NM nurse to be

Since we seem to have a lot of new CNAs around lately, I thought it might make it easier for them to have a place to ask questions and see what may already have been answered. And for us 'oldie' CNAs to post hints of what we needed to know and had to...

Has anyone done this? My situation lately has become so awful, I dread going in even one more day. I do have another job lined up, starting very soon. I am wondering about tonight. I am scheduled NOC tonight and tomorrow. This is an 'at will' em...

Well that was definitely interesting! I hadn't heard of that concept by name before. And yet I am totally familiar with it's execution There is definitely mobbing going on at my current work. I can't think of anything proveable but the atmosphere is...

Thanks everyone! Oh hey! Looks like I need to change my user name too... I am now NM nurse for real !!! Or will be as soon as I get that pesky NCLEX out of the way.

I haven't posted a lot here recently, school will do that to ya :) I just gotta heave a big sigh of relief and brag just a sec... I'm DONE!!!!!!!!!!!! with LPN school Boards are next month, so I'm not worrying about that today. Today is my pinning...

Thanks for this post!! I will be graduating as an LPN next week! I was going to post something similar and here it is :) THanks pharmgirl, that was really helpful! Good luck to you, Shadowrunner, I bet you'll be an awesome nurse!

My facility wears them (LTC), I don't though. Being a poor student for so long, I can't afford scrubs with such a limited life. And I'm kind of a holiday scrooge too :) Retail wrecked me for holidays.

I was going to post this exact same thread today!!! I am starting in a few weeks though. I have all the same questions you do! What is a typical day like for a preceptee? It's funny that in class, the teacher likes to keep this part kind of a myst...

This is TOTALLY one of my hot buttons! My issue about breaks are the 'smoker's breaks'. My facility has scheduled times when the smokers take the smoker residents outside to gasp at their ciggies. This happens at least 3 times during day and evening ...

Wow this is an old thread! I wonder if the OP is still around and how the grand plan is developing by now?

I've taken Ambien with no problem. I use it very rarely, usually the night before a big test or when switching from night shift back to days during the week. I have heard of the issues though. And last week, a neighbor took his dose and wasn't as...

I deal with this too. I'm pretty used to it by now, being of the no skin pigmented variety, it's been like this all my life. And last summer, I had to treat my whole face with a topical chemo and it seems to have permanently left the whole thing RE...

Oh man, GinaCat, are you me??? I'm glad you wrote this post! These are all questions that have been in my mind too. I'm done with the LPN program in a couple months and I feel like I know nothing! I've gotten great reviews on the floor but in my ...

I chose the LPN route first for a number of reasons. First being the shorter wait to start the program. There has been a 2 year wait from petitioning to starting the ADN program and a year for the LPN, which I got into 2 semesters early after all. ...

Since you are doing pre-req's already, could you find out what the med-surg text book is that your school is using? Now I know that they will likely change editions between now and then but it would be a huge help to you to be able to read up on wha...

They don't tell you about projectile farts in the class movies either. Got an up close and personal lesson in that last week. Which makes the lesson about extra scrubs a very good point! One man on my floor is very alert and oriented, just physical...

I haven't really heard that much at my facility. Unless there is an accident and someone needs help NOW, that doesn't really happen. And at night, I try not to talk in front of room doors either. We do have one nurse who has only one volume and ev...

I wonder if using the last name only is a cultural thing? I hear it a lot but only with the hispanic folks or sometimes with the Native Americans. The nurses and techs call them by their last name only. I tend to use first names for those who have...

We have to do this at my facility as well. The reason is that residents were being left for entire shifts with the same (usually dirty) brief on and there was no accountability for who wasn't doing their job. Write on the brief before you put it o...

What kind of jobs have you applied for? If you're starting off looking at hospitals, that might be why you're having trouble. Jobs that need a little more specialized skill or experience have requirements for a reason, although people do get hired o...

Short answer, no not ok. Schedules are made with start/end times for a reason, whether that reason is clear to you or not. If everyone just decided to 'make it good at 8 hours', there would be chaos. Ask if you want, but be prepared to hear it's not ...

If you stay in engineering plants, you won't have to wipe people. I don't know of any CNA work where that doesn't happen. Quite honestly, nurses are not immune to the wiping requirement either

The way classes are scheduled at my school, evening shifts from 2-10, are not possible because classes and clinicals happen during that time. Not every day but enough to really interfere. That's why most folks I know are doing nights and yes class i...

I'm doing that now. Was doing full time nights and had to go very much part time, half way into the first semester. I thought I would be one of the ones who could do it. But I couldn't make it work. SLeeping through class is not what I spent all ...

I know of an aide who can no longer work on the floor and is on disability due to her foot being crushed by one of these electric wheelchairs. It was driven by someone who did get her on purporse too and she wasn't the first victim, only the most in...