Mycherry05

I totally agree. You need management to back you up. It sounds like they are letting that family pound you into the ground. It's not right for them to allow you to be treated that way.Good Luck!:balloons:

I want to go back, but it never seems like the right time. If I did, I would still want to work the floor, not be a manager. I am mainly after the title.

I guess I am in the minority here(LOL) but even tho I like Psych, I would rec. the LTC job. You will get some psych patients, but you will make better money, 10-15 patients in LTC? That is awesome! I just came from a place where I had 30-35.You will get so much more experience in LTC than anywhere else. JMO

That is so true. Hospitals don't hire us, but there are plenty of other areas that do. I am making 25, and about 47,000 last year, and then I made 23.

I wouldn't think you would need it in a ALF, but I would definitely get the cert. In LTC, I use my IV skills a lot, although I have not put any IV's in. I just have the practice. I don't want to use my patients as my Guinea pigs.LOL BUt I am good with the pumps, etc. I know how to do IVs, picc lines, TPN, etc. I am going to do another class since it's been a while.No, I don't make more, BUT it makes YOU more valuble.

This is Vanco Resistant Staphlococcus Aureus

I have always worked in nursing homes, but many are now rehab also. If you want experience, a rehab facility is the way to go. I work in a rehab facility on a vent/trach unit.

i just want to say i think it is never too late. i went to lpn school with a gal that was at least 65 years old. she got a night job right after school working at one of tacoma's hospitals. you'll regret it if you want it this badly and you don't do it. talk to the school and find out what is your step, and take it from there.:balloons:

Don't worry. Tell what you know. That's all you can do. If it was not reported, then that's all you have to contribute.Does the charge nurse know anything? Or is the CNA lying about having reported it?

This is more like what I am used to...Where I have worked in the past few years, or forever, I have always done assessments. BUT, I always feel like I am not good at it. I can't imagine having to have the RN check everything I do. I have worked in places where someone passed away and there was no RN to pronounce the body. It's pretty obvious. I don't think we need help in that dept although I know it's a law.I had this RN(she had to take her boards twice she was so dingy) ask me if I was sure when I informed her that my patient had passed. I sat with him and watched him take his last breath. I think that it"s not always the title, but your skills. Some LPN's are much more skilled that some RN's I know.Enough said.

Hey! We have the same first name and title! Jennifer LPN(duelly licensed in Wa. and Or.)

WHY is he ONLY an EMT? ROTFL He has no room to talk.

wow - this is right on with my thoughts today. my....dear mother, guilty of the same thing "my daughter is a nurse, i mean she's just an lvn...but she's going to be getting her rn soon...." like she'd say this to anyone that listened. well, after becoming an lvn 4 years ago - and a darn good one at that - and working my butt off - becoming a chpln, being requested over and over by facilities where i work as agency - have finally become fed up with the pt load, the limited mobility, the limited fields open....not to say the enormous dif in pay.... finally enrolled in excelsior - and am going to hyperfocus over the next 9 months and 'get my rn'. what i anticipate my mother now saying "oh, it's one of those tv courses for nurses - like you have to buy your diploma and it's not a real nurse". so i don't think i'm going to tell her. even in our 50's - our mothers still have the sharps and barbs to deflate or egos, our balloons, and rain on our parades. i hate it too when people talk about a 2 yr program versus a 4 yr like one is better.it depends on what you want.

BUT, why sould you have to say, but... to me, that sounds like you feel guilty that you are not an RN?

AMEN to that! I get the same thing, like an LPN is 2nd class. Like only RN's are worthwhile... In the nursing catalogs, I've noticed there are lots of things with RN on them, but not much with LPN. I chose to go for just the LPN, b/c I wasn't sure if that was what I wanted to do. 24 1/2 years later, here I am. I am not against RN's at all. I think we should be valued as much as they are.