NeuroNut

Yes, that is definitely an option, and something i've been planning on doing, actually started a couple years ago, when i ruptured a disc in my neck and had to have surgery.. recovered, was getting ready to go back again..lol.. and ruptured L4 and 5.. more surgery, so hopefully this time I'll be able to actually get it going.. going to use the unemployment and help my mother take care of my dad for a few months before I start somewhere new, and I really think I need the time away from all of it, this really knocked the wind out of me

So this sunday night will be my last night working for the hospital i've been at for the last 20 years because they decided (unbelievably) to eliminate all the LPN's. They think they can run the hospital on an all RN staff, mind you, there are already 43 RN positions unfilled throughout the hospital at this time, and our last day is Sept 30. I'm not really understanding how they're thinking.. but i do know that my heart is breaking and i can't think straight. Having to say good-bye to my friends that everyone that I have come to know so well over the last 29 years is the most gut wrenching thing I think I've ever been through

In my hospital they are getting rid of the LPN's.. which means in two months, I am out.. after 19 years. My frustration comes in when (and this is a true story) a new RN came up to me last weekend and told me she had only put foley's in female pt's, and needed to put one in a male, and she asked me should she just go until she saw urine, or should she advance it further after that... I sat there dumbfounded.. this was a RN. They want to get rid of us LPN's and keep those kind of nurses??? I just don't get it