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What Ive found out was to send my resume to almost everyplace I came across. I lot of the job offers or at least interview offers I got was for places whose websites didnt saying hiring. I called them to ask for the human resource office and HR told me to go ahead and fax a resume. I cant tell you how many places told me that who didnt even have a hiring position on their website. Just make sure your cover letter is good and personal to that place and highlight the skills that will draw their eye.

thanks alot for that advise, especially to secure the ties before removing the old ones, i'll remember that. :)

BTW, I asked this question to get feedback on situations i might encounter, I obviously wont do things outside my scope, just wanted some feedback on this type of situation.

thanks. Yeah, I believe it was the lock, she disconnected the IV connected to the bag from the IV going into the pt, this conncection was pretty close to the pt where she did it...ummm, im so bad with IVs cause i have almost no exp with them (besides checking for infiltration which is about the only thing a LPN can do without IV cert.)! But, youre right its my license on the line, just wondering what i might expect to encounter.

Some advice would really be appreciated! I just got a job on a hospital floor with a lot of Pulmonary/ENT pts. I am just out of school (LPN), in fact my last day is tomarrow. I never got any exp c a trach pt in clinicals. i know i'll be oriented, but i want to be prepared. Any advice, common complications or problems you saw, and any hints to giving goos trach care? Sure its a broad question, but maybe i'll get that one piece of advice that will come in handy when i start Thanx!

Hey everyone, just got hired on a med surg floor. Are there any drugs that just stick out for when you first started? I plan to study up on everything, including Pharm so that when i hear a drug verbally i can know what it is and not have that "whats that funny word again?" face. But are there any that you really suggest studying to get a heads up? Also, for all of you people who worked from the ground up, i.e. STNA to LPN to RN, etc. I would like your advice. I was a STNA for a year and 3 months and will now be a LPN (school done, need to take boards but have a job waiting) and I need advice on how to make that transition to being in charge of (and i dont mean that in a bad way) the STNAs and giving them things to do. I mean, being a stna i know what its like to work under a LPN so this may seem like a question i can answer, but any tips would be great. Oh, and one more question to all you nurses out there. Being a LPN (or soon to be) I am a little worried that working on a fast paced hospital floor, that I will asked to do things that arent in my scope of practice. In school we are taught that you never do anything outside that scope, and i respect that, believe me. Then again, I hear from other Nurses c experience that it happens in the real world. An example is for instance (this happened in one of my clinicals) a 4month old needed to have his little outfit changed. But, that would mean disconnecting the IV line to do it. It is so minor and easy, but not being IV certified yet, it is not in my scope. Nurses told me that will happen a lot and i'll end up doing it anyway. I guess I'm just unsure of whether to play it by ear or have a no tolerance attitude. But, i dont want to be seen as difficult or annoying if i have to decline or bring to a RNs attention that i cant do this/that. Any advice????

Hey everyone, just got hired on a med surg floor. Are there any drugs that just stick out for when you first started? I plan to study up on everything, including Pharm so that when i hear a drug verbally i can know what it is and not have that "whats that funny word again?" face. But are there any that you really suggest studying to get a heads up? Also, for all of you people who worked from the ground up, i.e. STNA to LPN to RN, etc. I would like your advice. I was a STNA for a year and 3 months and will now be a LPN (school done, need to take boards but have a job waiting) and I need advice on how to make that transition to being in charge of (and i dont mean that in a bad way) the STNAs and giving them things to do. I mean, being a stna i know what its like to work under a LPN so this may seem like a question i can answer, but any tips would be great. Oh, and one more question to all you nurses out there. Being a LPN (or soon to be) I am a little worried that working on a fast paced hospital floor, that I will asked to do things that arent in my scope of practice. In school we are taught that you never do anything outside that scope, and i respect that, believe me. Then again, I hear from other Nurses c experience that it happens in the real world. An example is for instance (this happened in one of my clinicals) a 4month old needed to have his little outfit changed. But, that would mean disconnecting the IV line to do it. It is so minor and easy, but not being IV certified yet, it is not in my scope. Nurses told me that will happen a lot and i'll end up doing it anyway. I guess I'm just unsure of whether to play it by ear or have a no tolerance attitude. But, i dont want to be seen as difficult or annoying if i have to decline or bring to a RNs attention that i cant do this/that. Any advice????