Bobylon

Bobylon specializes in Coronary Rehab Unit.

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1. Any lvn/lpn demoted or fired recently.

   Bobylon replied to melvnmenurse's topic in LPN/LVN

   Yeah, they're threatening to do this at my hospital as well, so I guess it's back to the books to get my RN and look for another LPN job to tide me over in the meantime....no matter, the hospital I work for treats all their employees as "disposable" ...

2. Do you take daily supplements?

   Bobylon replied to Florence NightinFAIL's topic in Stress 101

   Yeah, I take a handful, but always have, long before becoming a nurse. At the moment, I take a multi-v, a B+C, a D, some Calc/Mag/Zinc, a glucosamine/MSM, some fish (or flax seed) oil, Panax ginseng, and my 'script' meds (lisinopril, and Keppra). ...

3. Here are the top 5 drugs administered by allnurses.com members

   Bobylon replied to northmississippi's topic in General Nursing

   Hmmmm .... being an LPN on our cardiac rehab floor working night shift (2300 to 0700 ... only 8 hr floor in the hospital, dangit!!!), my top 5 would likely be, in no particular order: Levothyroxine Omeprazole Heparin Oxycodone Hydrocodone ..... the...

4. forging initials on mar

   Bobylon replied to nursey nurse nurse's topic in LPN/LVN

   Sounds like someone needs to be "written up," as it's called at my place of employment. If someone did that to me, I'd go straight to the bosses, get them written up..... but only so if you're certain it was that particular individual. In any case...

5. Nursing Boards: Protect the Public or Organizations?

   Bobylon replied to dlatimer's topic in Recovery

   Am assuming that by "nursing shortage," you mean in terms of staffing/employed nurses.... there are a LOT of nurses in this country ... the "shortage" in the workplace can only be blamed on the employer...mine included.

6. Foley to LIS???

   Bobylon replied to myk_RN's topic in General Nursing

   Have never heard of that or run across that on my floor. I learned something today

7. Anyone else a Biker Nurse? ;)

   Bobylon replied to NurseOnAMotorcycle's topic in Stress 101

   DOH!!! And I thought this thread might be about BIcycles...LOL!!! I'd love to have a sportbike (we live in the foothills of the Smokies and not all that far from the infamous Dragon).......but I'd probably kill myself. I DO have a great love for ...

8. Have you ever thought about quitting nursing all together?

   Bobylon replied to sasha2lady's topic in LPN/LVN

   Have I ever thought about it??? Yup!!! Do I still ??? Regularly.... I love my floor, my patients (well, a lot of them...) and just about all of my co-workers, but the hospital's mgt and staffing leaves much to be desired... I'm tired of working ...

9. I have a few questions for all you LPNs out there

   Bobylon replied to shannag03's topic in LPN/LVN

   1. No favorite.... 2. Pharm ... the instructor was about as interesting as a corpse...she was an incredibly smart lady, just.....boring and quiet. 3. Countless... 4. 2 kids, one was 15/16 while in school, and one was 12/13 at the same time. 5. My ov...

10. What was your LPN starting salary????

    Bobylon replied to s81chubbs's topic in LPN/LVN

    Depends on where you live ... places with higher cost-of-living usually pay higher wages .... not making all that much here in east TN .... but it surely beats the times I spent not working!!! And being paid hourly ain't salary - no way I'd work sa...

11. Drug seeking patients?

    Bobylon replied to butter's topic in Safety

    I can't say much ..... at times, I feel I'm working in a pain clinic (I'm sorry, but if someone rates their pain as a 10 out of a possible 10 level, they won't be resting comfortably, sedately, and mellow. Perhaps they don't understand the concept o...

12. Charting Bloopers

    Bobylon replied to AHarri66's topic in Humor

    Not a blooper (as it's obviously deliberate....), but we have an RN on my floor who puts smiley faces in her assessments..... LOL

13. Quit or be fired

    Bobylon replied to mediatix8's topic in General Nursing

    Perhaps depends on the state you work in??? Apparently you can be fired at will in some states, yet you must give 2 weeks notice if you're leaving..... what a crock.

14. What hours do you work?

    Bobylon replied to johnny depp23's topic in General Nursing

    I work an old-school unit as well (8 hr shifts)...I work nights 23:00 to 07:00, 5 nights per week, every other weekend off. I don't mind it....I love my unit and my co-workers!!!

15. How much does your hospital ceo make?

    Bobylon replied to vivicaq's topic in General Nursing

    Not news, has been going on for years, now (decades???)..... unfortunately !!! *edited to remove volatile political content that might rile conservatives*