Theogift

I love saying "Good morning, my name is Ted I'll be your nurse today"

My favorite is when my patient gives me a very sincere "thank you" and tells me that I did a great job today. Least favorite is when I get attitude from the RN covering me and make comments like "Why do we even have LPNs working here if they can't push IV meds. Hello, if there weren't LPNs working here you would have six or seven patients everyday instead of four.

I wore my red converse Chuck Taylor all star high tops when interviewed for five different positions at a local hospital. I got four offers.

I was a medic in the Air Force twenty years ago, when I got out I bounced around from job to job mostly different areas of construction. Then things changed when a large heavy wall fell on my head, everyone on the job thought I was dead. After a long ride in the ambulance and a head CT I realized that I could be giving the kind of care I had received, so I started taking prereqs tow months later. I just got my first nursing job and I couldn't be happier.

Hi, Theodore here, 43 y/o just received my LPN II in Pueblo and started the ADN program last month.

Some of my fellow construction workers did until I told them I was one of two men in a class of twenty four. Ted

I was a medic in the Air Force twenty years ago. Three years ago at my construction job a wall fell on my head, wake up call! I applied to nursing school as soon as I recovered, I start clinicals this week and I am looking forward to having patient contact again after practicing on dummies and my fellow classmates. Ted

I write and eat left handed, but do just about everything else right handed and a lot of the nursing skills I've checked off on lately I have been practicing to do with either, I think that will come in handy depending on which side of the pt I am on or which side is affected.

A&P I worse than trying to learn a foriegn language, it actually is another language and it is all memorization, flash cards, coloring books, outlines, drawing, models, halloween skeletons hanging on your wall, it all ands up to a working knowledge. Ted