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This has probably been covered before but I missed it so please bear with me. I got to work the other night and had a male pt. in his mid forties who was newly admitted earlier in the day. After report I started browsing through his chart on the co...

And not just in the Hill Country. We had an opening for a night LVN for over 4 months. We are finally getting a new grad from a nearby CC class that graduates next week. All occupations have up and down cycles unless they are jobs that are becomi...

You're right, my bad. That's what happens when I try to type in my sleep.

AllNurses.com has a nice selection at decent prices. I used a Littman 3000 because I spent too many years working in noisy environments.

Exactly how do you define "rural?" If a 75 bed hospital were located in a urban area I don't see how you could call it rural. And yes, I can think of several small acute care facilities in the middle of "civilization." I work in a hospital that has...

You need to check with your state's employment commission about unemployment. The rules vary from state to state but I do know in some you can receive UI for excessive numbers of call offs or send homes. That's one reason most facilities rotate the...

I picked up my wife's diabetic supplies for the month today. Lantus Flex Pens - $60 co-pay Novalog Flex Pens - $60 co-pay Flex Pen Needles - $60 co-pay Test Strips - $60 co-pay This is every month and with insurance. We are fortunate in that we can ...

Families need time to adjust as well. You can't expect an entire familiy to make drastic changes to their lives because one member walks in the door and announces "I have diabetes and things have to change around here starting now!" Ever made an ann...

I wouldn't be too sure. On the TX BON website under the FAQs they specifically state there is no master list of what an LVN can't do. About the only thing I found the BON restricts to RNs only is triage and initial assesment. Like you said about I...

In my previous career I could have put the following after my name - BSME, MSMM, EIT, CMfgE, CQE, and Six Sigma Black Belt. First, why would I want all of that following me around and second, who the HE!! would have cared? My cards and e-mail signat...

I was giving my wife insulin for twenty-five years before I became a nurse. I agree with those who say inject the air, draw a little insulin into the syringe and shove it back in hard. Then draw a little more than called for and push the extra alon...

So we use financial blackmail to coerce pts into doing exactly what we say, how we say, when we say, and where we say? Given the cost of healthcare that isn't giving the patient freedom of choice. Sounds more like bullying than anything else. What ...

Had a engineering prof some years back who gave us individual assignments for our capstone project. Turned out he was doing some consulting on the side and we were his unpaid research assistants. Sounds like this instructor is running an experimenta...

No way my hospital would do this. It would mean adding a couple of more shifts. While the total amount of pay would be close to the same it would mean the hospital paying for more employee benefits. Guess who would end up paying for that. Our ben...

I got a nastygram in my mail slot for agreeing with a patient who was complaining the cable sucked. Why not? The system is a bargain basement, watered down basic package with 18 channels of which only Animal Planet, two shopping channels, ESPN, and ...

That's pretty much my tecnique and one well seasoned nurse I know calls this her "come to Jesus" talk. The secret is to let the person in charge know what is going on and document, document, document. A dog keeps barking at the mailman everyday beca...

"The TV channel selection sucks." Yep. Be grateful for what you have. It some members of the board had their way we'd be picking up television via a coat hanger on the roof. "The TVs get lousy reception." Thats because they're about twenty-five ye...

You forgot to mention the difference between the high point in Lubbock and the low point is about 4 feet. Once I get to the CPNE I'll probably try for there myself. It's only a couple of hours away so I would save a bundle on air fare.

You have to buy a lab kit and a microscope. Figure three or four hundred bucks for those plus your book plus course fees and tuition. Check out this link. http://www.ocean.edu/academics/programs_of_study/science/MicrobiologyOnline.htm

Let's add "which of the multiple job offers I am considering should I take?" If you are so good you have multiple offers then you out to be smart enough to figure out which one is right for you.

Actually in Texas there are very few specifics regarding what an LVN can or can't do including IV pushes. It's pretty much up to each facility's comfort level. Nursing boards only regulate the practice of nurses. In most states, CNAs and other non-l...

I was walking out the door for work the other day when I saw an item on NBC news that talked about one of their polls showing that for the first time ever, 50% of Americans believe pot should be legalized. Now then, if this is correct, would it be be...

Like, how do I give like, notice? Like, how do I like, quit my job? Like, do you like, think they'll like, be like, mad at me? Maybe like, my mom could like, write like, a note or like something.

Check out this link. http://www.excelsior.edu/fees-and-tuition FYI, the enrollment fee has gone up to $975.

At one time, in some states if you were carried on the books as full time and were scheduled for less than a certain numbers of hours for a week you could claim unemployment benefits for that week. Something you could check into.