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  1. switching to 3rd shift

    I have worked nights for the last 5 years and am now switching to dayshift, finally! I would almost always sleep with an eye mask on (cheap and easy to find, get one at wally world for about $5) and I have to have a fan! Juggling nights with a family...
  2. I might gag

    I have trouble with the smell from ostomy bags. seems to smell worse when it comes out that way. I just deal with it, don't make any faces pretend it is not bothering me, until I get to the bathroom!
  3. LPN/LVN rate of pay in your area.

    I graduated in 2005 and started at 16.50 + 1.00 shift diff in LTC, I am still at the same facility and am up to 21.85 plus the dollar diff. I have interviewd a few places recently and no one seems to be paying over 18.00 right now. I also interviewed...
  4. As LPN's age

    I'm with you there but it doesn't seem to touch the pain anymore! (and I am still pretty young yet!)
  5. LPN Starting Salary

    Oh, I almost forgot we also have good benefits as well and i also earn about 1 vacation day per pay (every 2 weeks). I have enough time saved I could take off for an entire month right now if I wanted to! Hey that sounds like a good idea, hmmm.
  6. LPN Starting Salary

    I work in LTC and when I started at the facility that I am currently in I was only a GPN. I started out at 16.50 an hour with 1.00 shift diff for 11-7 shift. I got my first raise at the begining of the following calender year along with everyone else...
  7. Is this average?

    WOW! Move out east for a year! I live in south central PA and went to the local vocational school, waited only a short time to get in (about 6 months as classes only started twice a year) and the total cost was somewhere between 8-9k. I was able to g...
  8. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

    I have had the "how does this thing work" "what does this button do" and the "just seeing if this thing works" calls more times than I can remember! Not so funny but gross, we have a woman where I currently work who uses the call bell for something ...
  9. CPNE Failure

    What is the grid that has been mentioned in previous posts? I just started my courses with excelsior and am trying to get any and all advice that I possibly can.
  10. LPN/LVN rate of pay in your area.

    I am in south central PA and the pay in my area (for a new lpn) ranges from 13.70 on up, most are in the 15.00-17.00 range with differentials on top of that. I am currently working as a GPN at a LTCF I make 16.50 + 1.00 shift diff, I understand I wil...