ThirdWorldGirl

What does the state do for the inmates that is considered pampering?

I suffer from IBS and while I don't recall ever having a diarrhea attack while doing a procedure, I do remember when I worked long term care as the night nurse we were required to do all the am suppositories to the residents not having bowel movements, well it never failed going and popping in all those suppositories sure made me need to poop, and quick like. lol

Well I'm going to have to check this out, thanks for giving us a more detailed look at it. If this is the case then I would have to agree with it being an inappropriate depiction of nurses. I've tried searching the web to get a file of it that can be played on my media player, will post it if I can get one.

I would have to actually see the commercial to base any real answer on its meaning, but if the nurse lost might the narrator meant that it's lucky for his patients that he was in the losing, so they could continue to have him in nursing?

Thanks a million LPN2Be2004!!! I have been sick of my avatar for the longest and wanted to change it, and have been unable to do so, did just what you suggested, went to my msn group site, uploaded the picture I wanted, right clicked it, went to properties, copied the url and pasted it in another window (just to make sure it worked) then came back here and put that in the url box for changing avatars!! Thank you sooooooo much

Well it's official now, no longer resource and full time Oncology come Sunday, thought about working Saturday night for one last resource shift for the money before my pay deduction takes effect but signed up for $15 stipend Sunday night instead.... I'm so excited about this change I'm making and so eager to be a part of something I feel so strong about. I worked Oncology today (days... ouch, I am not a morning person but pulled my butt after the rest of my body after 2pm but did pretty good I have to admit), and my "new" charge nurse came on tonight and after we had given report she gave me a very nice pen, says "Oncology nurses, everyday heroes", I almost cried. I am scared though I have to admit, I know so little but I will learn everything I need to know, plus more just to be a really good Oncology nurse. Sorry for rambling lol, just pretty darn excited about all this. :)

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say probably not, depending on the state you are working in of course, and what LVN/LPN's are allowed to do in that state, but here in Texas, there is too much an LVN can not do to make it a feasible part of Oncology (once again, I can't speak for the whole state of Texas, but the hospital I work for), starting next week I will be moving to Oncology full time, but only because I will be getting my ADN to work there, and have had alot of support and backing from the RN's on that unit. Good luck to you

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Thank you for your replies, yes I do feel like I have a wonderful oppurtunity with this, I have so many questions about the program but don't know where to start. But you'll definately be one of the first to know when they come up. Thanks again for your response.

Will apologize in advance for the length of this thread so here goes......... I am an LVN in Texas currently working in the Resource unit of the best hospital in town and my passion has always been Oncology but they only staff RN's so I could only work when they needed help from the Resource unit, well with much appreciated help from all the RN's on the unit they persuaded the Director to allow me to work on the unit while I was trying to get my ADN. The waiting list at the 2 colleges here are so far behind that the hospital chose 3 of us (LVN's) to be a "pilot program" and the hospital would get us in the Excelsior Program starting in January with full hospital tuition reimbursement without commitment contracts and at the end, we (the 3 of us) will decide if/what commitment should be made to the hospital, and we would serve on the advancement committee to screen and interview the future LVN advancements (assuming we were able to do a good enough job at this to keep this program going). Anyway.... in leaving the Resource unit I will be taking an $8.84/hr paycut and while I can handle that loss of money and will not be paying for any of my schooling, tests, flights/hotel to do clinicals, I am wondering if there is financial aid from the state or federal government for this, I realize I'm getting an easy ride from the hospital but I can't help but feel the state should assist me as well since I am a single parent and taking such a pay cut. Any ideas? Once again I am sorry for this being so long, just want to make sure that I get all the info accurate before I submit and have to backtrack to answer any questions. Thank you so much for any help.

I know this is a little off the topic, but something that I've always pondered..... know how in the nursing homes, there is always music time (which I always enjoyed listening to when I worked there) but it's usually piano gospel music since that is the kind of music the people being entertained likes to listen to..... well when I'm in the nursing home are they going to cater to my likes and play some Metallica, AC/DC and the likes????

Awwwww I personally don't think it's cheezy at all, these little moments are what makes it all worth while, it's like children, the really big moments are the ones that are the most simple (did that make sense?) anyway one of mine, after 13 years I have many but the one that really lets me know how much I'm appreciated.... one night while working on the oncology floor I went in to check on this little man, and he was obviously frustrated with his cell phone that his daughter had bought him, I asked if I could help him with something, and all he needed was for me to program her number into the phone and show him how to easily get to it when he needed to call her, it took me about 2 minutes to do this but the way he hugged me, and teared up you would have thought I had just given him the moon, anyway that's my story...

LPNs do practical tasks, not assessments. That's why they aren't allowed to IV push dangerous drugs like narcotics. It must depend on the state you practice in, here in Texas LVN's do push narcotics.

On the BSN LPN issue. I think it's great. I say let 'em all get BSNs! What difference does it make what they do with their free time and money? [/b] Haven't logged on in a while, been busy with my son starting school and with my getting ready to start back to school in January, this thread certainly caught my eye... lots of hairs raised on everyone's necks I'm sure, just as it did mine, can I add my 2 cents worth about the money thing.... let's be realistic after all isn't it usually about the money? Well in my case I suppose not, an LVN in Texas for 13 years, will be starting my ADN like I said in January only to take a $1.40/hour paycut once I am an RN. Why am I doing this? Good question..... the number one reason is to work on the floor that is my passion that only staffs RN's. Now I am not "flaming" here because I am not a regular here by any means, I just think everyone needs to reeeeeeally think about how things will be taken before they click that submit button.

Sort of embarassed to admit this on a public board, but years ago I was misdiagnosed with Colitis, underwent many bowel studies and medications to find that it was truly IBS. It's something that I've learned to live with and prepare for the events. I never experienced much abdominal pain but would suffer from one extreme to the other with constipation to diarrhea. It's something I've learned to live with, healthier diet, less sodas. Stress is a big factor with me, work stress causes the constipation, private stress causes the diarrhea. Hope this helps with your question.

I'm an LVN of almost 13 years now and we can do IV push meds, I think it might be either a state thing or hospital policies that dictate that LVN's can't. There are numerous things that I can't do as an LVN that RN's do but to be honest I don't want to do them without the proper training and education for them. To answer why I became an LVN, well hell I don't know, I was stupid and listened to my dictating husband (ex now) who told me I needed to, and I was young and dumb and didn't know any better. But I am happy with it (for the time being anyway) I do plan to get my RN but the financial aspect is what's holding me back right now. But yeah I'll admit it "I like the being under an RN, in the responsibility factor". I don't do anything I repeat I don't do anything out of my scope of education and give my charge nurses full respect for not only the title they hold, but more for the type of person they are. Secondly I have not found LVN's to be a dwindling species in this area, the hospital I'm employeed by basically got rid of their cna's and replaced them with LVN's, yeah I'm doing the dirty work but I'm getting $20/hour for that and if they want me to scrub toilets I'll do it. Everybody wants the LVN vs. RN feuds to stop but they won't let's be honest it's like families (or so I would hope) we can say anything we want about each other and it's ok but let somebody from the outside do it and the preverbial poop hits the fan........

I think my 2 most gross stories were a few years ago I worked for a new M.D. (fresh out of school and this was his first practice) he and I were doing and I&D on an abdominal abcess on this elderly woman in the office, well he did the incision and the smell was making me gag, and she was just yacking and yacking (and I'm thinking how can she handle this smell) I look over to him (we had a way of talking without talking) and when he went to drain this abcess it literally squirted him in the eye. The whole time the smell is making me sick to my stomach and I'm blotting his eye with gauze and then made him let me rinse it out..... bodily fluids just attract to his eye I suppose. A few weeks later, we were doing a simple Pap and when the speculum clicked in the open position this girl's lady partsl fluids squirted in his eye again.... I finally bought him some goggles and told him he was to do nothing pertaining to anyone's body fluids without them... Not as gross as some of the others but still pretty gross if you ask me. Have a good day all!

LOL been there done that got the t-shirt to prove it, ya learn to reach out to insert a suppository with your head held back lol. A couple of weeks ago I was working med/surg and this guy had really bad hemorrhoids and I told him I would get him something for them, went to the Pyxis got the supp. put it in a plastic med cup with a dollop of KY, went to his room explained to him I had brought him a suppository for his hemmorhoids and he said "good, give it here" (I'm thinking he was a little embarassed about me doing it and wanted to do it himself) he took the cup and tried to pop it in his mouth and the KY had made it stick to the cup, and I had to explain to him it was a suppository to go in his rectum, and he said "oh I guess you should do it". The guy in the next bed got a chuckle out of it. (privacy curtains offer no audible privacy huh?)

My most recent med error was merely due to me working too many days and just simply being exhausted but still my fault: about 3 years ago when I was working long term care I got pulled to the Alzheimer's unit (I was employeed on the minimal care unit) and I was passing my meds, everything was going fine, and I walked up to this resident and gave her the wrong person's med. She took it, then I went back to the MAR and came to the name of the person I had just given meds to and thought "oh shit". Well I went to the desk got out a med error report filled it out, called the resident's son and then went to the minimal care unit where the PA was and was just literally bawling (did I mention I was exhausted, I cry at the drop of a hat when I'm real tired), she looked at it laughed and tore it up. The med I gave to the wrong resident was Lactaid, no big deal but a med error all the same in my opinion, later that evening when this resident's son came to feed her dinner like he did every meal, he brought her a banana split and joked to me "oh well at least mother can tolerate the ice cream tonight" and he brought me one cause he thought I could use it.

"Bullet with butterfly wings" by Smashing Pumpkins "One" by Metallica- a song about an actual WW1 soldier "Help me make it through the night" by Sammi Smith

oh yeah I forgot the most important thing I'm doing now at work to help me lose weight, I take the stairs instead of the elevator.

I actually have managed to lose weight being back on the night shift, of course I still have tons to go but what helps me is in the evening I wake up, take my vitamin with a big glass of water, then just as I'm leaving to go to work I take my Xenadrine (effedrine free) from GNC, about 9pm I eat a couple of carrot sticks or celery stalks, then about 1am I eat my lunch, most nights I brown bag it (salads, yogurt, rice cakes), then about 4am I have some more of a snack thing (fruit, special K bar), then I leave work at 7am, and come home go to bed, then start it all over again.... I do understand what you're going through though, I still have about 60 lbs to go before I'm happy with my body, and it's an everyday struggle, I'm glad I work in a hospital now, when I worked in long term care seems like everyday some family member was bringing cookies and junk foods.

I've written myself up for my mistakes my thought is that it's better to be honest about it from the start so it doesn't appear you are trying to hide anything because 9 times out of 10 if you think it can be swept under the carpet, there's always going to be somebody looking under it.