Bobylon

Bobylon specializes in Coronary Rehab Unit.

Bobylon's Latest Activity

1. 

   Any lvn/lpn demoted or fired recently.

   Bobylon replied to melvnmenurse's topic in LPN/LVN

   Yeah, they're threatening to do this at my hospital as well, so I guess it's back to the books to get my RN and look for another LPN job to tide me over in the meantime....no matter, the hospital I work for treats all their employees as "disposable" - truthfully, I'd love to hit the Powerball and tell them what most of us there REALLY REALLY think. The RNs don't want to lose the LPNS, as we are viewed as a valuable asset to them. At least someone there appreciates us :) Administrators there are typical of most professions, really...pencil pushers who have no idea what we go through in the trenches every night, I think the only reason that my place seems to be replacing Ls by attrition, as opposed to flat out layoffs, is that they don't have enough Rs or CNAs to replace us....yet
2. 

   Do you take daily supplements?

   Bobylon replied to Florence NightinFAIL's topic in Stress 101

   Yeah, I take a handful, but always have, long before becoming a nurse. At the moment, I take a multi-v, a B+C, a D, some Calc/Mag/Zinc, a glucosamine/MSM, some fish (or flax seed) oil, Panax ginseng, and my 'script' meds (lisinopril, and Keppra). I usually eat pretty healthily (I don't eat while working.....we're the only 8 hour floor in the hospital, I work nights, and eating makes me sleepy...heh). Also, I drink yerba mate (as opposed to coffee/tea/soda/energy drinks). I feel pretty good for an old epileptic with htn...heh.
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   Here are the top 5 drugs administered by allnurses.com members

   Bobylon replied to northmississippi's topic in Nursing

   Hmmmm .... being an LPN on our cardiac rehab floor working night shift (2300 to 0700 ... only 8 hr floor in the hospital, dangit!!!), my top 5 would likely be, in no particular order: Levothyroxine Omeprazole Heparin Oxycodone Hydrocodone ..... these last 2 mostly prn, but a LOT of them. ..... never realized how many folks take thyroid meds until entering this profession...
4. 

   forging initials on mar

   Bobylon replied to nursey nurse nurse's topic in LPN/LVN

   Sounds like someone needs to be "written up," as it's called at my place of employment. If someone did that to me, I'd go straight to the bosses, get them written up..... but only so if you're certain it was that particular individual. In any case, if anyone documented something under my name/initials, I'd still go to the powers that be and tell them what went down, even if you don't know for sure who did it. That's no minor thing....... protect yourself!!!
5. 

   Nursing Boards: Protect the Public or Organizations?

   Bobylon replied to dlatimer's topic in Recovery

   Am assuming that by "nursing shortage," you mean in terms of staffing/employed nurses.... there are a LOT of nurses in this country ... the "shortage" in the workplace can only be blamed on the employer...mine included.
6. 

   Foley to LIS???

   Bobylon replied to myk_RN's topic in Nursing

   Have never heard of that or run across that on my floor. I learned something today
7. 

   Anyone else a Biker Nurse? ;)

   Bobylon replied to NurseOnAMotorcycle's topic in Stress 101

   DOH!!! And I thought this thread might be about BIcycles...LOL!!! I'd love to have a sportbike (we live in the foothills of the Smokies and not all that far from the infamous Dragon).......but I'd probably kill myself. I DO have a great love for cycling (mountainbiking esp, and a good mtb with a set of slicks works dang well on the roads as well). So...... nevermind, and carry on. Motorcycles are pretty dang cool, just feel "safer" with human powered 2 wheeled vehicles...heh. FWIW, my hospital has several dedicated parking spaces in the lot for cycles only, which is cool .... seems to be a 50/50 mix of cycles and scooters :)
8. 

   Have you ever thought about quitting nursing all together?

   Bobylon replied to sasha2lady's topic in LPN/LVN

   Have I ever thought about it??? Yup!!! Do I still ??? Regularly.... I love my floor, my patients (well, a lot of them...) and just about all of my co-workers, but the hospital's mgt and staffing leaves much to be desired... I'm tired of working with a skeleton crew with more and more "responsibilities" assigned to our short-staffed night shift. I'm about over all of it.... If we work over, we get spoken to....if we don't get everything done (no matter the patient load) we get spoken to...if we stay late off the clock to finish charting, we get spoken to....our last unit meeting, we were told to not clock out and finish tasks on the clock...which will only lead to more being spoken to, and at this point there is not enough help and too much work to finish it in our allotted hours (oh, yeah - if we get "no lunch," we have to get the house supervisor to come and physically sign the Kronos exception sheet ....easier said than done). OK, am done ranting... I do love what I do, I love the folks I work with , but there's just too much BS involved in trying to stay out of "trouble" which shouldn't be considered "trouble" in the first.... I hate pencil-pushers/bean-counters - they should walk a mile (or 10) in our shoes every night.
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   I have a few questions for all you LPNs out there

   Bobylon replied to shannag03's topic in LPN/LVN

   1. No favorite.... 2. Pharm ... the instructor was about as interesting as a corpse...she was an incredibly smart lady, just.....boring and quiet. 3. Countless... 4. 2 kids, one was 15/16 while in school, and one was 12/13 at the same time. 5. My overall experience was very positive, for my program. Of course, it helped, at the time, that our local hospital had an LPN program that had a job waiting for you when you graduated from their program.... apparently, there is no guaranteed job offer for graduates of the same program, now.... I love my job..... MOST nights...
10. 

    What was your LPN starting salary????

    Bobylon replied to s81chubbs's topic in LPN/LVN

    Depends on where you live ... places with higher cost-of-living usually pay higher wages .... not making all that much here in east TN .... but it surely beats the times I spent not working!!! And being paid hourly ain't salary - no way I'd work salary, or they'd make you work overtime a lot...... mgt is very down on even 15 minutes overtime in my facility....pretty ridiculous, beings as our "typical" week is 37.5 hours ..... would have to work 2.5 hrs over before they'd be paying OT rate.....dang penny pinchers and pencil pushers!!!
11. 

    Drug seeking patients?

    Bobylon replied to butter's topic in Safety

    I can't say much ..... at times, I feel I'm working in a pain clinic (I'm sorry, but if someone rates their pain as a 10 out of a possible 10 level, they won't be resting comfortably, sedately, and mellow. Perhaps they don't understand the concept of the PRS, or perhaps they just want their high/low...... I am not going to judge, just going to do what I can). My facility policy is if someone complains of pain, it gets documented and treated with whatever med is available to administer at that time. Someone who can't get their Dilaudid push, but can have a Vicodin will then want a Phenergan push along with the Vicodin, with absolutely no c/o nausea, which cracks me up - and ticks off the RNs. We get our share of apparent "drug seekers," but .... we're not here to judge, and if the doc has meds prescribed, then the pt gets them when available. It's not MY call...MDs are primarily responsible for the great prescription addiction problem in the US.
12. 

    Charting Bloopers

    Bobylon replied to AHarri66's topic in Humor

    Not a blooper (as it's obviously deliberate....), but we have an RN on my floor who puts smiley faces in her assessments..... LOL
13. 

    Quit or be fired

    Bobylon replied to mediatix8's topic in Nursing

    Perhaps depends on the state you work in??? Apparently you can be fired at will in some states, yet you must give 2 weeks notice if you're leaving..... what a crock.
14. 

    I think I am a Summoned Life kind of person, what are you?

    Bobylon replied to oramar's topic in Stress 101

    Can't relate to those choices..... I tend to agree with John Lennon's take on things.... "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. ... "
15. 

    What hours do you work?

    Bobylon replied to johnny depp23's topic in Nursing

    I work an old-school unit as well (8 hr shifts)...I work nights 23:00 to 07:00, 5 nights per week, every other weekend off. I don't mind it....I love my unit and my co-workers!!!
16. 

    How much does your hospital ceo make?

    Bobylon replied to vivicaq's topic in Nursing

    Not news, has been going on for years, now (decades???)..... unfortunately !!! *edited to remove volatile political content that might rile conservatives*