vangar

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1. Geriatrics without working in a nursing home?

   vangar replied to itsmycalling's topic in General Nursing

   I love working in a nursing home. You can go work in a doctors office or hospital but what other place could you go to know your residents. Hear their stories of how they were when the were young. And see how they are know and be a part of their l...

2. Nursing and tattoos

   vangar replied to MelRN13's topic in General Nursing

   I have 5 tattoos and my nose pierced. I wear regular clothes to work and only one tattoo is visable, on my inner wrist. Sometimes, you can see some my other one because of the shoes I wear. The tattoo are located on the top of feet, on on each foot.

3. Nursing home/ Hospital

   vangar posted a topic in New Nurse

   I am a new nurse for about 4 months now. And I work in a nursing home in the health care area. I was just wandering if I stayed here for a while is it going to be harder for me to go work at a hospital. I have heard that if you work in a nursing h...

4. phasing out?

   vangar replied to CantWait2Nurse's topic in LPN/LVN

   They tried that in San Antonio, Texas and when they realized that it was impossible to so they went back to having LPN staffed in hospitals. So, don't get discouraged .

5. Help! Please!

   vangar replied to Happy Gilmore's topic in LPN/LVN

   When I finished nursing school I bought the Saunders LPN NCLEX study cards and they help alot and the questions are formated the same. SO, you know what and how to read the question. In the books and CD they were not helpful to me. The cards have qu...

6. Bunch of Questions for LTC LPN's.. Help I'm new!

   vangar replied to changeofpaceRN's topic in LPN/LVN

   Take a notepad and an open mind and ask plenty of questions. Ask you DON about what they want you to chart on. Like where I work we do medicare charting and any chages or Incidents that may have happened. And what you can't remember write down or a...

7. Am I wrong???

   vangar posted a topic in General Nursing

   I just got my nursing license in 11/07 and I work with some nurses from my classes. And I work in a nursing home. I was working with 2 classes mates and they let one go for not doing her duties like they wanted. And the other one is the same just do...