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If this is true, then what do you interpret as the team nursing "legal scenario"? If an RN and LVN team have 9 patients in Surgical Acute, is the hospital out of compliance? Or is it allowable because of the term licensed (and subsequent definition...

You sound like a thorough nurse. Please do not blame LVNs only for doing poor assessments. I have worked with RNs who chart assessments on the wrong patient chart (and never notice), and who also chart WNL when they are obviously not. I won't go i...

I went to these website links and found nothing r/t LVN assignmnets. There was in the FAQ section of one a Q/A Heading regarding same, but the actual Q/A seems to have been removed. It is a very confusing business as the hospital I am at uses an R...

yes, finding out i had passed was quick. the way my school did the application process was flawed so approval to test was slow. the issuance of the license after receiving the pass letter is also variable by admission of the BVNPT office. due to b...

bambou- hey there. i'm not sure if you are from california. i am and i will speak to my experience in earning a nursing license here. choosing nursing was one of the best decisions i have ever made. the nursing program that will be best for depend...

Thanks so much for your very complete answer. What do you mean by window pane the wound?

As for waiting for results... for my class, those that heard within two weeks from the state via a letter, were those that passed. Those that waited 4-6 weeks for initial results did not pass. Getting the letter from the state.... you are asked to ...

i have been awarded the valedictorian of my class of 25 or so. i have to prepare something to address the class and guests with at graduation. i originally was going to do a very p.c. bit. lots of congrats and kudos to fellow grads and thanks to a...

i feel like i've just been HUGGED! thanks

"that the obstacles (large and small, obvious and invisible)" oh, that is a good line! you are all right about not using the speech as a tool to harm. all i had to do was think about what would make my mother proud. that made it pretty easy. i thi...

the first drug program i downloaded was epocrates. the free part is a very basic drug book. when you first download it, they provide you with advanced features that will magically disappear in 30-60 days or so. then to get the extra features, you p...

I have Tungsten E from palm. I have a 128MB expansion card too. On the expansion card I have a drug "book", a book about diagnostic tests, and a book of nursing interventions and plans. I purchased all of the books from skyscape. I chose the optio...

in cali- iv cert means blood and saline but no K. the rationale is that the K requires the RN training to recognize issues...due to cardiac, ie. possible death, effects.

am new grad lvn...hopefully heading for a coast. long way to travel to continue on for rn, but if you are gonna get stuck...got to love the coast!

i know what you mean about 5 years to get the 2 year degree. i started taking my pre-reqs at SRJC. it became clear very quickly that i would not be able to get into classes i needed. i met people in the summer biology class that had taken some cla...

it is definitely tougher to find the stuff in print about keeping LVNs aboard...if you have an lvn under you, how many patients would you be willing to take on? or do you prefer not to even delegate bedbaths, dressing changes, etc.? in your opinion ...

Having my head deep in the textbooks for the last year as an lvn student, I was believing what the dir. of nursing at the hospital and our instructor was telling us about not being able to hire lvns due to the state law. now that i try to find more ...

depends on where you are in cali. if you are in the bigger cities/urban areas there are urgent cares clinics, large hospitals, rehab centers, and the usual nursing home/doctor's office stuff. a lot of california is rural. folks don't think so from...

Hey there. I have a BA, not a BS, so I have a lot of science to take before I can get into a BSN program. One thing I discovered was that MSN is not the equivalent of a BSN. Meaning...that if you want to be a traveler and do nursing in other state...

A 2 year RN program is two years after meeting all pre-entrance requirements. At the comm college in Santa Rosa, if you already have a degree you are very low priority for signing up for classes. There are always wait lists for classes. So the pre-re...

Hey there. Both Kaiser and Sutter in Sonoma and Lake Counties (and possibly elsewhere?) are helping LVNs including lining up preceptors and paying the bridgers for one day of study time each week. The new legislation, which court rulings confirmed, s...

I see this too. When I've been preceeded in a dept rotation by other students who are "eager beavers" but do what we were specifically instructed not to do. So I am always cautious...I do want to learn, "get dirty", etc. But I won't cross a boundary ...

I would thrill to have an instructor who was confident in her instructor shoes. In my pre-nursing-student life I had to work with many young folk (I am nearly 40) who had a hard time following the work rules, uniform guidlines, etc. I am still amazed...

i can tell you that i use the NDH drug program ALL the time as a nursing student...i like it better than the other drug programs i looked at because it has nursing considerations, IV info where appropriate, and patient teaching. it keeps my brain on ...