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I worked in long-term care for over 10 years before getting a job in a family practice office. It turned out to be a very good move. I used to be athletic when I was younger, and felt natural at a job which required physical activity. Over the...

Hello, I've been an LPN for 13 years. Most of my experience is various forms of long-term and sub-acute care. My adult daughter lives in another state and I have considered moving to be closer to her. I still live in my hometown, and have never mov...

I'm an LPN and burned out of long-term care after several years. I kept working only because I need to support my family and that is my job skill. LTC also pays well for LPN's, but in terms of personal satisfaction money can be a poor motivator. ...

Probably 8 years ago, I spent time at a Planned Parenthood as a Medical Assistant through a temp agency. I loved it. At the time, MA's did the back office work - rooming and vitals, fingersticks for rh and hemoglobin testing, prep for pap smears, e...

Hello everyone! I've been an LPN in LTC for 6 years now and though I've been trained as a doula, I have never worked in L&D. So I have a question for all of you more experienced people. :) I was recently in an online discussion with some peopl...

Ok, I tried to clean out my pm's - something I think I haven't done since joining the site years ago. Maybe I should stop second-guessing myself based on what random people on the internet say. I should probably hang out here more, I would get a bet...

I once heard a cell phone ring with a certain tone, and found myself following the sound to another room to see who's pulse ox alarm was going off!

I went to nursing school with one thing in mind, and that was to become a Certified Nurse-Midwife. I haven't made it past LPN though, and I'm actually considering a different route to midwifery. Working in long-term care for the last 5 years isn't ...

Not as a nurse, but as a Medical Assistant working in a doctor's office, I had a couple of celebrity encounters. One was a well known author, but he was a jerk. He would come in self-advertising his books, and he tended to assume everyone kissed the...

I'm not sure what you mean by "direct-entry CNM". I've always considered direct entry and CNM to be the two different routes to midwifery. Direct entry means a program that teaches midwifery without requiring nursing school first. CNM is obviously...

Sorry, I didn't mean to offend anyone. I've met people who really believe this, and from several of the comments in this thread it seemed that way here too. Maybe I am taking things too seriously. I'm not trying to scare you off from posting though. ...

Sorry, you don't have "hard evidence" of these things. This is still opinion. You can't measure "mean, crazy, and stupid people", though someone could do a study on drunks and drug addicts. But no real study has ever supported the idea that the moon ...

I think the full moon issue is just a figure of speech. On busy days I hear people say, "It must be a full moon" without even looking to see that we are nowhere near that time of the month. People just assume because of their preconceived notions.

I recently fainted while on a nature walk with a group, and a nearby med student checked my pulse and asked me basic questions to assess my orientation before letting me stand up again. Someone else gave me a couple of water bottles, one to drink an...

I've learned over time that it is best to keep things like this to myself whenever possible. Don't lie about your issues if it directly comes up, but you can stick to a "don't ask don't tell" personal policy. I've been an LPN for 5 years now, and su...

I work in a nursing home. After making repeated med errors on the job, I chose to use up my vacation time with some time off to try to pull myself together. Unfortunately, it's not working. I have no desire to go back to work. The nursing home I'm...

I know it's been a while since I posted here, but I thought I would give an update. I used up my paid LOA and am currently looking for another job in a different specialty. There isn't much out there for LPNs aside from nursing homes, but I have se...

I know this post is years old, but what is a "mermaid"?

Great thread, thanks for bumping :) If I wasn't a nurse, I'd be a midwife (and I probably will be someday). Other dream jobs: Astronomy - my brother majored in it but I thought I wasn't good enough at math and physics. Paleantologist Book store owne...

I paid out of pocket for prereqs that I took individually (usually 1 class per semester), and I never totalled what that cost. Once I entered nursing school full time, my loans totalled $12,000 for the two semesters I went before earning my LPN in 2...

Even if employers don't use credit information against you, it still seems way too personal to be any of their business. There are laws against prospective employers asking questions about your family or religious practices. I don't see how it is o...

I do think first aid training is a good idea for everyone, but I doubt it would affect a person's ability to deal with seizures, or many other emergencies for that matter. Teachers have a great amount of pressure put on them over students' grades, b...

I worked sub-acute for several months in a facility that split the unit into 3 halls, with one nurse having up to 20 pts each. When census was low it was alright, but things got difficult when there were a lot of issues going on at once. Sub-acute ...

I would want to meet everyone. When I read posts on a forum, I tend to picture everyone at a party or get-together. People come sit at tables or around a living room joining others in different discussions. It's just how I "visualize" threads. I...

I work four 8-hour night shifts per week. I've always been an "evening" person, so night is just an extention of that. It works out well for child care in my family too. As for truly adjusting to a new sleep schedule, that happened when I started t...