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  1. The dirty work?

    picurn10 replied to viablecalifornialove's topic in General Students

    I am finding that there is no glamour in nursing. I think its a noble profession because these are the hard, menial tasks that have great importance but little status. I have so much respect for CNA's...

  2. The dirty work?

    picurn10 replied to viablecalifornialove's topic in General Students

    well, so far in clinicals every day I've been there I've had to deal with poop, urine, vomit, blood, or some sort of bodily fluid. Truly if those things make you queazy and you don't think you can get...

  3. how much are you expected to know about your drugs before you pass?

    picurn10 replied to picurn10's topic in General Students

    I should also add that this nurse wouldn't let me take vitals and only let me do my assessment after she'd done

  4. Assessments - need help with terminology

    picurn10 replied to nrstdwalden's topic in General Students

    I saw barnes and noble has one in the "incredibly easy" series called "assessments made incredibly easy" and "charting made incredibly easy" We were given a little laminated card when we started our...

  5. Need help taking blood pressure

    picurn10 replied to liladybug526's topic in General Students

    I've yet to use a machine for BP in clinicals and we were taught that they are not nearly as accurate as a manual. You should always know how to get a good manual read. I also struggled when first...

  6. really scared of my pt tomorrow

    picurn10 posted a topic in General Students

    I went in this afternoon to prep/read the chart for my pt assignment for tomorrow and I'm just scared of all that's going on with the pt. She's got COPD, DM, recovering from a perforated bowel, she's...

  7. cheating classmate

    picurn10 posted a topic in General Students

    I was really disappointed to learn today that one of my classmates, one who has some of the highest grades in class is cheating Apparently numerous classmates have seen her come into exams with...

  8. To Get A Masters or NOT

    picurn10 replied to Grammel's topic in Post Graduate Students

    what about teaching? a big part of the nursing shortage is because there is a shortage of good nursing

  9. Can a graduate of 2nd semester become a LVN?

    picurn10 replied to rdm3000's topic in General Students

    could it be a clinical hours issue? In my LPN school we have 2 8hr clinicals per week, with a full 4wks of 8h/day clinicals before graduation. The RN schools around here only have 1 6h clinical per...

  10. My Year of Lpn School

    picurn10 replied to NursingLadyQuinn's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Good luck! I just passed the halfway point and I can't believe we've made it this far already, it seems like we just

  11. BSN Advice

    picurn10 replied to ElephantWoman's topic in General Students

    I have a degree in psychology and it seems like it will be a big help to me! I've already had an edge up on other classmates because Maslow and other were so familiar to me, and used in nursing all...

  12. Math Skills

    picurn10 replied to jburkeg's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    I was really stressed about the math portion of nursing. I have math phobia and for years I worried it would be a huge challenge. I just completed my med calc with a 99% and it was sooooo easy. The...

  13. Clinicals?

    picurn10 replied to Reese17's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    In my program we started out for a few weeks in a LTC facility, but the rest of the year will be in hospitals. For med surg we're at a rehab hospital, the VA, and another small hospital but then our...

  14. What can an LPN do besides LTC?

    picurn10 replied to CloudySue's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    In my city, all the hospitals except for 2 hire LPN's on all floors except ICU. I am in LPN school in order to bridge straight to RN, but I was really excited to learn about the options other than...

  15. Weekend/Night shifts only- how rare are these opportunities?

    picurn10 replied to SiennaGreen's topic in First Year After Licensure

    anyone know why it's called

  16. Scope of Practice for LPN

    picurn10 replied to anononurse's topic in General Nursing

    I'm in LPN school in the south and in my state we can do IV's, but not IV push, we can hang blood dependent on facility policy. We can't do the initial assessment or create the care plan. As far as I...

  17. can you bridge from RN to MD?

    picurn10 replied to picurn10's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for the info. I'm not really interested in that path, it seems so different from nursing and nursing (I'm halfway through LPN school) seems like a perfect fit for me so far. I am going staight...

  18. Living off loans??

    picurn10 replied to MemphisTiger's topic in General Students

    I'm a single mom and was trying to work when I first started NS. That lasted about 2mo because putting my son in daycare for 60+hrs a week was just insane. Now I don't work at all, but he's still in...

  19. need MD order for Triple Antibiotic Ointment?

    picurn10 replied to JCLVN67's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a nursing student and we weren't allowed to apply the TAO until we'd completed our meds checkoffs. It seemed silly, but it's technically a

  20. To start nursing school - or start a family? Help!

    picurn10 replied to jlauren's topic in General Nursing

    Well, as a single mom of a 4yr old trying to get through nursing school I would absolutely do school first! I was lucky in that I did all my nursing pre-req's years before I was married and ds was...

  21. I Contracted HIV

    picurn10 replied to sarahwv's topic in General Nursing

    I'm so sorry this has happened to you. I didn't read all of the replies, but I just wanted you to know that it's quite possible to have children biologically without infecting them. In fact, it's...

  22. NCLEX-RN Books... Good for anything right now?

    picurn10 replied to robm06's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    I agree that you'll likely get a NCLEX-PN review once you get your books. Honestly, I wouldn't want to start with the RN simply because on some of the practice questions, you are expected to know...

  23. Clinic Bag?

    picurn10 replied to sh1901's topic in General Students

    this is what I have: A clipboard (one of the kinds that is hard plastic and opens up to hold papers, pens, calculator, whatever...) In the clipboard I keep my notebook paper for writing assesments,...

  24. 6 Rights or 5 Rights?

    picurn10 posted a topic in General Students

    of med administration? What does your school use? I'd always heard it as the 5-rights, but we are taught it's 6-rights, the last being "right documentation" is this a new things that they are moving...

  25. Oklahoma City University-- HELP

    picurn10 replied to RhodyGirl, RN's topic in General Students

    what I've heard (I looked into going before choosing a different route) is that it's a good, but hard program. The caution I was given is that they have a high attrition rate because they accept...