I am finishing up my RN degree, have an active LPN license with 5+ years experience in nursing. Any advice from anyone on becoming a NP? Any good on line RSN-MSN programs with a NP option? Also I'm...
MJ, Enjoying travel combined with patient care is ok! I would like to also comment about your previous post about that fact that you're black and how that would affect patient care. I doubt it. I know...
Hey Doug, nursing school is both horrible and great. The exams are like no other you'll have in college, you study until you almost wanna vomit, but on the good side if you like helping people less...
GARYLPN replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor
MY most disgusting incident: I was bent over a guy on a vent. He pulled the tube out and all of his mucus and fluid sprayed out into my face. I was momentarily a walking snot ball. One other nurse in...
GARYLPN replied to GARYLPN's topic in Correctional
Hi Blackcat, Actually in a lot of ways it's absurd to think of giving an inmate a backrub although I would certainly give an elderly dying inmate confined to the bed a backrub. The younger healthy...
GARYLPN replied to GARYLPN's topic in Correctional
Hi Blackcat, I've been working in corrections for a number of years and have yet to give another man a massage, however, if I were an LPN in a nursing home and a sickly geriatric male patient asked...
GARYLPN replied to nursecatnfl's topic in Correctional
Where I work if the inmate c/o of chest pain they might question him a little more and if he admits that it isn't really chest pain the RN may decide to omit the ekg. If he insists it's chest pain the...
GARYLPN replied to nursecatnfl's topic in Correctional
First of all I would not put my license in harms way over another nurse. I'm an LPN but no RN anywhere would ever tell me to do something that I feel will put my license on the line. A nurse should...
Are there any nurses on this discussion board in working in correctional facilities near Tampa, FL? I applied for my license in FL and want to relocate in or around Tampa. Anyone from that area???...
GARYLPN replied to Blackcat99's topic in Correctional
Sorry Aurora, I apparantly misunderstood your remark. I apologize for that. I agree with your comment totally. And insofar as bad nurses I've seen a few in my day and you're right they are the ones...
GARYLPN replied to Blackcat99's topic in Correctional
I do quality nursing care whether it be on "inmates" or patients in a nursing home or hospital. If I can't give quality care to "inmates" I'm going to get out of nursing and drive a truck. 76% of...