BayouLPN

BayouLPN specializes in Women's Specialty, Post-Part, Scrub(cs).

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1. I've always wanted to work on the OB ward..

   BayouLPN replied to armynavygirl86's topic in LPN/LVN

   RE: What can a LPN do in OB: This is typical of my assignments (not assuming other facilities work the same way) Labor & Delivery: Baby nurse (NRP certified) Set up warmer and equipment (suction, oxygen, scopes) Prepare eye ointment, Vit K shot,...

2. I've always wanted to work on the OB ward..

   BayouLPN replied to armynavygirl86's topic in LPN/LVN

   I am employed in a Mother/Baby unit of a Family Birth Center as an LPN. I love it. I am, as the previous poster wrote...in a small minority. I have, also, received NRP training and float to the NICU for stable babies (feeder/growers). It is hectic bu...

3. Do you think you are adequately compensated in your job as a nurse?

   BayouLPN replied to *TK8's topic in General Nursing

   As a LPN in a LTC facility, I felt that I made good wages...$17.52/hr. But, I decided that I was not growing as a nurse, losing skills that I had not done since school, not to mention the personal dilemma (not sleeping, too close to my residents) Too...

4. Pets as therapy

   BayouLPN replied to nyapa's topic in General Nursing

   My first job, and still prn, has a small dog in residence. A min-pin that showed up one day several years ago, hurt and sick. Some of the residents took a shine to him. They have him listed as a "therapy dog" with the state but he is really just the ...

5. If you won the lottery, would you continue to work?

   BayouLPN replied to Natingale's topic in General Nursing

   NO!!!! NO!!!! I would not "work". I have worked 2 and sometime 3 jobs at a time for the past 21 years. If I won the lottery I would buy an RV and travel. I would see something of this country besides the hospitals and nursing homes. In between trips,...

6. LPN verse RN question

   BayouLPN replied to Erin31's topic in New Nurse

   And I almost forgot...I do work with mom/babies. The area I am at will hire LPN's for LDRP's but we can't Labor/Deliver. We do post-partum couplet care, undelivered's, 23 obs., ect. I can't push IV drugs or start a PCA, although I can monitor it and...

7. LPN verse RN question

   BayouLPN replied to Erin31's topic in New Nurse

   I went the LPN route. Financial obligations...how long we could hold out with one income (I'm not one of those people who can work, be a mom and go to school) I gave up nursing school years before when my son was little...I was working full-time, sch...

8. Will you work during a Pandemic?

   BayouLPN replied to Goju's topic in COVID

   I originally posted that YES, I would go to work during a pandemic. I was here in LA for Hurricane Katrina. Alot of evacuees from N'orleans were here at our convention center. Then just a little later we had our own Rita...Wiped out all of the parish...

9. Would you call in because you didn't get any sleep?

   BayouLPN replied to Elvish's topic in General Nursing

   It really depends. I have worked a 10 (6a-4p) at one facility and gone to another for the 12 (7p-7a). BUT, only if I am off the next day. And twice a month is my max. Got one coming up next Monday. It must be said that I am a bit of an insomniac so i...

10. Do Day Nurses Really Feel that Night Nurses Do Nothing All Night?

    BayouLPN replied to Brita01's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't know it started that long ago. I have worked 6a-6p for a long time. I found it chaotic and grueling. Never enough time to get done what needs to be done. Now I work nights 7p-7a or 11p-7a. I like it so much better. Nights are not less busy....

11. Pros/Cons of being a Traveling Nurse....

    BayouLPN replied to futureOBnurse's topic in Travel

    HI...not a travel nurse here but work in a family birth center. We use traveler's alot. I have enjoyed working with most of them. I don't know much about their pay ect. except what they have told me and of course they did not disclose their actual ra...

12. new nurse HATES LTC

    BayouLPN replied to bluegeegoo2's topic in LPN/LVN

    OK Blue...I am not going to be hard on you. While I have not had to quit to get a point across (like I said my LTC has a great DON/owner), I have several classmates who have had to do just what you did. My best friend quit her facility three (3) time...

13. Ben Stiller as Gaylord Fokker

    BayouLPN replied to mcknis's topic in Men

    I don't know if you saw my post or not...I did mention him once...I am a female poking around on the guys site by the way. I felt that the character was played to be a "Good male nurse". Esp. when he has to defend himself to the girl's neurotic fathe...

14. Thinking about LVN/LPN program, but....

    BayouLPN replied to mrsjmb's topic in LPN/LVN

    I am LPN, but If I had a master's I would Go RN all the way. You probably already have many of the pre-req under your belt. And because nursing involves so much psych and counseling, you would undoubtably make an excellent nurse. I gave up nursing sc...

15. Scrub Nurse Pros/Cons

    BayouLPN replied to Baseball33's topic in General Nursing

    If I were younger, I would have gone the RN route. They have much more possibilities in the nursing world and especially in the OB dept. My facility trains almost all nurses on how to scrub just in case of a crash and one of the few LPN's are not the...