HazelLPN LPN

Adult ICU/PICU/NICU

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About HazelLPN

HazelLPN has 54 years experience as a LPN and specializes in Adult ICU/PICU/NICU.


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  1. HazelLPN

    LPN/LVN salary vs Teachers salary

    It seems you missed the main point of my post which was that teachers and school nurses who work in states where they have the right to collectively bargain make significantly more money than in states where they do not. Texas is a state where they d...
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    LPN/LVN salary vs Teachers salary

    Texas is a right to work for less state and unions that represent teachers and school nurses have little to no power. In the district where I recently served as a substitute assistant school nurse, a teacher with a PhD and 20 years of experience...
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    Phasing out LPN

    I became an LPN because in my day, an LPN was a nurse who took care of the patient without having to worry about any administrative roles. In those days, an LPN could work anywhere in the hospital ...and we all trained in the hospital. These days, ...
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    LPNs Working on Acute Care Floors

    What an insult to the LPN used as a unit clerk. I hope she received LPN pay.
  5. We had a high school student who ran in front of a car outside the school on a dark rainy morning right before school started. The school RN had just parked her car and noticed a crowd outside the school and she knew something had happened. She sent...
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    What kind of LPN job should I get while in the RN program?

    Find a job with tuition reimbursement! I worked for a large teaching hospital that paid for my school when I was working on my RN ( I never finished ,another story).
  7. HazelLPN

    Med/Surg to ICU - Need Advice

    In my day, nearly everyone started on Med/surg before transferring to ICU. I myself started there right out of school because believe it or not...we didn't have ICUs when I graduated. Once it opened, I transferred to work down there within months. It...
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    Why are so many nurses against unions?

    Absolute nonsense.
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    Preparing to be a NICU Nurse

    We need more men in nursing period! I have been retired from critical care nursing for ten years so I hope things are better now. My last job in the hospital was working contingent in the PICU and would float to NICU as needed. We had a 45 bed NICU...
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    Ever forgotten to feed a baby?

    I once had a nightmare after working an evening shift where I had four feeder growers that I forgot to feed one the entire shift. It was so real and vivid that I actually called the unit in the middle of the night to make sure I didn't make any mis...
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    LPN/LVN salary vs Teachers salary

    I have a challenge with your statement that"everyone thinks (teachers) are poor but we (LPNs) make big bucks." Considering many people laugh that LPN stands for "Lesser Paid Nurse"...I think that your assessment that everyone thinks that LPNs make ...
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    Your most annoying, obnoxious family member stories

    One of my the weirdest family incidents occurred when I was taking care of a fairly routine s/p crain in the PICU. The mom and dad of course were very relieved I told them "we are just waiting for a bed upstairs...he doesn't need ICU anymore." The ...
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    Lpn told me she works ICU??

    I am a retired LPN and in my day, it wasn't at all uncommon for LPNs to work in the ICU. Though its not common these days, it does still happen. The ICU from which I retired still has LPNs working. Most of these places that use LPNs in the ICU are st...
  14. You could do it either way. I worked in adult ICU for years and years before I started doing PICU. However, most of the nurses that I worked with in the PICU started out at other units at the Childrens' hospital.....infectious disease, hem/onc, ER, N...
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    Seasoned ICU Nurse Lacks Critical Thinking

    The great Bette Davis, one of my favorite actresses when I was a little girl, said once "Getting old ain't for sissies!" There's nothing good about getting old once you realize that you can't do what you used to do as well as you used to do it. You ...