medicarelpn

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1. New about to be Student with Questions

   medicarelpn replied to myonlyboyluke's topic in General Students

   Congratulations, you are about to embark on a very exciting and hard journey. I have been an LPN for 3 years, and am starting RN school this Mon. I would not worry about having experience, when I was going to LPN school my 2 best friends were also ...

2. New about to be Student with Questions

   medicarelpn replied to myonlyboyluke's topic in General Students

   Your about to embark on a very exciting and hard road. I have been an LPN for 3 years and this Monday I start the RN program. Don't worry about the experience, when I was going through school for my LPN my 2 best friends were also going to school. ...

3. Anyone stressed out

   medicarelpn posted a topic in General Students

   I cannot wait for this week to be over. I have 3 exams, a paper, 3 assignments and alot of reading to do. Tonight I was so stressed, I just snapped on my poor husband and just started crying. Spring break cannot get here quick enough.

4. Nursing Issue - Medication Aides

   medicarelpn replied to M&MRN2005's topic in Safety

   I wasn't going to reply but after reading several of these posts I just have to. Having medication aides can be bittersweet. I started as a CNA then got my OMT which in Iowa stands for oral medication technician and am now an LPN. I have worked in...

5. chest pain or anxiety

   medicarelpn posted a topic in Geriatric

   What would you have done, we have a resident in my facility who had a major MI a week and a half ago. They did a cardiac cath and put in a stint. She came back to the facility about a week ago. Last Friday when I came into work at 6am the night nu...

6. coumadin error

   medicarelpn replied to medicarelpn's topic in Geriatric

   This did not happen at my facility it was a facility my friend works at. At the facililty I work at we have double and triple check systems to keep this kind of thing from happening. I do not know if an incident report was filed or not as I do not ...

7. coumadin error

   medicarelpn posted a topic in Geriatric

   I will try to make this as brief as possible but I would like to know what you all think. A friend of mine who works at a different long term care facility than I do called me at work yesterday and asked me to come over to her house when I got off of...

8. Qod 05/20/05

   medicarelpn replied to grinnurse's topic in General Students

   number 3 my son was on chemotherapy last year, and when the nurse was doing our educating they never said anything about the others on the list. But if he had a temp or 101 he had to be in the hospital on IV ATB's for at least 3 days