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    LPN/LVN salary vs Teachers salary

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

    It seems you missed the main point of my post which was that teachers and school nurses who work in states where they have the right to collectively bargain make significantly more money than in...
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    LPN/LVN salary vs Teachers salary

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

    Texas is a right to work for less state and unions that represent teachers and school nurses have little to no power. In the district where I recently served as a substitute assistant school...
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    Phasing out LPN

    HazelLPN replied to YourFuture22's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I became an LPN because in my day, an LPN was a nurse who took care of the patient without having to worry about any administrative roles. In those days, an LPN could work anywhere in the hospital...
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    LPNs Working on Acute Care Floors

    HazelLPN replied to Jenna Thornton's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    What an insult to the LPN used as a unit clerk. I hope she received LPN
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    School nurses, what is the worst emergency you've had?

    HazelLPN replied to Avill's topic in School

    We had a high school student who ran in front of a car outside the school on a dark rainy morning right before school started. The school RN had just parked her car and noticed a crowd outside the...
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    What kind of LPN job should I get while in the RN program?

    HazelLPN replied to Nursing pursuit's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Find a job with tuition reimbursement! I worked for a large teaching hospital that paid for my school when I was working on my RN ( I never finished ,another
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    Med/Surg to ICU - Need Advice

    HazelLPN replied to howdyall's topic in MICU, SICU

    In my day, nearly everyone started on Med/surg before transferring to ICU. I myself started there right out of school because believe it or not...we didn't have ICUs when I graduated. Once it opened,...
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    Why are so many nurses against unions?

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

    Absolute
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    Preparing to be a NICU Nurse

    HazelLPN replied to ARuiz2015's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We need more men in nursing period! I have been retired from critical care nursing for ten years so I hope things are better now. My last job in the hospital was working contingent in the PICU and...
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    Ever forgotten to feed a baby?

    HazelLPN replied to jennylee321's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I once had a nightmare after working an evening shift where I had four feeder growers that I forgot to feed one the entire shift. It was so real and vivid that I actually called the unit in the...
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    LPN/LVN salary vs Teachers salary

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

    I have a challenge with your statement that"everyone thinks (teachers) are poor but we (LPNs) make big bucks." Considering many people laugh that LPN stands for "Lesser Paid Nurse"...I think that...
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    Your most annoying, obnoxious family member stories

    HazelLPN replied to JDZ344's topic in Nursing Humor

    One of my the weirdest family incidents occurred when I was taking care of a fairly routine s/p crain in the PICU. The mom and dad of course were very relieved I told them "we are just waiting for a...
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    Lpn told me she works ICU??

    HazelLPN replied to Runnergirl84's topic in Critical Care

    I am a retired LPN and in my day, it wasn't at all uncommon for LPNs to work in the ICU. Though its not common these days, it does still happen. The ICU from which I retired still has LPNs working....
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    Should I do a Transition to Practice in ICU or General Peds to climb my way to PICU?

    HazelLPN replied to ArizonaNurseStudent's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    You could do it either way. I worked in adult ICU for years and years before I started doing PICU. However, most of the nurses that I worked with in the PICU started out at other units at the...
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    Seasoned ICU Nurse Lacks Critical Thinking

    HazelLPN replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    The great Bette Davis, one of my favorite actresses when I was a little girl, said once "Getting old ain't for sissies!" There's nothing good about getting old once you realize that you can't do what...
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    Are some people just not cut out for ICU?

    HazelLPN replied to TigerGalLE's topic in MICU, SICU

    Doesn't sound like she was cut out for med/surg either......or any kind of nursing that
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    The Union Is Coming

    HazelLPN replied to CV_RN_ICU's topic in General Nursing

    Do you like better staffing ratios and better pay for
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    Scrubs or Clothes?

    HazelLPN replied to smudges.blips's topic in School

    Same thing I wore in the hospital. White uniform AND my
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    Too young to do school nursing?

    HazelLPN replied to grobertson10's topic in School

    I worked in a hospital for 54 years...most of that time in critical care...before I came out of retirement to became a substitute assistant school nurse. I'm not the actual school nurse....I mainly...
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    Just accepted school RN job in a huge school district!

    HazelLPN replied to EvilNurse73's topic in School

    I am also a former PICU nurse turned school nurse (although I'm only an assistant school nurse..and a substitute at that....working mainly with special needs units and medically fragile students that...
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    Are there any certifications for LPNs?

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

    I had ACLS, PALS, and NRP before I retired from critical care nursing. It is unusual for LPNs to work in critical care these days but the ones who are left earn these certifications as well as their...
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    LPNs in regards to L&D

    HazelLPN replied to ashleyv10613's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Back in my day, an LPN could work anywhere in the hospital including L&D. Back in the 1980s where I worked, there was a push for the LPNs who were working in specialty units (ER, critical care,...
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    New to High school Nursing

    HazelLPN replied to JustRNingAlong's topic in School

    I did NICU myself before I retired and then spent my final years in nursing as a substitute assistant school nurse. Many school nurses in my district it seems are former critical care and ER nurses....
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    How did you spend your first nursing paycheck?

    HazelLPN replied to NewGradRN114's topic in General Nursing

    My first paycheck was so long ago that I probably used it for something nice to decorate my log
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    The rudest thing that's ever been said to you by a patient or family

    HazelLPN replied to nikkole318's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I was told "don't touch me you old ass (insert N word) b_ _ _ h" by a high school student who had been in a fight. The regular school RN was busy with the other kid and they didn't want them together...