeks into LTC orientation, I got to do the med passes a few times on my own, along with treatments. It just seems like everything we learned in class doesnt apply to this job. If you do everything the way your supposed too...