tothepointeLVN

tothepointeLVN LVN

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  1. Forced to stay and work under mandatory evacuation?

    tothepointeLVN replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Superbowl is the BEST day to go to Disneyland or Magic Mountain FYI so thats a good holiday to

  2. Forced to stay and work under mandatory evacuation?

    tothepointeLVN replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    It's an indirect responsibility. Person A leaves to go look after their kids so that means Person B has to

  3. Forced to stay and work under mandatory evacuation?

    tothepointeLVN replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Isn't also somehow wrong to state your kids are more important than anything else. If we have to be empathic, we should be empathetic all. I mean the basic point the OP had was she felt it unfair that...

  4. Really Really Confused? How does this all happen?

    tothepointeLVN replied to JayCimone's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I didn't think the doctoral requirement had actually happened yet. I don't see as even in my big state there are very few DNP programs and the only ones in my city are for post license NP's But to the...

  5. ISU LVN to BSN program California

    tothepointeLVN replied to LadyinScrubs's topic in Indiana State University

    I'm from NZ so we didn't have much of a presence in the Vietnam War so even though I was born slightly after it was only something that came up in movies. Though if VN did mean that and then they...

  6. ISU LVN to BSN program California

    tothepointeLVN replied to LadyinScrubs's topic in Indiana State University

    I have to admit I had a little chuckle when I got the email notification and it said "after the VN war" and I'm picturing nursing caps strewn about and other VN vs RN related

  7. Am I being offered a fair pay?

    tothepointeLVN replied to AussiRN's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I will state again though that like the NZD vs the USD you can't compare the Aussie dollar to the USD dollar for dollar even though that's what the exchange rate is. The australian economy is exellent...

  8. Forced to stay and work under mandatory evacuation?

    tothepointeLVN replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Phones cloud your judgement

  9. ISU LVN to BSN program California

    tothepointeLVN replied to LadyinScrubs's topic in Indiana State University

    I remember one of instructors telling me in the early 80's in Los Angeles there was a decision made to close 1/2 the nursing schools down because there was "too many" nurses and it didn't take long...

  10. Forced to stay and work under mandatory evacuation?

    tothepointeLVN replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Take it as a compliment that I thought you were cerebral enough to float that concept

  11. ISU LVN to BSN program California

    tothepointeLVN replied to LadyinScrubs's topic in Indiana State University

    I think that poster was referring to Cal State in general which as you've pointed out doesn't accept the ISU program. For awhile a lot of the Cal States weren't accepting applications at all for...

  12. Forced to stay and work under mandatory evacuation?

    tothepointeLVN replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Do you mean question or do you seek to put my confusion to an end and return AN to a state of quietness. If so good luck with

  13. Forced to stay and work under mandatory evacuation?

    tothepointeLVN replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Well you did stop calling in after 4 months. You had effectively been fired the moment you did go in just instead they chose not to use you rather than outright fire you. The 12 months later was just...

  14. Am I being offered a fair pay?

    tothepointeLVN replied to AussiRN's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    It's not just nurses. For example my husband's company is paying its workers on average $2/hr less than a few years ago. So it's not some evil conspiracy against nurse. Weak economy = less money to go...

  15. Am I being offered a fair pay?

    tothepointeLVN replied to AussiRN's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Not sure what a fair rate for that area is but do remember that the US dollar has more buying power than the Australian dollar ( not talking about the exchange rate but the lower costs of goods here...

  16. Forced to stay and work under mandatory evacuation?

    tothepointeLVN replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Redhead that pretty much what I would have said. I hate when people try to make me feel like I'm less of a person because I haven't experienced

  17. Forced to stay and work under mandatory evacuation?

    tothepointeLVN replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I think you've misinterpreted my statement because it serves to illustrate your point. When I said "their lives" I was referring to their children. I'm sorry if you don't like this but I have felt...

  18. Forced to stay and work under mandatory evacuation?

    tothepointeLVN replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Also I think most little kids would be receptive to Santa coming early JUST for them. When I was a kid for the some reason the tree would be put up on Dec 1st and presents would arrive in shifts...

  19. Forced to stay and work under mandatory evacuation?

    tothepointeLVN replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    The problem with making a exception for those who have kids is that so many people have kids and making an exception for them implies that their lives/comfort is worth more than those who don't. It's...

  20. Pre-Nursing school immunization catastrophe!

    tothepointeLVN replied to DisneyNurseGal's topic in General Students

    Well remember it's not your school that requires it persay but the hospitals where you are doing your clinical and that want PPD and even if they accepted the other test the school couldn't make that...

  21. Should I Become a Nurse Practitioner?

    tothepointeLVN replied to RevolverOcelot's topic in General Students

    On a very light note I think the perfect job for you is a medic for the A Team however if you've watched the original series you'll while they like to shoot they are no good at actually hitting...

  22. Why do so many people fear hospice? Sorry so long...

    tothepointeLVN replied to RN2B73's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Sometimes the train of thought is for every day we refuse hospice is one more day we can pretend death is not

  23. Assisted living- what happens when patients need more care?

    tothepointeLVN replied to lexilou's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Sometimes the billing justification for me being there is "caregiver" educaion. Caregiver often being the ALF staff. Really? Like thats going to go over well and they don't have time to spend more...

  24. Assisted living- what happens when patients need more care?

    tothepointeLVN replied to lexilou's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Yup though sometimes when a patient has a primary caregiver the caregiver will over represent the patients symptoms so they can get a CC nurse to come out. The CC nurse ends up being a "sitter" while...

  25. Assisted living- what happens when patients need more care?

    tothepointeLVN replied to lexilou's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I find sometimes the ALF will promise things of hospice that hospice can't reasonable deliver like continious care for a non immnient patient for more than a few days because then it takes the onus...