chad75

I'm relocating soon (From Arkansas), and was curious about the hospitals in and around Dallas. I'm an LPN who has primarily worked in a hospital setting out here in Arkansas. I know some areas don't utilize LPN's in the hospital setting and was won...

A little history, I have been an LPN for approximately five years in the state of Arkansas, the first three of those in the adolescent/adult acute mental health setting. I quickly became disenfranchised with my role (pill pusher) and finally decided...

Okay, I am thoroughly confused by the nurse compact. I am relocating soon and need to figure out what licenses I need. My current home state is Arkansas, which is a compact state. I am moving to DC, which is not a compact state I plan on doing ag...

No I wouldn't think anything in Immodium would cause a false positive. However make sure you tell them all the meds you are taking when they ask :).

I don't see how this wrong unless there was an order to administer all meds via NGT. I have had many a GI patient with NG tubes to LIS take meds PO (after clamping the NGT). If someone has difficulty swallowing or isn't concious enough to take meds...

You received 2 years of license probation for 2 reported med errors in a two year period that didn't result in harming the patient !!!?!!! Much less a documentation error... Oh you forgot to sign off a med, guess what your on license probation! ? W...

I think the nurses that do charge for anything less then a 5$ differential have lost their collective lost their minds. You are responsible for the unit, depending on the unit that can be a lot of responsbility.

Thats the sort of BS I hate about some SBON's. Go to school for a couple years, get a few thousand dollars in debt, then we will decide if you qualify for a license...The board of nursing needs a "fair practice act" of its own.

It depends on if your family is a full time job, would need more information..do you have help? How many kids? Can you hire babysitters etc.? A&P 1 & 2 are pretty heavy courses General Psychology is pretty easy depending on your instructor. ...

Can you copy/paste the story? I really don't want to have to sign up for an AoL account to read the story.

I've been coming to allnurses for a while. Mostly lurking. I have been a nurse for about 6 years and I am curious if nursing is really as bad as everyone says it is. We all know its just "nurse nature" to come here and write about an awful day the...

We did it on a fake arm, then eachother, then patients. After 6 years its still hit or miss with me, I can walk up to someone that no one else could get an IV started on and hit him/her the very first time with no problems, then get a young patient ...

I hear ya, this is my last hurrah. I haven't had a full time traditional floor nursing job in over two years. Strictly agency and contract. Alot of the hospitals/facilitys out here though have over 50% agency/travelers as their nursing staff. Its...

Yes, the pros to nursing are awesome. It was enough to keep me working this long, the scale is getting weighed the other direction every day for me. I know my post was bitter, and not representative of every floor nurse, in every hospital in every ...

In this day and age working any sort of LTC or RCF setting is like playing russian roulette with your license, especially if your on the front lines. If you go look at your SBON's website (if they list such actions online) you will almost always see...

Well, your biggest mistake was refusing to take a UDS, unfortunately I think a refusal is considered an admission of guilt by the powers that be. I will take UDS any day, any time, any where. My job could call me up right now and I would drive up a...

No offense but I really don't think we are hearing the full story. To my knowledge unless you had a med error which caused a death or an adverse reaction I don't see why the hospital would report it to the BON, there just simply is no reason to. If...

Yet most every nursing program in a metro area gets 200 applications for every 1 seat available. Personally I wasn't offended by it, but I learned to lighten up a long time ago.

I have never traveled but have had many nursing friends who have, they all have a similar horror story to tell. From getting stuck 3k miles away from home, the hospital having terminated the contract for some innane reason, then having the travel a...

KNOCK ON WOOD, I have been a nurse over 6 years and have never had one of my patients die on my shift (sheer luck, I'm not super nurse). I have worked just about everywhere from ICU to ER.

Well currently I'm an LPN, and if I receive a directive from, report a condition to or consult with an RN I use their name. I.E. Reported to J. Doe RN that patient continues to be in uncontrolled a. fib one hour after administration of po cardizem. ...

Hehe sorry, thought it fit the situation and it wasn't directed at anyone without a funnybone

May I suggest google. Without going into detail, and increasing the chances of getting something wrong :chuckle , yes you could get septic from any type of wound that becomes infectious especially if you have a compromised immune system. The main ...

Listen, the sandwiches obviously belong to night shift, since we always get shafted on the goodies! What ever happened to people who didn't take themselves way too seriously. If you think immaturity isn't present in other proffesions, such as financ...

Blood cultures, and sepsis is basically an infection of the blood (usually caused by infection elsewhere).