HazelLPN LPN

School nurses who are unionized have that too.

I am in the minority, as I still wear a white uniform, my pin, AND my cap.....proudly. Wear what makes YOU feel right...and to the uninformed who want to say the cap is sexist or sexy or collects "germs" more than any other part of the uniform that i...

I am old fashioned, but I believe that school nurses should have acute care experience. The reason is that there is a great deal of autonomy in school nursing, and we have more medically fragile students now than ever. The school nurse must have exce...

This is kind of what I do, although the title is an "assistant school nurse" and I'm only a substitute. I took the job about a year after I retired from a long career in critical care nursing as I didn't really want to retire completely from nursing...

I am a retired LPN and worked most of my hospital years in critical care. I would actually call and talk to the nurse manager of the MICU and explain that you are an LVN and are currently working on your RN and wish to work in critical care. It is p...

If you are talking about the for profit University of Phoenix, I would advise you against that. First, its extremely expensive. Second, it has a very bad graduation rate. Third, there are hospitals (like the once I used to work for ) that would not ...

I had two jobs once I stopped working full time. I had a budgeted job in the MICU at a large teaching hospital (8 hours a week) and picked up contingent hours in the SICU and the CCU. I also started working contingent for the Childrens' Hospital for...

Actually, I worked 7a-7pm in the hospital q weekend when I was in school for my RN. Several LPNs did it this way.

In my day, the cap was something that we worked hard for and were proud of. I've always worn my cap except for about a month back in the 80s when the cap started to go out of fashion and we were encouraged to wear scrubs in the ICU. I just never felt...

I simply can not like this post enough! I wish I was clever enough to have written it myself except I would have to add that I'm an LPN who nearly finished her BSN....about a thousand years ago now it seems. I learned a thing or two from my BSN stu...

I'm in the minority but I still wear my whites AND my cap...proudly.

This might seem a stretch, but have you ever considered school nursing? I am a retired PICU/NICU nurse and now work as a substitute assistant school nurse. I work in a large urban district and your OB background would definitely be beneficial. Where...

I hate it when corporate greed takes priority over quality nursing care.

You never know what the future will bring. You love this job now, but be terribly bored with it in a few years and wish to try something else. Worse, you could be happy working there and one day get called in and told "we are going to an all RN staff...

If you have read the excellent posts about the misconceptions about LPNs from the Commuter, some LPNs do have associate degrees. Most have diplomas or certificates, however.

Lovely article. We older nurses certainly can and do contribute well into our 70s and beyond. Nursing keeps your mind sharp. Its hard on the body, but there are ways to keep active and combat that too. It's so nice to see older nurses portrayed in a...

When you work in a right to work for less state they do pay very poorly. However, our school RNs are on the same pay scale as the teaches. All hold at least a BSN and a certificate from the state department of education to practice as a school RN. Ma...

I have absolutely no idea how to run a business, but I've always wondered what it would be like to own my own bakery using recipes passed down from my mother and my grandmother.

I am an LPN (called LVN in the states of California and Texas) and I would not recommend anyone go this route anymore. In my day, an LPN could work anywhere. They were simply nurses who took care of the patients without the additional paper work of t...

I do not think that working as a CNA should be a requirement for nurses. That said, in my day, nearly all nurses were trained in the hospital and we started taking care of patients almost immediately as student nurses where you applied the theory you...

Back in the mid 1970s I was working in the ICU when we split into MICU and SICU and was given a choice which one to work in. I immediately went to MICU simply because I didn't care for some of the attitudes of the surgeons....still don't! I was able...

We did receive float nurses from the floor in the ICUs. If there was a patient assignment that they felt comfortable with, sometimes they would take a full assignment. If we didn't have easy assignments, they were not expected to take an assignment o...

Absolutely not! I still wear mine and will never give it up. I am old fashioned in that way. Its what I feel comfortable in and what I have always worn. I tried scrubs, I didnt' care for them. I felt like I was wearing pajamas. I care even less for s...

I'm going to say without the shadow of a doubt School Nursing. I spent 54 years in the hospital, most of that time in critical care. In my retirement, I now work as a substitute assistant school nurse, mostly with special needs student who require s...

Here are my thoughts on the role of the LPN in today's world. What I will not do is rewrite what I have already written or respond to posters who wish to cause discord instead of engage in intelligent but polite debate. I believe that the BSN to be t...