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  1. Any Nurses Working In Florida Correctional Facilities Near Tampa??

    GARYLPN posted a topic in Correctional

    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???...

  2. Advice about being a Nurse Practitioner

    GARYLPN posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    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...

  3. Advice about being a Nurse Practitioner

    GARYLPN replied to GARYLPN's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Wow! That was very helpful Buttons! Thank you very much!

  4. What's nursing school like?

    GARYLPN replied to Doug85's topic in Male Nursing Students

    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...

  5. What's nursing school like?

    GARYLPN replied to Doug85's topic in Male Nursing Students

    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...

  6. What is the answer to this test question?

    GARYLPN replied to yeepers's topic in General Students

    I've never seen Mg unless it's related to Chemistry perhaps. It's either mg for milligram or mcg for

  7. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    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...

  8. Any Nurses Working In Florida Correctional Facilities Near Tampa??

    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...

  9. Any Nurses Working In Florida Correctional Facilities Near Tampa??

    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...

  10. Any Nurses Working In Florida Correctional Facilities Near Tampa??

    GARYLPN replied to GARYLPN's topic in Correctional

    Thanks to all for the info on Tampa! I am looking forward to the move. I'm sick of cold dreary

  11. afraid of losing my liscense

    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...

  12. afraid of losing my liscense

    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...

  13. Good LPN correctional jobs

    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...

  14. Good LPN correctional jobs

    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...

  15. Good LPN correctional jobs

    GARYLPN replied to Blackcat99's topic in Correctional

    I live in Western Maryland, small town, rain and snow and a local prison with 2200 inmate population. Lots of work there if you want

  16. Please help me

    GARYLPN replied to PMHNP10's topic in Correctional

    I've worked in correctional nursing for 2+ years and I find that inmates are foremost patients not inmates. In this country 76% of incarcerated people are non-violent offenders which means they are...

  17. Excelsior vs the classroom

    GARYLPN posted a topic in Online Distance Learning

    I wonder if anyone can help. I am an LPN currently in 3rd semester nursing (OB/PEDS & Psych). I'm doing great in Psych but treading the edge of failure in OB/PEDS. The OB/PEDS is killing me. I...

  18. PHS-Good ,Bad, Indifferent

    GARYLPN replied to r0113's topic in Correctional

    I currently work for PHS. They are in it for the bucks. Profit, profit. I asked to get something as simple as an updated drug guide, IV guide, and a current comprehensive manual on diseases and...