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The Hospital I work at is smoke free. If pts want to smoke they have to sign a release that we/hospital are not liable. However, if they want to go outside, down the hill, and stand on the sidewalk while pushing IV poles, we have to do an incident report that they have taken hospital equipment off hospital property. Yes....lol....more paperwork! uuuggggg!!!!

:rcgtku: for your comments & suggestions!!!

i am a new nurse, still in my first year, i work on a tele floor. i usually have 7 pts, sometimes 9. as a new grad this is pretty overwhelming. where i work the lpn does everything the rn's do except atart blood, iv pushes, & hang some iv meds (cardiac gtt's), oh, and we take and write orders from dr's but we cant note them off. i am the type of person who always follows the rules, if there is a rule, i follow it, no exceptions. i recently had an rn who had charge over my pt's say to me, "anything you arent supposed to do, just do, i trust you, and i will sign off on it." although it is flattering to have the trust of people i work with, i just know i am never going to compromise myself when it comes to my scope of practice. that being said, i dont want to risk offending the rn that said that, i work with her all the time. any advice on how to handle this situation. i dont want to offend her, but i have to ask her to help with stuff i am not supposed to do. i always offer to help out, like if i need someone to give some pushes, i offer to give their po meds, i try not to be a burden, i am a team player, i dont want her to think i am just being lazy when i have to ask for help. any advice at all would be helpful! :uhoh3:

Congrats on passing!:yeah:Now the dreaded job search! I passed the NCLEX in September and I am just now starting my first job. Thankfully, where I am there is always an LPN job out there, I just decided to hold out for just the right position for me. I am a mom of 2 myself, so finding a job with just the right schedule for me did take me some time. (this is what i decided was best for us) I chose to do 12hr shifts,3 nights a week, i know, not usually a popular choice. But i can still be home when they get home from school, do homework & dinner then go to work and be home in time to drive them to school in the morning. I can sleep in the day, while they are gone, but still have the option to be there if they have something going on for school. This obviously is contingent on having someone home with them at night, thankfully my husband is, & although he will be sleeping alone three nights a week, he is willing to sacrifice for the extra paycheck! I wish you all the best in your search!

Iam VERY new to nursing, but in class we were always told to approach from the unaffected side, so as not to startle the pt., but to place items on affected side so as to encourage use. Dont know if this will help any, but best of luck on th NCLEX!!!:)

Ive known alot of people who went there & i have been told it always takes longer than they say its going to, and its pretty pricey! GL

St Marys is a great hospital, wish i was in htgn. so i could work there! lol:up::up:

My class lost started with 76 & 38 graduated. i am pretty sure we just lost a few the first week though, i know it was only 3 in our class (we started out split into two classes) i dont know how many the other class lost. I wish u all the best!!! :wink2:

I started crying as soon as i got home, i just knew there was no way i passed when it cut off at 85?'s, but i did. I think that it is so stressful, i think most people come out of there feeling bad, but most pass, right! Keep your chin up, i hope u dont have to wait long. I was lucky, i found out the next day, logged on the state board website & started crying again when i saw my name, lol. I am sure u did great!

the part that i personally found judgemental was where np said... "and then when you start orientating these nurses, the whole time im thinking, wow are you really gonna be responsible for my patients when im off?? ". i think that i have made it perfectly clear that my intent was also not to offend anyone with my comments either. i guess i just found it kind of odd that the comment came from someone relatively new to nursing herself. i hope that np will continue to post any and all ?'s that she wants too! i think that it would be really sad if people were afraid to post ?'s. this forum is so great, you get advice from nurses with many diffrent perspectives. i hope that u didnt take offense to any of my comments np, i may have sounded slightly harsh at times, but i know that i always gave encouraging feedback as well. (i hope that you noticed that too!) best warm & fuzzy wishes to all who took the time to weigh in on this touchy subject! :[anb]: :hrnsmlys:

:balloons::balloons:CONGRATS ON THE JOB & THE :grad: !!!!!!!!!!!!!! (I felt like doing a happy dance on grad day, i bet u will too!!!)

It is unfortunate that this post has turned into an ugly thing. Nursepeace, i dont think that u intended for it to be like that, but unfortunately you did come off severly judgemental, kinda like a "nancy nurse", if you have ever heard the expression. I think that there will always be nurses that get into it for the paycheck, which it seems like you have ran into more than your fair share, but i have to think that the majority of us who do this job really care, right....So, on that note...i want to say...if you are offended by the replies that you have recived, just try not to be so judgemental yourself next time. The old "treat people like you want to be treated" comes to mind. I think if you read back over your first post you will see what i am talking about. You seem like a nice person, i think that if you had posted your ?'s a little diffrently, you might have got the kind of replies you were looking for. I took the time to look over the posts that you had put on here previously, and i can tell that you are a caring nurse, i just think that the way your post was worded was the problem. JMHO, of course. I wish you all the best. :lvan:

:mnnnrsngrk:CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!

I also waited...but i do regret it. My reasoning for waiting was that i needed the time to study for the NCLEX. However, i ended up not studying at all and i procrastinated all the way up untill three days before the test! As you can imagine, i was freaking out. I crammed for two days, rested on the third, and by the grace of God, i passed! (with the minimum # of ?'s nonetheless) But my point is that i had psyched myself out, i graduated, i should have trusted myself, i should have had the confidince in myself to know that i would pass the NCLEX. I put off working because i didnt want to have to face the humilliation of telling my new employer that i didnt pass. I made it thru the hardest, longest year of my life, i should have had confidence going into test. Hindsights 20/20 though, right. If i had it to do over, i would have got a job, then tested.

I am a recent grad & i just got hired on at a hospital in Charleston. My pay is 13.50, but with shift diff's i make 16.75. I've heard from some of my classmates that LTC starts around 13hr as well.

I was not trying to be offensive, nor did i take offense to your post. I went to a school with an unbeliveable reputation for putting out OVERqualified LPN's. I guess i just dont see how you are the best judge & jury for new grads since you said yourself you came from a sub-standard school and you are a recent grad yourself. I cant imagine what it would have been like to attend a program that did not have high standards, so i guess thats why i might be having trouble relating to you. But i can tell that your heart is in the right place, making sure that the patient is your top priority. That is what is really important, i think we can both agree on that! :)

I thought the main message in your post was that you were sick of new grad nurses, from quickie schools with low standards, which is why i thought the phrase "nurses eat their young" was entirely appropriate, since you Are only 2 years out yourself (i wasnt counting your family's accomplishments), and you seem to have forgotten already how it is to be a recent grad. It seems to me that the phrase is entirely accurate, and unfortunately you seem to have caught an early onset case of it. (in my humble opinion) :) i think it is great though that despite this ailment, you can still give stellar orientations to all those eager grads. Hats off to you, Please, Please remember, everyone starts somewhere, & so did you! Warm Regards :)

I am a recent grad of a school that has a reputation for its high standards, thankfully! I know that I was continually challanged in class and clinicals, it was the longest year of my life!!! One of my instructors always told us that nurses are the worst for eating there own kind. After reading this post i was reminded of that phrase. I just accepted an offer for my first job today, and I pray to God that my preceptor is someone who remembers where they came from! I was told that I would be with her for about 6-8 weeks. I was excited, i didnt think it would be that long! I got into nursing because i am a caring person and i want to be a comfort and a help to people when they may be facing the worst experience of there lives. I would like to think that most people who are in the nursing profession feel the way i do, even the Recent Grads. :redbeathe:nurse::redbeathe