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  1. Home Vents

    jbtampa posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am a nursing student and twenty year respiratory therapist, and convinced PPS (prospective payment system, part of Medicare reform in the 90s) has cost lives. My long time trach patient died from a...

  2. RT to LPN/RN nclex challenge OK your state?

    jbtampa posted a topic in General Nursing

    hello nurses, I am an RT in nursing school. My program is one year LPN, next year RN. I have heard rumors that some states allow a Respiratory Therapist to challenge the LPN locally, then come back...

  3. Lpn Scope Of Practice

    jbtampa replied to Itsnotoveryet's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    sorry, can't resist now...science is not learning the names of organs, drugs, and disease. it is real, actual physiology and real mechanisms of meds. again, the therapists all did, all of the above,...

  4. Lpn Scope Of Practice

    jbtampa replied to Itsnotoveryet's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    just one more thought........nurses would be well off to stop the nursing diagnoses crap right now. learn science. your peers all

  5. Lpn Scope Of Practice

    jbtampa replied to Itsnotoveryet's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    a recent nursing home employer changed "assessment" to "observations". truth is, some LPNs can out-perform some RNs, and vice versa. As a respiratory therapist, I quite frankly found many very...

  6. and the drame starts

    jbtampa replied to MASSNURSE09's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    not the same as those girls, and you missed my point....they appeared to be career aid takers, not their fault that they were born in the projects, which they all were, or that they learned early on...

  7. legal or not?

    jbtampa replied to LPNWCC's topic in Florida Nursing

    we all see things every day that are troublesome. for me, I use my own assessment for all such things and go forward with best practice for my patient. sometimes we can only go forward for the day....

  8. and the drame starts

    jbtampa replied to MASSNURSE09's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    I graduated and passed nclex three weeks later. the girls' gabby fab click? none yet tested after three months.....stupid girls and we all knew it, all on every public aid they could...

  9. A Nursing Career Over 50

    jbtampa replied to m9791l's topic in Men in Nursing

    I am a newly licensed 54 year old nurse. Turn downs and no call backs from interviews as a respiratory therapist were brutal. The blond new grad hottie always got the job I once got at interview....

  10. Does Methadone really help prevent relapse?

    jbtampa replied to sharona97's topic in Nurses Recovery

    wow, thank you all for the memories of the greatest gift one could give, or receive: treatment for addiction. my experience was similar to most here. injury, chronic pain, pain management, and off...

  11. Gulf Coast College

    jbtampa replied to KLOPEZ521's topic in General Students

    So I heard. Would you mind sharing the start date for RN program? And would you mind PM me the teachers who were canned? My experience at GCC was severely hampered by instructors who were slightly...

  12. Gulf Coast College

    jbtampa replied to centralflorida's topic in Florida Nursing

    OK! I graduated june 26, passed NCLEX three weeks later, and the jobs are abundant. GCC now has RN, and my chair is looking mighty

  13. Have Anyone Hear About Gulf Coast College Lpn Program

    jbtampa replied to Sincere24's topic in Florida Nursing

    check back with new admissions director, I loved that school every day and passed boards immediately, and went right to work at a previous clinical site. expensive school and worth it for me, ymmv,...

  14. Gulf Coast College

    jbtampa replied to KLOPEZ521's topic in General Students

    I graduated June 26, 2008, in a class of 18. On that day I applied for NCLEX, took first available slot to test, and received my license in about three weeks after the test. I am the only student so...

  15. Age Factor

    jbtampa replied to rpc19's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I am 54 and took my NCLEX today, and was not the oldest in my class. The real challenge is getting the job you want, as I already learned, as a respiratory therapist, and is why I became a

  16. Fluid And Electrolytes!!!!

    jbtampa replied to TruDivaRN's topic in General Students

    I am a rt today, nurse next week, and blood gases are really pretty simple when you consider "compensated" and "base excess" and even more so when you start at ph, go to pco2 if abnormal, to bicarb if...

  17. Have Anyone Hear About Gulf Coast College Lpn Program

    jbtampa replied to Sincere24's topic in Florida Nursing

    I am fourth quarter at GCC. My class of 24 is down to 16, we have endured teachers hired yesterday, "books" made on a copy machine, and zero teacher training. We paid 17 grand. Yet the school...

  18. List Of Lpn Schools In Tampa Area

    jbtampa replied to Sincere24's topic in Florida Nursing

    I am 4th quarter at Gulf Coast, will graduate in June. It has been a wild ride, so fasten your seat belt and bring $20,000. Be ready for your instructors to be hired yesterday and confused. Be...

  19. Do you clean desk and hands before test?

    jbtampa posted a topic in Florida Nursing

    Hello all, At Gulf Coast College, an LPN school in Tampa, we are now required to put all belongings in an adjoining room and wash our desk top and hands before every test. This is a class of 18....

  20. what is this IPN?

    jbtampa replied to justryin's topic in Florida Nursing

    You do not fool around with IPN. For impaired health professionals they are a God-send. Even pharmacists regain careers. We have an excellent facility in Tampa that specializes in addicted health...

  21. Gulf Coast College

    jbtampa replied to centralflorida's topic in Florida Nursing

    Hold the phone on GCC....staffing has isssues right now..as in arrogant and stupid. Just like the

  22. Desperate for advice on LPN programs, Tampa

    jbtampa replied to Sharil's topic in Florida Nursing

    I am at Gulf Coast College in Tampa. 17K. Instructors range from good to totally awful, and they have generally one year or less of teaching. Turnover is very problematic there. Cannot

  23. How many liters of O2 can a patient with COPD be on?

    jbtampa replied to ChristopherH's topic in Pulmonary

    Geesh, I am an RT in nursing school, and I can't WAIT for that crap to come up. I have coded a poor dude thanks to the nurse who thought she couldn't crank up that O2. She followed "what she'd...

  24. Thinking of droping out.

    jbtampa replied to caliber's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Indeed, emotions run amuck in a career education program when coming from many backgrounds. My gig is middle aged and decades of Respiratory Therapy. I thought I knew it all on day one. In truth, I...

  25. Thinking of droping out.

    jbtampa replied to caliber's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Indeed, emotions run amuck in a career education program when coming from many backgrounds. My gig is middle aged and decades of Respiratory Therapy. I thought I knew it all on day one. In truth,...