LPNnowRN

LPNnowRN

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About LPNnowRN

LPNnowRN has 2 years experience and specializes in LTC.


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  1. Coffee Is My Medicine

    At least two pots per day. I justify it because I use half milk in every cup so it's healthy calcium intake. I can drink coffee and go straight to bed, no problem. Love the picture--I always joke about needing a coffee IV!!
  2. Did you keep your nursing books?

    I kept mine and have loaned them out to other people taking classes--there are just a few that I refer to all the time, and I constantly buy more references ( Introduction to Clinical Neurology by Gelb is good! and a short book). There are just a few...
  3. I know from exerience! Blocked off my common bile duct with a gallstone and had acute pancreatitis. Six day stay until discharged the day after my lap chole. Dilaudid works, but always made me throw up. I never asked for phenergan because I didn't wa...
  4. Taking Care of Mom

    This really hit home. My Mom died February 26th. She had COPD, went into the clinic on Friday and got some abx. Sunday went to ER with a sat of 47%. My sisters and I got the call she had died right when we pulled up to the curb at the airport, hadn't...
  5. I just need to vent to people who understand

    Woot!! You ROCK! State is stressful and you did good, pat yourself on the back!
  6. Epic (Nursing) FAILS!

    OMG--pop came out of my nose on some of these!! OK, in to give meds to patient, scan bracelet, try to open little pill blister pack and flip it under the roommates bed!! I'm on my stomach crawling under the bed to find and retrieve it, apologise wit...
  7. for those in LTC..what songs do your residents like?

    I Left My Heart in San Francisco, Tony Bennett. Anything Frank Sinatra or Doris Day. Big band music.
  8. for those in LTC..what songs do your residents like?

    I can only hope that when I'm in the home they let me play Metallica and watch Star Wars and The Matrix on TV!!! Rock ON!
  9. Whew! Good question. I have had my RN for just over a year now. I've changed jobs from a stand alone nursing home to a new job at a nursing home connected to a hospital (more opportunities as an internal candidate in this job market). My first goal h...
  10. Becoming a Nurse After 40

    I am 48, and I do regret that I don't have that 20 years that other nurses have. I feel like I have much less time to achieve my dream job by getting my BSN or MSN, getting my Med Surg experience. I feel a time crunch because Med-Surg jobs are scarce...
  11. Do you all think med aides are bad idea?

    Our med techs know more pharmacology than I do--can instanly tell you about whatever obscure med just got prescribed. They are amazing. That said, take each person and evaluate their skills--not all people are the same!
  12. new grad & written up for the first time today at work :/

    What?!?!?! Only four days????
  13. Assited Living: The new skilled care

    My nursing home was seeing low census over the summer and we figured out that the new ALF in town was starting to take residents that would normally come to a nursing home because their census was only 18 total. The residents we ARE getting were for...
  14. keys for narcotics

    LOL!!!
  15. Rewarding tenured staff - what have you seen?

    In my last job at 15-20-ect... years of service we had a catalog that we could pick something out of....I still sleep on my two feather pillows!!