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Graduated lvn school in 2011 with no healthcare experience. Was a waitress before nursing school. Was offered a LTC job 2 weeks before graduation, first day was the Monday after graduation and was on...

I counted my books and tuition/exam fees in my taxes but you won't get all of it back. I think I got roughly 50% back. I'm paying out of pocket so I save $100 each paycheck and after two months I...

I work in a doctors office currently as an lvn. We have 3 RNs and one of them is actually the charge nurses. The RNs do phone triage all day and very seldom go in the floor. To give you numbers we...

You can't get through a nursing program without the support of your loved ones. Long nights if studying and daring days at school and clinicals will take its toll on you and you are going to need...

There is a new option where they are offering online classes for each test. Idk how it works though

I'm from west, tx. For those if you that don't onow the fertilizer plant exploded here a week ago and destroyed half the town. I was scheduled to take reproductive that Friday but obviously...

I'm doing excelsior college online right now for my rn. I live in Texas.

I'm an lvn at a family med clinic. I do phone nursing with 3 RNs (I'm currently in school for my RN which is why they put me here so I can have an easy transition). There are less and less rn jobs in...

I agree with the above postings but when you speak to HR be sure to tell them the pt brought it up because he had overheard people discussing it in the hallway this way it is made clear you weren't...

We only have to co sign on narcotic wasting and that is only because I work at a large hospital and they had issues in the past with narcotic theft. When I worked in nursing home we didn't have the...

Some people in my class got locked out when we did it in 2011. Don't feel bad you are not the only one. I actually did mine at the school so I could use the wifi and used one of the desktop computers...

They were taking penn fosters info lit but I think they changed that recently to only accepting excelsiors. My advice is just focus on lvn school and passing the nclex, as soon as your lvn is posted...

We are taught RACE but we are also taught to scream fire as loud as we can and if we hear someone else screaming we add to automatically pull the alarm before going to assist the original person that...

Tell the proper authorities. She has a history of self harm so she is at higher risk. What if she were to do something and you knew about but didn't tell anyone? She told you because deep down she is...

In Texas you can work as a cna but will be paid as a cna and cannot do anything outside of the scope of a cna (pass meds, do treatments etc) but if an emergency were to happen you would be expected...

I was raised catholic and am a " Christian" trying to figure out what exactly I believe. I don't take everything my preist and nuns taught me for fact. I believe man wrote the bible several years...

I tend to only want a female provider/nurse for Pap smears and discussing birth control at routine appointments but outside of that I don't care. If it emergency room visit or hospital admission I...

I believe as health care professionals we should provide the patient with ALL available options and let them choose. I am personally and religiously pro life and will not work somewhere I had to...

I would call the BON and ask. I've called them with random questions before and they will usually send you an email with info you need.

I haven't read all of the posts so it may already be on here somewhere but if you are over 18 you can get plan b OTC. Just go to the pharmacy counter and ask for it, in my state you have the option...

What steps would that be??? Magically growing 2 feet??? I took a step its called a gun, a can of mace only had enough for 1-2 predators, most guns hold 6-8 bullets. Simple math wins.

I work in family med. we have lab protocols that we use, if person is diabetic they get a b c labs if they have hypertension they get c d f labs and so on. If pt has no medical dx and are healthy...

Billybob you have obviously never been a small sized female surrounded by 6 foot guys hasselling you and/or trying to rape you. That one scary moment gave me all the push I needed to officially take...

I worked in LTC and we had to have an RN on call but they didn't have to be in the building. We only like three on staff to begin with and one of those was the DON. Texas laws states you just have to...

I pounded the pavement, dressed for an interview and went to local facilities to see if they were currently hiring any nurses. I think I went to around 6 in one day, had on the spot interviews at...