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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  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. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. 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...

  7. 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

  8. 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...

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. 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...

  13. i feel like quitting (long post)

    shining_star28463 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am a second semester ADN nursing student and today I really feel like quitting. Last semester I had a really great clinical instructor that was very helpful and easy to communicate with however this...

  14. 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...

  15. i feel like quitting (long post)

    shining_star28463 replied to shining_star28463's topic in General Nursing

    Pain, Pallor, Pulse, Paralysis,

  16. 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...

  17. how to deal with a difficult classmate

    shining_star28463 posted a topic in General Students

    I am a first year student in the ADN program. I am generally a friendly person and I get along pretty well with everyone with the exception of one person. I've posted before about the situation but it...

  18. how to deal with a difficult classmate

    shining_star28463 replied to shining_star28463's topic in General Students

    Another thing that I don't understand is that she's actually dragging the third member of our lab group into the mix as well. Yesterday, I had to go print some things at our computer lab and sat...

  19. how to deal with a difficult classmate

    shining_star28463 replied to shining_star28463's topic in General Students

    I believe that she is capable of physical assault as well. Another student that was in her pre-req Bio class said that she tried to fight a student and that the Bio instructor had to restrain her....

  20. I feel really, really stupid

    shining_star28463 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am a 1st year ADN nursing student and with every test I feel more and more like an idiot. I'm averaging an 81 but I am not happy with that. We've just taken our third test and we have two more to...

  21. I feel really, really stupid

    shining_star28463 replied to shining_star28463's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you so much everyone for your comments and support. I guess, I'm so concerned about my test scores because it seems so competitive. The other students are always yapping about their high 90's...

  22. Whiteville NC/Columbus Co. Hospital

    shining_star28463 replied to Nysloss's topic in Travel

    I'm from a small town about 13 miles away from Whiteville. I've lived here all of my life and I have to be honest in telling you that there isn't much here. There isn't much of a nightlife, but I...

  23. What am I doing wrong?

    shining_star28463 replied to shining_star28463's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Thank you guys so much for all of the advice. I think one of the biggest problems that I am having is that I study all wrong for the types of tests given in the RN program. I memorize instead of...

  24. What am I doing wrong?

    shining_star28463 posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Someone please tell me that this gets easier. On my previous college adventure (pharmacy technology) I was an A/B student. I have always been proud of the fact that I was an A/B student. However,...

  25. Health Assessment Resources, Techniques, and Forms

    shining_star28463 replied to angelwings33's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Our next assessment is in vital signs. The first couple of assessments were breezy for me basically but this one I am afraid that I am going to have problems with. A lot of my classmates (including...