pearl2778

I understand that some places do take it to the extreme....baking cookies is a little too much overkill, what about the pts who are having nausea....I'd be puking in a heartbeat! If you want to throw back to "old school nursing" then the back rub is incorporated, every HS. Just breath, do what you do best.....be a nurse and all of the other stuff falls into place, take a vaca if you are having burnout. I sounds like you work noc shift....get enough sleep during the day...it improves the outlook on your job a lot if you are rested. But if all else fails.......

As an LPN that starts RN school in May, I don't believe that LPN's should be done away with. I will tell you that if I start the day with 3 patients and my RN starts with 2 I will be the one that ends up with 5 patients by the end of the day! I think that the people who think that LPN's are inferior nurses feel theatened by us. We are capable, useful and good at our jobs. Yes there are LPN's out there that aren't all of those things but there are RN's that aren't those things either. The LPN program that I went through was very intense, more so than the RN program. I wouldn't change my decision to work as an LPN and gain the knowledge and experience I have before being put into more of a leadership position as an RN.