Bobylon

Bobylon

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  1. Any lvn/lpn demoted or fired recently.

    Bobylon replied to melvnmenurse's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    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...

  2. Do you take daily supplements?

    Bobylon replied to Florence NightinFAIL's topic in Health, Stress Management

    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...

  3. Here are the top 5 drugs administered by allnurses.com members

    Bobylon replied to northmississippi's topic in General 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...

  4. forging initials on mar

    Bobylon replied to nursey nurse nurse's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    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...

  5. Nursing Boards: Protect the Public or Organizations?

    Bobylon replied to dlatimer's topic in Nurses 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...

  6. Foley to LIS???

    Bobylon replied to myk_RN's topic in General Nursing

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

  7. Anyone else a Biker Nurse? ;)

    Bobylon replied to NurseOnAMotorcycle's topic in Health, Stress Management

    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...

  8. Have you ever thought about quitting nursing all together?

    Bobylon replied to sasha2lady's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    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...

  9. I have a few questions for all you LPNs out there

    Bobylon replied to shannag03's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    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...

  10. What was your LPN starting salary????

    Bobylon replied to s81chubbs's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    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...

  11. Charting Bloopers

    Bobylon replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

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

  12. Quit or be fired

    Bobylon replied to mediatix8's topic in General 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

  13. What hours do you work?

    Bobylon replied to johnny depp23's topic in General 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

  14. How much does your hospital ceo make?

    Bobylon replied to vivicaq's topic in General Nursing

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

  15. Benefits of being a male nurse vs Female nurse

    Bobylon replied to girtenbt's topic in Men in Nursing

    LOL .... nor I The only "advantage" (and it's not really an advantage, per se, as I enjoy taking care of my pts) is that some little old ladies just don't want a man helping them with certain things,...

  16. Have you ever been mistaken for a doctor?

    Bobylon replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in Men in Nursing

    Why, yes.... yes I have, ........but not as often as I've been called "Miss" or Ma'am" ..... LOL .... or, "Oh, you're a MALE nurse..." Well, yeah, I'm a nurse, and I'm a male, so, yeah

  17. Who is happy and satisfied being an lpn and doesn't plan being an rn? Reasons?

    Bobylon replied to futurenurse1710's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Wow ... reading the responses, I cannot add much, if anything, important . If that's what you feel you want, go for it. At my "advanced age" (50+, been an LPN for 2 years), I'm content with my...

  18. What age will you retire?

    Bobylon replied to phlox's topic in General Nursing

    Cannot plan on an age to retire, but given the way the economy is going, it'll probably be until I take that "final taxi" ....that is, I'll likely die before I can realistically afford to

  19. Faulted by aides who want help with incontinence care

    Bobylon replied to Calliehoo's topic in General Nursing

    Can't really comment, beings that on the floor I work on and 11p-7a, there are only 2 R's and 1 to 3 L's, virtually never, ever a CNA or PCT..... we nurses do everything (unless the floor is full and...

  20. How much of a yearly increase in pay do you see?

    Bobylon replied to missie988's topic in General Nursing

    Got my first year's evaluation and "raise" a few months back .... a whopping 1.5% (hospital wide standard amount, it seems) .... better than nothing,. but.... the base pay isn't the greatest to start...

  21. watch with sweeping second hand?

    Bobylon replied to neonatalRN's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    That would be a traditional (or "old fashioned, if you will) watch with the hour hand, minute hand, and second hand on a circular dial consisting of 12 hours, 60 minutes/seconds......as opposed to a...

  22. Future of LPN?

    Bobylon replied to studentenurse's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Indeed....although perhaps that's where Mediacl Assistants come in ??? I have no idea - don't really even know what being a MA entails .... should Google it, I

  23. If you graduated between 2008 and 2009,how long did it take to find a job ?

    Bobylon replied to Back2Nursing09's topic in General Nursing

    Graduated March 28 2009 (something like that), passed NCLEX April 5-ish, started working fulltime LPN April 16 .... in all fairness, the LPN program I attended is put on by our local hospital, and (at...

  24. Hanging IV bags

    Bobylon replied to LStar's topic in General Nursing

    ^^^This^^^

  25. How long of a commute do you drive

    Bobylon replied to HyperSaurus, RN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm very spoiled - my commute is about 3 miles, maybe 5 minutes if people drive reasonably (and not drive like "oh, I remember when this was an old dirt road....we mustn't go too fast,...