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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 that doesn't work we send them to the hospital to b...

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

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 things.

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 a book on medication calculations would be a good ...

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 cut of $2.50 per hour. I did data entry prior to nur...

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 are!

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 has this as a mandatory course for all our nurses....

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 "open box" merchandise. My daughters has one smal...

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 clients sake. With my nursing job, not only did I take t...

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 questions that I had for the interviewer was eventuall...

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 places. How true that actually is, I don't know. I'...

This is so awesome Lori!!! Congrats. Best wishes to you! I knew you could do it.

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. Geeze.....

Mercy, I suggested that before too! If someone is that controlling then don't tell them!

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 about to give up. I have never worked in the nursi...

We got to choose a partner for lung and heart sounds. It was very difficult to hear through the cloths. Myself and another student said that as long as it remained a "learning" experience we had no problem with the male students (only had two in clas...

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 this time we counted six on each hand. I guess hav...

Wow...not sure where all you guys went to school, when I was in school they made us do everything on manakins. We had to talk to them like they were real people which was hard for alot of us to do. The issue of your husband "letting" you? If I were y...

Sue2006, I'm an LPN also. I got licensed in May this year, but just started actively looking for work first week of August. I was rejected time and time again even by LTC facilities because I don't have experience. I finally got an interview with a h...

Those are some good questions and points. I spent 18 months in school for my LPN. Right before graduation they had us fill out our paper work to apply to take the boards. We were told then that they would do a background search on us. They didn't tel...

I'm guessing you are an RN? The pay they offered me as an LPN actually puts a sour taste in my mouth, but I was rejected everywhere else for a job and figured I may as well accept this position for the experience. I'll tough it out for a year and see...

Our class started with 24 students as well. We ended up as a graduation class of 12. They called us the "dirty dozen"!

Sailorwife22, I think I know what you mean by your husband not being able to handle the two kids. I never wanted to put responsibility on my other half as far as the kids went. I wanted to go to nursing school to further myself. So I looked as it as ...

Chiefy, where you are working sounds exactly like the floor I have been hired to work on. I don't start until Oct 9th. I have been very nervous about starting as I am a brand new nurse myself. This post actually gave me a bit of relief! Thanks for po...

My suggestion is for management to have an open door policy. I have heard many many stories about nurses being rude to one another. Maybe if Management had an open door policy regarding co-worker bullying and took some kind of action against it compa...