NurseBeefcake

Thank you for the reply cubrnjvm. What is LUPA?

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Thank you for the response

Hello, I have been an RN for 7 years and have recently started doing HH OASIS SOCs to make a little extra money. I was wondering is there any sort of standard frequency that you use? And what are some typical situations where you would increase the frequency to 3 or more times a week? Thank you in advance

Thank you all for your replies. I will be sure to incorporate them into my interviews. -Nursebeefcake

I'll be a new grad in Dec 2006 and will start interviewing at hospitals next week. I've searched through other threads and haven't been able to find any answers for my concerns. Particularly, what should I want to know about the hospital I might be joining. I already know to ask about what sort of new grad program training and support they offer, but I want to know what should I want to know about the hospital itself and any other helpful hints that anyone could impart. Thanks in advance. Nursebeefcake

I went straight from LVN school to RN school and it helped tremendously. I don't want to raise anyone's hackles but from my point of view it was the exact same information. I learned a few things in RN school that I didn't learn in LVN school and vice versa. If you can do it I say go straight through.

I sprained my ankle pretty badly about 10 years and it never was right after that and then about 5 years ago I got plantar fasciitis and have been in foot hell every since. I bought a pair about 2 months ago and love them. I in no way regret the $216 I paid for them and every time someone gasps at the price I just tell them it is all worth it if before you could barely walk. I'm just trying to figure out how am I going to get another $432 to buy two more pair. So that I'll have a work out pair and a dog walking pair to go along with my job pair.

My very first LVN job was doing flu clinics so I made $30/hr (however this is only for 2 months). But when I had to get a real job I made $17/hr.

If it is possible, STAY IN SCHOOL.

Good Luck!

We had to this in our Legal Ethics class. Some topics were: 1. Is multistate licensure a good idea for nursing 2. Is the nursing shortage true or is it just hype? 3. Do side rails protects patients 4. Are organ trasnplant allocation fair. 5. Should patients know their nurses HIV status and vice versa 6. Is profession liability insurance necessary for nurses

I'm an LVN who works registry and there is one hospital that I go to that uses team nursing. It has its pros and cons. As the LVN cons are passing meds for eight patients instead of four. However the pros are that the LVN and the RN get report on the same patients so that the situation never occurs where i have to report something to the RN hours into the shift on a patient that she has never seen and 2 there is some one always on the floor who actually knows your patients because report is never as complete when one goes to lunch. Also you can share a lot of the paperwork.

Congratulations, may you have blessings without number and all good things without end

Hello all, I'm an LVN who took the NCLEX-PN last year and plan to take the NCLEX-RN in February of 2007. I know on the paperwork to get my ATT I will acknowledge that I've taken the NCLEX before. So my question is will the computer remember who I am and target my weak points or will it be as if I just sat down for the first time and random questions are given.

I say if at all possible go for your RN. It wil cut down on time in the end and you will have greater job prospects. I went for my LVN first because I knew I would get into the RN program easier in Southern California and although I had enough saved to work sparingly for a year, I was going to have to make more money per hour to work sparingly for the second year.

While taking an NCLEX review given by my school, I met a girl who had graduated from NS ten years before and had yet to pass the NCLEX. I must say, it gave me pause and I had extremely not nice thoughts. However the one thought that I still have and am not ashamed to say out loud is "How do you retain the knowledge and the skills after ten years of not being a nurse?" I know even when I don't work for a week or two it takes me some time to get back in the flow? Now regarding the question. I think although there shouldn't be a limit there should be some kind of mandatory refresher or other class that one must pass after failing say 4 or 5 times or 1 or 2 years after graduating NS.

we were taught the same except we clamp if 500 mL comes out very quickly.

I live in California and 90% of my classmates fingerprints weren't of good enough quality for the DOJ to accept them and we had to be refingerprinted several times. However, our we were allowed to take the nclex. We just couldn't get the results or our license until our fingerprints passed through the DOJ.

My school did the ERI and we needed to pass to get our paperwork sent to the board. All except one in the class passed the ERI the first time. And all except one in our class passed the NCLEX the first time around (the one that didn't, passed the second time). The person who didn't pass the nclex the first time wasn't the same one who didn't pass the ERI. So I really don't know if it is a good predictor or not.

I'm single with no kids and about 30% of my pay gets taken for federal tax, CA state tax, medicare, sdi and social security.

I go to El Camino in Torrance and they have no waiting list for the LVN to RN bridge.

Hello everyone, I have been an LVN for a little less than a year and start my last semester of the RN program at the local CC on August 28.