Meds Queen

I have enjoyed my LPN career for the past 27 years. However, there are still doors in nursing that are closed to me. I want to work in Hospice and manage and plan the care. Now after what I call my 'detour' lol ...marriage & family..I am going back to college. Because my science's are from the late 70's that are no longer applicable. I decided against an independent study or online courses. I enjoy the interaction of a class setting. I also need the structure and accountablility for assignments and tests. In Ohio and I suspect other states the Boards of Nursing have not structured a nursing program just for LPN's. The college I chose has an Access program that takes off about 6 months...but you sit side by side with nursing students with no clinical/years of nursing experience. I just wonder why State Boards of Nursing don't see all the wonderful potential of LPN's and encourage them through special programs and financial aid packages.

white is coming back....I agree..wear underwear that is closest to your skin tone...best advice around...

No matter what we wear as colors the one thing that no one wants to admit is that patients have one recognizable symbol to count on....nursing caps. When we stopped wearing them that's when the problem of identification started. So? Should we start wearing our caps again????? Just a thought...

Back in the late 1970's when I just graduated from nursing school I was confronted with a racial issue that still bothers me today. I worked at a hospital with many Jewish physicians and nurses. We had the King of Saudi Arabia at that time in the Cleveland Clinic and his daughter went into labor. Our OB was available and she delivered her son safely. But no Jewish physician or nurse was allowed near her or son and could not work the floor either. The hospital agreed to all the demands. Everyone protested but was over ruled. They have the right to the care giver of choice. That rule applies today as well. I've seen good doctors given orders to get out of rooms good male nurse's yelled at and having to be replaced the list goes on...we can't change society how I wish we could.. No one from the Jewish organizations demanded any punishment of administration at that time. Sad.