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If you don't mind sharing. Please include your area of specialty, shift, and years of experience. I am curious to know if I'm getting a competitive wage. I work in long term memory care, 8 years experience and making $23.20 (after my annual raise) no...

Does Sumner have an LPN-RN bridge? Has anyone been able to do that? If so how long did it take you and what was the tuition cost. Just curious to know since I am an experienced LPN who would eventually like to bridge but it seems like my options are ...

My hospital has failed to even acknowledge National Nurse's Week. Instead, starting tomorrow they are celebrating, "National Hospital Week". WTH? I've never even heard of this until now. This really rubs some of us nurses the wrong way. Why are ...

Wow. When I was a CNA many years ago, I absolutely did NOT want the responsibility of the Nurse. I would never had dreamed of calling myself a nurse when I was not. As far as I saw it, I already had a super tough busy job making less than half of ...

I have no idea what a blood withdrawal certificate is. Maybe this is something in California? In Texas we don't need additional certificates for IV or blood draws, it is covered under our license.

Congratulations! I am now almost 15 weeks with twins. I work in a busy rehab hospital and fortunately we don't get too many patients that I can't take so I was going to keep it quiet for a while. However, literally a week after I found out I was p...

Working in OB being in pictures and video did not bother me so much, because I knew it was about the baby and NOT me. The strangest situation I had was working in hospice home care with a dying Vietnamese pt. and her family. They had a tripod with...

Wow... And I thought Dallas-Fort Worth had a lot of LVN programs without enough of job demand out there. I wonder why the CA board of nursing approves so many nursing programs when they must know that there is no job market to support it. It seems ...

I am ACLS certified. My hospital required it for all licensed nurses. It was done and paid for by my hospital.

I'm not schocked at all. This sounds like typical LTCF BS. As a new grad I was told I would get 3 days of floor orientation. It turned into 2 days, due to state being in the building on the 3rd day. I was fortunate to work with some helpful nurse...

Yes, deferment was the word I was thinking of but couldn't remember!

You need to contact your lender and tell them your situation and that cannot afford pay the loans now. From what I remember in my loan exit class, you NEVER want to default on a Federal student loan. Read over your loan info and call someone ASAP.

I think the answer to this really depends your employer's protocol and state's scope of practice. Where I've worked RN is responsible for only the intial assessment. If there is a change in condition the LPN/LVN should be expected to intiate any nu...

Didn't want to start a brand new thread.... My DH accepted a job at TMFH and we will be relocating from DFW. From what I've read, south Tyler and south of Tyler are the better areas to live. Any thoughts or comments about Lindale area? We would li...

In my facility ANY employee can fill out an incident report not just the nurses. If PT is the one that witnessed the fall, then they should have to fill out an IR. You might want to do one yourself as well, but I think it was PT's responsibility to...

Yikes. That is down right scary! A situation like that really puts your license at risk. I'm sure State would have a field day with that. I can't believe that management didn't have a problem with that, because it seems that they would be some ho...

I agree, don't include it on your resume. It will probably look worse than having no experience. Imagine through the eyes of the employer: "so if we spend the time and money hiring this nurse, is she/he just going to quit in a month or two? Why ta...

I say bring on the bagels! If someone is going to judge you for a generous gesture like bring them food, then shame on them! I personally would love it. Do what your heart says is right. Sounds like you are just excited and your unit is lucky to ...

You will need to find out for your individual state. As of September in Texas, anyone in the scrub role must be a Certified Surgical Tech (CST). LVNs or others trained on the job must have at least 1 year continuous employment in the surgical setti...

My LVN program consisted of 4 quarters. In the 1st quarter we did skills lab in place of clinicals. In skills lab we learned nursing procedures and basic nursing care to prepare us for clinicals. In the 2nd quarter we were in a LTCF. 3rd quarter a...

If this helps, I applied at Scott & White and within 24 hours my status was "route" then I got a call the next day for an interview. I am not applying for internship positions, I have 4 years experience. However, my husband applied for a non-nu...

We had IV Therapy I and II. We learned about IV fluids, meds, dosage calculations, drip rates, etc. We had to do one check off of a real IV start on another student in class and could attempt in clinicals if the opportunity came up. However we didn...

My first job in LTC I had 20 residents on 2-10 shift. I did all the meds and treatments. Your ratio will go way up when you have a med aide under you. Probably between 30-40.

First of all, congrats and that you are very brave for doing agency work with no prior med/surg experience! Are they going to give you any orientation or training? From my experience, agency nurses have to be experienced and be able to hit the floo...

I second this! Where I work, I feel our night shift staff has a closer bond and better team work.