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I put it in for a search on google, and the only place it could be found is right here, they suggested diaphoretic, could he have been asking if you were sweating? Next time I would suggest you just ask at the time. Good luck...

Benefits are worth their weight in gold. You are looking at a job that you want. Your salary will go up, but even if it doesn't I bet you get at least double time and a half for holidays worked, meaning time and a half for working the day, and another day off. I retired after thirty five years and have a great retirement, take option 1. I don't know what your living situation is, but is the $23 more than you have been living on? My mother worked for the state, and she had the best insurance available. Are you unionized? I hope so. It really gives you a lot of job security. I paid almost $800 for COBRA for health insurance until I was 65. I don't know what state you are in, but those benefits are definitely worth more than you friends are getting in the salary difference. Go for it...it is the job you always wanted. Best of luck, let us know what you decide.

Honestly I don't understand why you would be nervous about anyone but your current manager being upset by you applying to two other departments. Obviously you want out of your current position. Assuming all things are equal, salary, shift preference, etc. you just need to decide which job you want. I would think about it this way, unless there is a seniority policy at your hospital, they have the choice of offering you the position, or interviewing more applicants. Were you offered t he job in MICU? Until you are facing the choice of both, I wouldn't think that you had to tell them. I hope you get the one that will make you happiest. I retired from the ED a year ago. I thought I had the best job in America, I hope whichever you choose, you feel that way too. Good luck. Let us know which you chose.

I've been retired after 35 years at my local hospital, working as an LPN. I graduated from nursing school in 1976. I had been accepted into three RN programs, one a hospital school, the others Associate degree programs. I choose to be an LPN because I wanted to do direct patient care, and I did, and I loved every minute of it, well, most of them anyway. The RNs I worked with were for the most part just fine, especially after we had worked together for a while. I think we just had to develop a trust, and then things worked. The letters after your name do matter, but the care we give doesn't come from there, it comes from your heart. Make no mistake, LPNs are often looked down on be peers and patients, but if you are doing what you love, and doing it well, in most cases. If not, pack up and move on. There is someplace that is just waiting for your talent.

I'm appalled by the apathy that most or the responders are showing. I've been a nurse to nearly 40 years. When we can't do the work that our patients need it is frustrating. To tell a young nurse, that's the way it is, get used to it....which is what I read in many of these responses, I find disturbing to say the least. I think the more important message is to write to the person in charge with a copy to the person he/she reports to, doesn't change...keep going up the line until someone listens. When we are put in situations that are unsafe, we need to speak out, if possible with the support and help of co-workers. Aren't we there to care for people?

Finally, a sense of reason. I cannot believe the resposes you got. This is just not right. You have every right to be outraged. Here are some questions I have for you, Have you been in trouble in any way? What did they do about it? How was your evaluation? This is what I would do. I would ask for a meeting with the supervisor, and her boss. Take another worker with you. Tell them what you know. Ask why you didn't get the same. It is your right to have another worker with you. They won't like it, and may give you a hard time because you are bringing a witness to the conversation. Before I do this I would be on the look out for other positions that are available. Do yourself a favor and look at unionized places. When I went to work in a unionized hospital I was scared to death. All I thought about was going on strike. Could I do it? I thought no. The truth is we only came close once, and it was regarding staffing and being able to give proper care to patients. We negotiated to agreement and in 35 years there we never neglected patients, workers got fair treatment because we had back up. It was fair. If you don't talk about what you make they will single out workers and give them as little as possible. Change that, you've already started. Go forward with patient care as yur key issue, but equal treatment of all workers. Find the job you love. If you don't look elsewhere. Find the job that you can call "The best job in America." It is out there. Good luck.

Thank you for your support. It is really interesting being an LPN. I just retired from a small general hospital after 35 years of service. Young RNs were always surprised when one of the RNs would say that they never would have made it through their early years without my help, or many of the things that I taught the, foleys, ngs tubes, how to support patients and family. I worked med surg for many years, did about 3 years in maternity then 15 years in the ER. A year before I retired, I had what I described as the best job in America. I worked in fast track. It was staffed with an LPN and a PA. We were a great team and buildt the reputation in the community as the place to go for care. A year before I retired Kathy, the other LPN and I were called into a meeting and laid off. There was no warning it was coming, just the explanation that they wanted to expand the scope of the unit and wanted RN coverage. They hired two RNs from withing, one was a loss to the ER, the other thought it would be an easy job. (LOL was she surprised) Because we had a union (thank God) we had a bump, allowing us to take other jobs. I took the unit secratay in the ER, Kathy became a phlebomy tech. We were paided LPN pay (80% of the RN salary) for a year. I was probably the highest paid unit secretaly in the country $39 and change and hour. I resigned effective 2 days before the money would change. The difference would have been over $20,000 a year. My last official duty as union chair was to sign off on a job description for Kathy, a newly created position in ACU. There is a place in nursing for LPNs. Many RNs just don't see it. Good luck in your new position, soon you will have the same confidence you had as an LPN. Look at the skills you've brought to your new position.