gt4everpn BSN, RN

and i completely understand and respect the decisions the families and/or patient make, but it does pose such a dilemma for staff members, i haven't been in the situation of a full code on a hospice patient with no dnr, but i did have a patient who w...

do you guys that horizontal violence is more prevalent among new grads and experienced nurses?

I am currently in school for my RN and I don't see a difference in the curriculums. If people really believe that LPN's are just trained monkeys who don't know the rationales for their nursing care then why do they call us nurses why not educated tec...

i beg to differ, according to what state you live in the scopes of practices are different, here in ny, i know lpn's can't administer meds through a picc, cannot start iv's (unless they're iv certified) and a few other things like do an initial asses...

i'm in the end of my first year of nursing school and my school has just had a bout of cbeating. my entire level was then penalized for the cheating even though the majority of us weren't. i can never cheat, one it takes too much time and concentrati...

too true, i recently finished my ob rotation and i only got to go to the nicu once, i asked my instructor every am if i could go to nicu.. and yet i was placed in postpartum/mother-baby, or delivery room, all good, but to me nothing is better than ic...

so true, alot of people (esp people in our age gap) are misinformed about nursing and nursing school, it's no piece of cake profession. if only these schools openly posted their nclex passing rates and retention rates would some people see the light....

Of course there are times when the job gets stressful, most especially when your a new grad and are working in high stress units and understaffed situations.. Were you always unsure about nursing, if you truly feel that way maybe some deep thought is...

you'd be surprised the things some hospice patients recieve.. i work in hospice from time to time (float through the unit) until now i can't understand why hospice patients are: [color=#48d1cc]1.hospice with no dnr 2.life-preserving med (bp meds, iv ...

Seems like some kind of scheme to my by your exec.. the husband wants dialysis stopped but she will still be getting dialysis??? Seems like a plot to keep the patient admitted although she has a terminal illnes (ESRD) they want to keep her for dx of ...

my school doesn't and i'm off for 4 months!!, it's gonna be hard knowing that i still have 1 more grueling year left, i kinda just want to finish it off and not spend 4 months thinking about the hell that's ahead. i have med-surg my last year of nurs...

well in hospice, alot of what nurses do if geared toward ''comfort care'', so your main focus is keeping the patient free from pain etc.. i work in a hospice unit from time to time and it can get busy with admissions, paperwork, working with hospice ...

that's true guilty... i think you go to my school... and its true alot of nursing students are dropout pharmd students, or those who couldn't make it in, sad but true.

i agree bx, my school also has a shortage of nursing instructors, most of the previous ones left last year. retention rates are far more important than nclex rates, as far as what nursing schools to pick, at least in my opinion

they really are just about the same, the only difference i've found is that rn schools at least mine requires alot of paper work.. the dreaded careplans and journals, ugh!. it also may vary from school to school, lpn's and rn's we're really all the s...

makes a good point, ya know.. anyway i begger to differ with ya dumpy... the complaining in my program comes both in estrogen and testosterone form.

congrats, awesome to hear my fellow lpn has just become an rn, i'm in an rn program as well (not easy either). i don't know why some hospitals act as if lpn experience holds no weight we're nurses aren't we? anyway i'm preparing myself for the same s...

i do think, sometimes even the people who are closest to us can be discouraging at times, it seems as though, he's worried about loosing you and i even sense some jealousy, i don't know the state of your relationship or even how it was and is but i w...

your welcome Riles, see you around next semester!!

I'm saying a prayer right now, terrible to hear such a thing!

Well first registration for last semester and this semester was a disaster, everyone had to wait in line for atleast 2 hrs to register! and then re-register a third time. Some of our classes dont match our clinicals, learning one thing in class and s...

imo ati is very accurate, it calculated that i had a 98% chance of passing and i passed my nclex with flying colors (although i didn't feel that way coming out of the testing center, lol)

don't be scared, I just wanted to give some info about how things are really going down in the program. To be fair the students with second degrees do better than the students straight outta H.S for alot of reasons. Don't be scared but be very prepar...

---- So true, I'm an LPN and I see no differnce between LPN and RN programs, atleast not my own, but according to my professor, I need to stop thinking like a LPN and starting thinking like an RN, so I guess I could be wrong! I actually liked my LPN ...

I am currently a student in the LIU nursing program going into my last year, honestly I wouldn't recommened the program at all, the registration process is horrible, the new curriculum was not planned correctly. Nursing school is always very hard but...