jacksonvillelpn

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1. When One Patient Affects the Care Other Patients Receive

   jacksonvillelpn replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

   I've worked in LTC, Rehab, ALF, but mostly memory care. Trust me when I tell you the residents may have dementia, but their families are DEMENTED! Just Tuesday, I spent 1.5 hours with the ED, DON, and a daughter complaining about Moms over-the coun...

2. Nurses! Let's stand up and help the victims of Hurricane Harvey!

   jacksonvillelpn replied to guest042302019's topic in COVID

   According to another post I read, the Texas board of nursing will fast-track both LPNs and Rns.

3. Accidentally told my coworker what I make, BIG ISSUES NOW

   jacksonvillelpn replied to newrn93's topic in Relations

   And, you are in WHAT state? I might consider moving, if I won't freeze to death 9 out of 12 months. Here in Florida, it's good pay to start an LPN at $18 and a new RN at $22 in an SNF. Hospitals are a different story, of course, but I can understa...

4. WHAT TO DO...Nurse is refusing to give PRN medication

   jacksonvillelpn replied to purplenurse1's topic in Geriatric

   Zofran is supposed to be used to prevent nausea/vomiting caused by cancer treatments and surgery. It has also proved to be effective in treating gastroenteritis. However, one of it's side effects can be...wait for it...nausea/vomiting. Is the pati...

5. I don't want to clean poop

   jacksonvillelpn replied to missmollie's topic in General Nursing

   Dear OP, lighten up and practice saying "told ya so" with as much sarcasm as only a sister can deliver. It will only take once of being thoroughly shat upon to humble her.

6. Hospitals Firing Seasoned Nurses: Nurses FIGHT Back!

   jacksonvillelpn replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

   Would you like to know where those young, inexperienced RNs are coming from, and why they are so compliant? They have spent the last month plus one week in a local nursing home, where they spent the first month in orientation, and the last week dump...

7. How many of you actually enjoy your job?!

   jacksonvillelpn replied to kwerno00's topic in General Nursing

   If you entered nursing school because you felt either called or destined to it, then, no matter what you have to deal with, you will love being a nurse. This is how, and why, you will be happy. If you focus on the "job", you will always be miserabl...

8. Hospitals Firing Seasoned Nurses: Nurses FIGHT Back!

   jacksonvillelpn replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

   This also holds true in nursing homes/rehabs. And those hot-out-of-school-and-can't-get-a-job-in-a-hospital nurses? After orientation they work on their own for a week and run for the door, costing the facility $$$ in wasted training. The faciliti...

9. Common nicknames for hospital items.

   jacksonvillelpn replied to LifesAJourney's topic in Humor

   Depending on the doctor, the cream containing Ativan, Benedryl and Haldol is either ABH, BAH, or HAB. I just call it Happy Cream. Seroquel, or quetiapine is Quiet Time, and Xanax is Vitamin X. Can you tell I work in the dementia unit?

10. Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

    jacksonvillelpn replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know why, but it took me forever to say metoprolol instead of metoporol. I also call quetiapine "quiet time", but I do that on purpose.

11. LTC 101: What To Expect

    jacksonvillelpn replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in Geriatric

    Excellent! Next Monday, I will celebrate my 3-year anniversary as a LTC nurse, and I have encountered every single situation except actually turning away an admission. Yes, that includes replacing a pulled-out g-tube with a foley...we don't even HA...

12. I feel like a glorified maid

    jacksonvillelpn replied to CaffeinePOQ4HPRN's topic in Career Support

    Dear fellow nurses, I too, experience all the frustrations of the corporate climate, so here's what I do: I continue to remind myself that, in the end, I do not work for them, but for The One who called me to be a nurse in the first place. He expec...

13. Manual BP Assessment on Elderly

    jacksonvillelpn replied to nursechristineb's topic in Geriatric

    I have a different take on this all together. I have worked in LTC for almost 5 years now...2 years as a CNA/nursing student, and 3 years as a nurse. CNA's are required to do vitals at the beginning of each shift. It's that way in every facility w...

14. What's your favorite shift to work?

    jacksonvillelpn replied to JennNHD24's topic in General Nursing

    I've been working 3-11 as a CNA part time/prn for the past 1 1/2 years and attending nursing school full time. Not a morning person...it was murder having to get up at 6:30 for school 2 days/week and 5:30 2 days for clinicals! Now that I've graduat...

15. failed rn program, what are my options?

    jacksonvillelpn replied to raya's topic in Student Assist

    Watch out for those private, for-profit schools...they will cost you an arm, a leg and your firstborn child, and you may have a problem finding a facility who will hire their graduates. Often times, cities on state borders will allow neighbors to cr...