postmortem_cowboy

postmortem_cowboy

ED, ICU/DOU/Tele, M/S, Gero/Psych

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  1. NCLEX was not easy

    postmortem_cowboy replied to flwannaB's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I passed at 85 as well, but knew walking out of it that i'd failed just as many of you. You guys gotta' critical think, although it seems hard, that's what VN/PN school has taught you to do... on...

  2. NCLEX for the second time. HELP!!

    postmortem_cowboy replied to lvnforlife's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Actually... If you know how to cheat... not on the NCLEX, but as far as the boards are concerned, you can find out your test results earlier. If you go to the cal state boards site, and look up your...

  3. Wage for LVN and RN

    postmortem_cowboy replied to Stray dog's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Registry work tends to be more money as well, but with registries you also run the risk of not working steady hours. I've worked for a registry that paid 25 and change per hour on 12's and OT after...

  4. B careful LPN-RN Online

    postmortem_cowboy replied to mel1977's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Remember back when... you were in LVN school? How can you get the clinical hands on by doing your ADN or BSN online? It was hard enough doing it right there with a live patient, seems to me it would...

  5. LVN/ADN Transition Programs

    postmortem_cowboy replied to jlt68's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Just check with the schools around you, find out what pre-requisites you have to take, some of them, like mine give entrance points for sciences like anatomy and physiology, and you'll find too some...

  6. How is the first semester in the LPN program?

    postmortem_cowboy replied to Ltorres5351's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Yes it is... very... there's no instructor for clinical to go to when you don't know the answer to something... but there's always another route to go, and you learn that with time. I'd been nursing...

  7. LPN/LVN working in L&D??

    postmortem_cowboy replied to TashaLPN2006RN2012's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Yeah it's definately possible, just you won't be per-se nursing, although you will in another sense, but like i said it's a good job to have through your RN, so when you get to that point you already...

  8. LPN/LVN working in L&D??

    postmortem_cowboy replied to TashaLPN2006RN2012's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    NOOOOOOOOO!!!! I had a couple of friends I went to nursing school that went straight to L&D when they got licensed... what they did, who knows, all I know is they worked on L&D, but if memory...

  9. LVN/ADN Transition Programs

    postmortem_cowboy replied to jlt68's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Just about any community college should offer a nursing program, or at least out here in california, just about all of them do. Be careful though, you might be in for a surprise. When I went to...

  10. Do i not have what it takes?

    postmortem_cowboy replied to Rocky_LPN's topic in Men in Nursing

    Another thing I've seen other nurses I've worked with do is mask up and under the mask they take the small thing of vicks rub out of their pocket and dab just a bit under their noses. The patient...

  11. Hey ER, what takes so long???

    postmortem_cowboy replied to RunningWithScissors's topic in Emergency

    Let's face it gang, it's a no win situation on both ends. Both the floor and the ER need to understand that the other is doing everything they possibly can to accomodate the other. I don't know how...

  12. Hey ER, what takes so long???

    postmortem_cowboy replied to RunningWithScissors's topic in Emergency

    I have been on the end of both sides of this coin, and it's not a good feeling in either direction, the ER nurse is trying to get his/her patients up to the floor as quickly as possible (as if we...

  13. Pt demanded a stronger pain med

    postmortem_cowboy replied to AstrosFan's topic in Emergency

    For all of you who are upset with all these ER nurses, including myself, you might want to read this. The ER is for EMERGENCIES. Pain medication is also not the only type of pain management. I broke...

  14. Guess this chief complaint

    postmortem_cowboy replied to ernurse61's topic in Emergency

    OMG that is too flippin' funny! hahahaha. My favorites are the parents that bring in the peds patients with a temp of 104, you fight to get it down, discharge them with children's tylenol and motrin...

  15. A Question For All Lvns...

    postmortem_cowboy replied to lookingforward's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    There's corrections that pays killer money, just you have to work with the scum of the earth on a daily basis and wonder if your going to get shanked all the time. This was one of my options coming...

  16. Why the fanny packs?

    postmortem_cowboy replied to kstockdaleRN's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    OH MY GAWD THAT'S SO FUNNY!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA... Yeah people I worked with asked me if I carried anything in mine to eat just to be smart. Never really occured to me to keep a cereal bar in it to snack...

  17. phasing out?

    postmortem_cowboy replied to CantWait2Nurse's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Yes very true, also too you have to figure here in california you have LVN schools that are pumping out a new batch of new grads every three months, and there's tons, and I mean tons of LVN schools...

  18. DO LVNs GET RESPECT?

    postmortem_cowboy replied to lookingforward's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    If you stay an LVN for any amount of time, you will learn, there are RN's that will give you the respect you deserve, and there are some that won't. You can be super LVN, and that one RN will talk...

  19. EMT training helpful?

    postmortem_cowboy replied to sconoli's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    HINT HINT... you committed yourself to your LPN, it has a higher "food chain" licensure than an EMT, finish that first, here in California, EMT's make around 9 dollars an hour, LVN's make around 20....

  20. Frustrated & Worn Out

    postmortem_cowboy replied to CRV's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Yikes! Good lord they're definately trying to get their money's worth out of you. When i've taken med/surg assignments i've either started with five and finished the night with the same five, or...

  21. Blood Pressure Kits for Obese??

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

    Forearms are just as accurate just like thighs are just as accurate, size of BP cuff is what is necessary to ensure an accurate measurement of BP, I've worked for a cardiology clinic for a few months...

  22. I Need Expert Lvn Advice!!!!!!!!!

    postmortem_cowboy replied to lookingforward's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I'm going to have to agree with the rest of the gang on this one, if both programs last as long as one another and the difference is 24 thousand dollars, and both have similar pass rates on boards,...

  23. How is the first semester in the LPN program?

    postmortem_cowboy replied to Ltorres5351's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Ok, my two cents... Howdy gang, I know how you all feel, those who are just starting LVN/LPN school, I commend you all, those just finishing up, keep on plugging your almost there. I wanted to share a...

  24. What is your job?

    postmortem_cowboy replied to mgalloLPN's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Well, I've been an LVN for three years, started out on M/S, moved into the geropsych unit, and very shortly thereafter into ER, and bumped around between ER and ICU. I've done quite a bit in the...

  25. Roll Call, LPN to RN Students!!!

    postmortem_cowboy replied to Marie_LPN, RN's topic in LPN to RN

    Hi y'all! New to the forums but this place is great!! Ok some about me, went into EMT program in summer of 2000, got working and in 2002 decided to go into the LVN program, got licensed in feb 2004...