MedicalLPN

MedicalLPN LPN

Onco, palliative care, PCU, HH, hospice

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  1. Bizarre Admitting Diagnosises

    MedicalLPN replied to MedicalLPN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Wow, too funny! I love the "UCA" and "Uterine Thyroid" dx

  2. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    MedicalLPN replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    The one that gets to me the most, and my dear grandparents still say it this way is : Diarrhear I hear it fairly often from many different people and one day someone's going to say it to me and I'm...

  3. The Med Room: An inner sanctum where Angels of Mercy bare their souls...

    MedicalLPN replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    Ah if the pyxis machine in our med room could talk... everyone on my unit would be

  4. Judgement Calls

    MedicalLPN posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Hi all. I've been an LPN for one year, I work on a medical floor where we take all the end of life care and inpatient hospice patients. We have a terrific MD takes care of these patients and we do a...

  5. Your specialty

    MedicalLPN replied to litebrightgirl's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    My best advice for you to prepare for school, is to take time and pamper yourself, spend as much time with your family and friends, kick back and do activities and hobbies you enjoy because once you...

  6. Judgement Calls

    MedicalLPN replied to MedicalLPN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I appreciate your response, please do not get me wrong, I have never allowed a patient to lie there in pain, and yes the pt's comfort is obviously my main goal. I don't know why I've been second...

  7. low medium and high performers

    MedicalLPN replied to litbitblack's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing is such a hands on field that it really exasperates me how many managers become dettached and disconnected with their employees and the unit they manange. I know they have an incredibly...

  8. Question about LPN's & Schooling

    MedicalLPN replied to studentb's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I'm 19 and have been an LPN for 1 year, it's a great path to take! I became a CNA at 16 and then went through an 18 month LPN program. As the other posters said LPN school is on average 12 months long...

  9. Your specialty

    MedicalLPN replied to litebrightgirl's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Hi, congratulations on getting accepted into nursing school! It's a wild and bumpy ride but hold and tight and you'll do fine :) I've been an LPN for only a year so I'm not quite a veteran like many...

  10. "And it's all going to be your fault"

    MedicalLPN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah if you're going into nursing you better have a big buttocks because everyone's gonna take a chunk out of it. As for the doc that got thrown up on by a pt, that's awesome, I know a couple docs...

  11. The sugar that just kept dropping...

    MedicalLPN replied to NewWayofLife's topic in General Nursing

    Had a patient several weeks ago, not a known diabetic came onto our floor from the ED with a BS of 32 only had her for four hours before my shift was over but in that time I had given her 3 Amps of...

  12. What you get for nurses week

    MedicalLPN replied to chevyv's topic in General Nursing

    We got to work short staffed for nurse's week,

  13. Er, let's watch what we're doing here, ok? Thanks

    MedicalLPN replied to Cindy-san's topic in General Nursing

    Wow.... It's amazing that patients survive some of the things we do to

  14. Reason for not giving IV push med too fast?

    MedicalLPN replied to kate64's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Typically depends on the drug, for instance pushing IV Ativan rapidly can cause cardiac arrest, pushing IV Dilaudid, Morpine, or Fentanyl rapidly increases the risk of respiratory depression and...

  15. You Know the patient is going bad when...

    MedicalLPN replied to Nurseboy1's topic in General Nursing

    When you go in the pt's room and the first thought in your head is "Hmm... she don't look good." One of my co-workers told me she always knows when I have someone going bad because I yell up at the...

  16. The more I think about a comment that my coworker made to me, the more ticked I get!!

    MedicalLPN replied to raindrop's topic in General Nursing

    I got a little annoyed a few nights ago when I recieved report on one patient that consisted of "Admitted from ER today with pneumonia" when the patient was actually an ICU downgrade that had been in...

  17. Worried about something

    MedicalLPN replied to ScaredNewNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Definately check to see if you have an employee assistance program, many times they give you a certain number of sessions free. Definately do some research, sometimes seeing the cold hard facts help...

  18. Oh, this Pt should be on a stepdown unit, but....

    MedicalLPN replied to BlearnRN's topic in General Nursing

    I would look for your unit's policies and procedures for such drips, on our tele unit we can initiate cardiac drips (cardizem, dopamine, nitro,) during emergency and code situations, but they must be...

  19. I've Had it! *Long*

    MedicalLPN replied to MedicalLPN's topic in General Nursing

    Just an update, I have an interview next week for a night shift position at the assisted living facility I was talking about. I also called the state hospital about the position I applied for to tell...

  20. I've Had it! *Long*

    MedicalLPN posted a topic in General Nursing

    I've posted about my issues with work before but for those who don't know, I've been working on a medical tele unit since I graduated about 10 months ago and the past few months work has gone down...

  21. Mixing Medications For Emergency Treatments

    MedicalLPN replied to New2ER's topic in Psychiatric

    I don't mix Ativan with anything, we don't use benadryl for agitation, I would always be afraid I'd have a patient who'd have the reverse reaction of becoming hyper and more agitated due to the...

  22. Trade school or community college?

    MedicalLPN replied to TheCommuter's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Did an 18 month program at a vocational school that is affiliated with my high school, since I was a senior in that high school my tuition was waived and only had to pay for my textbooks, lab fee,...

  23. LPN to RN is it worth it?

    MedicalLPN replied to januarykid's topic in International Nursing

    I'm an LPN currently working on general courses to transition in an RN program so I'll try to answer your questions 1) In my opinion yes, as an LPN you'll always have a job but it may not be the job...

  24. Emotions at work

    MedicalLPN replied to onlyngrace's topic in General Nursing

    I finished it, but I thought some of the questions repeated

  25. First Day of classes!!!

    MedicalLPN replied to TiffanyJB's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    You're eager to learn, that will make you a wonderful student! I went through an 18 month program and though it didn't seem like it at the time, it went by VERY fast! In May it'll be one year since I...