Gr8Dane

It comes with experience. 5 days orientation for a brand new LPN is low considering most LPN schools do not teach much more then the basics Basically ask coworkers, if there are none around reconsider that facility if you are by yourself or with other new nurses. The issue at hand is if you start calling frivolous lab results to doctors they will come down on you. but it's a double edged sword, should you neglect to call a result which may not seem like a big deal to you to a zealous doc it will cutya. I started as a brand new LPN on an acute med/surg floor but I got 3 months of orientation which helped. It took me about a year to learn what I needed to know. You learn with time what is a big deal and what isn't. This goes beyond labs to patient conditions/status changes, what needs to be reported immediately vs. what can be reported to the MD/PA when they come in. Basically experience but if you don't feel safe working at that facility find something else or let them know. It's your license as everyone says and if you loose that nursing will be closed to you.

Central Florida has one of the highest unemployment rates in Florida/US. There were hospitals laying off nurses in the Villages/Ocala area last I heard. You will find bias towards LPN's especially in hospitals. Remember you are a new grad LPN with no experience, to train you to work in a hospital is a costly/timely deal. And hospital payrates on LPN's are low, as such many LPN's finish their orientation and then leave as they can't afford to do it I live in Central Florida on the gulf coast and my hospital which employs over 2,000 (400ish nurses I think), out of that less than 30 are LPN's. I think we have 1 opening which they may or not fill for a LPN. Your best bet is a ALF or pref a SNF for better experience. Gotta hit that 1 year gap no matter what for experience. Your clinical rotations do not count as experience. Part of your education.

I personally have no problems with my homosexual coworkers, they are damn entertaining especially with the patients And a lot of the time combative patients for whatever reason REQUIRE a stern "macho" attitude from male and female workers even. Can't difuse every case with soft kind words. Beyond the fact in the real world we simply do not have the time. I am not saying it's ok to be abusive but sometimes a tough approach works out for all involved.

There are many different personality types. You might be calm and able to difuse some situations as a result of being calm. Others might be agressive and as such can difuse situations by taking a patient down. Both are needed in a good ER. I try to avoid working there unless I must and I am the latter. Calm most of the time but agressive when needed.

Perhaps the ER is not for you

I have had several cases recently where patients have added me as a friend on facebook. I never add anyone I don't know but I realized on several of the occasions that they were patients I had recently. I declined each one of course. Anyone else have this problem?

Yet hospital does nothing, doesn't even look into it. 10 of us sick, same symptoms for several weeks now, several now have pneumonia from it. You'd think the health nurse or management would see why so many are calling in ;0 Other then to simply scold them for calling in sick lol...

Florida seems to have too many nurses. I work for a local hospital as well as an agency, and my hours are being cut at both jobs for low census and nurse overload at the agency. A friend of mine just got an assignment in California but she said they put her on a two week haitus until she is needed, basically just paying for her to stay in a hotel and a lil bit of money to spend. Beyond that I don't know, it is a sad state of affair in Florida right now in my opinion. There are jobs but they are not popping up real fast atm.

When I went from CNA to LPN it was a huge difference, and when I started working at a hospital that was a HUGE difference from what I learned in school. So I would hope this is not true without superb clinical experience for the challengers.

Also look at it from that nurses perspect, she was prob very busy and thought you understood the PCA was out (a mistake easily made) however it made more work and took her from getting caught up that much longer. Really the nursing instructors need to be a liason and decide what you should report to the staff or to leave them be.

They were actually cool about it. Didn't want me to quit the agency but took me off the assignment at the prison. The office manager in another city was suppose to call but didn't, but I am not going to make anything of it. We will see if they find another assignment. If not o well.

C-Dif isn't resistant to alcohol, it is just protected from it. It is a sporoform, thus has a hard shell. You can either use sopa & water, create a GOOD lather all over, then rince it off, or, bleach lol Which disolves the shell.

About to call and talk to them, will post the end results. I have tried to find other assignments with them but as I said they just shrug questions off. Only thing I can come up with is each office controls certain assignments in the area and they get profits from it, so they don't want to lose any nurses to other offices.

I just got the agency job PRN for some extra cash, and it did pay very well. But I work full time at a hospital now for 5 years and it is secure work. Pay sucks but secure and it doesn't bother me like the prison does Thank yuo for the advice!

While two weeks would be professional I am looking more short term of...todays notice lol