Gromit

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  1. Were you accepted on your first try?

    Gromit replied to DreamyEyes's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Thanks DreamyEyes. From what little I've been able to find on the net, thats kind of what I was

  2. Is anyone else uncomfortable with this?

    Gromit replied to jill48's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry, maybe I'm prejudiced. I just don't want ANYONE giving my patients medications except for myself. MY signature goes on the MARs every night, and my signature is on the flowsheet. I feel...

  3. Your Supervisor and Your DON

    Gromit replied to TrudyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, GardenDove, I'm very greatful and lucky to have a manager like her. Satans spawn -hehe, still cracking up over that one. Too true, TazziRN. I should leave the doc alone and let him have his fun....

  4. Were you accepted on your first try?

    Gromit replied to DreamyEyes's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    This is going to sound like a stupid question, but its really bugging me. Just WHAT is an LVN? I know what an LPN is, I know what an RN is, but while I see the letters LVN a lot, I have no idea what...

  5. Didn't get admit into RN program

    Gromit replied to 12breakfree's topic in General Nursing

    Agree completely. Make the 'idle time' useful and take ancillary courses. Apply to EVERYWHERE you can feasibly attend -even if BSN is your ultimate goal, don't turn away from ADN programs -you can...

  6. Male Nursing Salaries

    Gromit replied to cvpmvp2's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Like Tweety said -its not a 'male' thing. New Nurses are new nurses. I too live in the Tampa Bay area of Florida -though the starting wages at my facility are a couple of bucks less than he quoted,...

  7. Your Supervisor and Your DON

    Gromit replied to TrudyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks. I was pretty devastated by the setback. But as usual, I've bounced back and look upon it as yet one more experience -though I must say that I really didn't care for the kick in the chest...

  8. Your Supervisor and Your DON

    Gromit replied to TrudyRN's topic in General Nursing

    ugh, sounds like you have a whole lotta chiefs, not many

  9. Didn't get admit into RN program

    Gromit replied to 12breakfree's topic in General Nursing

    Don't be too discouraged. Try again, and again and again if it takes that. I was rejected for a couple of years until I got 'in'. I applied to schools in my county and in the counties bordering...

  10. Your Supervisor and Your DON

    Gromit replied to TrudyRN's topic in General Nursing

    What is my NM like? Let me tell you: Back in April of '06 I went into heart failure (cardiomyopathy secondary to viral endocarditis) and ended up on our cardiac floor. My nursemanager came to visit,...

  11. RN listing LPN as professional reference?

    Gromit replied to Almabella's topic in General Nursing

    Always dreaded that kind of application question, caliotter3. Mainly because the friends I've always had were never in the field I was working in (or seeking work in) -when I started at my previous...

  12. Agency Nurse doesn't know how to start IVs?

    Gromit replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    IV Certification is not required here (at least not for RNs) -but I'll certainly keep that in mind for the future -when I become a traveler, I'll try to be quick about getting certified in whatever...

  13. Help!!

    Gromit replied to b eyes's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I've always thought that their attitude problem stemmed from their need to justify their existance. I mean, in the grand scheme of things, they really are nothing more than yet one more level of...

  14. Funniest Write Up You have Every Recieved?!

    Gromit replied to nursebrandie28's topic in General Nursing

    Hmmm. Scared 'em to death,

  15. EMTALA question

    Gromit replied to hogan4736's topic in General Nursing

    ugh, what a tangled mess. And imagine, if the surgeon had just got over himself and just called the ER back, this wouldn't even be an

  16. Help!!

    Gromit replied to b eyes's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    yeah, I do too. this is a no-win,

  17. Funniest Write Up You have Every Recieved?!

    Gromit replied to nursebrandie28's topic in General Nursing

    Was written up in school once for not cutting my hair (my hair runs down to the middle of my back -in a pony-tail, and during school and clinicals, I always pulled it up, so it never touched the...

  18. RN listing LPN as professional reference?

    Gromit replied to Almabella's topic in General Nursing

    No reason not to! A good reference is NEVER a bad

  19. Is anyone else uncomfortable with this?

    Gromit replied to jill48's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks Jill. Its amazing how even now, terms can be bantered about and still mean different things (in my facility, CMT is cardiac monitor tech) :) Ah well, learn something new every day

  20. Would you put your family member in a LTC facility?

    Gromit replied to Cattitude's topic in General Nursing

    ONLY if there were no other option. It really would depend on the case. I'd like to say 'no. Never. Not under any circumstances..' but thats not very realistic. It would truly be a choice of last...

  21. would you be a RN for $11.00/hr?

    Gromit replied to PHLEBOTOMIST_TO_RN's topic in General Nursing

    $32 ? Don't know where you work, but I wish I was THERE! Around here, the average starting is in the low

  22. would you be a RN for $11.00/hr?

    Gromit replied to PHLEBOTOMIST_TO_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Know what you mean. My county was the third lowest paying county in the state. I didn't give volunteers grief, however, because I WAS one as well -in the county I lived in (I worked in the county...

  23. would you be a RN for $11.00/hr?

    Gromit replied to PHLEBOTOMIST_TO_RN's topic in General Nursing

    1bigmedicrn - I disagree with you completely. I don't think its sad that so many RNs would refuse to work (in that capacity) if they didn't make better than $11/hr. I APPLAUD them! If you will work...

  24. Agency Nurse doesn't know how to start IVs?

    Gromit replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    Ok, I "CLAIM" that my nursing (RN) -ADN- program DID teach IV insertion and monitoring techniques. We learned on the dummy arm with tubbing under the 'skin'. -it was well worn from plenty of previous...

  25. Is anyone else uncomfortable with this?

    Gromit replied to jill48's topic in General Nursing

    Her daughter is definately wise in her assessment. No WAY would I want people who have only a couple of days of 'classes' to be responsible for passing meds. Thats outrageous. A lawsuit waiting to...