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What types of jobs can I get in this area? I had hoped to do hospital work for the benefits/shift options/advancement opportunities (want to go on for my RN) but it doesnt seem like there are any hospitals using LPNs anymore. I would like to avoid ...

As an offshoot to the News article about nursing education, an opinion was brought to the board that LPNs are not adequately prepared to care for patients, and that their education is not strenuous like an RN program is. Having been in the field for...

I work in a clinic setting, so I'm sure its a bit different, but my docs hate to read drawn out entries, so I stick to the absolute minimum necessary. I was taught in nursing school to just write the facts, and the less I add to that the better. Th...

There is a difference between dialysis and transplants. If there were people standing in line waiting for dialysis and unable to get it because of abusers, it obviously makes sense to have a criteria of the perosn who most likely gets the benefit of...

I dont know about the charge, but at my clinic, we always call 911 if we feel the patient needs it, regardless of if they want it. We dont even mention that on the phone, because for liability reasons we need to cover our tails. If we call, they co...

"I am not spending my tax dollars on..." OMG ugh!!!!! I think its horrendous that we can discuss life and death using money as a reason to let people die. It truly makes me sick to my stomach. Now I am not saying that there are not situations whe...

To be perfectly honest, I think the white nursing uniform is beautiful and incredibly symbolic of what a nurse is. (female only of course, lol) I would love to wear a white scrub dress, cute little nurse hat, shoes with a little bit of a heel..... ...

I dont personally have a problem with bed bugs, but I can tell you its going around the east coast and its in SC.

I skipped the 500 pages of this thread... but since this was a response to my post... When I am a patient I AM NOT A CHILD!!! If a woman goes in to labor and goes into the hospital, the doc wants an epidural, pitocin, NPO. So would you say that if...

I work for a medical clinic, the only difference perhaps being that we get grants to care for the homeless at one of our clinics (but not all 4 for the most part) so that may factor in to the sheer amount of paperwork. Each doctor generally has 2 nur...

I got my LPN and graduated last August. My plan was to go right into a LPN-RN bridge program from there, and get a job that worked around that. I ended up taking the first job I could, 8:30-5:30 m-f which pretty much nixed it for me. I figured I'd...

I work in community health, which is similar to public health. Our services are free to the majority of our patients, we do free paps, mammograms, general care, STD/HIV testing/counseling, along with general care. I cant imagine being here, with th...

delivering a healthy baby is cake... Its more about staying out of the way. The human body is amazing that way. Thats a big difference from taking care of very sick babies in the NICU with wires and resuscitation and meds and random crashes. IMO t...

"not interested in helping themselves" Nice way to think about patients. sigh This is why I don't work in a hospital, and am terrified of being there. Patient rights are trampled, and to not agree with or abide by one choice means you are "not int...

I've dated in the workplace often, before I became a nurse. Its complicated, and it becomes way more complicated if it doesn't work out between you. If you are far enough away that you don't have to deal with eachother if the situation goes south i...

This is a really scary concept. So what happens when suddenly someone is accused of stealing the meds? they were signed for, but there is no proof they were given to a patient and nobody can find them.... Would be very hard to protect yourself fro...

I was offered a per diem job about 2 weeks in to my job search. I took it, and got almost 40 hrs a week from it, and ended up with a full time job offer about 7 months later. Now that I'm "full time" I get more time off than I did as per diem, lol....

I love PRN work. There is something about the freedom of being able to pick and chose shifts that makes it feel less like "work". I went full time a few months ago and was the first person to get the call asking if I wanted the job, because I had m...

"until we RN's fix it" Good luck with that "RNs". Might get a little further if you are inclusive instead of exclusive. There are many who work in the medical field, and RNs, LPNs, med techs etc need to be on the same team for change just as much...

I am a nurse who is passionate. I cry over my patients, I go beyond what my 'job' dictates a lot, and I feel like my purpose on this planet was found the day I walked in the door there. That doesn't mean I havent had shifts where I literally RAN ou...

Not sitting at a desk? lol what kind of nursing do YOU do? I am in paperwork up to my eyeballs and then some. Just because you are a nurse doesnt mean there's no desk involved. I do patient care, but my dellusions of being Florence Nightingale, ...

I go home and listen to my husband yell at our kids, slam pots and pans around and try to take over parenting until bedtime. Not the greatest thing to come home to but eh... speaking of which there he goes again. sigh I always blare music otw home...

I'm 'just' an LPN but I work at a homeless clinic with LPNs and RNs. My job is amazing, incredibly rewarding, 9-5, and can be all patient care or all paperwork or somewhere in between depending on the exact position and needs on that day. I dont be...

I could have written this first post. My job is the job that I would have written for myself, if I had a "what will I be when I grow up" essay. Its ideal. There are some issues, but much less than what many other people have to put up with, and th...

Holy judgemental thread! geez, lol I don't work in a hospital. I would never, could never, I don't think. I had my children at home, because I feel that strongly about it being safer than submitting myself and my newborns to the medical system. do...