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Absolutely!!!!!!!!!!!!:studyowl:

No,no,no!!!!!!!!!!!bad idea...........do not delegate tasks that only license professional are trained for! 2 c

A BSN degree is not a way to get money or more clinical skills;is a way to enhance and further up the career , and believe me is pretty rewarding. I was a 2 year RN and worked for many years as such, then one day I realized that it was not enought, I got my BSN ( and yes I only got .50 cent more.). Now Im going to be a Nurse Practitioner and I could not have done it without my BSN. You can get skills all day long as a RN or LPN, but in order to further up your education and see what is out there, you have to become a BSN first and then is not telling what could happened next..... Just my 2

Here pays depends...the one I work pays .50 than the 2 years-RNdegree

Wao.......I did not think that this type of staff was happening until now. The hospital that I work for years did the same and got rid of a lots good experience nurses that way, some got fired........and one funny thing that they did was if you wanted to know if you position was going to be fill just look at the ad in the news paper and you will find that you were going to be replace that way. Ex. an employee who has been working in this particular hospital for approx. 25+ years, saw that his job was being advertized and the news paper ................then a couple weeks later they fired him because they were going to eliminate department.......what a blow...... Now they are back to square one whole bunch of new grads and agencies nurses.what a disaster.......now they are trying to hired experienced nurses by giving them more money..............is a no ending battle..........:uhoh21:

Yes, Im in the grad school and I work at night 2 -12 hours shifts (part-time).most of my classes are on line.... It seemed easier to me to study when you work at night, when you are off,you can study without interruptions ...the only problem you seemed to have not much of a "life" Just my 2.

i know what you mean. i had a bcg as a child and one as a teen (a buster so of speak) (before i went to south america and then came to the usa), and one year my ppd would not react, and the next 3 years it reacted to the point that my whole arm got involved. the health department wrote me a note stating "not to give ppd, because of bcg given in the past, just cxr..............and more. well i moved to pensacola fla,i lost that particular letter........when i went to sign up for a job at a local hospital i found out by the nurse that i have to have a ppd or i wont get hired, i told her that after my last ppd i reacted to the point that my whole arm got involved; nevertheless she told me that i have to have it anyways( she was an experience rn....at least i was told), my personal doctor told me that no, i needed a chest x ray q2years. i let them know about it and they insisted that they needed a ppd for their records. at this point, i thought they do not need me here so i did not take the job. i think they need to do more research on this issue, and educate more. sometimes i whish i would have never gotten that bcg.

Im agree with above. I normally clamp specially with some hep-lock wich have long tubing, it keep negative pressure in place after flushing it, and it also prevent from blood to back flow and clog up the site. That just me personally.

Thanks I will check on your web site...

I really enjoyed reading you commend, very wise advise....... MGRN_BSN

a classmate (rn)at the university told me about this web site..............:balloons: and i have been posting at this great site ever since

Well if you feel safe this way good for you...........

my question is: is it a good idea for me to get my cna? what do i need to do in order later to convert from a cna to a lpn? if you were i what would you do? i have been told that if i am working i can complete my associate degree and my bachelors degree online. is this a good idea? any advice you can give me will be greatly appreciated." cna is a good starting point......but that it converts into lpn; especially in jacksonville, fla. don't think so. the only thing that cna will get you is pct(patient care assistance tech), and with that you will be train to do, almost, what a lpn does, even some type of meds, and that depends where you work( at least that is what i remember from 9 years ago). in jacksonville lpn have to have a year of an accredited school of nursing, pass the pn-enclex ,and then you will be able to practice as a lpn. also you mentioned an associate degree online. it can be done,i'm not sure what to tell you about that i have been a lpn, rn now bsn (all were done at a local university) and i will try to do my master online........may be others with online degree experience might be able to guide you on this.... well good luck. martrn

wE PIGGY BACK IT.........i VE SEEN OTHER GIVEN IVP, BUT NEVER GENTAMICIN.....

Im not an old nurse niether a new;however, one thing I can say is thanks to all those experience long timer nurses,because today I can see what the nursing field is all about in 3 D, not like I did when I started.and even today Im still learning from those ,20,+years and I appreciate the time that they have put away from thier responsibilities to teach and open my eyes to the world of nursing today.. Thanks MartRN