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I personally don't think that those that bully even realize in the beginning that they are bullying. Then as time goes on they believe they are trying to improve the nurse. As someone who has been bullied I can tell you that I tend to keep to mysel...

It took me three months to get the job I have now when we moved to El Paso. I've gotten so tired of all the test you take when you apply for a nursing job. My husband is a business major and I actually let him answer the questions for the "what you...

Hello all, Not really wanting an answer or reply, but just sending this out to the bedpan gods.......I am an LVN who was bullied into returning to school by the hospital I am working for, now I'm wondering why I became a nurse at all. School is to...

Well, it's now March and this road I started back in 2006 has almost reached it's end.....I sit here and can not believe that in 54 days I will have completed my classes and should be a GN. I look back at all the tears, sweat, sleepless nights of wo...

I am half way through the first semster of my nursing program......as a class, we've laughed we've cried and now we are starting psych.....and I'm sure we will all laugh and cry again. We have lost a few classmates already and I pray every day we do...

Another update....WoooHooo......I am just completing my third week of the LVN bridge program....yes ladies and gents I said nursing program. In fact I just returned home from my first day of clinicals and I can't help but wonder....."Why, do they sa...

I remember taking the boards over 13 years ago and as another poster stated, we had to wait for the snail mail. Two to three months of wondering and pondering. When my letter finally came, I couldn't open it. It sat on the table for about three days,...

If you really want to work in a hospital, I would try to stick it out in your current nursing program if you can. I am an LVN working in a hospital and yes I pretty much do most of what the RN's do. But I am currently in school to finish my schooli...

Okay so here is another update........I am retaking my microbiology, the class is a killer, my teacher doesn't like computers so his tests are usually fill in the blank with no word bank and he counts off for spelling. But........I got in! I got my...

Wonderful, Wonderful.....you hit the nail on the head! What a great post.....thank you. I am just now getting ready for bed to go to work on Friday...my Monday. I work weekends only so I live for Monday. You have made it easier to think about get...

I work on a med/surg floor.....it's more poo and pee. Still body fluids and a lot more stinky.

When you pass your boards and get your license it doesn't state where you went to college.....you just become LVN, RN, BSN and MSN......I stated before I wouldn't pay extra for a certain college. Right now my husband and I are both in college and I ...

The one I work for is not the largest but it is kinda big and I have crappy insurance to begin with and they are claim that the economy is making them do all of the cuts backs......

So, I just got off the phone and had to cancel a colonoscopy because I can't afford the $540 right now for my part of the testing. My husband and I are college students, I am an LVN working a community hospital, he is a business major and working at...

I agree totally with "It's me" our system is broken.....but I don't really feel that government based system is the way to go either....look at the country right now. What is the answer? How do we fix this? Did anyone on the campaign trail have any...

So the long and short of it is that I am taking better care of my body and will hope that I don't end up in the ER. I am stoping the bills before they get higher. My primary care doctor is the one that refered me to the GI doctor and I can not retu...

That is just the hospital part. I did pay the doctor for the test which was $179. But is I pay the $270 and make payments for the rest.... I will have no insurance to return to the doctor for the follow up. And if God forbid I need more tests.....I w...

Yes, I think so too. I have cared for at least four patients that were illeagals and there is one on our floor that has been there for almost a month getting daily dialysis. So I guess what I will do is what most of the people do in the hospital I ...

I am currently going through the motions to get my ADN.....we have not borrowed one dime for it. If we can't pay for a class, I don't take it until I can. This fall it will get harder, but are doing our best to get by.....

Update.......I still haven't gotten my test done and was recently told that as of 1 July our hospital will no longer pay for our health insurance........I am now electing not to have the tests done. I am going to pay the bills that I now owe for the...

Our hospital gave us a certificate that said happy nurse's week.....our floor supervisor gave us a "write up". We were told that if flushes were found on the floor and the person that left it could not be found all licensed personal working would g...

I am so tired of being told "At least you have a job." I work weekends only meaning Friday, Saturday, and Sunday....anyway on Tuesday a fellow nurse (we are not sure who, this is the problem) left a flush in the breakroom. Management found out and ...

We have code grays at our hospital also, but is only used for situations that can no longer be controlled by the staff on the floor alone. If we called a code gray everytime a patient on our floor was verbally abusive or threatening, we would be in ...

Who the heck is Press Ganey and what makes him/her or them such an expert? Do they have any experience in caring for patients? Or is this just another company that thought up a way to make some money from hospitals???

I don't have any stories of having a patient removed, but have also have the same sort of experience....I was told by my unit director that "All patients need care, we don't have to like the patient, but we still have to give them the care they deser...