snuffy19608

Well it's been a day and a half... I know, nobodys gonna drop everything to email me back, but I just sent email number 2 a few hours ago through her site and nothing yet. Anybody have a better email or even a phone number? Like I said, I don't expect the whole operation to screech to a halt, but I was raised that when you have a customer with a problem,even a small one like mine,you try to get back to them asap. Even an email saying "Dude we're really busy, get back to you in a day or so.." would let me know they got mine. Maybe part of the issue is I just got my unofficial review and now I'm chomping at the bit to start....

Anybody know how long it takes to get study guides from larends .com? Been about 2 weeks, just wondering.

If she gave you incorrect info and didn't use gloves those are concerns, but make sure of your concerns before you start your career off on a really BAD note. Do things they way you were taught or according to procedure, but also ask yourself if some of this is you being in "school" mode. I'm not saying who's right or wrong, but what happens in school has an annoying tendency to NOT be real world. And as far an LPN training you, one of our clinical sites had just removed all LPN's from the OB floor and would only let RN's work there. Except when a new RN needed trained, and one of the "removed" LPN's would get recalled to the floor to train the newbie. training over? Bye bye, you can't work here now.

You sound like me, except I have a partially paralyzed SON. We're even the same age.

TMI!! The pants they gave us in school were drawstring- but the string only went so far around and was then stapled to the pant waist. Nice suprise one night on clinicals at the old county home when the staple let go!! My wife brought a spare pair of pants to clinicals- met her out front with about 10 feet of 3" cloth tape holding my pants up under the top. Needless to say next day I bought 3 pairs of good old fashioned white scrub pants with REAL ties.

Yeah, we went through that crap too- "Oh you're in nursing school- when do you become an RN?" "Well actually I'm in an LPN program" "Oh........" . Here's the way I look at it- I went to an 18 month P/T program so I could support my family and spend time with my disabled son. They told us NOT to work F/T- I put in 64 hour shifts because we were short a couple medics. Was it hard- OH YEAH!! Did I think about quitting? Several times! Was it worth it? OH YEAH!! I'm at work right now, sitting in a room with a vent dependent baby, doing peds home care. I work with kids, which I love,and I get paid well to do it. In the morning when my patient wakes up I'll pull him out of the crib and spend time just relaxing with him on my lap. The people I work with are great, my company treats me well and did I mention I get paid to play with kids? Maybe down the road I'll go for my RN, but for now I'm happy being "just" an LPN. I'm a nurse, and I don't care what anybody else thinks about it.

I don't think I've been in a hospital that didn't have the tape and the bags. All the ambulances I've worked on use the tape/bag system also. It's just easy to use,lay the tape on the bed and grab the bag. I can understand using it just for a reference, but isn't that only using half the system?

Think about this: with the VA you might not get quite as much salary but the bennies are OUTSTANDING. In the private sector the bennies might be less but you will probably get more cash up front.

Watcha wanna know?

I'm a recent grad in S.C. Pa, the hospitals aren't hiring except Hershey and that's for the clinics. I got a job in peds homecare, good money and great work. There's a lot of openings, even got one of my clasmates to come over.

Same reason I became a paramedic- I'm too fat to be a firefighter. I went into EMS because I was always out of breath with that airpack on, and I noticed when I went to rehab the EMS crew was always near A/C, beverages and fans. HHMMM.. So I got my EMT found out I really liked it. I got my medic, been there for almost 9 years, decided to take the next step. And I'm STILL too fat to be a firefighter.

If i makes you feel any better mine shut off at 84 and I passed, and my friends stopped at 82 and she's a licensed nurse now too. You can't go buy the number of questions- and by the way, EVERYBODY thinks they failed.

I wasn't going to "touch" this one- no pun intended. But this smells of the crap we put up with on a daily basis in EMS. People have always thought of us as ambulance drivers, not trained health care providers. Like she said in the article, "somebody I never expected to touch me touched me". YES, we are going to touch you- if we are doing our jobs correctly we are going to touch you a lot and repeatedly. If you are in a car accident and I'm worried you might have internal injuries I'm going to put you on a backboard with a C-collar and blocks, strap you to that and the litter, and carry you to the truck. Once we get in there I'm going to cut your clothes- ALL of them. I need to check you from head to toe(s). I'm going to palpate your chest/flanks/back (around and sometimes including your breasts ladies) and listen to your lungs. I'm going to press down on then squeeze your pelvis to check for fractures. I'm going to check for femoral pulses- yes I'm going to stick my hand in your groin. I'm going to palpate your legs- top to bottom. Sometime during all this I'm going to have some of my cohorts help me "logroll" you and check your back/buttocks for injury. And that's just the "personal" areas. On a medical call, if you're having abdominal pain I'm going to expose and palpate your belly and auscultate for bowel sounds. If your pain is lower I'm still going to look/feel within the limits of my scope of practice. If you're having chest pain I'm going to expose your chest and palpate it first before I stick those cute little electrodes all over you. Including lifting your breast if needed for the 12 lead. And yes, there's usually 2 people on a truck. But the person driving has a mirror to see what's going on in back- and they're SUPPOSED to check every once in a while. Can they see everything? No, but if I'm noticing that my partner is taking 20 minutes to check a female patients chest or pelvic area and there's no reasonable explanation then we're gonna have a problem. I've been accused a couple times of assault/inappropriate touching- the one that springs to mind was the 30ish female who showed up at our station and accused me of assault because I had my hand on her chest and hurt her. My director asked if this might have been due to the fact that she tried to kill herself with an OD and I was sternal rubbing the crap out've her to keep her awake until we got her in the truck. :imbar Issue resolved. Do I think that none of my brethren are capable? The Chester County Pa. case was near my work. It happens unfortunately. And for the record, if the Florida medic really assaulted his patient he should've lost certain parts of his anatomy. But for every on accusation that bears merit there are many others that occur when we try to just do our job and people get upset that the "ambulance driver" touched them.:icon_roll

In the prisons I've been in (as a medic) you and the drug cart stay in a secure area and the inmates come to you. I used to respond to a state prison outside Philly, we had to be let through so many doors to get to the infirmary it wasn't funny. One guard escort in, 3 guard escort out,with the prisoner shackled and belted.

I've seen one, she works in the ED/Trauma center where I used to work. Excellent nurse, teaches at a local college, great person in general. I've never asked, but I think she's got the same mindset as the nurse you talked about.