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I am a GA LPN, originally. Due to personal reasons I relocated to NC. In GA I had no difficulty locating a job. I worked in the hospital which recruited me before I was even out of the program and graduated. In this area of the country there is ...

surgical procedures! when i was an office nurse i had to assist the family doc's with sutures, i&d's, skin lesion removals, cryo for plantar's warts.... but the thing that got to me the most was the toenail removals, watching them inject the ...

i have been at our facility for 4 years as of july. it's funny because i felt like a fish out of water after being in a doctor's office, and before that a floor nurse. i had a really difficult time too, with judgement calls and had very little conf...

i was a staff nurse in a hospital. NEURO, ORTHO, AND PEDS. frequently we would also receive overflow from other floors. so, i got a pretty wide range of experience. i now work as charge over noc. yes, i got to do more ng tubes there. but since ...

I was doing my power charting the other night. i was in my robot mode going down the list on my alert charting board. i picked up the name placed it on the 24 hour report and documented 'no problems, sleeping" ( i work noc), then i realized that sh...

actually sheila c you if we changed policy to shooting the call-in.... it could be a deterrence. i like it and i think i will put it in the suggestion box. because when i am 30 minutes away from wrapping up a long 12 hour shift on my last leg and d...

i also am charge over noc shift in our facility. there are so many aspects in this thread that i hope that i don't get too sidetracked. first of all, in regard to the management deal; yes i of course have a couple cna's that think they are royalty....

i also am charge over noc shift in our facility. there are so many aspects in this thread that i hope that i don't get too sidetracked. first of all, in regard to the management deal; yes i of course have a couple cna's that think they are royalty....

i had a new admission come in that previously was on the other hall apprx 2 mo ago. she had lit her ciggie with her liquid 02 on and became enflamed. she came in due to facial burns and then she was dc'd to assisted living. i was off for three day...

last night was such a shock. we had one of the most courageous people i have been priviliged to know go so quickly on me. at the beginning of shift he felt that something was wrong. immediately he called for me. he was shivering from head to toe ...

i am so disappointed with my eval this am. i have been charge for almost a year now, and i have worked so hard to do my best job as a nurse. i know i am not perfect. i know i am human. i got slammed on my eval so hard because of interpersonal com...

well it has been interesting since i first added the initial post. due to the shortage of nurses, not only am i the only lpn as charge but since this all started they have added two more lpns for the opposite days of rotation from ours. there is on...

in our long term care facility we are encouraged to wear bright vivid scrubs. The theory is based on the effects of alzheimers/dementia and the ability to see white as opposed to the other colors of the spectrum. in our lock down unit the toilet li...

okay, i am replying to the question "what have you done with the eval?" the answer is nothing. i am very afraid of retaliation. since the eval the rcm has treated me like dirt under her feet. her and the dns are tight. i have basically focused o...

i am so proud for you both!!!! i still remember when my results came in the mail. i had my 9yo daughter open it and tell me. i still have the nclex pass letter from ga. when i get down i look at it again. it has the picture that they took on the...

nightowl, i know what you are going through. i had been experiencing the same s/s myself. i noticed that you also work noc. i was working 3 12's and an8 then two days off. which amounted to one. my pay checks were awesome but my family life was g...

okay these aren't as good as some but two things come to mind since i have been in nursing. the grossest things were in a small 3 md family practice in a very hick town. oh btw i love little hick towns. anyway, the people in the surrounding area p...

thank you heather and darby. i cannot tell you how much it means to have encouragement. i took the attitude when i went back that i was not in nursing for the personnel aspect or the management aspect but as darby put it basically for the nursing a...

as shift supervisor/charge nurse, i feel an obligation to help the other nurses that might need assist. i have just as much of a patient load as they do, and i have to deal with all management issues, staffing, dietary, housekeeping, family complain...

the other night i was working with one of my best cna's. she had been working doubles for a few days, has two small children and can get a little loopy when sleep deprived. gee, can't we all. she is very sharp, intuitive and conscientous. she wal...

lyndalous, thank you for going to the trouble of asking for help. i posted a message and i was hot! i wish i could have been as eloquent as COMICRN but i was too insane at the time. pms didn't help my reply to her either. i hope she wakes up.

first of all i was so tickled to see Ya'll , i have been in idaho for 3 years and everybody makes fun of me for saying YA'LL. Second, girlfriend how do you get away with wearing combat boots at work? i mean are they army issue or what? and you are ...

i couldn't figure out what you guys were talking about initially, i didn't think i was superstious, until i started reading the posts. omg, i am cracking up! the biggest thing we have at our LTC facility is our fridays. i don't know if anybody...

i also work noc shift. we recently were offered diff pay. RN' S make more money per hour than we LPN'S. the absolute worst thing about it is that they did not offer this to the cna's. i happen to have a personal interest in the plight of my fello...

i am trying extremely hard not to take what your post said personally. when i was in nursing school my first quarter of clinicals was at the "nursing home". i hated every minute of it, i sweated my butt off giving showers, and walked around with a...