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    How did retirement changed your life? Was it a dream or a nightmare come true?

    HazelLPN replied to CJ NV's topic in Retired Nurses

    I feel that I have retired three times in my career. Back in 1992, I retired from full time nursing and cut back my hours dramatically. It was WONDERFUL because I worked one budgeted day a...
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    LPN Bridge programs

    HazelLPN replied to AJ13's topic in Online Distance Learning

    First of all, the hospital from which I retired from will NOT accept any online degrees for positions that require that degree...no online BSNs,MSNs or PhDs are accepted. Second, online learning has...
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    Minnesota State LPN refresher course, correspondence based

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

    Fifteen years is a long time to be out of nursing. I remember back in the late 1990s when I was semi retired and working very part time. I went on vacation to England with my children and...
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    How did you become a LPN?

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

    I trained back in the dark ages at a long gone and forgotten Catholic hospital based diploma program where we trained for two years...with NUNS mind you! RN students trained an additional year to...
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    Forced wearing of nursing cap.

    HazelLPN replied to onetiredstudent's topic in General Students

    They were not cloaks, they were wool capes that came down to your fingertips.( when I think of cloaks I think of druids chanting..or a group of witches dancing around a fire....no disrespect to my...
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    Why can't nurses intubate?

    HazelLPN replied to natnat122's topic in Emergency

    Advanced practice nurses do tube pts all the time. When I did NICU, it wasn't all that uncommon for the NNP to grab the laryngoscope out of the resident's hands if they were struggling to get the tube...
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    How does your PICU handle Chemotherapy administration

    HazelLPN replied to Starbuck4's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    It was fairly uncommon for our PICU patients to be on chemo. If at all possible, the hem/onc nurses managed all but their very sickest patients on the floor...even staffing them as 1:1, which was rare...
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    Unfortunate ICU RN in need of less physically demanding job

    HazelLPN replied to SunshineRN32's topic in MICU, SICU

    If you don't want too much stress, then PICU and NICU are not going to be a good fit. I think all areas of nursing are stressful in their own way. When I was a PICU nurse, a young RN who oriented to...
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    Unfortunate ICU RN in need of less physically demanding job

    HazelLPN replied to SunshineRN32's topic in MICU, SICU

    I was in your shoes about twenty years ago. People always think about adult ICU as a challenge in terms of skills, time management and a deep understanding of your science and how that applies to...
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    MAs call themselves Nurses at my office..opinions please?

    HazelLPN replied to lisaannjamRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Most CMAs I know train for six months. One of the LPNs who worked with with me when I did MICU is now an instructor at the at the vocational school in the medical assisting program. The LPN program at...
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    Top 10 Reasons Against Unions

    HazelLPN replied to PICUPNP's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I think you must have misunderstood. The school districts that HAVE unions like mine require an RN at each of the high schools and sometimes an LPN for special needs units. The NON Union schools...
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    Top 10 Reasons Against Unions

    HazelLPN replied to PICUPNP's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I'm a retired critical care nurse and worked most of my career in a union hospital and now work for a large urban public school district that is also unionized where the school nurses are served by...
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    Cost Cutting/Budgeting --- the patients suffer the most

    HazelLPN replied to abbaking's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Reading these posts made me glad I'm retired! I do miss critical care nursing very much...but I hated when nursing decisions were made by non nursing professionals without the consideration of nurses...
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    Old nurse required to get BSN

    HazelLPN replied to Bellona's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Online programs are extremely expensive and often lack the credentials of a traditional program. Be careful and do your research before signing on the dotted line. You're best and most affordable bet...
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    White uniform

    HazelLPN replied to ArieElizabeth's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    I'm going to guess that your cap was called the "Bellevue fluff ", the kind that kind of looked like an upside down coffee filter. Mine has wings on it and looks very similar to the cap that nurse...
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    White uniform

    HazelLPN replied to ArieElizabeth's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    No nursing cap is a "paper cap". They are made of starched fabric. Perhaps the student who mystifies you has a family member who is or was a nurse who wore her cap proudly. For some of us, it works...
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    No support or respect

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

    Oh, nursing professors are probably the worst offenders, especially the ones who havent' been at the bedside in several decades. Long story short, I returned to school for my BSN after 30 years in...
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    Professional Learning Communities

    HazelLPN replied to kkfkmom's topic in School

    The way our district works PLCs is a top down mandate. The teachers complain that it takes away from time in their classroom preparation where they spin their wheels and get nothing done except...
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    hot cheetos & GI probs

    HazelLPN replied to cruzcontrol's topic in School

    I had a pregnant girl walk into the office eating flaming hot cheetos and in an act of complete unprofessionalism, I snached them out of her hand and threw them away and said "you're not feeding that...
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    New PICU nurse with questions!

    HazelLPN replied to shaykdo's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    Its great that you have a background in hem/onc nursing as very few our our RNs could give IV chemo products. In fact, the only ones who could were former hem/onc nurses. You will be an excellent...
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    Is magnet status hospitals shutting out all LVNs

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

    It sickens me when LPNs are forced out of jobs in acute care or worse, forced to work far below their skill level and training and be classified as a tech to save money to line the pockets of upper...
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    Is the nicu and nursery easy?

    HazelLPN replied to almostmadeit's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    50 is NOT old. Oh to be 50 again. Oh to be 60 again! Physically, NICU is easier compared to say adult ICU but that's where easy stops. It may be the the most highly specialized kind of nursing there...
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    RN School Nurse replaced with LPN. When will NYS mandate an RN in every school?!

    HazelLPN replied to jhendoRN's topic in School

    I am a retired LPN and I work as a substitute assistant school nurse. Every state has a different scope of practice for LPNs. Where I work, the scope of practice is very vague on purpose, leaving much...
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    My Encounter With A Health Room Sub

    HazelLPN replied to bleemadden's topic in School

    My goodness. I sure wouldn't want to have that RNs
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    For Laffs - Take The Nurse's Cap Quiz

    HazelLPN replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in Nursing Humor

    The answer key is wrong. They should have asked a nurse who remembers when the cap was something you worked hard for and were proud of to write the quiz. I still wear my cap with the same pride as...