bigdreams08

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1. Fired..Confused..Upset

   bigdreams08 posted a topic in LPN/LVN

   I will attempt to make this short and sweet. I got a PRN job close to home, in addition to my full time position that was a good drive. My full time job I had been at for a year and half. The PRN position was not very often. After being PRN for a cou...

2. Losing job due to medical absences

   bigdreams08 replied to bigdreams08's topic in LPN/LVN

   If I go back to weekends, I lose my insurance, and won't be able to get any medical attention then either. There's no other shifts that I can take.

3. Losing job due to medical absences

   bigdreams08 replied to bigdreams08's topic in LPN/LVN

   I haven't been there long enough for FMLA. I have no options available for any kind of leave. There is no second job, I'm only working at this one LTC facility. The main issue that I'm seeing is that they have a nursing shortage already due to the...

4. Help!!! Can they really do this???

   bigdreams08 replied to AnnieMae*'s topic in LPN/LVN

   I only passed one of the ATI tests, out of the hundreds that I took, yet I passed my classes and my boards. I didn't like those dang things, and I don't see how a predictor can truly predict anything if you can pass your class!

5. Losing job due to medical absences

   bigdreams08 posted a topic in LPN/LVN

   I am asking/ venting about my current situation... I graduated 8 mo ago, got licensed, etc. I was hired at my current job (LTC) 5 months ago. I started as PRN, but the first weekend there, I was bumped up to baylor on weekends. From there, I went to...

6. Lvn Have To Deal W/ Maggots????

   bigdreams08 replied to prenurstudent's topic in LPN/LVN

   I am a newly licensed LPN, but I can contribute to this.... My very first day of nursing clinical.... my very first patient.... Maggot therapy... I thought I was going to die!! Luckily, the CNA suffocated the maggots, because she put the plastic back...

7. Just took NCLEX, Anyone else feel totally lost and disappointed??/

   bigdreams08 replied to WVStarFish's topic in NCLEX

   thank you for expressing my thoughts exactly! you also gave me the first smile of my doomsday of today! i have cried tears of fear and sadness today, but you just made me cry tears of laughter!! that is my feeling right now, down to the monkey!!! :ch...

8. I Took The Nclex-pn Today..thank God Its Over

   bigdreams08 replied to josinda421's topic in NCLEX

   Thank you for the support ned2bnurse. It is very much appreciated! I hope to be posting positive results soon!

9. I Took The Nclex-pn Today..thank God Its Over

   bigdreams08 replied to josinda421's topic in NCLEX

   I too took my NCLEX PN today, and I've been in tears all day. I am not sure how I did. I began thinking, "this is easy" then came the "wth" questions. I don't want to tell anyone that I graduated with that I actually took it, even though I know they ...