AZ_LPN_8_26_13

I think it's a safe bet that most prison inmates don't give a rip and aren't either one. You have to have a certain amount of obedient civic-mindedness to call yourself either one. I happen to be neither, by deliberate choice. I've been sort of semi...

That really bites - both that you have to do regular VS and that those same aides still work there. Where I work there is no such protection - aides would be fired and new ones hired probably for less money. Where I work nurses do some of their own v...

Where I work, you don't have to tell them why you are calling off, and I usually don't. They don't ask any questions, but you aren't allowed to do it very often, in our case no more than three days in six months. Sometimes I have been actually physic...

I just became an LPN at 60 - not wasting any time here - I've already enrolled in a LPN to BSN program where I live. I don't actually start classes until Feb 2014. How exactly I'm going to pay for it all is another question. I'm not worried about the...

I will echo the others here - being an aide helped me with the clinicals part of my education. I already worked daily in a hospital caring for patients, so clinicals were a breeze for me and I was right in my element. Some of the other nursing stuff ...

I attended a local community college and I will say that I didn't pay anywhere near $28K for it. We basically covered everything except psych stuff. Here where I am you have to be an RN to be a psych nurse or behavioral health nurse. We did the norma...

Yes I realize that it's an old discussion topic, but it's still relevant. And yes, anyone who does that should be reported, without question.

To the OP - Stick to your guns on this one. Falsification of vital signs is very serious because nurses base their admin or withhold of meds based on those very vital signs. I am an LPN now but have been an aide for almost four years taking vital sig...

To the OP - You are still young so in a way you are just starting out, so you will be successful in whatever you do. Sometimes this is what happens when you start out really young and idealistic about things, then you end up getting burned out and tu...

I had a Bachelor of Science degree before this, but I started back to school again in my mid-50's and I am now an LPN at 60. I have enrolled in an LPN to BSN program. You are NEVER too old to do any of this

Yeah, those were the days - when you could become a (whatever) by learning as a trainee right on the job. Seems like there were more avenues and opportunities back than - Don't get me wrong - education is always good - but some requirements seem to s...

While we don't want to make a habit out of it, like I said earlier, sometimes you've just gotta do it

Exactly. I've done CPR on people who were coding on two seperate occasions and this was for two minute intervals with people lined up behind me to take over after two minutes. Believe me the two minutes seems like two hours and you get pretty pooped ...

I think that on the overall scale of mental disabilities/problems, depression is probably the most accepted, but in a lot of people's minds it still rates as a "mental problem", and I've found too that your average friend or neighbor probably has a m...

No one at the hospital where I work knows about my past history of dealing with depression. At least I haven't ever told anyone there anyway. And I don't plan on telling anyone there either. That's one reason I love being a member of allnurses.com - ...

Just keep in mind that there a thousand different ways you can be a nurse. Hospital bedside nursing isn't the end all be all of a nursing career. Yes, we as nurses want to have at least a little bit of acute care hospital experience under our belts, ...

I didn't mean to sound harsh or anything but I just want to let people know not to put their jobs in jeperody with stuff like this. Yes, I really and truly wish we could do stuff like this for our patients and not get into trouble for it. If I could ...

This all sounds so fuzzy huggy and heartwarming, but where I work the management plays hardball. There, I just came right out and said it. You aren't going to see too many "read about it later in the paper" moments coming from our hospital. They are ...

????? Who and what are you responding to? It might help if you left a quote from who you are responding to. You must be relatively new to this. And not everyone here is a "girl". I am a licensed nurse and a 60 year old guy.

You personally cannot know the inner condition of a man's soul relative to God. Only God knows that. That's why we are called not to judge another person. To suggest otherwise is actually blasphemy. Talk to your pastor/priest about it, if you don't b...

Yes I do. I also believe this: (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the requirements of the law are written on th...

I was hoping that you would say that. I've had lots of people I know where I work, and neighbors and such, say things like "Gee I'd like to try something like that but I'm too old to start that" then I gently remind them of my own age LOL We have lo...

I will get a patient a coffee if coffee is available to patients right there on the nursing pod and it's OK diet wise. I won't run to Starbucks or someplace like that for a patient, even if I'm going. Yes I'll do it for a coworker, but not a patient....

@ Salinskinurse: I got your private message but when I tried to reply it said that you had exceeded your allotted space and must delete some messages to get anymore new ones. So I apologize for replying in the public forum - I think that this advice ...

I guess this sums up what I believe concerning the subject. I'm a Bible-believing Christian myself, but I believe that all religions have at least some truth and validity to them. If a patient specifically asked me to pray with them, even a non-Chris...