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21 days, should have been 8 hr shifts, but you left when the paper work was done. That was between 2 jobs and 10 yrs. age. The up side, my daughter got through collage with no student loans. :yeah:The down side, Mom was a terrer.

Are you licensed by the state BON? Contact the In. BON and ask them your question. If the BON lets you set for the test and you passed it, then any place that hires LPNs should let you work for them. If they question your schooling, they will tell yo...

Louisville Ky. has jobs. There are 10 big hospitals now,with 1 more to open this fall. 6 hospitals are part of Nortons. Look up Norton Healthcare for job info.Cost of living is not high and if you cross the Ohio river to southern In. cost of living i...

I don't live in your area, but I do have your dream job:D. I am 53 also, and a LPN. 15 years ago I trained to scrub in surgery in an in hospital program. The hospitals around here now only take scrubs from tech programs:o. I have only met 3 other LPN...

Several years ago Tyson(the chicken people) was sued bacause of this and they had to pay back multi millions. Federal court told Tyson that they had to pay employees 15 minutes to dress in the a.m. and 15 minutes in the p.m.. You can check with your ...

In Louisville, Ky. all of our hospitals use CRNAs. I work in a hospital with 14 O.R.s, plus 2 litho suites, and we have CRNAs in all rooms until 7p.m.. We also have L & D which uses CRNAs. Even the small hospital that I work at, prn, has a CRNA w...

I garden and ride my motorcycle in the fair weather. Then I make stain glass in the winter. I also make scrub hats so that I look different from everyone else in the O.R.( Then I make them for everyone else). After work I read to help unwind and I sp...

If manager is still taking your calls, they aren't "sick" of you yet. If you speak with them again just ask if it is O.K. to continue checking ( since I would love the chance to work at your hospital:D). Also ask if there is a usual time frame to get...

Years ago I told my young daughter, always wear pretty undies. That way, even if you are doing grungy things, you still feel like a girl. After nursing school and white uniforms(and white undies), I started buying undies in sets. Now even in scrubs f...

I will keep you and you husband in my prayers. I'm so sorry this happened to you. You will get through this, just remember to look to God and also to breath. Kathy

I would find my self using nursing shorthand, like the "c" with the line above, when writing notes for my daughter's school. My daughter was use to me being weird, but the teachers would have to get her to translate for them. I guess it shows how ha...

My second job as a nurse was at The Home of the Innocents in Louisville,Ky.. We had childern from birth to 21 years old. It Is a LTC, and at that time(15 yrs. ago) there were about 30 of this type of care centers in the U.S.. A lot of our childern we...

I am an LPN working in the OR. I applied to an ad that the hospital was training LPNs, RTs, ect... people with some medical training, to scrub. I also work at a small community hospital,PRN, and they have trained several cna to scrub. It all depends ...

One year ago I put a wood chisle through 2 of my finger tips. After I cried, I talked to myself for a while, then had my DH (also a nurse) look at it, then decided I had to go to the imediate care center. I was two hours getting there. They soaked i...

I'm with you. I just wait and hope all is clarified in the next reply. Be the way, I learned on another forum a wife is SWMBO ( she who must be obeyed). Somehow I think DW would be better.

As I understand it, you (everyone) have 12 weeks of FMLA each year. You do not have to take it all at once, but as needed. Such as for follow up Tx after you return to work. If you are PRN you can use it for the amount of days you are required to wor...

The standard is for the scrub to stay in the room until the pt. leaves. I will sometimes be at the door and take my case cart out as the pt. is moving towards the door. I often give the lunch breaks and our scrubs don't start their breaks until I am ...

A family friend did the DRX treatments. It took about 25 visits,but worked for her. She had back problems for years and was looking at disability. After the tx she was able to continue working for the postal service. In our O.R. we do Matrix decompre...

Years ago, as a student, on our 2nd clinical rotation one student was asked to place a foley. The other students were told to watch. All six of us circled the female pt's bed, a confused, but pleasent lady. She was placed in the "frog leg position" a...

I have a license in Indiana and Kentucky. In Indiana I can do everything except spike bags of blood, I can start it, just can't spike it. In Kentucky I can't give anything in a central line or start blood products. If you live on the state line as I ...

Ethicon has a site with free CEU and they change the offering each month. All CEU,s relate to the OR. If you can't find the site( I don't know the correct name and am not at my computer) ask your Ethicon rep.. That is how I got connected with it.

I work 3-12 hr shifts, Mon.,Tue., and Wed. so I work PRN at a small Community hospital near my home. I work surgery or ER, mainly, but have helped out where ever I'm needed. I try to work one extra day a week.

I used to work with a nurse who would pull her hair on top of her head, then place rollers in it. She would wear the surgeons cap for people with breads, turned backwards and tied at the base on her skull.At the end of the day she had GREAT hair. If ...

My biggest pet peeve is getting in the grove with my team, my room is all set, I've thought out my case, everythings good to go, then I get pulled to another case. I'm told so & so doesn't work with certain Docs, or they don't do that speciality....

It isn't real common, but I am allergic to the active ingredient in Chloraprep. It would be weird if all the ortho pts. were allergic. About 2/3 of our docs use it with no problems, that I have heard about.