fridayannelpn1974

fridayannelpn1974 has 35 years experience.

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1. Difficult Interview Questions

   fridayannelpn1974 replied to adamsli88's topic in Career Support

   These are very difficult questions, that I was (after 36yrs of being a nurse) never asked. To expect anyone to come up with answers to these vague questions - in an interview- is ridiculous- and unfair. I would ask the interviewer to give me the q...

2. work while on narcotics?

   fridayannelpn1974 replied to deehaverrn's topic in Disabilities

   Hi, I worked for many years while taking narcotics -Vicodin and then Morphine to be specific. When you have intense pain, morphine or any other drug does not make you "high' or impared if the dose is equavilent to the amount of pain you are having. I...

3. Warning to New Grads

   fridayannelpn1974 replied to Little_Mouse's topic in New Nurse

   After 36yrs in this business, many of those years in LTC, if you have found a facility that staffs adequatly- Thank your lucky stars!! My guess is that at least 90% or more are seriously understaffed. Most of the time the thing that interfers with p...

4. Warning to New Grads

   fridayannelpn1974 replied to Little_Mouse's topic in New Nurse

   If it is any help, I work in a facility where I have resposibility for 52 long term care patients on the 11-7 shift. If you think long term care means there is never any drama - think again. Any given night one or more of them go "BAD", and I have t...

5. Is It Possible An LPN Can Make More Then An RN?

   fridayannelpn1974 replied to smartnurse1982's topic in General Nursing

   WOW- I normally don't make personal comments BUT, you need to get your head out of your a--. LPN's are not technicians!!! We ARE NURSES! Rn's may have taken freshman comp. social studies etc. but the Rn's who graduated when I did with Associate Degre...

6. Is It Possible An LPN Can Make More Then An RN?

   fridayannelpn1974 replied to smartnurse1982's topic in General Nursing

   When I applied for the job I currently have, I was shown a list of nursing wages that included Lpns and Rns. I am an LPN. Because I had worked for the nurse who hired me at another facility, she started me at the top wage for Rns. & said that sh...

7. Having another nurse check insulin doses & other med Qs

   fridayannelpn1974 replied to Plagueis's topic in General Nursing

   OMG, I hope there are not very many nurses out there that really can't draw up ( for example 8 units of insulin -in an insulin syringe marked off in 100 units per cc.) That's 8 little lines. DUH! It makes me worry about what else they are responsible...

8. Having another nurse check insulin doses & other med Qs

   fridayannelpn1974 replied to Plagueis's topic in General Nursing

   To ChicagoPeds- Your reply was kind of disjointed, so I don't know exactly what you were trying to say. I just want you to know that the patient ratio in vogue today of 1:4 or 1:5 in the hospitals is a peice of cake . When I worked in hospitals, year...

9. Having another nurse check insulin doses & other med Qs

   fridayannelpn1974 replied to Plagueis's topic in General Nursing

   YES, it is MY license and it has been queaky clean for 35years.I graduated as an LPN at the age of 19. I am now 56yo. Since I see you have been a nurse for all of 3 yrs. contact me (in another 32 yrs. if I am still alive), and tell me if you have don...

10. Having another nurse check insulin doses & other med Qs

    fridayannelpn1974 replied to Plagueis's topic in General Nursing

    Canoehead was right there about WHY insulin used to be double checked as an absolute! I too remember the complicated mess insulin dosing was. There were times when the MD would order 13 units of U40, and the only insulin available was U60. This meant...

11. Tasers being used on mentally ill patients.

    fridayannelpn1974 replied to mmtk's topic in Safety

    The Florence Nightingale era is gone! Wake up Nurses!

12. Tasers being used on mentally ill patients.

    fridayannelpn1974 replied to mmtk's topic in Safety

    Over the years I have seen all kinds of patients injure nursing personnel or other patients. Before "mainstreaming" became popular, I worked in a facility with 90 mentally retarded patients. Now they are called Developmentally Disabled. If not for th...

13. "I'll Tell The Nurse" (vent)

    fridayannelpn1974 replied to StNeotser's topic in General Nursing

    I find it amazing that patients wait until 2am in the morning to complain about all kinds of things, like their TV, roommate, diet, patient account, provider, toenails, hairdo, missing clothes, stolen teddy bear, wheelchair, family, medication, ap...

14. Warning to New Grads

    fridayannelpn1974 replied to Little_Mouse's topic in New Nurse

    Hang in there. You won't be a new grad forever. The longer you stay in nursing the more tricks and tips you learn. I just recently had a pt. with bulous phemphigoid. I was the only nurse on my wing, who had ever seen it before. That's because I had s...

15. Warning to New Grads

    fridayannelpn1974 replied to Little_Mouse's topic in New Nurse

    Nursing used to be a mostly female profession. Not any more. There are many more men going into nursing. Females left the work force frequently for a multiple of reasons: ie. child birth, child care, care of elderly family members, or husband oposit...