mrsraisinkain

atropine (opth gtts given SL) and Levsin

Thanks for all the great suggestions! I'm very excited about this gift :)

Hi all! I am a crisis care (continuous care) LPN that works 12 hours shifts. Our department is having a picnic to help promote department morale and camaraderie. We will be having games and door prizes. We will be giving away smaller prizes, and one bigger prize which is my duty to gather. I decided I'd like to give a "Hospice Nurse Survival Kit", a basket with items that will help the winner get through some of these long, 12 hour shift. I was thinking I'd put in a coffee travel mug, a small Starbucks gift card, a bottle of Tylenol, some hand sanitizer... What other suggestions do you have for me? I really appreciate any ideas!! Thank you!

I totally get what dajulieness is saying. I'm a hospice nurse and do all one-on-one care and when I'm cleaning a patient all I try to think about is how much better they're going to feel when they're clean and how much better it will smell when I'm all done. It doesn't make the smell any better while I'm doing the job but mentally it helps me forget about the yuck in front of me. I can even smile and keep up a conversation while doing it now!! :)

I did something like this yesterday. I'm a Hospice crisis care nurse and my pt the last two days lives in an ECF. Her husband is her roommate. My patient herself had no problems with the facility food but her poor hubby came back from each meal in the dining room so saddened over the food. I felt horrible that this poor man returned from his dinner still hungry! So yesterday I snuck him in some homemade chili I had made. The picture of this happy old man grinning a huge grin with chili running down his chin is a memory I will keep a long time. We wouldn't be nurses if we didn't care deeply about people. I kind of thought like you did: "If they're going to write me up for feeding a hungry man then karma is gonna smack them in the back of the head some day!"

My insurance company would have given us a discount on our auto policy if I was an RN, but because I'm an LPN we did not receive the discount.

I started LPN school and went full time while my kids were 2 and 5. Now they're 3 and 6 and I'm in RN school full time and work full time. It's definitely doable, you just have to be committed to being organized.

None of us Nurses would be Nurses, and none of the Doctors would be Doctors, if it wasn't for Teachers!!

I'd choose to marry the man I did. He's a blue-collared worker that gets his hands dirty every day and works his butt off. You know what he has to offer me?? A warm hug on the worst of days, a secret wink that means he thinks I'm sexy even in bed head and morning breath, two beautiful children that adore their doting father, a loving and trusting relationship, and the knowledge that he married me even though I'm just a nurse.

Awesome post!! Congratulations to you!! YOU did it!

I purchased a floater frame. The actual frame is probably 10 x 13 inches and my 8 x 11 certificate (I don't get a paper license either) "floats" between two panes of glass. I found mine at Kohl's. http://www.kohls.com/upgrade/webstore/product_page.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524892358540&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374752628269&searchTerm=document+frame&bmUID=1251744661159#

I just graduated from LPN school in April. I don't know what it's like everywhere else but here nursing schools are popping up everywhere - and these schools are fighting for clinical locations. When a school is finally let into a facility for clinicals they are often sharing the facility with another school and limited on the number of patients they can take care of. In these situations you may or may not have a patient that has a foley or an IV or... (fill in the blank). I learned quickly that if I wanted a chance to perform a certain skill I needed to make my desire known to my instructor. I had to learn to be assertive and make MY needs known - something I hadn't been used to doing. Not everybody in my class was able to do that. Some were just lazy and didn't care to try. I haven't emptied a foley bag but I'm pretty sure I could if I tried. Even though I'm IV certified I have never DCd an IV (on a real person anyway - just the fake one in lab). BUT... not doing any fingersticks??? I don't understand that one.

I'm still looking for my first nursing job, but as a previous stay at home mom, I have to tell ya that you will probably be grateful for a chance to get out of the house, away from kids, and having some adult interaction, even if it is once a week!

I am yet another story of 1st marriage - fancy big wedding, marriage lasted 6 months... 2nd marriage got married on the Vegas strip just the two of us and look back on the wedding as the most intimate thing we could have done. As far as becoming Catholic to have the big wedding to make the occasion more special, honey you've already thrown tradition out the window with the baby before marriage, why try and save it now? Catholics may not use birth control, but they certainly believe in exercising abstinence before marriage. I hate to tell ya, but as the mother of two kids, if you never had the money to get married before, it's not going to be easier financially after the baby comes! As everybody has said he can't call in sick for those days now. Doesn't he have any PTO days to use? Has he had excessive call-ins already? It's so odd his employer wouldn't be more sympathetic to the fact his baby is about to be born if he has been such an exemplary employee. I think now he'll just have to be an unexcused absence, take the suspension, and use that time to hunt for a new job! Good luck on Thursday and congratulations!

Hi everyone! I graduated with my LPN from RETS in April and passed my boards at the end of June. When I graduated in April, I decided to sit out a term before returning to RETS for their ADN program and planned on starting back in August. During my time off, I've had a change of heart and decided to look around some more for other bridge programs. I'm not going to bash RETS... I'm just looking for a different scene. Some of the things that have turned me off of their program have to do with the school being so small. I loved going there for my LPN but think maybe a bigger college might suit me better. I spoke with Sinclair today about their program. It's going to take me longer to get my RN there, but it would be less strenuous of a schedule. I would be done with the program at RETS in 15 months and best case scenario I will graduate from Sinclair in 2 1/2 years. Even though it would take longer, the Sinclair schedule would probably me offer some more time to be able to work as an LPN. Does anybody have any thoughts about this? Would it be better to suck up and go to RETS and be done sooner, or get a "Sinclair nurse" education even though it will take longer? The best case scenario involves me being able to test out of some math classes by taking a placement test. Has anybody taken this test? Can you tell me what it's like? Was it hard? How many people are actually able to test out of the classes? I think the classes I'd be able to test out of are DEV 084, 085, and 108 if that helps. I was always pretty good at high school math but that's been 11 years ago. If I don't test out of these classes that will add another few quarters until I'm eligible to enroll the in fast track program. I guess I'm really looking for some advice on the whole situation. I need to decide pretty quickly. RETS starts classes Aug 3 so I need to get enrolled quickly if I decide to go there. Thanks for reading this and TIA for your advice! :)