lhsouthern

i am applying for the next round of admissions to TCC too. Thanks for the info!

I interviewed at a dementia care facility. There are medtechs who pass oral meds but I would do the injections ( insulin) and dressing changes etc. But I would care for 50 patients! That seems that is too much or am i just over reacting? Please help. linda

i agree i think nurse are a bunch of backstabbing *******

i have been here at a military clinic for 4 months as a civilian lpn. ANd it has been a almost daily thing where someone has complained about me, sending me into the nurse manager which i immedialty comply: first it was the no scrubs i didn't have yet, then it was my hair was too long and messy ( i cut it twice), then my shoes weren't clean enough, so i cleaned them and then got new ones. I made novice mistakes with charting but nothing that jcaho would have a fit about. I fixed them. Then if i made even the slightest error, my RN would berate me, yelling at me in front of everyone. There were somethings i was rusty on and i made certain that I got that skill down pat and still i was yelled at. I finally got a chance to work women's health. I thought i was doing really well even getting feedback that I wasn't putting the doc behind, until one provider said i smelled bad. so i worked with another arnp. I was then put onto the computer taking messages and sending them to the doc RN. I found out that they thought, despite telling me that I was keeping up I WASN'T!!!! And that some of the providers were complaining about me. But never about my nursing skills. I found out monday that they are starting termination. PArt of which comes from that the staff here has totally ostracized me. One day I walk in and my preceptor just would not talk to me. I didn't hear a patient tell me when her LMP was and she (the LPN and RN waslked into my office and started yelling at me). If I have one speck of anything on my top someone complains to the boss. I called my union rep and she told me that a lateral transfer could be an answer instead of losing my job.. i won't know until monday to meet with the nurse recruiter. I watch the other nurses and i am here stuck behind a computer and its hell:angryfire BTW.. i am obese.

my mom is in the hospital after her inr was 13.0! she was on coumadin after being bed ridden after knee replacement and fusion of her right knee after getting mrsa in it. her dose was up to 7.5! you should see the bruising

i am at lower columbia community college, doing my classes online through distance learning. I have clinicals this summer. linda

i have 2 classes left then clinicals and then sit for boards in aug/sept 09.

that is my life story here. my rn team leader, after I told her that we wouldn't be doing a pap since she was menstruating, she went tot the other lpn and repeated the conversation in a mocking tone.

I am working as an lpn in a military clinic ( civilian). I have soon found that the enviroment is almost hostile. The nurse that trained me (or started to) i am almost certain told the boss no more and she rarely speaks to me. So i went with another and did really well, but the other nurses are just as tight as ever, eating together while I eat and work on my RN homework. The RN that is the head of my team had the others in her office working on gettting new charting and LEFT ME OUT!!! She even had the nerve to call me out of a meeting with a doctor and the computer guru even thought the doc said I neeeded to stay there. I hate office politics , its probably stems from when I was in school if I said anything wrong in class I was yelled at by the other students and when I was in a social situation with my mom and said something wrong she yelled at me no matter who was there, even my other family. HELP!

I am on the cusp of getting started at my lpn job at a local afb. i have to do a pre employment physical and i am scared to death!!!! i have a weight problem but ither than that my bp, ect is alway normal and i can lift over 50lbs ( 6yo weighs 54). So if anyone has gone through this, please help me!!!!!!!!!!!!! linda:eek:

it was a group interview with the usual questions about being a team player, transition from acute to ambulatory care. i hate group interviews! i can never tell if i am saying the right thing. one of the things that i talked about was the issue of conflict. I used the example of how I worked for a company that taught living skills to dd adults in their homes and when she came back from M leave she made my life a living hell. and i just caved... she had people spying on me and i would get phone calls about why i did xyz. i told them how i had to go into therapy to learn how to deal with conflict and be more assertive. I think i made the right answers, used body language and humor. now the fun part!

I have a opportunity to interview at a hmo in their women's health as an LPN. i have some post op gyn, but no OB. But i am not stupid either and I have a clue (i think) about what i need to do: the main assessments of weight, urine, bp, fetal heart tones, fundal height. Am i on the right track? please help... linda

when i spoke to the nurse manager she told me that this is the general surgery clinic, that its the pre op but they would train me on endoscopy, conscious sedation, and minor procedures. I guess that what impresses me most is their willing to train me on things a RN anywhere else would be doing. There seems to be more opportunities for an LPN to train and advance. I wonder what its going to be like when I get my RN there. How can I articulate this without being too eager because we really need this job opp.

I have an interview at madigan army hospital next week and i could use all the help to prep for the interview, like what is is about madigan that offers more than a civillian hospital, things like that. also what sort of things will i encounter as a civillian? thanks so much! linda:confused:

i didn't get it... no ob/gyn experience. it took me 2 years of job hunting to get the lpn job at the elementary school i had for 1 year. i think its going to be another long two years again. it ****** me off so bad that i bust my butt for a year, with a picc line in my right arm and i still graduated, only to get nothing where as there are people who get their degree and boom get a job. i guess i am just too fat and ugly to get a job.