AZ_LPN_8_26_13

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  1. Calling In Sick: Dealing With Mental Illness At Work, Part 1

    AZ_LPN_8_26_13 replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    That old saying "it's who you know" really IS true, I've found out. Network, network, network. I know that sounds like a modern day "buzzword" but in my own case the last three positions I've held...

  2. Calling In Sick: Dealing With Mental Illness At Work, Part 1

    AZ_LPN_8_26_13 replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    One trick I've used is to keep myself busy - I am an LPN and I work full time in a busy hospital, but I am also in school to get my BSN. Plus I have some other outside of work/school activities that...

  3. Calling In Sick: Dealing With Mental Illness At Work, Part 1

    AZ_LPN_8_26_13 replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    And I agree with you 100 percent. Sometimes a person doesn't have a choice. Actually that's where I was at say fifteen to twenty years back - was seriously considering just checking out. So I cannot...

  4. I am scared to do CPR

    AZ_LPN_8_26_13 replied to Luna1326's topic in General Nursing

    They do that at the hospital where I work - and I've been in on a few codes myself where I helped give CPR. On those occasions the code leader would shout out that the person giving compressions...

  5. I am scared to do CPR

    AZ_LPN_8_26_13 replied to Luna1326's topic in General Nursing

    Trust me, when the time comes you will do fine. I am an LPN now, but there were a couple of times where I had to actually help give CPR as a nursing assistant to patients who were coding in the...

  6. Calling In Sick: Dealing With Mental Illness At Work, Part 1

    AZ_LPN_8_26_13 replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Sounds more like a dx for depression than bipolar. I used to take anti-depression meds myself (this was like fifteen years ago or so) but now I don't take anything - I try to use other non-pharma...

  7. Calling In Sick: Dealing With Mental Illness At Work, Part 1

    AZ_LPN_8_26_13 replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    It's funny that I should come upon this article tonight - I was scheduled to work at the hospital tonight but I called off. Not really physically sick but just exhausted from the past two nights...

  8. How am I going to pay for RN school

    AZ_LPN_8_26_13 replied to onepowerfullady's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I am in the same boat. I'm really doing what I am doing totally by faith..... I'm an LPN and I've just enrolled in a LPN to BSN program. I really have no idea of how I'm going to pay for it all. I...

  9. Doing favors or giving gifts for patients: Unacceptable?

    AZ_LPN_8_26_13 replied to tariqblaze's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Well, that's not what I was saying. The net effect of either one is that you are doing them a favor, and it still opens up a whole same can of worms. Doesn't matter if they asked (which is usually in...

  10. Doing favors or giving gifts for patients: Unacceptable?

    AZ_LPN_8_26_13 replied to tariqblaze's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    This is exactly what I was referring to in my earlier post when I commented that these things "will take you to a place you don't want to go". Small teeny favors and no-value gifts may seem harmless,...

  11. Nurses in trouble get second chances - Minnesota

    AZ_LPN_8_26_13 replied to Brian's topic in Nursing Career

    Yes, I've wondered about these things myself. How a nurse can lose their license over something like DUI but not for pilfering narcotics from the med room. They can get drug abuse counseling and keep...

  12. Doing favors or giving gifts for patients: Unacceptable?

    AZ_LPN_8_26_13 replied to tariqblaze's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I think things like letting patients use your cell phone, running errands for them, accepting or receiving gifts etc. is crossing a line. Personal caregivers or friends/family can do this but not...

  13. Losing my religion

    AZ_LPN_8_26_13 replied to jadelpn's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    To the OP - Thanks for writing a great article on this topic. I am a Christian myself but we get all types in the hospital where I work. You have to respect their beliefs and spirituality, or even...

  14. Shutdown

    AZ_LPN_8_26_13 replied to SoldierNurse22's topic in Government, Military

    Thanks for posting this article. People ask me all the time how this is really affecting ordinary people. Your story brings this home in a real way. It's really outrageous how our "leaders" still get...

  15. Care As a Patient from New Grads

    AZ_LPN_8_26_13 replied to rheath222's topic in Nurses Rock

    Email this post to hospital administrators and hiring departments at hospitals. Most of them haven't gotten the message yet. Many places still don't want to hire new

  16. It's that time of year ... Halloween

    AZ_LPN_8_26_13 replied to Joe V's topic in Nursing Humor

    Where I work, every day of the year is Halloween

  17. Is nursing really that bad of a career choice?

    AZ_LPN_8_26_13 replied to alyssajeanette's topic in Nursing Career

    The reason I personally do not struggle with this is that I consider weather or not a person ultimately lives or dies to be out of my hands really - I have a job to do and I do it - and if even after...

  18. Is it just me?

    AZ_LPN_8_26_13 replied to mindlor's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Not disagreeing with you there - some things do start at the top.... Just nothing really essential to hospital operation IMHO. Dynamic and engaged - subjective things that are hard to quantify. Most...

  19. Switching jobs/pay in Arizona

    AZ_LPN_8_26_13 replied to Jelly19's topic in Arizona Nursing

    Plus there is a glut of new BSNs on the market - Nursing schools are churning out new grads by the bucketload all over the U.S. including here in Arizona. IMO that will tend to drive down wages. It's...

  20. Is it just me?

    AZ_LPN_8_26_13 replied to mindlor's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I agree - what the OP is describing isn't unique to nursing or healthcare. Management always wants more for less. They want more work out of everyone and of course they want it all to cost little or...

  21. A few questions about bedside manner.

    AZ_LPN_8_26_13 replied to 0.adamantite's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    To the OP - Sounds like you are doing just fine and nothing to worry about. I am this way myself - sort of on the quiet side - one of my supervisors once told me that I have a "calming effect" on our...

  22. Is nursing really that bad of a career choice?

    AZ_LPN_8_26_13 replied to alyssajeanette's topic in Nursing Career

    This is me also - Nursing is a second career later in life for me. Sometimes I wish that I had gotten into this earlier when I was like in my twenties but then again who knows - If I had done that...

  23. Is nursing really that bad of a career choice?

    AZ_LPN_8_26_13 replied to alyssajeanette's topic in Nursing Career

    This is just me, but I agree with that wholeheartedly. To the OP of this thread: Work as a nurse's aide first for a few years, to get the experience, and also to see firsthand if this is really what...

  24. Is nursing really that bad of a career choice?

    AZ_LPN_8_26_13 replied to alyssajeanette's topic in Nursing Career

    I work the night shift in a hospital, and I have grandmas and grandpas go "The Exorcist" on me all the time. Sort of sad to see it really - A lot of these people really have no one anymore and are...

  25. Is nursing really that bad of a career choice?

    AZ_LPN_8_26_13 replied to alyssajeanette's topic in Nursing Career

    I just turned 60 in April and I became a licensed nurse in August. It is a second career for me as well. There are so many paths you can take in nursing that's it's really amazing - in many regards...