NurseLKY

UL will give you $5000 yr plus money for books. For every 5000 they give you, you owe them a year. If you don't then you just have to pay it back. I reccommend that you have a liitle experience as a CNA. It really helped me. And don't worry ther...

RN's and LPN's all have to renew their license before oct 31 every year. It cost $50 a year. If you go to the state board of nursing website they have all the info you need. We renew online.

I believe they have a 2 week hospital orientation. Then each unit/floor has an orientaton and they vary in lengths (4-6 weeks). If you need more they will help you out. We just wont throw you out there. If you work in critical care there is addit...

I work at UL . I have been there for 7 years and love it. I think the starting pay is around $20.00. Besides pay you need to look at benefits. We have 4different types of insurance, short and long term disabilitiy, employee matched 403b, flex and ...

I live in Louisville, the biggest city in Ky. There are multiple hospitals in the area including a teaching/trauma hospital, childrens, and 3 that have L&D. You can live 30 min from downtown and have land. Louisville has shopping, sports, and...

I love my crocs. Better than Dansko. But beware my hospital will not let us wear the ones with holes. Infection control.

Were I work the shift dif is 3p-11p 12%, 11p-7a 15% (of your base pay). We do not have a weekend diff or any WOW programs. Also my hospital pays bonus for any extra time $5 extra hour on weekdays and $10 extra hour on weekends

I am currently a LPN, getting ready to graduate with an ADN. We just took our first HESI. There were a lot of questions regarding "you are the charge nurse what patient would you give a new grad RN or LPN" etc then they list different patients with...

A few months ago there was a case in the hospital i work at in which a vistior befriended another visitor on the surgery waiting area, managed to get in in the stairwell and raped her. He told her a lot of info on who he was visiting and the eventu...

We just started using the Vanish Point Insuilin Syringes. Nobody likes them you have to retract the needle while it is still in the arm of the patient, so they get the full dose. It is hard reading small doses because of the bubble and that little ...

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On my unit we have a very nice doctors area with computers, fax , phones and reference books. Then why do they have to sit in the nurses station and use our phones and computers. There are some days we can't answer the other lines on our main phone...

Alright I got a story for you. We got a pt that was having sinus headaches for awhile. Well he came to the hospital when his skin around his sinus's was becoming an open sore. Well within days of being admitted his whole face was being eaten away....

I had a bad experence at a hospital after my sister had sinus surgery. She got up to her room about 11:00 am. Her nurse came in assessed her and took her vital signs. Then we saw no one for 3 hours. I know at my hospital any pre-op gets vitals ta...

Our wound nurse says the same thing. The wound is not clean so there is no need for sterile gloves. She never uses them. I haven't seen anyone die from an infection.

My sister has been on Celexa for about a year for anxiety. Do not try and wean yourself off. She tried and she getts physically sick like the flu. I tried to start it but it broke me out in a rash and my doctor told me before that you have to wean...

I got some family disfunction for you. 18 year old was in a fight. His first story was that him and is mom where getting out of the car and some guys (30 to be exact) thought that is mom was a police officer so they tried to jump her. Son tries t...

All these law suits are making me sick. Maybe I should sue all the smokers in the world for making me breath in second hand smoke. Just kidding smokers! Get over the fact that you are fat and get on a treadmill.

Ok ready for the long story. Two sixteen year old boys, took dad's car out for a joy ride at 3am. Neither kid has a license, so no ID. Well they went airbore hit a tree and the car split in two. They were transfered to a local hospital were there ...

Who knows what clothes the kids were wearing since they snuck out of the house. Plus they were probably cut off in the ambulance. The families were sure so why would dental records be taken and maybe the families did not know their kids bllod type....

We still use them for a lot of oral surgeries ( abcess teeth and all)

I work with this nurse that nobody really likes and on a slow day we thought we would play a little joke. As she was sitting charting myself and a CNA were standing behind her at the counter. We squirted her with some saline. She looked up. over t...

I had a patient that was under a 72 hour psych hold. Well every time she would leave her room we would redirect her back. Any way she got mad and called the police saying we were holding her hostage. So then the police called the nursing station m...

Just so you know my dad had a 4 vessel CABG 2 years ago at age 46. He had 2 MI's and never knew it. He went to the ER because he thought he pulled a muscle in his back playing golf, and he could barely lift his arm. Well they did the MI workup jus...

In Kentucky as a LPN I can hang a piggy pack, but i cannot push a drug. I cannot hang blood but i can monitor it and d/c it. I cannot hang K. And I cannot change an iv that is being titrated (heparin, insulin). That is about all I can't do.