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    PICU Nursing: How long would you....

    HazelLPN replied to Nurse3242's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    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...
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    When our older nurses die :(

    HazelLPN replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    PACU LPN?

    HazelLPN replied to Varghy's topic in PACU

    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...
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    Withdrew from BSN to do LVN (lost and confuse)

    HazelLPN replied to cutescrubs's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    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...
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    Do nurse practioners round with doctors?

    HazelLPN replied to RN to be soon's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    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...
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    5-year-old chooses heaven over hospital

    HazelLPN replied to anh06005's topic in Nursing News

    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...
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    LVNs in the ICU

    HazelLPN replied to TexRN08's topic in MICU, SICU

    I honestly think that everything has been answered about LPNs working in critical care on these boards
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    Do Bachelor's Degrees Save Lives? - The Facts about Earning a BSN

    HazelLPN replied to Rasmussen University's topic in General Nursing

    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,...
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    Why do you wear a white coat? (if you indeed do)

    HazelLPN replied to RNdynamic's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    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....
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    LPN in hospitals

    HazelLPN replied to nursemarsh32's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    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
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    LPN in hospitals

    HazelLPN replied to nursemarsh32's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    The hospital from which I retired from is now hiring LPNs in the NICU of all
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    Are LPN's going to be phased back into the hospital settings?

    HazelLPN replied to mfigueroa22's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    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...
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    The Malignant Hero

    HazelLPN replied to RN2DNP4.5's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Are LPN's going to be phased back into the hospital settings?

    HazelLPN replied to mfigueroa22's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    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...
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    I'm an LPN and I understand.

    HazelLPN replied to downsouthlaff's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Lots of bad information here. I won't even
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    High School Nurses

    HazelLPN replied to amleah10's topic in School

    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
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    What kind of jobs do y'all have as LPN/LVN?

    HazelLPN replied to SouthernBelle85's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    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...
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    One Atheist FAQ Answered

    HazelLPN replied to bluegeegoo2's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    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...
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    LPN's A Dying Breed?

    HazelLPN replied to dgbqsts062859's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    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...
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    Finish Bachelors or go to LPN school?

    HazelLPN replied to mrscarr104's topic in General Students

    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...
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    LVN to BSN

    HazelLPN replied to Gonnabenp's topic in LPN to RN

    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...
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    Any schoool nurses out there?

    HazelLPN replied to Yulie's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    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...
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    eliminating the LPN role ?

    HazelLPN replied to Annaleemabey's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    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...
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    Dr Office vs Med-Surg

    HazelLPN replied to armadaLPN's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    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...
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    working in acute hospital

    HazelLPN replied to browneyed_nurs3's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    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...