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I was excited to see this post and started reading all of it, but when I got into it most of it was about fraud abuse and whistleblowing. I am a hospice nurse, my husband last year was on hospice for 7 days before passing away now with that company t...

As I wipe the tears from my eyes, This is what being a Nurse is all about the caring loving attitudes to all of our patients and family members. I walk into every room with the thought that if this were my oarents, siblings,ect how would I want the...

I have been a LPN since 97 and I have one semester to go for my ADN. It has helped and hurt me, helped me because i can go to clinicals and not second guess myself. My promblem has been when I walk into the class room I have to remember to take th LP...

Take a step back, Take deep breath, now rethink on the ways you did it. I know she upset you and what she said was wrong but......... sometimes a instructor will say thinks like that to remind you that you are a good student but when you do clinical...

Like many here when starting to read this post my ire was up, hackles raised, and the red flag came out. I was thinking how dare someone say something like this, but like others i kept reading and want to thank all of those who have worked with LPN/...

I am finding out that NCLEX is going to shoot for generic names on drugs altogther not even showing the brand names so thats another thing were going to have to learn. heres a website that you can go to and they will send you a pocket guide of the GB...

Remember also when in question you can always ask the pt what there norms ( most know this) or go look at the chart and see what the last few have been. I know after my B/P meds kick in m,y heart rate will still be a little high as my pressure levels...

I understand how upset you are, having to retake 2 courses due to grades myself ( psych and clin pharm) , look at it as a learning exper. and take a deep breath. What I am having trouble with is that you gave the insulin right? Then had to show the ...

My husband is a Truck Driver and my kids are grown but alas now I am raising Grandkids, being off on the holidays would be nice but as you can see from the post on here being a nurse does'nt allow this. What we have found is that for Thanksgiving w...

Go for it I bet theres more out here that would love to read that than you think I know I do. Now i am going tohave to go on ebay and start looking. But for anyone that has any and would like to donate remember the hospitals around...

LOL No i was her daughters twin that had died in childbirth her and I are still good friends :balloons: Never be afraid of the ghosts left behind normally there here to help us or to tell us to be on alert so far i have never seen them hurt anyone an...

I was working in a LTC night shift and would always have this one lady come talk to me during the night she would sit in her w/c at the nurses desk never bothering anyone she couldnt sleep and didnt want to be in the room alone...

I dont think I am a set dressing, I think really if you look at it what a lpn/lvn can do is set up by what state you work in, Scope of practice is differnt in every state as a lvn in texas yes i did alot more than I do in Missouri also I ...

Sorry to say this but they get alot of this from other patients and from the community Or hearing some say that LPN"S arnt real nurses and that a CNA is just there to clean butts I think we as a LPN can do anything t...

Youngest I have seen was a 10 yo that gave birth to twins gotten preg by her teacher she had the babies and her parents adopted them I saw her a few years later and she introduced them as her brothers Now what was differnt about t...

On this subject where can one in SE MO get this class also from what i can find is that most nurses get it when there in school and they dont have enough people to offer the class> So the uestion I have is where sh...

Help !!!!! i need a good site to go to to learn more about documenting wound care can anyone out there help me ???

As a LPN in Missouri its $91 to renew and we have to have 24 ceu's I am hoping we go to the Compact agreement soon so we can all work in other states

:kiss One thing we all need to remember when working in a med surg ect Most the time our 8 hrs shifty is up and were still on the clock to finish up. When working the 12 hour shift that 4 extra hours help us to finish an...

hi there I am having a Promblem with our hospitals policy on pateint satisfaction, we are in a what they call Target 100 and Emplyors choice region they fired 3 damn good rns because patients complained about them or another story i heard was t...