BayouLPN

RE: What can a LPN do in OB: This is typical of my assignments (not assuming other facilities work the same way) Labor & Delivery: Baby nurse (NRP certified) Set up warmer and equipment (suction, oxygen, scopes) Prepare eye ointment, Vit K shot,...

I am employed in a Mother/Baby unit of a Family Birth Center as an LPN. I love it. I am, as the previous poster wrote...in a small minority. I have, also, received NRP training and float to the NICU for stable babies (feeder/growers). It is hectic bu...

As a LPN in a LTC facility, I felt that I made good wages...$17.52/hr. But, I decided that I was not growing as a nurse, losing skills that I had not done since school, not to mention the personal dilemma (not sleeping, too close to my residents) Too...

My first job, and still prn, has a small dog in residence. A min-pin that showed up one day several years ago, hurt and sick. Some of the residents took a shine to him. They have him listed as a "therapy dog" with the state but he is really just the ...

NO!!!! NO!!!! I would not "work". I have worked 2 and sometime 3 jobs at a time for the past 21 years. If I won the lottery I would buy an RV and travel. I would see something of this country besides the hospitals and nursing homes. In between trips,...

And I almost forgot...I do work with mom/babies. The area I am at will hire LPN's for LDRP's but we can't Labor/Deliver. We do post-partum couplet care, undelivered's, 23 obs., ect. I can't push IV drugs or start a PCA, although I can monitor it and...

I went the LPN route. Financial obligations...how long we could hold out with one income (I'm not one of those people who can work, be a mom and go to school) I gave up nursing school years before when my son was little...I was working full-time, sch...

I originally posted that YES, I would go to work during a pandemic. I was here in LA for Hurricane Katrina. Alot of evacuees from N'orleans were here at our convention center. Then just a little later we had our own Rita...Wiped out all of the parish...

It really depends. I have worked a 10 (6a-4p) at one facility and gone to another for the 12 (7p-7a). BUT, only if I am off the next day. And twice a month is my max. Got one coming up next Monday. It must be said that I am a bit of an insomniac so i...

I didn't know it started that long ago. I have worked 6a-6p for a long time. I found it chaotic and grueling. Never enough time to get done what needs to be done. Now I work nights 7p-7a or 11p-7a. I like it so much better. Nights are not less busy....

HI...not a travel nurse here but work in a family birth center. We use traveler's alot. I have enjoyed working with most of them. I don't know much about their pay ect. except what they have told me and of course they did not disclose their actual ra...

OK Blue...I am not going to be hard on you. While I have not had to quit to get a point across (like I said my LTC has a great DON/owner), I have several classmates who have had to do just what you did. My best friend quit her facility three (3) time...

I don't know if you saw my post or not...I did mention him once...I am a female poking around on the guys site by the way. I felt that the character was played to be a "Good male nurse". Esp. when he has to defend himself to the girl's neurotic fathe...

I am LPN, but If I had a master's I would Go RN all the way. You probably already have many of the pre-req under your belt. And because nursing involves so much psych and counseling, you would undoubtably make an excellent nurse. I gave up nursing sc...

If I were younger, I would have gone the RN route. They have much more possibilities in the nursing world and especially in the OB dept. My facility trains almost all nurses on how to scrub just in case of a crash and one of the few LPN's are not the...

Good Luck...The facility I do prn at is the ONLY facility I will do PRN at. Because of all the politics you just mentioned. Even at the FBC where I am now...I am one of the red-headed step-children and red-headed to boot. hehe. Right now, day shift t...

I am a Jack of all Trades, Master of None as my father so endearingly named me. At the age of 8, I began to cook and make up my own recipes. At 17, I started working at Arby's. Upon graduation from high school, I was offered a managment position in a...

I am a little late on this thread...but I had a few quick thoughts for you. Sooooo glad everything worked out for you. I am always scared of making a mistake that will land me in the bread line and if anyone can make a mistake it will be me. However,...

Hi Baseball 33. I am LPN who does scrub for c-sections. I love it. I don't understand why RN's aren't used more because scrub is very intense and must be done with strict sterile procedure. But, you get into the "guts of the matter" with the dr. LPN'...

I work with Mom/Baby. As an LPN, I cannot Labor/Deliver a mom. I am however certified NRP, am in the room while delivery is taking place, take the baby and do resuccitation, eye ointment, vit K shot, footprints, tags, first vitals, ect. So, I will tr...

Bluegeegoo2, I have read many of your posts over the past several months and have thought..she is a good person. I still do. You are going through what almost every new nurse goes through. Nursing in real life is NOT what we imagined it to be. It is ...

Critical thinking is just thinking further than the first thing that comes to mind. It is not dismissing a simple symptom as one thing without thinking about the other possibilities. For ex...59 y/o ltc pt c chronic pain d/t back & hip injury man...

you are so right. i don't thing they should do it, just don't let it bother me anymore. and when they call themselves that outside of work, it can cause confusion. for instance, when i was new to the facility...someone called for "ann". i knew the nu...

Not wanting a fight here, but, I have been talking with some of the new RN graduates that I work with. We compared notes. Seems that the NCLEXRN and the NCLEXPN was not a great deal different. Both had very similar questions and both was very hard. I...

Initially, at my first job, (LTC) I was upset that the cna's referred to themselves as "nurses". I told several residents..."NO, I am your nurse, she is your aide" UNTIL, I realized that my residents didn't really care. They knew who was the "nurse"....