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eldragon

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  1. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    eldragon replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    You'll see that you do have lots of help from the other side. We aren't just our immediate family. We go back much further and you'll be fine. As far as your mother goes, that's a completely...

  2. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    eldragon replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    I think spirits are in cemetaries only because people are there. Live people. The dead bodies have no attraction for the spirits. How lonely would it be to have to stay with your corpse forever?...

  3. Lpn

    eldragon replied to Trabbie93's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Well, I have 6 weeks left before I graduate from an LPN program, and the only thing I have stuck was a rubber arm when I got checked off for venipunture. I was supposed to have a full days clinical in...

  4. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    eldragon replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    I do think it's funny how a few posters mentioned that the facility they work at is next to a cemetary, and that might be the reason why there are so many spirits there. A hospital or long term care...

  5. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    eldragon replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    Well, a few years ago I was a volunteer at a LTC facility (which is why I decided to pursue nursing) and I went into an residents room to fetch something for her. (Nobody was in the room and I had...

  6. Hospital scholarships?

    eldragon replied to manna's topic in General Nursing

    Whitfield now pays $1200 a month, by the way. I know a recent LPN grad who just signed on with them to finish his RN degree. I'd do it in a heartbeat, but I live too far from Whitfield. They do have...

  7. First semester BSN..is it normal not to do anything in CLINICAL?

    eldragon replied to BrandiBooh's topic in General Students

    You have to be proactive and get in there with your patient and do the work. Give them their personal care and help them with meals. Anticipate their needs. Change their sheets. Don't let the CNA's...

  8. 100% dosage calculations?

    eldragon replied to Coloradogrl's topic in General Students

    we had a calculations test about three weeks ago and I literally blacked out mentally during the test. It was the stress, the anxiety of knowing that I am about to graduate from an LPN program that...

  9. Can LPN's work in Labor & Delivery Or in the Nursery?

    eldragon replied to Ateal17's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Some hospitals hire LPN's in the nursery, but not labor and delivery. Post-partum does hire them,

  10. Considering a mid-career change into nursing - Yikes!

    eldragon replied to NHGUY's topic in General Students

    I'll be 44 the end of this month and I have one more month of an LPN program. In the beginning, there was one student 5 years older than me, but she couldn't put up with the disrespect and attitudes...

  11. Nursing School Drug Test?

    eldragon replied to bluelight's topic in General Students

    They aren't testing for prescription drugs, they are testing for cocaine and marijuana. If you haven't used those particular drugs, don't sweat it. Oh, and I'm beginning my fifth and last block of...

  12. Lack of Confidence, I don't think I can do this!!

    eldragon replied to svno7659's topic in General Students

    Take it one day at a time, like anything else. I am a forty-three year old nursing student, about to get my LPN degree in early December. I have many career experiences, and have no experience in a...

  13. New Grad LPN pay!

    eldragon replied to nursemidestiny's topic in General Nursing

    And pay is getting better for LPN's in Mississippi. Two recent LPN grads, with no experience, were hired at a local rehab for $19.50 an hour. The LPN pay at that facility is almost $21 for...

  14. What is the passing test grade at your school?

    eldragon replied to Wsmith16's topic in General Students

    You sound like you got yourself in an excellent program. I don't think it's necessary for schools to be so harsh about grades. I think a dedicated student should have the opportunity to learn, and...

  15. What is the passing test grade at your school?

    eldragon replied to Wsmith16's topic in General Students

    I see you are in MS. If you are MGCCC, they do not round

  16. What is the passing test grade at your school?

    eldragon replied to Wsmith16's topic in General Students

    80, and they do not round up. We have lost about 12 students who made

  17. First week of nursing school and I already had my first good cry

    eldragon replied to curlylocks29's topic in General Students

    I've had several breakdowns so far, and I'm in my 4th block of an LPN program. The first breakdown was when I was studying my behind off to try to learn some certain body system in a matter of hours....

  18. Out before I even started....sorry long

    eldragon replied to karen230's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I echo what other posters have said. I admire your budgeting skills. You have a good head on your shoulders. Where there is a will there is a way. Scholarships, loans, grants, and...

  19. New Grad LPN pay!

    eldragon replied to nursemidestiny's topic in General Nursing

    Well, it isn't for the money, but that's not but a few cents better than working at Walmart. I highly doubt your skills would be put to good use, either. Better to look

  20. Nurses: Failure rate of courses perplexing - Jackson Clarion Ledger

    eldragon replied to Nursing News's topic in General Nursing

    We had less than 3 weeks to learn our 700-page pharmacology book. We had 7 unit exams, one final and check-offs for all injections as well as other meds including ng tube, (none of which were...

  21. Nurses: Failure rate of courses perplexing - Jackson Clarion Ledger

    eldragon replied to Nursing News's topic in General Nursing

    Well, at the end of our third block, we are down to 9 original students out of 26. We lost 7 very capable students last block. Complaints have been made to the dean, and to the president of the...

  22. New Grad LPN pay!

    eldragon replied to nursemidestiny's topic in General Nursing

    I've never heard of $9 an hour for LPN. I've heard of that for CNA, but usually CNA's are higher than

  23. Pregnant during my last year of nursing school

    eldragon replied to RNLola035's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    A woman in my class was pregnant, but the stress of the program caused her to deliver at 7 months. SHE WAS BACK IN SCHOOL THE NEXT DAY! Her baby is still in neonatal 35 miles from school. She sees...

  24. LPN class schedule

    eldragon replied to natrgrrl's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    I am starting my 4th block of an LPN program. We go 4 days a week, but two have been clinicals up until now, and they are 12 hour days. This block we're starting 5 days. How long is your

  25. Who just started LPN school ?

    eldragon replied to Butterflybee's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    If that's what your school says, it may be true. My LPN classes are from 1 PM to 8:30 PM - Monday-Thursday up until the last block, then it's five days a week. But our clinicals are 12 hours long -...