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1. So Stressed & Aggravated At My Job

   shining_star28463 replied to shining_star28463's topic in General Nursing

   I said the same thing and was told that the receptionist had said that she was the only one up front and could not go out to the parking lot looking for the patient and somehow the responsibility for...

2. So Stressed & Aggravated At My Job

   shining_star28463 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I have posted a few times before about my physicians office job as a LPN (the receptionist promoted to office manager because the hospital could find no one else for the job and the office being so...

3. Workplace Issues. How do I deal with this nonsense? (Long post)

   shining_star28463 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I graduated from nursing school in fall of last year and began working as a LPN in a physician's practice owned by a hospital back at the end of January 2009. The staff that I joined had been...

4. Constantly Getting Thrown Under The Bus by Fellow Nurse

   shining_star28463 replied to shining_star28463's topic in General Nursing

   please hold off the attack and exclamation points. i apologize if you misunderstood but i do not refer to her attitude as "yankeeness" my co-worker coined this term of "yankeeness" herself. maybe i...

5. Constantly Getting Thrown Under The Bus by Fellow Nurse

   shining_star28463 replied to shining_star28463's topic in General Nursing

   I have decided to meet with my NP on Monday morning and talk to her about what is going on. Thank you all for your wonderful

6. Constantly Getting Thrown Under The Bus by Fellow Nurse

   shining_star28463 posted a topic in General Nursing

   This is a very long post and I apologize in advance for its length but I have an enormous workplace issue that I need some advice in solving. I am a new LPN, just graduated in August 2008 and passed...

7. Some advice please! (kind of long post...sorry)

   shining_star28463 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I just passed the NCLEX-PN on September 19th and after nearly a month of job searching I finally found a LTC facility that is interested. The facilitiy is about 40 miles away from my home which isn't...

8. NCLEX-PN cut off @ 85 today! I want to cry.

   shining_star28463 posted a topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

   I took my NCLEX-PN earlier this morning and it cut off at 85. I just wanted to scream and shake the computer screen. I felt like I didn't know anything. I have counted at least eleven questions that...

9. Stressed and Depressed Graduate to Be

   shining_star28463 replied to shining_star28463's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

   i do understand that there are limitations as to what the lpn can do, so i definitely did not go into this thinking that i was going to graduate and get a job in an icu or anything, but i did think...

10. Stressed and Depressed Graduate to Be

    shining_star28463 posted a topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    i graduate (hopefully) from my lpn progam on july 30 and i am so stressed out and depressed. we have just returned from our break today and out class work for the 10 week session is overwhelming, and...

11. I really, really feel like calling it quits

    shining_star28463 replied to shining_star28463's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for all the support. I just really feel terrible right now but I know that this is what I want to do. I realize that I haven't been putting my best foot forward but I still don't believe that...

12. I really, really feel like calling it quits

    shining_star28463 posted a topic in General Nursing

    This a continuation of my other post. Today I had to meet with my clinical advisor and the instructor afterclass and I was told that I am not to go back to the clinical site on Monday and instead I...

13. i feel like quitting (long post)

    shining_star28463 replied to shining_star28463's topic in General Nursing

    I feel like I'm not really getting a chance and I feel like I have to try 100x harder than anyone else in the clincal just to prove myself. It wouldn't be so bad if I knew what she expects but she is...

14. i feel like quitting (long post)

    shining_star28463 replied to shining_star28463's topic in General Nursing

    Pain, Pallor, Pulse, Paralysis,

15. i feel like quitting (long post)

    shining_star28463 replied to shining_star28463's topic in General Nursing

    Is she like this with just you or other students as well? She's like this with one other student that is on the Tuesday rotation. She told that student that she only had two weeks to decide whether...