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HELLO FELLOW SC NURSES. I was just offered a position at NHC in Garden City and was wondering if anyone knows anything about the facility. It's a beautiful place ( but we all know how that goes ) and they have started construction on a new wing that ...

it's done all the time where i work, especially if a patient is being discharged. i do rounds with the doc and write out the discharge scripts as he says them and then he signs them. there has never been a problem. if it makes you uncomfortable perha...

Congratulations GatorLPN...in my opinion you will be involved in one of the most satisfying areas of nursing. You will put in long, very challenging hours. You will be rewarded a hundred times over, everytime you go home at the end of your shift (or ...

What is your experience with these? I am going to need one as my baby is currently transverse (side to side, was diagonal). I'm a nurse (posting under my mom's screenname) as well and know *just* enough OB to make me dangerous. :rotfl: I have had e...

Oh definately! They will wait until regular hours to do the procedure and will have a colorectal surgeon present as well in case I need the section. I have a proven pelvis (4 vaginal births with no complication) and would love for them to attempt a b...

Yes I do! Very much so. I will be attempting the pelvic rocks and knee-to-chest postions to try and get the baby to turn before that. Thanks for your feedback. I really appreciate it.

If the patient is alert and oriented they absolutely have the right to refuse. However, if the patient is confused, disoriented with a diagnosis of dementia he/she is probably in no condition to make the decision that he/she doesn't want them. These ...

Hi all travel nurses, This is an area of nursing that I am considering...I am an LPN with 20 yrs experience...mostly geriatrics and have been contacted by several travel companies recently! ( I filled out on-line applications.) I have a few ...

In the year I went to LPN school, I spent over 700 hours in clinicals. A good friend of my got her ADN with just a little over 300 clinical hours! Go Figure!

I am so so sorry for your loss.This is a difficult time of year. I hope you can find peace with this.

Oh please. Reading this kind of stuff really makes me sick!!! Having worked in a lot of nursing homes I KNOW that the majority of them are GOOD! The media loves to pick on the few that have problems!!!!!! Yes, nursing homes have problems, they are un...

Sorry everybody...I hit the wrong button before I was finished! Oh how I hate that. Grrrr! Anyway, I guess that's about really it for the questions for now! I'm looking forward to your responses! Thanks in advance!! Sue

This is about the funniest thread I've come across in a long time! :roll :rotfl: Thank you for making me laugh! Oh, and yes, I have all of the above as well! :rotfl:

I'm pretty certain NO CALL, NO SHOW is NOT grounds for losing your license. It may get you fired from your job, but it is not the same as abandonment!

healingtouchRN...I do agree with you that there is a huge difference between RN and LPN as far as studies go,but I know plenty of LPN's who work in critical care.

All I can say is this... if your BON or nurse practice acts allow you to do things that you are not comfortable doing and your employer WANTS you to do them, then you better learn to do them comfortably or get another job.

Personally, I am for doing anything my license allows me to do.I believe the more skills I have, the more valuable I am. If I then end up doing somebody else's work because they are taking advantage....well then I guess I'm the stupid one!

I graduated from FL. Hosp. School of Practical Nursing back in 1979. It was one of only a handful of private practical nursing schools left. I loved my program, I believe I got an excellent education and I think the Florida Hospital Systems are great...

This is beautiful...you made me cry..and I'd like to thank you!Oh how many times have each of us felt this way and could never put it into words.

I am an LPN with over 20 years experience and I was just offered a job in South Carolina at a measly $14.00 an hour and thats with no benefits. That is less than half the salary I made in CT. I am sick about this!

Wow...this is a great thread and I must add my 2 cents worth...I know nurses who will RUN down the hall to give an Ativan or Xanax to a patient who is simply talking too much for their liking,but who would make someone waits hours(literally) for a pa...

Been there too and I get upset with nurses and doctors who think everyone who walks into the ED with back pain is drug-seeking. Each and every case has to be taken into account separately.

Been there too and I get upset with nurses and doctors who think everyone who walks into the ED with back pain is drug-seeking. Each and every case has to be taken into account separately.

I don't necessesarily think that an RN, just because he/she has those initials, would have know to slow down the I.V. Every LPN that I know has to go through an IV course just like the RNs do. Where I live IV Therapy is not a part of the RN education...

I don't necessesarily think that an RN, just because he/she has those initials, would have know to slow down the I.V. Every LPN that I know has to go through an IV course just like the RNs do. Where I live IV Therapy is not a part of the RN education...