shoegirl28

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1. Canadian LPN thinking of moving to the US

   shoegirl28 posted a topic in Nurse Registration

   Hi I was wondering if there are any LPN's out there who are Canadian who work in the US? How did you go about getting your license? How easy was it to find a job? I currently live and work in BC...

2. RN's attitute toward the LPN

   shoegirl28 replied to shoegirl28's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

   I would agree with you there are wonderful caring proferssionals in all those disiplines. I guess so far in my career though I have only really seen this attitue in RN's. I think they are very kind...

3. Calling all LPNs?? What is and is not in your Scope of Practice compared to an RN?

   shoegirl28 replied to Nrs_angie's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

   Where I work LPN"s in the hospital setting (rehab or acute care) LPN's take their own patient load of up to 4-7 patients. They do all their own assessments and care, as well as medication...

4. What Do You LIKE About Being an LPN?

   shoegirl28 replied to pagandeva2000's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

   I love taking care of patient's, good bedside nursing.

5. RN's attitute toward the LPN

   shoegirl28 posted a topic in LPN, LVN Corner

   Hi just a brief post here. Does anyone else get attitude from RN's? It makes me angry. When I work on certian floors of the hospital RN's refuse to do or assist the LPN with basic nursing care things...

6. Tips for nurses in their first year of nursing

   shoegirl28 replied to Brian's topic in First Year After Licensure

   I am a brand new LPN, I have only worked 11 shifts in the hospital that I work at.. All I can say is most of the shifts I have worked have been nights, and I have lost a little bit of weight since I...

7. How hard is nursing school?

   shoegirl28 replied to WannaBeNrse's topic in General Students

   For me nursing school is not hard academically. The "hard" part about nursing school, is all the clinical experince, and having instructors that don't teach, and the pass or fail classes. I would...

8. Nursing students and new nurses.....about injection sites

   shoegirl28 replied to TazziRN's topic in Patient Medications

   I am in semester three at the university I attend in the BSN program. So far I have given only 1 IM, and it was when we were in Long term care (year one). As far as teaching goes, we learned...

9. What clinical rotations have you done?

   shoegirl28 replied to flygirls2's topic in General Students

   I have done long term care, medical (which I failed for questionable reasons), and medical and telemetry (which was oh so fun, and interesting) in which I passed. I start surgical in

10. Why did you take up nursing? What's your story?

    shoegirl28 replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    Hi Brain You have a very interesting story. Are you still practicing nursing today, or are you practicing in the sense of entrepreneurial nursing? This is a very neat website. I only just discovered...

11. Why did you take up nursing? What's your story?

    shoegirl28 replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    I never inteneded to be a nurse (well I am now a student nurse). My dream back in highschool was to be a physiotherapist (since I was a gymnast for most of my teen/childhood years I had a huge...