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  1. suctioning peds?

    I do homecare for a 3 year old with cronic respitory disstress. We do deep nasal suctioning with a yaunker (does everyone call it that??? it is like a big stick with a whole in the end to suck out the nasal passage) Lately I have noticed others using...
  2. make a good palitive care nurse?

    So I have an interview next week on palitive care in our hospital. What shoud I be prepared to answer? I have been an LPN for 5 years but have delt very little with nursing skills. More supervise the aids and charting. What are this skills I could us...
  3. how honest during interveiw

    I have been a LPN for 5 years. I have worked in Home Care the whole time. I am looking into other departments, the problem is I really don't know much. I fell like a new grad. They do things totally different in HC and I do know I will have to be tra...
  4. Torn between job offers

    The extra driving time would be about picking up an extra shift every 2 weeks. Is that worth the money? Just think though your work days would be all work and driving. Is that o.k. with you?
  5. graduate from online program?

    coolvibes-- So what did you think of it? Would you do it again? Was it really hard? My problem is there are many skills I have not done since nursing school and I am worried I will not remember.
  6. graduate from online program?

    I currently have my LPN degree and am getting floated with all these offers for online LPN to BSN what do you think? Does it work?
  7. job and personal life?

    This might be a silly question...but how does working on OB affect your personal life? Has dealing with moms and babies even given you baby fever? I only floated a couple times up there and I already wanted to be pregnant so it just made it worse. Or...
  8. need advice

    I have a friend that works exculsively with agencies and she has to pretty much know before she starts to work. Orientation is basically just to show her around and explain that facilities policies. Could you work with a temp agency that specializes...
  9. LPN or RN? need advice

    In an ideal world it would be good to be a cna first. But trainning is trainning. Once you get use to any job you can do it. Since you have had such a hard schedule so far I would say keep going. I stopped school for 1 year to work on getting myself...
  10. laboring down?

    how do you define laboring down?
  11. Night shifts with a 6 month old baby

    Amanda ---I can so feel your pain. I am in the same boat as you. I just had a baby and was offered the job of a life time. I have been working for 4 years in a dept that is slow, boring, and get no credit for being able to think. But the schedule is ...
  12. sterile tech. questions

    O.k. beleive it or not I am not a new nurse been working for 5 years. But this is something I can't figue out. In doing a deep trach suction how come we can put in a non sterile inner cannula? Considering we use sterile tech and gloves how is it we c...
  13. strange request?

    On a lighter note to this whole sibling thing I would never have my child in with me. She loves to tell "personal family" things to everyone she meets. Like "daddy is constipated...do you know what constipated means?" To the poor unsuspecting mailman...
  14. Questions for Fargo, ND?

    Hey Lilly lover......I have been thinking about changing dept....I would like to go to OR or FBC. I know everyone says that those are the harder dept to get your foot in the door. How was it for you? Was it your first choice? Is there a lot of down t...
  15. strange request?

    At our facility it is against policy (and enforced) to accept anything from the pt....like even a little peice of candy. This could be the real reason.:roll