Nurse`Chief~Chickie

i was trying so hard not to reply to this thread again, but you got me! i am a nurse with my own license. how much differently you must do things there that you think an lpn is not qualified to assess their pts. i admit pts, assess and never is an rn...

that's the kind of thing that gets me. why are things so darn different btwn states! i can do everthing to administer, hang and monitor blood, except put the spike in the bag. that one task is the rns. go figure.

preceptor at my prn job and i were doing fluid outdates, which she was nooooot happy about doing because the former purchasing lady used to do it. so she says when i checked all the shelves and bins in the med room, aaallll of them. my little old inc...

actually, it is true here, however, i posted before the whole 'rules change state to state' thought came to mind. here, i cannot do ivps or do anything with central lines except ivpb.

continuation of care!!! i had suspicions when i worked days that noc-shifters just left all the bunk stuff they didn't want to do for us. turns out, it was true! only with two certain ones. it's a personality thing. you know if your intentions are go...

i hope that's a hypothetical ??? lpns cannot administer iv push meds with or without the certification!

i've been posting here for a while, so i guess i better get in on this mo pride! i'm in swmo, graduated from otc in springfield as an lpn in july. great teachers there, and i hear stirrings that they are going to start an rn program there too. i'm en...

this is just what i was looking for. maybe these words will work for us. my 16 y/o 'fiancees daughter' went to the gyn ( 1st visit)not long ago, and suddenly we were knee deep into a an relapse. we had no idea what triggered it. she was tightlipped,...

thanks to you too isseym! if you're going to do it much, you'll get into your groove. i've had to smack(sort of) my surgeons hand a time or two. (the mayo is my responsibility.) not to mention no reaching across, and pulling instrumnets in front of m...

Bwahaha!! My football friends didn't believe me on speed! They timed me in line at the stadium, made a big spectacle, lot's of befuddled Chiefs fans wondering What ARE these people DOING?!?! :biere: The bald guy in front of me in line yesterday h...

Actually, what I think this argument needs is......more cowbell! LOL :lol_hitti

:icon_hug: :icon_hug: :icon_hug: Hope that all you give to everyone here comes back to you x3!!!! :icon_hug: :icon_hug::icon_hug:

hi stine75, i just found this while poking around state fair college site, just thought you might like to take a look. they offer classes at a sattelite campus at whiteman. http://sfcc.cc.mo.us/pages/159.asp

I made myself a checklist during clinicals that I printed off and took each day. That way I would practice writing out my notes after assessments without prompting/help. Then I got out the list and checked over what I had or hadn't included. Over the...

:hbsmiley: it does appear like that on the surface. we all need a place to vent, like for the reasons in your post. that sucks for you and we know what that's like. that's whats so great about this site, knowing someone else understands!! it's aweso...

i'm doing the lpn to rn route. in my lpn school, we had a lot of hands on /clinical time. a lot of nurses i've talked to about this route say they are glad they did it as well. that working as an lpn gave them experiences they wouldn't have gotten in...

a quick note and then i'm off to bed. i don't know if you've been to the site for cmsu, but just in case, a couple of links... http://www.cmsu.edu/x24634.xml http://www.cmsu.edu/x28381.xml http://cmsu.edu/index.xml i'm going to pursue the bridge pro...

i would so be a health inspector! i hate germs and germy people who don't wash their hands!!! my so tells me that he wouldn't let me because i would close down every restaurant that i set foot in! lol

good advice from alpayton! something that helped me initially (and btw, i'm alot more ballsy than i used to be.) if you ever had thoughts when you were little(or older hehe:rolleyes: ) of being an actor/actress, put on that hat. psych yourself up and...

you'll get much more flexibility as an lpn. as such you would still be able to try out the scrub tech route, around my area they do hire lpns to scrub. an or nurse would be the circulator, responsible for paperwork and many other things i can't detai...

:cry: i'm awake!!!! it's 1300. i don't want to be but my dear so thinks that i'm up by noon. i already told him to expect a call from me at 0300 so that we can catch up! :deadhorse will they ever learn?

this is very close to the method that i have adopted. i get funny looks from my co-horts, but oh well. i spend a good chunk of the beginning of shift with my pts and it goes really well for me the rest of the noc. it makes me feel good that an expe...

this is along the lines of what i've been thinking. perhaps someone can enlighten me; do an rns duties vary from state to state like lpns do? here i can do everything involved in blood admin except for literally spiking the bag. i can monitor and a...

an lpn is a licensed practical nurse, the same as lvns in ca.

definately i hope everyone asks questions until they are blue in the face! i constantly come up with something or another to ask my coworkers. most of them don't seem to mind it, and sometimes it can lead to even more info sharing beyond the initial ...