Smokey9283

There is nothing wrong with doing your LPN first then obtaining you RN. The benefit is you gain nursing knowledge and experience while you are working towards your RN. And you can take a little longer to get your RN too. Why would I want to take a...

I think that a good nurse manager needs to have at least 10 years experience in med/surg staff nursing. Nurses that go straight into management after school tend to not have a realistic appreciation of what it's like to work in the trenches. You al...

Lots of work, not enough people, but rewarding and at the end of the day I love feeling like I earned my money and helped someone. Some of the posters say that they don't get to take their breaks. Well here is the deal, studies have shown that peop...

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LPN's can do a lot more than a CNA can, They can do head to toe systems exam, then can insert foleys and tell you why they are inserting the foley and why it's a sterile procedure, they take orders from doctors, they go to nursing theory classes, pha...

Nothing makes me angrier than EMS coming into my LTC facility and telling me that how I'm doing my job is wrong. One incident I had was when a Paramedic came in after I called 911 because I had a resident acting unusual, slurred speech, increased an...

The Urgent Care that I work at is attached to the ER and we have problems as well. The triage nurses will sometimes triage a patient to Urgent care because they refuse to go to ER even if the triage nurse feels that they are more appropriate for ER....

My wife is undergoing a partial pancreatectomy. The MD is unsure if they will be doing the Whipple, Mesopancreatectomy, or Distal pancreatectomy. My question is, Have any nurses on this forum seen a good outcome with the Whipple, I really would li...

FYI:THIS IS NOT REQUEST FOR ADVISE!!! My wife has already made the decision that this surgery is going to happen.

Ditto: it is every nurses and nursing staff's responsibility to perform all basic nursing care.

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When any nurse in the ER sees "Breathing problem" or "Difficulty breathing" they tend to react pretty quickly. So I truely believe that if those had been the chief complaints that service would have been faster. Additionally in those complaints Br...

The "potential" is always there.

No one is perfect 100% of the time. The point of triage is to visualize your patients during the time of assessment. The system certainly isn't perfect either. When the triage nurse needs to see 20 patients it's not always easy to determine the fi...

As an LPN I know that I take my direction from the RN. Regarding not knowing what is going on with a patient, it is the opposite in our hospital. The LPN's float the floor and do various tasks for each RN ie, hand IVPB, dressing change, insert IV, ...

I think that the triage nurse did a good job. She listened to you when you spoke up about your son's condition, and did everything she should have done after assessing him. She doesn't need to actually see the sternal retractions to know that he wa...

This will definately warrant a call to the BON. You will probably have to withstand a hearing as to whether or not you are granted a license. I also wouldn't be so quick to think that you will not have any difficulty finding a job. Most nursing jo...

In the Rural Hospital that I work at, there are 4 CCU beds. The nurses that work there don't have a HUC for support either. The CCU is located right in the middle of the Med/Surg Floor, so the NA/R's and LPN's float into that area to help the CCU n...

I think you need to re-evaluate what it means to be a nurse. I would think with a care load of 6-8 patient's per 1 LPN and 1 RN could be divided so that neither nurse feels like they are being taken advantage of. You accepted that fact that you wil...

I don't think that the concern is so much infection spreading in the air, as micro organisms accumulating and multipying in he water tank. Remember, bacteria like warm, moist, dark areas. If LTC facilities or hospitals allowed these machines into t...

You should have a MAR with you anytime you are pulling medication out for a patient. That is the only way you can verify the five rights for each medication.

The role/s of nurses in todays world are many. We are patient advocates, we are educators, we are a shoulder to cry on, we are the bearer of loads for patients. There are really so many aspects of nursing that exist, it is difficult to narrow it do...

I was taught to never recap a dirty needle using any method, under any circumstances. I hope that everything turns out for the best. Good luck.

Once I had a resident that actually died in her wheel chair, pulsless, bp-less and breathless. We transferred her into her bed and she came back. She is still alive 3 years later.

Loved it. They have a very high boards passing rate. They were all so friendly. It was great!