LVN_LPN_2007

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1. Medical Careers Institute VA Beach or Newport News??

   LVN_LPN_2007 replied to Julian87's topic in Virginia

   I just moved from NN,VA. I worked with a lot of nurses that graduated from MCI and they were all great nurses that were very educated. I have a friend that is doing the RN program now and loves it. NN is a lot cheaper as far as cost of living goes. N...

2. 1st med error!

   LVN_LPN_2007 replied to LVN_LPN_2007's topic in New Nurse

   Thanks for all the support. I learned a huge lesson. My DON and other staff was very supportive. The resident is fine. I felt pretty incompetent at the time but happy to know that I owned up to my mistake and thought about my resident's safety and ad...

3. Why is it so bad to be an LPN ????

   LVN_LPN_2007 replied to hair_tie's topic in LPN/LVN

   I got the same responses from people while in school. My mother in law has her BSN and every time I talked to her she would say I should go for my RN. When we were at clinical rotations the other RN's would always tell me I was making a mistake. I go...

4. 1st med error!

   LVN_LPN_2007 posted a topic in New Nurse

   I made my 1st med error today. I've been working at a rehab facility for 2 months now (new nurse). I gave a resident 30ml Kayexalate by mistake instead of Kaopectate. I went home and something made me remember it so I called work. The on call ordere...

5. more than nursing professionals wearing scrubs

   LVN_LPN_2007 replied to wearingmanyhats's topic in General Nursing

   It bothers me somewhat that other departments wear scrubs. But the main thing for me is the confusion that it creates. Almost every department in my facility wears scrubs and it's confusing for the families and resident. They don't know who to ask fo...

6. I want to work in a Doctor's office.

   LVN_LPN_2007 replied to cinder06's topic in LPN/LVN

   In my area almost all the physician's offices hire LPNs since we are cheaper. But they usually want LPNs to have phlebotomy and office experience since they usually need someone to come in and start working and don't have the means to train you exten...

7. No experience!

   LVN_LPN_2007 replied to kaydrian's topic in LPN/LVN

   I passed the Nclex on Nov. 7th. All I have for experience is customer service with some daycare. I had no problem finding a job. One day I had 5 people call to interview me. I also turned down 3 jobs last week after I found the day shift I wanted. Y...

8. LPN school and all the drama that comes with it!!(vent)

   LVN_LPN_2007 replied to flower2007's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   LPN school was the hardest thing I ever did. Of course I failed a few tests. It doesn't matter how much you study there are going to be tests that just get you down. And I had teachers that wanted me to fail. But I proved them all wrong. The homework...

9. 4th week and 2-3 students gone already

   LVN_LPN_2007 replied to bandas's topic in General Students

   My group started with 24 in our class and now 10 weeks into we have 6. But we have a strict attendence policy that a lot of girls couldn't handle.

10. They changed the clinical attendence policy on us today...

    LVN_LPN_2007 replied to LVN_LPN_2007's topic in General Students

    Guess so but still think that the change is unfair. 30 mins. total for 5 weeks and you're done. And I have to pay you people more. What!! I'm already really unhappy with the teacher situtation there. I'd transfer if I wasn't so in debt to these folks...

11. They changed the clinical attendence policy on us today...

    LVN_LPN_2007 replied to LVN_LPN_2007's topic in General Students

    There are no excused absences or tardies period. There wasn't anything that really triggered it besides people were missing days and making them up. Because before if you didn't make it up that Fri. then you had to repeat the mod.

12. They changed the clinical attendence policy on us today...

    LVN_LPN_2007 posted a topic in General Students

    I'm attending Tidewater Tech in Norfolk, VA. I'm in the LPN program. Today we had a student/teacher meeting for all LPN students. They decided to change the attendence policy for clinicals. From Monday on if you miss 30 minutes or more of clinicals f...