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If you don't have any prior experience in the health field, especially in the hospital or nursing home scene, the LVN or LPN is a much better place to start to get your feet wet. Which is not what I wanted to do, but NO, my husband said, "if you are...

You darn its not typical! The problem is not a single coworker will back you even if you are right. When you follow another nurse, you are taking on her problems too, no matter what you are responsible for everything, even the CNAs that work under yo...

I already have my LPN license, but I quit working as a nurse just because I got so tired of the hassle coming on shift and things were not done right by the prior nurse, such as admitting a pt as not amitting a pt as a diabetic, and I was bolus feedi...

Sorry to hear so many of you nurses think that in your 40s & 50s is old! I have been thinking about going back to work myself and I am 57 in Sept. so what? I am probably in better shape physically than most of the overweight 20- whatever age. I...

This was the reason I quit nursing although I do wish I had kept up my skills now due to my husband's business doing so poorly we could use the money. I just got tired of not being able to Just Go To Work and do my job without having to fix a proble...

I am a LPN, but its a nursing test too! Anyway, I asked my sister, who at the time as a teacher, both are state tests, and asked her if she had any advice before I took my boards...this makes all the sense in the world....as she told me "one answer...

This is exactly what I thought! I would not. I refused stimulation on a para once. Being untrained at this, you could damage the rectum or he could code on you because you are stimulating the vagus nerve which goes to the heart. And hemmorhoids ...

Totally agree with the New Balance shoes. Just get them all white and they look and FEEL great too. Oh yes, don't forgot the ensoles and they really work to you comfy. You can't go wrong!

Whatever you buy, don't go cheap. You will only end up throwing them away in a couple of months. Your feet deserve the best. They are going to work hard for you. Get someone with support. I always liked running shoes because I have a high arch. ...

After all most comments made were negative comments such as "you will never pass A&P", but I did. I also heard, "I don't trust you giving out meds." This comment was made by the Head of Nursing program at the community college I attended who had ...

I have to hand it to you nurses who hang in there. The whole thing of having to fight/take up for yourself got so tiresome and I could not see the point of even trying to stay with nursing, so I quit! I followed nurses from the prior shift only to f...

Wow! I wish I had written this a long time ago, Thank you all! This proves that education is never a waste of time or effort.

Thank you so much for your kind responses!

I also thought this way! I kept my mouth shut and went along to get along. I thought things were like that because I was new and its something all newbys have to do. But no matter what I did, it was really hopeless. I can truely look back now, 20...

Very nice for you. You had the guts and the knowledge to know where to turn to. I went to the floor supervisor after being so picked on because I could not understand why these 2 head nurses just seemed to have it in for me. That did not work either....

I just think your charting could use a little help. I was taught to report those things that the pt didn't come in with. Ex. Foley catheter, IV fluids. etc. I once heard a doctor remark when reading a pt's chart, "don't give me a creative writing pap...

I guess you could buy an autoclave! Just kidding. I always washed mine, which are all white, in warm water and some bleach as bleach kills most everything. Most germs can't live once introduced to air, dryness, and cold. And take your shoes off ou...

How do any of these facts have to do with "mean nurses?"

Perhaps you should try agency nursing. There are always jobs for these nurses. I used to be one and I just loved it! If I didn't like the place they sent me, I simply would not go back. At least this would get your feet wet again and believe they are...

There is also agency nurse work. I had never worked as a pool nurse and like you I had a difficult time dealing with the hospital staff. A friend recommended agency work and I loved it! Yes you do go from place to place, but if for any reason you d...

That's why I don't nurse anymore!

Go to a nursing home with a subacute floor, it's a great way to get back into the swing of things. I learned a lot!

Its not what I think that matters, its what needlessly happened to me. I do think you are right about one thing, bad things seem to follow certain people like myself. I think I have gullable written on my forehead. I am talkative and a lot of people ...

OMG! I would love to have your job!!!! Don't give it up...STAY THERE! I have worked in the hospital, what a joke! Everyone belongs to a click...so childish. I have worked as an agency nurse and loved it! Yes, its nursing homes, but I guess other...

As an LPN myself, my 1st job was in a hospital. I will admit it gave lots of experience I would have never otherwise have learned, but I also got fired from that job after only a year! I think it was a set-up and I have other nurses opinion to prov...