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I started at $14.25/hr in NW Ohio, prn with no benefits or call-in pay, .50/hr shift differential weekends/noc, $1/hr weekends. I keep a (very) part-time aide position to get call-in pay.

Brandon...I get that *all* care falls under the nursing umbrella; I can and do provide that kind of care every time I work in either role, and am not in the least allergic to wiping poop or cleaning...

I am in the same boat as the OP,LPN with a part-time position as an aide every other weekend. I do aide work when I'm a nurse and nurse work when I'm an aide. Don't mind wiping butt with the best...

Those that devalue the elderly are not old and frail yet. I have been a LTC LPN for a year now and while I'm still new, I can't for the life of me understand how it's perceived as being less...

Hmmmm...maybe this would help my feet, which are sometimes puffy and almost always painful by the end of the shift. TEDS or support hose? How do you know what size to buy? Knee-high or thigh-high?...

Absolutely agree with 2ndyearstudent. Your making it through nursing school depends on a lot of variables that won't be exactly the same as anyone else's experience. You will know what you can...

Ditto here. We have two hospitals in our town, one fairly large and the other a little smaller. The smaller one posts the ER wait times on their website (and even on electronic billboards around...

This is a testament to the difference one person can make in a child's life. Not all nursing is done at the bedside and Mrs. O surely knew this. God bless her for her care, and God bless you for...

I always read Daytonite's posts with interest and learned from every one. Nursing has lost someone very special. :saint:

Apollo Career Center in Lima, OH. :nurse:

I worked in hh before I went into long-term. Loved my clients, but my car wasn't loving all the running for my job then to go to school in the evenings (plus our mileage reimbursement wasn't the...

I'm in OH too and make $1.40/hr less than that.

Hey serendipity....same story here except for the last 2 sentences of your post! Taking A&P 2, started 1/5, A&P 2 easier than A&P 1, missed an A in 1 by 1 point. Same teacher this quarter. But...

Currently attending Rhodes State College in Lima. :monkeydance:

Our residents get showers 2X week. It's usually not that bad because the showers are scheduled so that there's only one or two a day on our individual assignments (no shower aides). But if our low...

Well, as a late bloomer who will be 44 or 45 upon graduating with my ADN, I won't want to go back to school right away (will need to work for awhile to really tamp those principles into my head), but...

I also have had a mid-shift shower, but unfortunately not quite as interesting as yours! :p What a character "Nellie" sounds like! Gotta love 'em.....

Yes, yes, yes!!! One of my big pet peeves is aides that walk into a room where residents are sleeping, flip the lights on, throw their covers back, and yell "Time to get up!". Who wants to be woken...

Sometimes the brightest ideas are born of the darkest circumstances. What a beautiful gift.

Being left-handed (and otherwise very oriented to the left side down to the left eye seeing better), I figured that I would see her turning clockwise, and I did. Like another poster, however, I saw...

:yeahthat: I totally getcha.....it's one of the things about going back to school later in life I think. One day those youngsters will be us, and will understand why we were the way we were in...

Count me in for this club....I start the 3rd week of Sept. Had A & P in scrub school and didn't think it was that hard, but have a feeling that this is going to be a lot more in-depth. Fortunately,...

Pfffft. I'm an aide in a LTCF, and getting my first full weekend of the summer off this coming Labor Day weekend. I was ok with every other weekend, but ALL weekends is ridiculous. Hope my...

:yeahthat:......and as an LPN, you can walk your happy butt out of the OR if it's not your thing, and work elsewhere.

As a STNA in a LTC facility who is also a nursing student, I take issue with the statement that I would have "nothing to lose" should I become entangled in retaliation against a nurse. What if my...