shoegirl28

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1. Canadian LPN thinking of moving to the US

   shoegirl28 posted a topic in Registration

   Hi I was wondering if there are any LPN's out there who are Canadian who work in the US? How did you go about getting your license? How easy was it to find a job? I currently live and work in BC Canada, and I'm thinking of moving to Florida. I have b...

2. RN's attitute toward the LPN

   shoegirl28 replied to shoegirl28's topic in LPN/LVN

   I would agree with you there are wonderful caring proferssionals in all those disiplines. I guess so far in my career though I have only really seen this attitue in RN's. I think they are very kind and caring nurses out there, but sadly in this parti...

3. Calling all LPNs?? What is and is not in your Scope of Practice compared to an RN?

   shoegirl28 replied to Nrs_angie's topic in LPN/LVN

   Where I work LPN"s in the hospital setting (rehab or acute care) LPN's take their own patient load of up to 4-7 patients. They do all their own assessments and care, as well as medication administration. If a patient assigned to the LPN has IV meds t...

4. What Do You LIKE About Being an LPN?

   shoegirl28 replied to pagandeva2000's topic in LPN/LVN

   I love taking care of patient's, good bedside nursing. Caring.

5. RN's attitute toward the LPN

   shoegirl28 posted a topic in LPN/LVN

   Hi just a brief post here. Does anyone else get attitude from RN's? It makes me angry. When I work on certian floors of the hospital RN's refuse to do or assist the LPN with basic nursing care things such as changing briefs. It angers me to no end wh...

6. Tips for nurses in their first year of nursing

   shoegirl28 replied to Brian's topic in New Nurse

   I am a brand new LPN, I have only worked 11 shifts in the hospital that I work at.. All I can say is most of the shifts I have worked have been nights, and I have lost a little bit of weight since I started with out trying. I never knew just how hard...

7. Do Clinicals Get Easier

   shoegirl28 replied to greatan's topic in General Students

   I would have almost said yes they get easier, but after thinking about it, I think from my experince no they don't. The expecations increase dramatically with each semester (in my nursing school anyways) so I don't think things get any easier. Maybe ...

8. How hard is nursing school?

   shoegirl28 replied to WannaBeNrse's topic in General Students

   For me nursing school is not hard academically. The "hard" part about nursing school, is all the clinical experince, and having instructors that don't teach, and the pass or fail classes. I would rather get a grade then a P or F. Nothing is more stre...

9. Nursing students and new nurses.....about injection sites

   shoegirl28 replied to TazziRN's topic in Medications

   I am in semester three at the university I attend in the BSN program. So far I have given only 1 IM, and it was when we were in Long term care (year one). As far as teaching goes, we learned injections by practicing on oranges, and "injection sites"...

10. How Do You Study?!?!?!

    shoegirl28 replied to TruDivaRN's topic in General Students

    I consider myself to be a pretty good student in terms of grades and study habits. Here is what I usually do: I always rewrite my class notes. Usually the next day, and if that is not possible then as soon as I have the time. Always do the reading pr...

11. Questions for Nursing Students

    shoegirl28 replied to scribblerpnp's topic in General Students

    1. What have your clinical instructors done to enhance your learning during clinicals? Especially clinicals that didn't offer much in the way of practicing skills ( such as low chance for IV's, dressings, etc). The best instructors jump at any chance...

12. I failed :(

    shoegirl28 replied to Deliasgone's topic in General Students

    I can say I understand what you went through 110%. I too failed in nursing (clinical) in semester three for "questionable" reasons. I have since passed and am back on my feet. However when I was told I failed and the way I was treated my faculty memb...

13. What clinical rotations have you done?

    shoegirl28 replied to flygirls2's topic in General Students

    I have done long term care, medical (which I failed for questionable reasons), and medical and telemetry (which was oh so fun, and interesting) in which I passed. I start surgical in January.:Santa3:

14. Horror stories.....

    shoegirl28 replied to DAMomma's topic in General Students

    Yes nursing horror stories to exist. I was a student nurse in one myself. It is a long story I posted on another forum I visit if anyone is interested I can post it here too. Students do fail for reasons that might be called "questionable". I have si...

15. What's your story? Why did you take up nursing?

    shoegirl28 replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    Hi Brain You have a very interesting story. Are you still practicing nursing today, or are you practicing in the sense of entrepreneurial nursing? This is a very neat website. I only just discovered it. Is it your first one? Do you have any other one...