AZ_LPN_8_26_13

I retired from nursing this past October and things like this happening are partly why. I've been getting phone messages about various positions open but I'm not really interested. I will keep my nursing license current though, and the necessary cert...

Just finished my NCLEX-PN today, one step on the road to eventually becoming an RN w/BSN. Will not know if I for sure passed for a while I guess.... I really don't see why on a computerized exam why they cannot let you know immediately if you pass or...

That's great. It's people like this, that I like seeing in nursing. Hey, bedside care is not for everyone. Just so a person understands that they may have to do at least their small share of it along the way to where they are headed. You want to be t...

My best wishes to her and I hope she makes it. Hey it's OK to have hopes and dreams.... One thing a person will find sometimes is that their exact route to where they eventually want to be may turn out to be a bit different than they originally imagi...

I see nothing wrong with this myself - so you do a few years of anywhere from 4:1 to 6:1 bedside nursing then move on. Do your time in purgatory cleaning poop, dealing with dementia and violent patients etc. I myself do not advertise my plans, hopes ...

I didn't find it hard to read. Somewhat long-winded maybe, but IMO his writing is excellent.

Many older nurses and nursing instructors have probably never had to take an NCLEX exam or anything resembling it, nor have they had to put up with nursing "instructors" who really aren't so much instructors as they are people who weed out students. ...

Actually that's my only real regret - that I never thought of or considered doing this 20 or 30 years ago. Back then a medical career in a hospital just wasn't on my radar - not even a little bit. I never really spent much time in or near hospitals, ...

"You were so lucky to have a clinical instructor like this in nursing school period. My experience in an accelerated program was just the opposite. There was one clinical instructor my second semester who was very instructive and encouraging. However...

I will have to say without reservation or exception that when I was in nursing school, my *clinical* instructors were the absolute best. They were the most honest, down-to-earth, and genuinely helpful people on the face of the earth. I cannot really ...

I actually somewhat agree with the post, but I still think bullying is real, it's a real problem, and no it's not just in the person's emotions or mind. And it shouldn't be tolerated. Having said that, it's been my own personal experience that to sur...

@ OP: There isn't now, and never has been a "nationwide shortage of nurses". There are plenty of qualified, educated American citizens willing and able to work as nurses. The shortage is of employers willing to hire them and pay them what they are re...

I've worked the overnight shift for many years now, even before I started working at a hospital. We are mandated to take at least a half hour clock out break during our twelve hour shift. I usually take mine around 1 to 1:30 AM which is about the hal...

Teaching plans are created by determining what a patient needs to know for their continuing care and their ability to learn.The RN makes the call as far as what the patient needs to be taught and how. When a patient is first admitted to the hospital...

It all depends on where you live and what the defined scope of practice is. Where I'm at an LPN can do practically everything an RN can - the only things only an RN can do are care plans, teaching plans, initial hospital assessment and admissions, ca...

A lot of it depends on where you live. Where I live, the local Chamber of Commerce, and also the businesses themselves together, helps advertise job fairs, and ads are run in the paper, on TV, Internet, and billboards. Billboard advertising is big wh...

The problem with workplace bullying and nursing school bullying is that it is not your "schoolyard" "give me your lunch money" type of bullying. If it were that easy to pin down it wouldn't be a problem. You can't really compare the two. There actual...

Unfortunately many of these people will pass and go on to be nurses. And they will be this way in the workplace. It's a real problem of the nursing profession - a sort of "elephant in the room" no one wants to talk about. I've actually written a rese...

These are the tactics I've used and continue to use. I'm an older guy, I just got my LPN, and I am enrolled in an LPN to BSN program, so I've got some schooling left to go. Like I said I'm an older guy, and I don't want to put up with this sort of no...

You have a nursing job though. I would love nothing more than to be stressed out over an LPN job, even in a correctional facility. The job I have now is plenty stressful, with lots of hard work and little time to do it in, but it doesn't pay anywhere...

I am in Arizona, and I don't think there's a lot of turnover here either - I really don't see too many new openings, not anymore than anyone else really. Corrections facilities here in AZ are actually run by private corrections companies, so you woul...

I've always believed this to be true - There never really ever has been a nursing shortage. Only a temporary shortage of new nursing students and people will to work for like $9 an hour

As a new LPN grad I've applied to a couple of corrections openings. I do have a background in security and training in PCI as well. No callbacks yet So I suppose for me corrections isn't going to be any easier to get into than anywhere else. I am e...

This is basically why I became an LPN - to be able to enroll in an LPN to BSN program where I live. I have been looking in the big-city area where I happen to live and doing a job search for the past couple of months, and there isn't much for new gra...

" Are we producing too many health care workers or are the facilities downsizing/eliminating jobs too rapidly?" Probably both factors are at play here. When you go to a job fair you must be dressed nicely and have your resume ready and with you. Show...