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Never use a metal nail file as a tool for bowel impaction..(OUCH!) ALWAYS pay your prostitute. ALWAYS. "Chocolate" on the hands is never chocolate.

Sometimes I think we forget to mention the obvious to someone who hasn't worked in awhile. After a nice, long, week and a half away from work, I returned and of course had new patients. One in paticular had a brass sense of humor. All I got in report was he was a mod assist. I had just taken him off of a bedpan, and warned him that the wipes were going to be cold. He responded by telling me I could stick my thumb "somewhere" and he would be thrilled if he could feel it... It took me a minute to realize he was a para. Thank goodness it was night---my face was glowing red in embarrassment. I apologized quietly and went to the nurses station to read his chart....where I could still hear his laughter...I'm so grateful he had a sense of humor about it...I was MORTIFIED!:imbar

In my facility, you are paid the same payrate regardless of what your status is, unless you charge. So an LPN would be making his/her regular LPN salary while working as a CNA...if a CNA is pulled to sit, they make CNA wages, etc... I am assuming this is part of the reason we are no longer hiring LPNs. I agree that it would pay to do CNA work and be paid as an LPN, but this seems to be the case ONLY for the LPNs that are already hired...I don't think they will be hiring on LPNs when they could just be hiring techs and pay less...

I work in TBI and SCI, so needless to say I have my share of confused patients. Add nightshift to the mix and things really heat up! I asked a lady who sent her the flowers, and she said, "My husband and his wife". I had a guy who thought his closet was a fridge full of pizza coupons, and we had to hurry before they ran out of pizza. How about the guy that thought his urinal was full of coffee? You can imagine how that played out! We had one that thought they were part of the staff, and would try to access the med room to pass meds. He would wander and try to give peas to patients....I guess he thought they were meds! What topped it off was we had a CNA that had been peed on that day, so she had changed into a gown and drawstring pants. The other patients were moreso confused when two "patients" would enter their rooms and try to work! hahaha!

Hi everyone. I was wondering, if you currently work for a hospital, if yours is phasing out LPNs? Mine is. Every week there are new restrictions, and many days they are pulled down to "tech" (CNA work). I am a CNA, and wanted to go to LPN school first, and then RN...but now I am wondering if there would be a job for me as an LPN! Is this solitary to my facility, or are other places doing this as well? Any insight you have would be appriciated!