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 wea...

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 whi...

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 ho...

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 wi...

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. ...

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 tetanus shot as a requirement for school graduation. A good website for natural flu defense is utopiasilver.com I've not ordered from them b...

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'...

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 mad...

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 cla...

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 ever...

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...

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