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I worked in adult ICU for 30 years before becoming a PICU nurse. If I would have had to do it all over again I would have done peds from the start. Both my body and my morale were burnt out from years in the MICU. Adult ICU is very hard on your body...

You have no idea how hard we worked in the old diploma schools or how rigorous the training was. I'm a primary source about that mind you. (yes, this old LPN knows all about research.) You also have to realize that VERY bright women went into nursin...

It's very important to realize that LPN scope of practice varies from state to state and facility to facility. There are states where the scope of practice is very similar to that of an RN and those where the scope is much more restricted. Although L...

There are many community colleges and even public schools that offer English proficiency classes to English Language Learners who are adults. Perhaps check with your local public school district or community college (if you live in a large urban area...

The NNPs in the NICU always rounded with the docs (in a large teaching hospital). Residents and interns come and go of course, but the NNPs are there year after year. All were experienced NICU nurses before training to be NNPs and did as much teachi...

I worked in critical care for many years. When the end of life comes, you provide as much comfort to the patient and family as you can instead of trying to force your ideology on them. If I had a loved one dying, I would want the nurse to be caring,...

I honestly think that everything has been answered about LPNs working in critical care on these boards already!

What's one of the the biggest problem in research, even in the hard sciences? Bias. What bias could an institution that exists primarily to make money for its shareholders possibly have? Oftentimes, the researcher knows the conclusion before the st...

When I was still doing MICU in a large teaching hospital I did have a white coat...all medical a nursing staff had them. The med students had short coats, interns/residents/attending had full length. Nurses had long coats that came to our mid calf. I...

Yes. I don't wish to identify the hospital as I wish to remain anonymous ..but it's a Midwestern state that allows LPNs a very broad scope of practice. That's the best I shall do.

The hospital from which I retired from is now hiring LPNs in the NICU of all places.

A BSN in charge of the most complicated cases? Only if that BSN educated nurse is truly the best fit for that patient. Simply having a BSN does not make one a good fit for "complicated cases". It depends on the person, not the letters behind thei...

It gave me chills to read your post that you actually worked with this serial killer. I remember watching a TV movie starting the LA Law star Susan Rutttan as Jones back sometime in the 1980s and felt like I was watching a horror movie. Apparently, ...

I was surprised to learn that the NICU at the hospital were I retired from is again hiring LPNs and shift away from using patient care assistant role where the RN takes an expanded assignment with a PCA. Now they are going back to LPNs taking their ...

Lots of bad information here. I won't even start.

That is my experience actually. I'm a substitute and I am no longer willing to work elementary unless its the school for medically fragile students.

I worked most of my career in critical care nursing and spent all of my career working in the hospital setting until my retirement in 2009. My last 17 years were in peds...both PICU and NICU. When I was in nursing school , I didn't have any trainin...

I trained in a Catholic hospital school of nursing in the dark ages (run by nuns!) and we were constantly praying...before class, before clinical....including with patients at the hospital. That was a different time. I wasn't comfortable with it then...

I am a retired LPN and spent most of my career working in critical care nursing. Back in the 1980s LPNs in all of the ICUs were told to get their RN within X amount of time or we would have to go work on one of the floors. The hospital, however, offe...

I am not sure what you mean by "the state schools while cheaper are doing horribly.....the private schools are doing very well." Why do you say that state schools are doing horribly? That is none of my experience. They often times have higher standar...

These for profit schools often prey on people who are in your shoes....who have to keep working to support their families while trying to advance their careers. You would do well to take it once step at a time. One does not become an NP overnight. I...

I am a retired LPN and I now work as a substitute assistant school nurse after working in critical care nursing for nearly 50 years. I'm not the actual school nurse but am an assistant. I mainly work with special needs students who require skilled n...

Back in the 1990s, the United Kingdom eliminated the training of State Enrolled Nurses (SENs), which were nurses similar to the LPNs/LVN in the USA. Now, over 20 years later, many are lamenting this decision and some of the powers that be are consid...

When my husband finished his residency, I was his office nurse in his peds private practice after I had been working in med/surg for a few years. That kind of nursing simply wasn't for me. I think I lasted about three months before I went back to the...

Where there is a will there is a way. Back in the 1990s, LPNs were being phased out of the critical care areas in the hospital I was working. It was done ethically as the LPN was simply phased out by attrition instead of handed a pink slip. Our unit ...