wt2001

Hi, I have just started this program and I will be doing my clinicals at my local hospital. It does take a little time for approval but this process was already started by 3 fellow co-workers that began in January. I'm just happy that I don't have to drive or fly somewhere to have only 2 days of clinical time and be under so much stress that I will probably fail.

I work in a LTC facility that is sending the LPN's through a class so that we can do IV pushes. Also we are not able to spike blood but will be able to monitor and discontinue blood. LPN's are not allowed to do the initial assessment of a patient (a new admit) but can do those thereafter. The KBN website addresses alot of these topics but they are kind of confusing. I also think it depends on whether your facility adopts the policy.

It's even lower in Murray, KY. Base pay is 12.20 for LPN and shift diff. is 0.25, with only $3.00 for the weekend shift. RN's base pay is $15.79. Yes that's all and we were told that our pay is competitve with others.

Well there is a hospital in Hopkinsville called Jenny Stuart (don't know much about them), also the psychiatric hospital in Hopkinsville, Western Baptist and Lourdes in Paducah, KY and Murray-Calloway County Hospital in Murray, KY. Starting pay for nurses in this area of Kentucky is not very high. So you might have to go for that hour long drive to Nashville, TN. Whatever you decide to do I wish you and your wife luck.

I had the computer cut off at 85 questions. I was so scared and I had to drive 150 mileds back from Nashville, TN to Murray, KY in the worst thunderstorm. I checked online 48 hours later and I had passed. Alot of people that I know have had it to turn off on 85 questions. It either means you grasped the concept of the questions asked or you were doing poorly. You never know which. But like I said my friends that have had it turn off at 85 questions including me have all passed.:)

I found a book called The Nursing Diagnosis Handbook : A Guide to Planning Care by Betty J. Ackley and Gail B. Ladwig. It's an older book, 4th edition published through Mosby. I was able to do all of my care plans from this book. Section I tells you how to go through the nursing process and gather information. In section II you locate the clients symptoms, clinical state, and medical diagnoisis, anticipated or prescribed diagnostic studies, or surgical interventions. section II is used to evaluate each of the suggested nursing diagnosis. There are rationales for each diagnosis and intervention. For example: Dehydration- nursing diagnosis 1. altered health maintenance, altered oral mucous membranes, fluid volume deficit (of course they have what each are related to). Then look in the index for health maintenance altered, it gives you the page number and there you go. Do that for each diagnosis and you should have it. You can find this online.

I have only been a nurse for 6 months and this seems like a scary situation to be in. Now at the hospital that I work at an order for ativan or haldol wil not be accepted by the pharmacy without a prn prescription also. Actually that is for all narcotics. If the pharmacy does get one like that they send the order back with big pretty writing that says "get prn order also".

Eating dirt is also known as a form of pica. So if this was true in the South if may have been due to a lack of iron. This might be an area where there is not adequate healthcare.

I read your post a little late but I am saying a prayer for you. I took the NCLEX-PN and it cut off at 85 questions. When I got to 84 I just sat there for a while and prayed that it would not shut off at 85. Well when I pressed the next button it did and I had to answer a survey. I checked in @0915 and was out @1015, exactly one hour. Man all I could think about during my 2 hour drive from Nashville, TN to KY was how was I going to get the money to retest. Anyway in 48 hours I checked online and I had passed. I was in the library when I did this and if you could have seen the smile on my face. You will do great.:) :balloons: :)

Guess what? I am a single mother of two young boys that was accepted into nursing school based on my GPA. Also I worked hard and paid my own tuition until my last semester which is when I applied for a scholarship through the hospital where I had busted my butt for the past 7 years. Don't be salty because this person got in for being a single mother, but I really don't believe that bull.

I have another 911 story which involves my son when he was a year old. My son picked up the phone and hit the 911 button on the phone, well I just thought that he was just playing or pretending to be speaking to someone so I took the phone away from him and put it back down. Well a few minutes later the phone rings and it is the 911 operator and I explained to her what had happened. Well I guess that wasn't enough because the police are soon at my house. I tried to explain to them what happened and they did not believe me either because the next person knocking at my door was a social worker. Each time I had to show them my son picking up the phone and he would push the same button because of the design on it(the emergency sign I guess and it was outlined in red). Well for about a month a social worker would come to my house to visit me. Of course I was embarassed because I have never done anything to harm my children. But I guess it was good that someone did follow up on the call because you never know which call is real.

There was a resident in the LTC facility that I work in who would use her phone to call 911, ER, her physician,and any phone number she could find. She would tell them to call the nurses station and tell them to change the channel on her television or either put her on the bed pan. She would never use the call light no matter how many times we re-oriented her on how to use it. She said that she figured calling someone else would get us to her room faster.

My younger sister who is now 17 used to call her lady parts "Bop". So when she was little there was a singing group called EnVogue and in one of their songs they would say "UM Bop". Well my sister would start crying because she thought that my mother and I had called the radio station and told them that was the name of her lady parts. She was also upset with Baby Bop on the Barney and Friends show.

Now that's funny:chuckle :roll

I am a smoker but I don't take alot of breaks just to have a cigarette. I very rarely go out to take a break to smoke, which is something that I can do after work. I just feel that having the smell of smoke on my clothes is offensive to the patients. Most of the people that I work with are very suprised when I tell them that I smoke because they never see me go outside. Of course we do have the hardcore smokers that everytime you turn around they have left the floor to get a cigarette and it seems like this takes priority over everything else.