nurseygrrl LPN

Hello all :) I have been an LPN for 12 years and I really do love nursing, but over these years I have seen so many bad things. Sad patient stories, being hit and threatened by patients and families, meanness by co workers, administration, famil...

We have great carts. Top drawer holds OTCs, accucheck supplies, etc. Second drawer holds patient meds and syringes and narcs. Bottom drawer holds overflow. We get our carts from the pharmacy we contract with.

A good topic would be infection control. When handwashing came about, use of gloves, universal precautions, disposal of sharps, and now safety needles. How it has all changed over the years. Good luck!

Haha! Too funny! I would be sure to ask what the normal staffing is and how many patients you will be responsible for. It's a hard job for a new grad. You will have a lot of responsibility. Usually different shifts have different responsibilities. At...

Sometimes others forget that we are HUMAN. I wonder if the people that are reaming you out could do better? Probably not. I know just how you feel. As nurses we have to prioritize and write things down, but that doesn't work all the time. Think of it...

I am an LPN and in my facility, management sometimes forgets that we are governed by our scope of practice, not our bosses. They like to ask us to do a lot of things beyond our scope. I think it's important to let these nurses know that while you are...

First of all, 22 is so young! You have your whole life ahead of you and nothing to feel bad about. I got my LPN 12 years ago with all intentions of moving forward to an RN. I never did it! My advice would be to go for the RN off the bat. If that's wh...

Thank you all so much. I haven't been to this forum in years and thought of this wonderful community again because of how I've been feeling and I am grateful. It is so nice to know that people really care and understand. Please keep the suggestions c...

I had a friend just recently teach me to ask the patient to cough and the meatus will 'wink' at you. Placing something in a patient's vagina can get you into a lot of trouble for a lot of reasons. No good.

I haven't heard of not being able to wear nail polish. My facility really has no restrictions. Some nurses even have fake nails. I would go crazy without nail polish!! I love my dark colors. Black, ruby red, purple. I keep my nails on the shorter sid...

Thank you For the suggestions :) I took some time off very recently and it didn't help. I really feel like I just want to walk into a book store and apply for a job LOL. It just feels like nursing is constant worry and fighting. You're asked to do th...

We had an inservice today at my facility on the Diapulse machine. It's a new treatment for would healing that uses electromagnetic energy to increase blood flow and promote healing to all types of wounds. The demonstration was great and seemed to mak...

I started out in home care which I didn't like because I felt more like a maid then a nurse so I left that and went into LTC. I liked the unit I was on which as short term rehab. It was fast paced and you had new patients all the time, but after a wh...

I work in an SNF and we definitely use our care plans! Even if you don't use them in the sense of writing them out and having them on the chart, it is very helpful in your thought process when you admit a new patient and have to assess their needs. C...

I hope you find a much better job. No one needs to deal with stress that severe. I wish you the best!!

stidget is right...no induration...negative PPD.

There is no way I would leave my daughter with someone like that. You made the right decision and if it were me, I'd report her. I thank God every day for my wonderful mom who watches my daughter for me. Whenever I hear stories like this one, I appr...

Karen... Congrats!! It is an awesome accomplishment!!

I work the 7-3 shift with alternating Thursdays, Tuesdays and every other weekend. I like my schedule because it's good to have days off during the week when I can get errands done and also to have my daughter at school so I can just veg. What I don'...

I have two questions regarding narcotics and the regulations we follow when dealing with them. 1. A patient of mine was admitted with an order for 70mg methadone BID. The pharmacy sent us blister packs with (3) 10mg tabs per blister (30mg). Then they...

That's an excellent idea! Thank you! I'll implement that tomorrow...

Thanks for the replies :) Thanks for the suggestion of asking the pharmacy to repackage it, but it's impossible. We don't have an in house pharmacy and no one would feel comfy giving the methadone to a driver to take back to the pharmacy for repack...

There is plenty of teaching to do as a nurse. You teach the newbies, you teach your patients, sometimes there are student nurses at your facility whom you can teach. I love the teaching part of nursing. Maybe you can go for a specialty that puts a lo...

Your daughter's reaction doesn't sound like a positive PPD to me. I get the same sort of reaction after a PPD and I was told that it is a reaction to a component of the serum. I wouldn't worry...Let us know how you make out!

That is an awful story. I work for a skilled nursing facility and am VERY proud of the care our patients recieve. Our staff goes above and beyond the call of duty when it comes to our residents. Being that we see them everyday, they are like our seco...