I work in an MICU in a local hospital. Was an LPN for 20+ years and then went back for my RN. You can do this! "Older" students take it more seriously, or so my instructors told me. Tutors were available for those who wanted at no cost. Alot of peopl...
Sorry to hear you had such a hard time with A&P. Where do you work as an LPN? I live in Polk County and PSC's school is extremely competitive. I don't want to discourage you but nursing is mostly science. The make or break class where I went to s...
uptoRNin04 replied to uptoRNin04's topic in Critical
We titrate to results as well in the unit. The major problem has been with heparin. The inital bolus and then the gtt rate. We also have a max, thank goodness, or who knows how high someone may go. The major problem has been with a small person and t...
Any ER nurses out there that can give me some insight? We are having a problem in our MICU that when a pt comes up from ER, they have estimated the pt weight way too high. This is causing some problems with drips running thru the pump. Heparin, dopam...
uptoRNin04 replied to liloadro's topic in Ambulatory
I worked as an LPN in an oral surgeon's office for 5 years then went back to get my RN. I loved working there. As an RN in that setting, you would be starting IV's, pushing meds for sedation, assisting during the surgery etc. You could also be going ...
uptoRNin04 replied to MHaffer's topic in New Nurse
I work in MICU in a hospital in Florida. Surprisingly, all our new nurses are new grads. For some reason it is rare for nurses on our other floors to transfer to ICU. We do get RN's with experience when they move here from another state but rarely in...
I had a similar experience. Started on a floor I didn't like, wanted to transfer as soon as my orientation/probation period was over. In the hospital I work at, they would rather keep you at their hospital rather than lose you to another. They are re...
What I find to be so sad is that nursing schools seem to look at ways to flunk people out instead of encouraging them to succeed. I realize that getting into nursing school is really competitive right now but these kinds of things are ridiculous. I p...
uptoRNin04 replied to wtcc_student's topic in General Nursing
I have had a somewhat similar experience. I worked LTC for 25 years as an LPN and loved it. I then went back to school to get my RN, after all those years!!! I decided to do a year in memd/surg and hated every miinute of it. I left that to go to an o...
uptoRNin04 replied to lostpinesornurse's topic in Operating Room
A surgical consent should only be good for the date written on it, hence, 24 hours. As long as it is dated, and it should be, it is only good for that date. A delay in surgery would mean a different consent form.
Just wanted to know if anyone out there has ever been asked to leave a written report for the next nurse at shift change rather than a face to face? It was suggested to me that I do just that tonight at shift change since the next nurse was going to ...
uptoRNin04 replied to badtz143's topic in New Nurse
I am an RN who worked over 20 years in long term care. It was great but, after all that time I went back to school to be an RN because I wanted more. You don't mention how old you are but by reading your post, you are giving up way too much just beca...