invisigoth

I can RELATE. This is the realest post on the Internet right now. I've facing this decision right now. I gave home health a year, and I'm done LOL

They may very well be reacting to you being white if they're black American. Some people just don't talk their business like some white people do. It takes time to open up to people that they may not like,etc.etc. different from them and so on. I wear a turban, I have light brown skin (i'm mixed race) and have had this treatment from people before. Don't take it personally. Make friends with them first.

Playing possum is nothing new. I take care of older white people and sometimes they do the same to me. then they usually end up looking for me later anyway haha.

She talks about her encounters with Americans during her travels to Panama,etc. It wasn't exactly a welcome mat I read her book and decided to stay in nursing school.

The best reliable info about Mary Seacole is in her autobiography. British soldiers worshipped her as Mother Seacole. She spent her own money to go serve the British army and when she had none left they remembered her. I highly recommend her book which is on amazon.

Four years later... my job in LTC still sucks LOL. Oh well.

I went to a flu clinic in klan country and I was wearing a turban AND had olive skin. Feh... yes some did not want me giving them their needle sticks. Personally I don't care. That is their issue. I will take care of them all the same. It is funny how I interact with neo nazi skinheads better than ole klan geezers based on my keen knowledge of war history and tattoos.

RE: Not wanting to face certain patient families. I understand this. There are some family members I want to run and hide from. They're usually the ones with half an hour of questions when the first of three long term care medpasses are facing you with doctors orders, helping CNAs because if you don't help, you are a b-word and all the rest. I tune out the RNs who don't think I'm going fast enough and then consider if it was my mother and father, I'd want the nurse to take time out. Having said that, can't wait to move on to something else before long term care completely burns me out.

You're getting old :) I recommend a book Work by Thich Nhat Hanh for the job complainers. Also watch World's Worst Place to be a Nurse on you tube. I also have a picture of Auschwitz on my cellphone to remind me there are worse places to be in life. Most days it works. Having an attitude of gratitude does wonders for me. Anyone who complains just read what Haitian nurses go through for their jobs. Also, read the story of Dr. Gisella Perl and appreciate the first world good life.

Get a really good organizer like Franklin Covey or Day-Timer. Or make a hipster pda and get into some serious time management. Seeing everything organized helped me to remain sane through nursing school.

Don't worry. You'll love it anyway no matter what happens. I am a new LPN in an old folks home and I love my job. OTOH, if I said 'your refusal to adhere to the fluid restrictions means job security for me' that would be mean :chuckle

I'm not exactly willing to take it. Then again, I've not taken the hep vaccine either. I was made to take the tetorifice shot as a requirement for school graduation. A good website for natural flu defense is utopiasilver.com I've not ordered from them but they seem to be pretty cheap and they give a discount to healthcare workers. Another good site is curezone.com but that's ALL the healing modalities and you really have to wade through althealing ocean.

I said that myself when I went there to do a makeup clinical while my mother was a patient there. If it wasn't for them, I would have flunked nursing school. They do not hire LPNs though. I was told they retrain LPNs as surgical techs which I wouldn't mind because some the surgery at MSK is truly amazing surgery.

Chicken and zucchini farmer since managing peeps and rounding up zucchini is almost as challenging as getting cranky old ladies to take pills.

I asked one of the CNAs at Memorial Sloan Kettering how much they make and they ballparked it at 30/hr. I took her at her word. 10.84 might be crap where you live but it's above average in my area. I was a nurse aide before I became a nurse and I made about 11/hr. Cost of living is astronomical in NYC. Budget carefully, go green and learn to eat less/no meat, ride a bicycle and take public transportation. I say this because I spent a month with my mom in the hospital and at home and saved a lot of money that way.

I'm glad I'm not the only one feeling that way right now.

I wore scrubs because I worked. Either that or exercise clothes because I rode my bike during lunch.

I think you SHOULD apply to UPMC. What's the worst that would happen? Anyway, I love working in the nursing home. I was a nurse aide first and worked through school. It's not glamorous but it's an honor to take care of old folks anyway.

Nothing in life is ever free. Someone always pays especially anytime the government is involved.

I'll be watching this thread. I was wondering the same thing too. I'm interested in alternative living, herbs, helping people live longer and enhancing the lives of the elderly.

I was ready to quit at the end. The anxiety got really bad and my teachers actually though something physically was wrong. They made me go and get a lyme's disease test. The lasy day of school I was sick of books and studying and the cattiness in class! I felt that graduating AND passing my NCLEX was a major victory. I did it my way. I drank wine, ate chocolate, exercised and had lots and lots of s-e-x the night before and passed at 85 questions. All you guys working with kids,etc. will brag just as much when you're done with the hellhole that is LPN school *LOL*

I'm part time. I do cartwheels anytime I get called in. The downside is the insane cost of health insurance.

I had a lot of stress last year with my mother's cancer AND LPN school. I was in bed and up out of bed to the BR with the worst poops and I called my instructor groaning *LOL* OMG school was the worst year of my life. I was getting a severe cold every few weeks so after the last one I vowed I would never compromise my diet or vitamins no matter how little my pay was. I've not been sick since that vow. Never miss the gym or a good home workout either. I think it's stress that makes us noobs sick.

Learn good time management and get into a good exercise regime. This is what saved me from LPN school AND dealing with my mother's cancer diagnosis (in the first semester no less!). I worked almost full time in the beginning but at the end I cut down to fifteen hours or so a week. Just like the poster above, there were a few girls who could work full time and go to school full time but they really did sacrifice life and were very stressed. Mercifully my teacher didn't get too ****** at me sleeping in class. I was sixth in my class. You must count the costs. Stress ages you and contributes to disease.

I wait till I take the resident out of the bathroom to flush the toilet. Think about it. Flushing the toilet and all those e.coli and c.diff poo drops flying around. I'll never understand why BR toilets don't have a lid at the home. GROSS :icon_roll