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Stupid question - how do you pronounce your name? It sounds so pretty.

OMG! I thought the idea of opening a daycare for sick kids was just my idea! I was going to research it for this area, but now that you are talking about horrible insurance costs, I think I'm going to forget that brainchild! Thanks!

I'm sorry, are you a nurse? Or just a "consumer." If you are just a consumer you have no idea how illiterate some foreign doctors are. I also did medical transcription before becoming a nurse and on one tape, I just had to pass. I could NOT under...

Now that is a truly great post! I particulary like the last one!

What point? The only thing a patient's family wants a nurse to do is wipe the patient's bottom anyway. Or boost them in bed/Get them a pain pill/ Fill the water jug/Crank up or down the head of bed. All which can be done by staff other than nurses...

Yep, you said it all except for the patient insisting they can't apply their own hemmorhoid cream!

Hon, I guess you are a foreign nurse. ALL nurses on ALL levels require not only an education, but licensure. I had a license as a cosmetologist which meant I passed a written and a practical exam. When I passed, I became professional vs someone do...

Yes, I have noticed that also, but not as much as foreign MDs and their discharge summaries! Ever read any of those nightmares? Wrong subject, wrong verb, run-on sentances, and so on. We used to laugh about them in the nursing home where I worked!...

I think you meant to say they ARE feigning education they do not have. Well, if an LPN is not a professional, I guess we can safely extrapolate that they aren't professional. Oh Lawdy, don't let an unprofessional nurse touch me, Oh Lawdy! I was lo...

Ha, :rotfl: a zipper or a velcro flap!

Hmm, you say "we have worked out the scoring so that we know exactly what answers we are expecting and then score the candidate on their answers." Are these subjective nursing questions? Meaning, while you may do vitals first, someone else may not....

Hey Fiesty! You sound like a totally cool nurse. I think you have hit the nail on the head also. Can you answer just one question for me? How do megahospitals get around Board of Nursing rules? Thanks.

Ha! I read your posting with amusement, even though I thoroughly agree with your words! Our local county health department had an ad in the paper for a Public Health Nurse I for nearly a year. I applied, as well as a friend of mine who also holds ...

We have two major men's prisons in this area and LPNs do most of the grunt type of work. However, med techs are crawling all over other facilities. And in facilities such as residential homes, independent living and other non-skilled nursing homes,...

Here we go again! Nurses ratting out other nurses! God, stop this madness! I really don't have any opinion about someone calling themselves whatever they want as long as they can walk the walk. Licensed Practical means exactly what? Practically ...

It's about time! Management has to understand that nurses aren't their enemies. Nurses hold more power than they realize. Isn't one of our responsiblities as a nurse making sure the patient is safe? How can he or she be safe with the ratio is 1:7...

Probably because the state board of nursing there did not care, they just wanted their money. Shoot, they could have called themselves, lovely princess nurses and the BON wouldn't care! :rotfl:

Well, I believe there will come a time when EVERY nurse will be required to have a PhD to provide even minimal incontinent care. That is as it should be? It would end the fighting over whether an ADN, RN, BSN or PhD is more prestigious and who has ...

Oh, absolutely! SAS are the best nursing shoes! I buy them at my local uniform shop but probably any uniform shop can order them for you. Mind you, they are quite expensive, but not as much as Birkenstock! :rotfl: Are you of normal weight? Beca...

If I had it to do all over again, I would definitely go for the LPN. One year, and you are out and working. Instead of taking four years and tens of thousands of dollars, not to mention four years out of the work force - I would NEVER do that again...

Dear Fellow Nurse, On some of your issues, I could not agree more. I do not know who thought of the ADN program, but if you will think for a moment, just WHO said it was a good idea? YOUR State Board of Nursing. I have to laugh, however, having re...

I read with dismay your posting. You were lamenting making $12/hr as a new LPN? I started working at the local megahospital chain here in NC as a new RN/BSN/BA for $15.23/hr. At the time our rent was $475 for a 1.5 bedroom college apartment. Ther...

Hey Miranda! I don't think you are alone in wondering what the heck you must have been thinking. I also fell for that ridiculous degree nonsense. I already held a B.A., which got me nothing at all and I really wanted to just go to school one year ...

Yes, I just quit a job as a home health admissions nurse due to the horrific amount of driving it entailed. I live in eastern NC, which we call East Carolina, and 100 miles is right around the corner. I am from Ohio and 100 miles would be two state...

Just quit a job as an admissions nurse for a home health agency. Although my job technically paid an hourly wage, anything after 8 hours suddenly became "salary." I was paid a miserable amount of fuel reimbursement. What was the worst, is that in ...