jude11142

I am an lpn, who just sent in applications to a technical college and one to a private college. Both offer a "bridge course", so you basically don't have to do the first yr of nsg school. I know several co-workers who went this route and they were ...

i i would hope that the charge nurse would be available to you at all times. you should never feel that you are alone. As for night shift, I agree with others, make sure you restock, area is neat,and unless you were swamped, all of your tx's are d...

I have no problem reporting any incident that is abusive, neglectful, illegal, inhumane, dangerous or potentionally dangerous and so on. As nurses ,we are the patients advocate and mandated to report any abuse. As a human being, I believe that we s...

Our facility recently changed the hrs of bowel regimen. Now, days gives out the MOM, evenings next with the supp. and night shift is to give the fleets enema if no results. It's crazy to wake up a resident in the middle of the night for this! Some...

I don't know if this is an option for you but, what I do is I take a 10 minute break and go outside in our courtyard. I walk around and the fresh air gives me my second wind. I know that not everyone can just get off the floor let alone off the uni...

i think that everyone feels nervous at first.....as for being grossed out, i worked in the o.r. as a scrub tech, so blood and guts don't bother me..............what does gross me out is vomit, lol.....if you weren't nervous, i would be worry....it is...

we had a good amt of rules when i went to school. yes, we had to have our hair pulled back/up. the only earrings we could wear were studs or small hoops. the only rings allowed was a wedding band. minimal make-up..........absolutely no perfume!...

i was just past my 40th birthday, when i was accepted into the lpn program. i too, thought that i'd be the oldest student, but there were others who were even in their fifties!! i always wanted to be a nurse :melody: but the time was never right. ...

We have a 156 room facility. On night shift, we have 4 licensed staff. We have 5 units and our supervisor(RN)takes one unit. The other 4 are covered with either lpn or rn, many times it's lpns. One of the nurses has to work a "double unit"(60pts)...

I work in a LTCF and have to say that we seem to have the same employees calling out time after time. Doesn't really matter if they are nurses, cna's, dietary etc...If it's a weekend that they call out on, then they have to work the next one. I oft...

Very dangerous, I feel. I would never work in a place where there are medication aides. No way!! Med pass is not just doling out pills(as we all know)...what about side effects, allergic reactions, monitoring effects and so on??? This is nothing...

I think that every nurse has at one time or another has made a med error. The main thing is to learn from it. You realized how serious of an error you made, so now you need to learn from it. When I first started working in a long-term facility, I ...

I 100% agree with you. I have seen this happen and it makes me sick!! All patients should be treated equally. Yeah, some may need more attention than others but that's something totally different. It upsets me also when a coworker will say "so an...

I work in a LTCF and got a sign-on bonus of 2500.00. 1000.00@6 months and the rest @ 1 yr. 2500.00 seems to be the avg sign-on bonus around here for LPN's. JUDE :Melody:

Hi, I was enrolled about a yr ago with Excelsior and had found it hard to make the time to study. At that time, I had alot going on in my life, with hubby in hospital etc...Now................I am ready for it!!! I have my work schedule pretty much...

I have to agree, I would rather be off the floor and have a relaxing meal but.....most days, you have no choice. Either you eat at the desk and yes, answer call lights, phones inbetween each bite. Not very healthy. If you don't, then chances are y...

Who doesn't? LOL, yep unfortunately there are always people like that no matter where you work. Atleast, you know what you are dealing with and what the story is with this person. It's the ones that pretend to like you and then go behind your back...

Hello and welcome to the nursing field. When you were hired were you given a job description? What are their expectations? One thing, always remember to stay within the scope of practice for an LPN. If unsure, you can look it up and see what your...

Yeah, you have a point there. It is a long shift and sometimes knowing that you have 2 double shifts to get through gets to ya. It's alot different than being asked to pull a double now and then. The other thing that is burning me out, is that at ...

Wow, sounds like an instructor that I had. I thought that your advice (to tape her)was a great idea, but a word of caution here. Without getting into all the details(I know that I posted my situation awhile ago), I was having serious problems with ...

I also find it humiliating and frustrating but I can tell you that the RN's where I work aren't too happy about it either. I don't blame them. Just think, we take the MD order, write it in as one and then an RN has to sign it. What if we wrote it ...

I have to agree with what others have said. I have no problem doing anything that benefits our residents and/or helps out a coworker, but there are times when you are just too busy and can't drop everything unless it is a true emergency. Assisting a...

I too, see the advantage of having the same staff on each unit, but......for me, I have been going through this and I am getting burnt out being on the same unit. One particular night, I had it. I went to supervisor and begged her to please not put...

Hi Lara, I went to a vocational school for the LPN program. The total cost was about 1,500.00. My daughter is enrolled at one of the "private" schools in an LPN program and the tuition is an astonishing 17,000.00!!! Do you get a better education b...

I work nights(11p-7a) and have the same concerns. I have 3 residents on the unit that I normally work on that are assigned tylenol(Q6h ATC)and are scheduled at 2am. Ridiculous. I suppose that getting the order changed to "while awake" would solve t...