HazelLPN LPN

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 states where they do not. Texas is a state where they d...

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 nurse, a teacher with a PhD and 20 years of experience...

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 ...and we all trained in the hospital. These days, ...

What an insult to the LPN used as a unit clerk. I hope she received LPN pay.

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 school and she knew something had happened. She sent...

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 story).

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, I transferred to work down there within months. It...

Absolute nonsense.

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 would float to NICU as needed. We had a 45 bed NICU...

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 middle of the night to make sure I didn't make any mis...

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 your assessment that everyone thinks that LPNs make ...

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 bed upstairs...he doesn't need ICU anymore." The ...

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. Most of these places that use LPNs in the ICU are st...

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 Childrens' hospital.....infectious disease, hem/onc, ER, N...

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 you used to do as well as you used to do it. You ...

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

Do you like better staffing ratios and better pay for nurses?

Same thing I wore in the hospital. White uniform AND my cap....proudly.

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 work with medically fragile or special needs student...

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 the regular school RN wouldn't have time to manage...

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 RN colleagues. However, one must still follow the L...

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, L&D) to go get their RN and the hospital offere...

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. Your NICU experience will be great for the amount...

My first paycheck was so long ago that I probably used it for something nice to decorate my log cabin.

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 so I had this kid in a conference room just off th...