sweetpeanurse

I personally think nursing school is to STRESS U OUT, and SHOVE as much info they can at you for NCLEX. If you can handle the stress then you can be a nurse, and the info comes back and slaps you on the forehead after you ask the question to someone...

I work LTC, my first 3 weeks on the floor by myself, I had 3 patients die, 1 each week. I was know as Nurse of Death. The first 2 were hospice, and the third passed PE during 2 hr bed check. At first I was torn up about them but I reliezed that the...

After my confront with the DON, I was sweating the new schedule. "Here I go working all the weekends again" But I got the best schedule, not days, but no weekends. I feel bad a little bc everyone else is working 1 weekend but I should get a couple...

Scrubby-- I think that is the best advice I have heard. After confronting my DON about the favortism I have been getting alot of funny looks from individuals that get all the favortism. Mind you I have a vvveerryy long fuse and when I finally had it...

I always get report from the off-going nurse let my aids get it from the off-going aids, then my aids and I get together and do a report together bc somehow we all miss something important that didn't get pass to the next shift. No matter what I do t...

I am in agreement that the head people need to think about us lower people. I don't even carry health insurance bc the deductible is 2 months of wages that is not counting the payments every check. Then the raises are 2%. I pray that I get called ...

I am a nurse in a facility, that favortism is common. I even questioned the DON about it and she admitted it. The individual I am in question about gets OT (but we are not allowed OT), if wants to work she gets to work whatever she wants. She work...

Have made the suggestion, but who am I but a nurse that works with on a regular basis. After getting on to her for months for sleeping she had the balls today while I am giving report to the oncoming nurse falls asleep @ the computer doing her charti...

Took no offense! It is sad that the individuals need so much extra care and when you have several other patients you can't give all the "sat by their bed and wipe their nose, or even pet the families egos for them" because we have 15 others just like...

Exactly!! She was dismissed from PT after 2 weeks of this due to the fact that she was not following her plan of care. When she was longer skilled she split.

GracedRN, Physical Therapy said NO on the bed pan not her. When we refused to her toliet her every hour she went to administration. Mean to say we got out tails chewed.

Bluegeegoo2 she states she does but @ the same time she has been pregnant with twin, miscarried the next day. Heart conditions, whines about kid problems when they have 3 kids of their own and lives @ home and state takes the kids. The list goes on...

Some of the things people say!!! I had this one lady that insisted that she had to be turned or tolieted every hour. She had to use a sit-to-stand lift to get out of bed and PT refused a request to use a bedpan. She would litterally hang on the l...

I feel the pain you fellow nurses have. I work with a CNA that everytime I turn around she is a sleep. I have said something to her many times and it just isn't getting in her head that I mean business. She falls asleep standing up talking to resi...

The night shift for me is 7p-7a. 12 hours!! List of my duties get report stock med cart (never have what I need) Stock accucheck caddy pass 2000 meds help residents to bed accuchecks (about 10) insulin treatments temp control accucheck controls stoc...

I started a new job in a LTC and Rehab about a month ago. Orientation was 2 day shifts and 1 night shift. I work the night shift. At the time of orientation being over I didn't feel comfortable with what was showed to me. But I figured that I won...

susieQ I have done all of this and it is like I am not helping you. What they don't understand if you help everyone out it helps you out in the long run.

I work 2 jobs myself, one in LTC and Rehab and the other as a home health nurse. I had the home job first but wasn't getting nothing in pay and felt like I was losing what I was taught in school. So I took the second job as part-time, which should ...

Here in Kansas (Wichita), a LPN getting on @ a hospital is hard. I had no experience to speak of except for clinicals in the medical field. Try doing LTC or even home health to gain experience and then go. The hospitals that hire LPNs here you do C...

Romantic said it just right. Just remember that you won't learn everything in school. The basics is what is covered in school. You will learn more out of school then in, that has been true for me.

The CNA exam is easy!! I think it was easier than almost all my college classes tests. It is really just common sense stuff.

I felt like you throughout school myself and questioned if this was really what I wanted to do. Sometimes you have to say I can't do it all. Sometimes you have to let the house stay dirty. Plan a day or even a night that is just for you.

"p.s- Oh yeah, about the new grad who drew up 5 mls of insulin...giving her the benefit of the doubt here, maybe she was nervous? " tamsonfirst has a point!!! I know when you are @ clinical and you finally get to do something new that you get nervo...

I just finished LPN school in May taking my boards next week, and I strongly agree with the fact that we are not prepared for the "Real World of Nursing". I know I am not an RN but I know that clinical thinking was shoved down our throats by some in...

I love this thread!!! I am waiting for the approval to test letter and doing as much studing as possible. Thanks again!!!!