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I'm just curious about what the costs for LPN school are now in different areas. I went to school in 1969 and cost of the ENTIRE course was $150 at our vocational school. This included books, two uniforms, two caps (yes, I'm old..but I loved my cap),...

How do I evaluate the agencies? What about pay - hourly vs. per visit - which is better? How can I get up to speed fairly quickly? What would a good orientation consist of? I'm use to a very brief orientation at present but what would be sufficient f...

>>> Well WE know that LPN stands for "Low Paid Nurse" and RN stands for "Rich Nurse".......right? I never told my pt's I was their LPN...I just said I was their nurse.

>>> I admit that I will ask a male nurse for lifting help more than I do females, and some do get upset about it. I have 40 years of stress on my back and was terrified of hurting it more. I can't blame them when they have their own work ...

I was sorry to see the cap go. Now no one knows who the nurses are from dietary, housekeeping and other departments. I was proud to wear my cap, but the new younger nurses worried about it messing up their hair. Now they wear long hair that hangs ...

I would NOT recommend any of the HCA hospitals, and there are many in the Tampa Bay area. Most of the travelers in my hospital were very unhappy and could hardly wait for their contract to end.

One thing that I've noticed is that there are very few male nurses who actually do floor nursing. They seem to work mostly in ER's, ICUs, supervision, or management. Is this the norm in most places? Even when we have male aides they seem to have ...

I don't intentionally say I'm a nurse unless asked, but they usually realize it when I answer questions such as what surgeries I've had and I say something like "A chole, bilateral carpal tunnel x 2, and a low anterior bowel resection for rectal c-...

Being old, I will never understand tongue piercings. Do young people do it for shock value or what? I can imagine the odor when food gets stuck in it....yuck! I prefer a clean mouth, thank you.

>>> That's not easy to do when you have one aide and 40 pts on the floor with four to six nurses. Everyone want's the aide at once. Each nurse usually assigned the aide two pts for bath and bed, which still left us with five or six beds an...

Do you want to do pt care or be in the office? I've been doing home health part time for about a year and I love it. I worked 40 years in med-surg and finally retired from hospital nursing....and I will NEVER go back. I feel appreciated and respe...

I'm a hospital-retired LPN doing home health in St. Pete. Home health is so much less stressful. If anyone is looking for hospital work in Florida I would NOT recommend any HCA facilities.

In my hospital LPNs CAN'Tadmit, assess, spike blood, insert NG tubes, sign off orders, do care plans, give chemo, pronounce pts. LPNs CAN start and maintain IVs, give meds, take phone and verbal orders, push certain IV meds, maintain and give meds th...

Why? Nursing should not be gender bias in-favor of females. The white uniform & white nurses hat has the connotation of the female nurse.>>>> That's the silliest thing I ever heard. Male nurses wore all white and in place of a cap th...

>>> I agree. I worked hard for my cap and felt so professional in my white uniform. Now if a pt sees me they wonder if I'm housekeeping, dietary, or some other dept. My name and title are right on the whiteboard by their bed but they sti...

>>> You don't think women are more catty? I'm afraid I agree that they are. Have you ever sat with a group of women on break or at lunch? I feel that women definitely gossip more than men....myself included I'm afraid....which should be ...

I really don't care what it looks like, I want my school's pin. As someone above mentioned, to me that is the whole point.>>>> I agree. Your school pin, no matter how ugly, represents the time you spent in YOUR nursing school and your pr...

>>> I've been an LPN for 40 years. I don't EVER remember being treated badly or differently by RNs. I never felt disrespected by anyone and I respected the CNA's, secretaries, housekeeping, dietary and all other depts as much as I did my ...

>>> That's the way we did "daily" procedures. The person who did it first put it on the MAR or Kardex with whatever time it was done and it was done at that time from then on. Worked well because ALL tx's were spread out a little more. :)

When has medical care in the states ever made sense? My husband is Canadian and can't believe how things are done here. No, the Canadian system isn't perfect, but at least EVERYONE has some kind of care. It's the same in Sweden. Yes, they have higher...

Thank you! I thought I was the ONLY nurse that remembered those days. It was really difficult for me to get in the habit of using gloves for anything else but cleaning up BM, which we didn't even HAVE back then!

I've seen them use gloves and STILL get stuck. Needles DO go right through gloves. For me, it was difficult feeling the veins through gloves on 80-90 yr olds. I always start with them on but have been known to get frustrated and remove them.

Believe it or not, back in the early 60's when I started as an aide, we didn't wear gloves and they weren't available in the rooms. It was considered an insult to the pt to do colostomy care and use gloves. Hard to believe isn't it? I think some go o...

I retired and now do home health part time after being a hospital nurse for 40 years and I learned today how to use "The Vest" chest percussion machine that I had never seen before. I learned that no one is too old to learn!

>>> i think mucous bothers a lot of nurses more than blood or emesis. i'm doing private duty home health and have a pt with throat ca. after i give his breathing tx's he coughs up a lot. i think it's yucky because it just hangs there in ...