Nurse Pure-Spring CNA, LPN

Long Term Care & Sub-acute Rehab

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About Nurse Pure-Spring

Nurse Pure-Spring has 9 years experience as a CNA, LPN and specializes in Long Term Care & Sub-acute Rehab.

Hello! I am Nurse Pure-Spring! Here, we will lower the anxiety and learn the ropes of how to cope and deal with being a nurse. Nursing school teaches you a lot but it doesn’t teach you nearly half of what you’ll learn on the job. Especially how to properly vent and release the stress and build up. While I do have some wit in me, I am always happy to take advice from other nurses and put it into practice!  

I was a CNA for 3.5 years, and have worked in acute care, long term care, sub-acute rehab, assisted living, and home care. Yet before I was a CNA, I was a Wellness Assistant and Med Tech, both inspired me to continue my education further.

I am currently an LPN. After sitting for nearly 2 hours and getting all possible 205 questions on the NCLEX, I found out 4 hours later I passed! Currently, I now work with long term care and sub-acute rehab patients.

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    Stressed LPN

    Nurse Pure-Spring replied to Tinamae's topic in LPN/LVN

    Hello there! I’m so sorry to hear about your issues and I hope it’s gotten better! Nursing is stressful in itself. The floor nurses will have the most stress because they are truly “running the floor”. The day by day grind is testing your limits as ...
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    5 Things To Ask Your Nursing Professors

    Nurse Pure-Spring posted a topic in Student Assist

    Hello everyone! Congratulations on choosing to become a nurse and getting into nursing school! Below you will find a list of helpful things I personally wished I had been taught or at least introduced to prior to starting the role of the nurse! I hop...
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    Unruly CNAs, how to get them moving?

    Nurse Pure-Spring posted a topic in General Nursing

    New nurse here, and of course we have not yet grown our big boy pants! However, when work needs done it needs done. I think I do a decent job at assigning tasks and requesting a reasonable amount of work for my CNAs to perform. Most of my aides are g...
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    Other nurse and DON are besties!

    Nurse Pure-Spring posted a topic in Professionalism

    Sooo I have been working at a place as a new nurse for about 3-4 months now, and one of our unit managers was just promoted to the role of a DON. We have another nurse who is an LPN and she and the DON are as thick as thieves. Every time I work with ...
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    Med error/feeling overwhelmed has me thinking of career change

    Nurse Pure-Spring replied to Fl0ridaNurse's topic in General Nursing

    I’m sure glad I got to read your post and the comments above as well. I am experiencing the same thing and have been questioning whether or not I should have given PRN Ativan or not... But as a new nurse of only 3-3.5 month, I can already tell you th...
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    Should I or shouldn’t I have given Ativan?

    Nurse Pure-Spring posted a topic in Safety

    Hello! I’m a new nurse about 3 months of practice. And a few nights ago I gave a PRN Ativan 0.5mg to one of my long term care patients. He is mentally ill but stable enough to function and wheel about the facility. Often nights he will roam the facil...
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    I need Tips for surviving LPN school!

    Nurse Pure-Spring replied to JaszB's topic in Share Tips

    Hey there and congrats on making it this far! A great app for your phone would be Nursing Central (Unbound Medicine). It's like an electronic drug and disease handbook for anything you can think of, it also does dosage calculations I believe, as well...
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    I failed a nursing course, should I go back?

    Nurse Pure-Spring replied to Nurse Pure-Spring's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you guys for the feedback! I was quite upset until I read more about why I should not give up so rashly. I have spent so much time, energy and money into doing this and I realized I should not let 3% of a grade determine whether or not I can be...
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    I failed a nursing course, should I go back?

    Nurse Pure-Spring posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hey everyone! I am currently in the LPN program and I was unsuccessful in our PN-118 class. We need at least an 80% to pass and move on to the next class. Unfortunately, I finished the class with a 77%. I felt extremely discouraged and almost withdr...