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I didn't mean sarcasm...I am married to a driver and they can only drive 10 hours..not 12 and not 16 and only allowed so many hours in a certain period of time so it is a very valid point. They are usually accused of driving accidents when it is usually the 4 wheel driver (car) causing the accident and I have seen plenty of 4 wheelers causing accidents!!!!!! That is all for now.........I will shut up and put up. THANKS

OMG...I am glad you brought that up because that is so true about big rig drivers!!!!!!!!!!

Okay.. I just posted the other day because I worked a double and then called in the next day for my 2nd shift because I couldn't sleep. So... I just found out that the person I worked with on my sat pm shift covered my shift on sunday pms. so....this is what this person worked....sat morning 6am to 9pm then sun morn 6am to 6pm and the third shift nurse who called in came in early on sun night. So now I feel bad that I didn't feel I could do the shift safely while that person worked a billion hours over the weekend. Is it just me or is this place I work for run really poorly. I work at a LTC care facility and am a part time student. I am getting the idea that I need to just suck it up and put up and do the job. I'm getting frustrated with management and can't really go anywhere else because I am a new LPN. THANKS!!!!

Thanks for all of the replies. I wanted to add that I was hired part time which would be about 3 days a week or 24 hours a week usually and then you can pick up hours if you want. I have been continously scheduled for 72 hours in a 2 week period. I am taking the hours for now because I need the money. A lot if this is my fault for not asking questions and then again when I did ask questions I didn't get much for answers; like about benefits, wage, union fees, etc. IT was a red flag but I did it anyway, I wanted a job so I get what I get. As far as this past weekend when I worked 2nd and NOC, yes I am a 2nd shifter, the NOC shift nurse called in, nobody else was available supposedly so I did it. I was sheduled for the next day 2nd shift, however if I were the supervisor I would have arranged for someone else to take my shift the next day so I didn't have to worry about how to make it in the next day only to call in because I couldn't sleep. I believe there are too many administrators and one doesn't know what the other is doing and there isn't really a DON right now, the top administrator is acting as DON right now because everyone is shifting positions. I wil be looking for a different place to work, I want a place that treats people nicley, where ever that may be. I am not the only one either that is not sure about the management, and management is thinking of laying off some RN's and have more LPN's which is questionable. THanks everyone, just thought I would add some more:)

Hello everyone, I am a new LPN in LTC. It is not what I want to do long term. I just got done working 2nd shift and Noc shift and was expected to come back for 2nd shift but couldn't do it. I didn't get any sleep and would have been a zombie at work if I went so I called in. Has anyone else had this experience, its like we are used and abused. Anyone elses advice is welcomed, and suggestions. How to make it through til I can move on. ALso they knew when I was hired that I am in school for RN but can't seem to schedule me off on my one day a week class, whats up with that. It's not that difficult. Anyway, THANKS in advance!!!!!!!!

Hi, I am new LPN working in LTC - dementia unit. I just completed my first week on my own after 10 days of orientation and am just not always comfortable with this position. I am fine with the med adm and treatments and assessments and such but I am not sure of all the paperwork. I haven't seen much of it and we have to write in 10 different places and it just seems so wasteful to me. Anyone know how long before you are comfortable with this job? also I am continuing on for my RN in a 2 year program but contemplating stopping now and entering a BSN program? any advice would be welcomed!!:) THANKS!

thanks for all the support and reminding me of the basics. you are all absolutely right about the 5 rights! i am going to triple check and quadruple check my stuff and then i know i will feel better. i didn't get to do that the other night which is what brought this post on. i am also going to take my drug book:wink2:! thanks and i will keep you posted.

I am a recent LPN grad orientating in a LTC unit and sometimes can't remember everything. I will have 10 days of orientation and feel stupid. I hope I don't forget anymore stuff from now on, what if I forget a med or something, I really don't want to get fired. This is really good experience it is just amazing going from school having one patient to administering meds to 20-30+ patients and keeping track of the different times. I will survive, I hope without too many med errors. How many med errors can happen before one is fired? Just writing this down so I can get feedback from those that understand and understand feeling completely incompetent!

I am new to all of this and this is my first post. I have read through alot of replies over the last year because I am a nursing student in my second semester in a two year school and have found them to be helpful. I just recently received a rude comment on paper from an instructor who doesn't know me except for me doing a team simulation about leadership which none of us have any business doing. She told me that I giggle alot and there isn't much depth there. HELLO, I "giggle" when I am nervous and uncomfortable! Can you believe it?what am I suppose to learn from that? and thank you for crushing any spirit I had for nursing and the people who are suppose to be there to teach. I will perservere through this and let me tell you, I wouldn't have the kind of people that are around me, around me if I was an airy giggle head. I am an A,B student in my nursing classes and have been doing well in my clinicals also. I can't believe she thinks she has the right to judge someone she doesn't even know!!