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I just hit my 3 year mark as a med-surg/step down nurse but am trying really hard to get into NICU. I have been wanting to work NICU for quite some time now but have been applying for many NICUs around me all without success. Before this I was an LPN...

Ha! Just yesterday stepped in a patients very soft yellow colored poo that got flung on the floor without my realizing as I was changing a patient and his fecal management system came out, and poo went all over the linens and as I put tossed them in ...

So I was an LPN for 5 years who became an RN two years ago. I worked as an RN at the nursing home I worked at as an LPN for several months before I got a position at a local hospital on a med-surg/respiratory floor. We also have respiratory step-down...

I have always wanted to be an Air Force Nurse for many reasons. One of them being traveling and seeing what nursing was like all over the world. However this has always been one of my goals in the future. I got my LPN, RN and now I finally finished m...

I've had an extremely hard time finding a job as a new grad LPN. I sent out applications and resumes to all of the nursing homes, hospitals, group homes, doctor's offices, homecare agencies and staffing companies in my area, despite that most of them...

took my boards this morning at 8:00 and have been getting the "good pop-up" since I walked out of the testing center. Went all the way to 260-something questions - I really hope this trick is right because I do not care to sit through that test again...

Hey everyone :) I'm hoping someone could help me out with a question I have about Helene Fuld Nursing School. I went to Eastern Suffolk BOCES - I started in high school and finished the program last March. I tested and got my LPN license in August, I...

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it and it helped me a lot

Hello everyone!! Struggling nursing student here, hoping someone can provide me with some input. I am working on a case study where I have to create a detailed discharge plan for my patient who was admitted with ETOH/Benzo withdrawal. He was admitte...

as a brand new grad, I got only 3 days and it was either take it or leave it! It was so overwhelming at first but I managed to get through it

WOW......just came back to this thread and about a year and a half after posting it.....i can see what a long way i have come. i was right.....that first shift was awful. i only did about 4 or 5 patient's meds before i completely lost it and was cryi...

I work at a LTC facility and our CNAs are not allowed to take our vitals.... they only do temps but I've watched CNAs sit right in front of me and make up every single temp after I asked them to go get them...... now I carry around the thermometer an...

this policy doesn't seem like it will last too long.......i wouldn't worry about it too much.

if you have any more days of training, ask whoever is training you to let you pass meds on a few people, you will be awfully slow at first, but it is important to try to get some hands-on experience before you are all out there by yourself.

as a BRAND new LPN at a long term care facility, I was given only three days of training and like you, I shadowed 3 different nurses, and each was on a different shift before I was thrown out to the wolves. I actually had to fight for my third day of...

I had a really hard time finding shoes when I first got into nursing! I bought three different pairs at the uniform store, and I got rid of them all because they would all hurt my feet after a day of work. I ended up buying a pair of Nike Air Max's a...

I also received an acceptance letter for the Grant LPN - RN Transition program starting Fall 2012. I sent in my deposit today. I don't even remember which prerequisites were the ones that count towards your GPA but my grades were: Psych - A Comm - ...

wow i would have killed for two weeks orientation! i started at a nursing home as well with my LPN and was given 3 days orientation, each was a different shift on a different unit. Then set loose to do a full med pass on 40 patients with 15 diabetics...

Well I am an LPN, but I only got 3 days of orientation at my LTC facility. I believe this is true for the RNs there as well.

So I only started my first LPN job at a nursing home last week. I had three days of orientation and then they threw me on the floor by myself, even though I am a new grad -- "sink or swim" I sank. Bad. I made sure to arrive super early for my shift, ...

everyones advice is greatly appreciated! i'm feeling slightly more confident. tomorrow will be my second day on my own, but it should be a little bit better because now I know what to expect and there will also be a charge nurse with me on the unit :...

what do you mean by prepping your meds? Do you mean you pour them ahead of time? Someone reccommended that I go through the MARs each day before my shift and in my cart, move up the medication packs that I would be using during that shift, that way I...

well today was my very first day on the floor as an LPN at a long-term-care facility. I worked 7-3, and since it was a holiday I was the only nurse on my floor, putting me in charge of 40 patients with 4 CNAs. Normally during the day there are two nu...

I just found out that I was accepted as a pre-nursing student in the ADN program in the fall, and I still have to complete Philosophy, Microbiology and Chemistry before I can enter into the Nursing program. I live in NY right now, but Mount St. Mary'...

I'm interested in this program also. Is it a new program? It's odd that nobody on this forum has mentioned the school before. I called today and am waiting for an advisor to call me back.