APBT mom

APBT mom LPN, RN

Med/Surg, Tele, IM, OB/GYN, neuro, GI

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  1. Questions about National Health Services

    That was something else that the story said about even if you have to have a procedure done that you are waitlisted for it and sometimes it can take years to have it done. There was a lot of people...
  2. Relo from South Georgia to Tampa

    I live in Tampa from what I know about Brandon and Riverview is that traffic is bad there's basically only one way in and one way out. I don't know about the neighborhoods because there are mostly sub...
  3. I bought a med/surg book at Borders called Medical Surgical Nursing by Mosby. It was around $40. It was very helpful didn't seem as medical termed to me. I don't think the instructor would mind that...
  4. Second Guessing

    For testing do you go back over the test if you have time left. I notice that when I do that I see where I might have made a mistake the first time. If I have trouble with a question I'll leave it...
  5. I'm tired of being assualted at work!!!

    I was a sitter and something similar happened to me. Sat with a little old man who "was the sweetest thing ever" called me over to fix his pillow and clocked me in the jaw. My first reaction was to...
  6. I'm tired of being assualted at work!!!

    I forgot to add it's a workmans comp claim and don't let them give you any crap about
  7. You have every right to ask for a qualified person to do any procedure on you but when you said this it was unjustified. She probably didn't have anything to say about it because you hit a nerve but...
  8. Questions about National Health Services

    I saw a story about the healthcare system in Canada that was a few years old. It's done based on your income is is how much you have to pay in. They were people on the show that were complaining about...
  9. 8 Weeks of training does NOT make you a nurse!!

    I know exactly what you're talking about. My husbands sister does the same things and she is only a CMA. She works at a hospital doing durg screens so she's a nurse in her mind. Her own husband think...
  10. LPN clinical schedule.....this seems like alot!

    As of right now the schedule is M-T clinicals 4:30-10pm W-Th lecture 4:30-10pm off Fridays. After the 21st of Jan we go to clinicals 4 days a week. It's a part time
  11. No She/he Did Not!!!

    No she didn't start telling the clinical instructor that one of the other students wanted to insert a coude catheter when the other student was doubling checking that we weren't allowed to insert them...
  12. Does anybody had seen a nurse with tunnel earrings?

  13. 100% calculation exam/pass/fail

    I'm in a LPN program our med calculation tests were graded just like regular tests. We did have a simulated med pour that was pass or fail and when we have our med pours at school any calculations...
  14. Age you will/were graduated?

    Mine also The youngest is 57 and the oldest is in her late 60's. I love hearing the nursing stories from the "old
  15. I feel isolated and left out

    I use to work in a MD's office where all the employees and the MD spoke Spanish. I was hired knowing that I didn't speak any Spanish. They would do the same thing while in between patients or during a...
  16. Does anybody had seen a nurse with tunnel earrings?

    There were a couple of nurses where I did clinicals that had gauges in their ears. I think one was a 4g and the other had 0g they usually wore plugs in but if they wore their tunnels they would put...
  17. Benefits

    The benefits sound good but it doesn't really say anything about the cost just what they have. From what I remember about the BCBS plan POS doesn't only stand for point of service in most cases. They...
  18. Florida LPN Courses

    I think the program in Orlando is T.E.C.O. and it ran through the school board. Here's a website that lists all the nursing schools in Florida LPN/RN.
  19. Island Walk is in downtown Tampa on Harbour Island. It's on the water and it's expensive. I knew someone who lived there about eight years ago and rent was $1800 a month for a three bedroom two bath....
  20. Rounding up grades

    Are schools rounds and we get graded for our care plans but not that much they average 15 points out of entire clinical grade. For the work it doesn't seem worth it when I could be studying instead of...
  21. Working while going to school?

    I know at my school you can't trade clinical hours for job hours. You can't even pick a clinical site at a hospital or facility that you work at because 1) they are concerned with the floor nurse...
  22. Things you would LOVE to say to your nursing instructors...

    To the school itself: just because we are the night class doesn't mean that we should be excluded from the schools activities because that's when the diretor of the program is there. When we are...
  23. What would you do??

    That's what I would do too. When we had our CPR class the nstructor actually told us to do this if we didn't have the mouth shield. If I didn't have a cell phone I'd either try an flag someone down or...
  24. I'm the same way my husband laughs at me because I just cover it with a paper towel until he comes home. It's even worse when it's a
  25. Know someone who did NOT pass the final?

    We just had two people fail out of med/surg 2, but about 15 of us failed the final and still made it through (test was very strange the instructors got it from a different test bank than what they...