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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" ...

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). ...

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 ..... the...

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...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ov...

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 sa...

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 o...

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

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.

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!!!

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

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, which is fine - I can respect that, and all. I'm...

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 ...

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 position... the $$$ is OK, I enjoy the patient interact...

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 retire...

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 acuity is through the roof, we MIGHT get a CNA.......

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 with.

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 watch with a digital readout. Our school required ...

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 guess...

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 that time) they paid for your schooling and offer...

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