auroranae

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1. new LPN grad & available jobs

   auroranae replied to Dito's topic in Maryland

   Sorry no one else has answered your query. I am an LPN in the Baltimore area. I have 27 years of experience and have worked in every venue from MD offices to Alzheimer's Units to Community Nursing to Private duty pediatrics. There are a lot of opport...

2. Why am I doing this, anyway?

   auroranae replied to PedsDrNurseTheo's topic in General Nursing

   It may be years before you hear those words spoken again, if ever. But the time in between is made totally worth while by the rare occasion you hear the words "Thank You". In 26 years I can count the times I have heard it on 2 hands with fingers left...

3. Fibromyalgia

   auroranae replied to veetach's topic in Emergency

   In many cases those who are suffering with Fibromyalgia also have other illnesses that may or may not have been accuratley diagnosed... often rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, scleraderma and any other number of autoimmune illnesses and syndromes go hand ...

4. Indiana State University BSN students

   auroranae replied to EricJRN's topic in Online Learning

   Hello all! I am an LPN ( nearly 24 years now) and have had the TCN modules sitting in boxes- yes they sent all of them to me at one time which was overwhelming to say the least- in my living room for 2 years. I started the psych module when I first ...

5. LPN Home Care

   auroranae replied to pagandeva2000's topic in LPN/LVN

   I have been working for a pediatric home agency doing private duty for chronically,terminally ill children since 1993. I have also spent the last 4 years working for a company doing home health visits 3 days a week. I love both positions for very dif...

6. What age were you when you went to nursing school?

   auroranae replied to Imissthefall's topic in General Nursing

   I was 15 when I started nursing school. I went to a vocational school while in high school. It was a 3 year program where we went to high school half a day then to the vactional school where we took the community college classes. It was a very diffic...

7. Fibromyalgia

   auroranae replied to veetach's topic in Emergency

   I am having a mild flare up that has been getting worse over the past few days. I was doing really well and only taking naproxen every now and again. I tried Soma which did help a little, but I had an allergic reaction to it and can not take it anymo...

8. The nightmare returns---Hunter Group is coming!!!

   auroranae replied to prmenrs's topic in Activism

   [the co. has the nerve to claim it cares about the pts wellbeing, Yeah right and I'm blue w/ pink spots too] Hey can you send a picture of yourself? I have never seen a blue person with pink spots, and I have been a nurse for 20 years! I am lucky th...

9. Home Health Nursing Rates/Wages

   auroranae replied to belal.RN's topic in Home Health

   I am in LPN in Maryland who is an hourly employee. I am paid 18.50 an hour plus $.25 a mile. The hourly rate applies to all time that is associated with patient care- follow up calls to other disciplines, md calls, coordination of care with other age...

10. Does anyone want to be just a "nurse"?

    auroranae replied to Nurse_Ben's topic in General Students

    I go see this guy on Wednesday. I can't wait to see what they are saying this time. I'm sure that they will have no problem finding disasters in many of the cases that I was involved in. I have faith in my charting. I know I can show that my care...

11. Fibromyalgia

    auroranae replied to veetach's topic in Emergency

    Tom- The problem you have is that you cannot look at a lab result and say "AH HA!" there it is! WEll, with FM you can do that in a sense... but it sounds more like "AH Ha, that's not it either!". The tender points are a criteria but not the only dx t...

12. Race relations and nursing enviroments

    auroranae replied to bizzymum919's topic in International

13. Does anyone want to be just a "nurse"?

    auroranae replied to Nurse_Ben's topic in General Students

    I have been asked if I am happy being 'Just an LPN'. My answer is that I do my job and I enjoy it. I have no desire to be stuck in an office doing the Administrative part- I do enough of that as a visint nurse responsible for the coordination of care...

14. Fibromyalgia

    auroranae replied to veetach's topic in Emergency

    On the path to the FM dx I was told I had rheumatic fever. That scared my Mom nearly to death. My labs show that I probably had it at some time without knowing it since my last complete blood work up several years ago. Gee, nice of some patient to ha...

15. Fibromyalgia

    auroranae replied to veetach's topic in Emergency