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  1. Am I too old to just be starting?

    It is something you WANT to do; do what you will enjoy, it can only bring you happiness and growth. My best wishes for your success. Rehab3
  2. I Contracted HIV

    As quickly as possible tell someone that can direct you in the appropriate path and get tested. You can only fight something you know for sure. Sarah has been very brave in telling us and pointing out that nursing is a dangerous profession and always...
  3. End of the Nursing Shortage

    LTC facilities vary just as much as hospitals as to requirements; My LTC facility requires LPN's to have notes signed off by an RN. Yes, we do IV's; how advanced do you mean? We do not take vents or TPN but everything else is fair game for admission....
  4. End of the Nursing Shortage

    (My mother was a nurse. She like to sit and compare what I do in my nursing career with what she did during her nursing career. She said things like "Oh Honey, you could have gone on to be a doctor with all that...we never did any of that..." ) No, w...
  5. End of the Nursing Shortage

    My experience in 47 years has been that I always had a choice of jobs; granted during that time the pay was not great and hours inflexable but a job non the less. I'm approaching retirement and my understanding is that in the State of Washington the ...
  6. Wow, you new nurses !

    Hold on there a minute! I have been a Registered Nurse fo 47 years and yes I'd like to think I have learned a few things along the way including some of the technical procedures and devices that were not even mentioned in our class room books back th...
  7. Wow, you new nurses !

    My training occured in the 50's and early 60's; we had "stress" but they didn't have a word for it yet. I lived in a nursing dorm where we were all going through the same experience and we had many instructors that were graduates of the School of Nur...
  8. Stool sample for Micro class?????

    Ther are a lot of other specimens that are required for Nurses to handle and process; might as well get used to it. At least you know where it came from and who it belongs to--will not always be as nice a package, but may in fact save a life with pro...
  9. Questions about Ivy Tech Bloomington...

    I'm out of training now 47 years--glad i don't have to do it again! Rehab3
  10. Fall precautions

    Just came from an inservice on Fall Prevention; Visual perception and use of multi use lenses( trifocals and bifocals) viewed as unsafe; suggested change to distance glasses and "readers" if still reading to avoid accomodation necessity. Also big on ...
  11. Fall precautions

    Working in LTC in a 292 bed facility; we are restraint free and use alarms as fall/injury prevention with a variety of success/failures. We look for alternatives for all situations such as Med changes, labs, timing secondary to staff shift changes an...