leeae85

I am currently in the LPN to RN program @ Trident. I started this past summer (which was just transition classes since I already have my LPN) and this fall is when our "real classes" started. Try your best to keep not only up with the reading, but AHEAD. I dont know how the beginning classes were since I did my LPN at OCtech. Do you have any experience at all in the health care field (CNA or something?) that would be beneficial just to get you used to the whole nurse/healthcare setting which some people actually have a harder time with that than actual disease processes/ nursing interventions. I would suggest going ahead and trying to learn about the nursing process and care plans and learning your basic lab values and what they mean ahead of time if you havent already done so just to give you a leg up. Good luck to you! And you are right, anything worth having is hard, so you have the right idea and I think you will do just fine.

First off-you seem like an Awesome nurse & don't let others try to make you feel bad about doing such a wonderful job. Sure there are some days when you won't be able to pick up the extra slack, but thank goodness you do or there seems like their would be an awful lot more problems on your unit. How unprofessional of that nurse to berate you for you reminding her of policies! I would of let her just kept on fussing at me and write the write-up right in front of her!