sunbeach73

sunbeach73

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About sunbeach73

mother of 4, new graduate from LPN school

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  1. nurse to patient ratio

    Where I work if someone is acting out: biting, scratching, hitting, throwing urine, feces or other objects we ask for a psych eval, immediately call the doctor for something to calm them down and if...
  2. PTEC

    There are other great LPN programs out there. Try Galen. More expensive but worth the
  3. NEED HELP

    Oh....my bad. I guess I misread that part. I apologize.......Asking for how to solve the problem and asking for the actual answers are two different
  4. NEED HELP

    Or maybe someone is just asking for help because they don't understand the problem???? There is no one person who knows answers to everything which is why we ask others for help. I think that finding...
  5. Average Pay for a new nurse

    I'd jump on that job!!!! My first nursing job 2 1/2 years ago I started out in the hospital making $12.50 per hour. That was like a slap in the face. I even had IV certification. I was taking a pay...
  6. Nursing Assistant Staffing/ Patient Loads

    40 residents by yourself????? Are you kidding? And my staff complains because I have 4 CNA's to less than 40 residents. They have no idea how lucky they
  7. Supervisory Training for LPN

    I received mine through an online course. You get 20 hours on CEU's. The cost is about $35. Go to westernschools.com, look up management and leadership and the course should pop up. The ALF I work at...
  8. Help Please!!

    I just bought my daughter a laptop for Christmas from Overstock.com. They have laptops as cheap as $400 each. They are new computers that have been opened by a consumer and then sent back to the store...
  9. Anyone left good paying job for nursing?

    I left an okay paying desk job to work at a major hospital where I live. I took a pay cut of almost $2 per hour. My desk job I was able to have overtime when ever I felt the need for it for the...
  10. My first Interview....

    I wore a pair of black dress pants, a white long sleeved button up shirt with thin black pin stripes and some black 2 1/2 inch hills to my interview. I had a bubbly enthusiastic attitude. All the...
  11. Best City/Area for New Graduate

    Ok, I'll add mine. Where I live is in a big metro area in Florida. You have Tampa Bay, Clearwater and St. Petersburg. Orlando is only an hour away. I've seen adds for pay as much as $40 an hour some...
  12. I wanted to explain what happened to me...

    This is so awesome Lori!!! Congrats. Best wishes to you! I knew you could do
  13. I wanted to explain what happened to me...

    What part of Lori's post was not understood? She KNOWS what she did was wrong. It was a mistake of her taking the wrong medication when she was upset.
  14. New nurse jobs - easy or hard to get?

    I got my license in May this year. I began actively looking for a nursing job first day of August. I just got my first job as a nurse and start in two weeks. I filled out so many applications and was...
  15. Amniotic Band Syndrome? Heard of it? Seen it?

    My cousin had amniotic bands but her baby was born healthy as can be. The weirdest thing I seen on a newborn in clinicals was a polydactil baby. We were always taught to count the finger and toes and...