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  1. med carts/control freaks

    donnapalmer replied to ktwlpn's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Actually, my issue isn't with my fellow full-time workers on other shifts; my issue is with the per-diem/float staff who don't take care with our "stuff"...the three of us who share the cart on a...

  2. med carts/control freaks

    donnapalmer replied to ktwlpn's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Hello! My first post as a licensed nurse; I passed boards on October 31 (whew!) I have been working at a LTC/rehab center on the short-term stay unit since graduation, and rapidly developed a mania...

  3. Blatant Nursing "No-No's"........what's your worst???

    donnapalmer replied to anndoodle's topic in General Nursing

    We were in our summer clinical in July, 2004, on a med-surg unit at a large, regional medical center...my patient had a large, draining post-D&I wound of the hip (s/p ORIF, post-op infection). It...

  4. How many days a week are you in class/clinicals?

    donnapalmer replied to studentnurse74's topic in General Students

    Part time BOCES program; 2 years. First year, 2 days theory, 1 day lab and 2 days clinical, from 8 a.m. til 11 a.m. for all three. This follows the usual New York school year from early September...

  5. The WAR between days and nights!

    donnapalmer replied to stretch thin's topic in General Nursing

    I had forgotten how frustrating this was, because I have had the immense good fortune to be able to leave my LTC job to attend nursing school...reading a few posts brought it all back, and just as...

  6. What Nursing school are you in? Show your pride!

    donnapalmer replied to straba's topic in General Students

    Orange/Ulster BOCES, Goshen, NY...grad date 6/2005 (God willin' and the creek don't

  7. LPN program at BOCES

    donnapalmer replied to gwiazdaus's topic in General Students

    Quickly, (one of three kids howling with hunger!) I'm taking my LPN at a BOCES--community college nearby (OCCC being the closest) don't offer an LPN, just the

  8. LPN program at BOCES

    donnapalmer replied to gwiazdaus's topic in General Students

    I am currently in the first year of a two year, part time LPN program in New York...I am student living in Pennsylvania (by about 6 blocks) and formerly working in New York. I am a CNA, for 14 years,...

  9. dishonesty in clinical rotation

    donnapalmer posted a topic in General Students

    Hello, all...seeking advice or information...I am a first year LPN student, going part time, mornings. My dilemma involves a couple of fellow students. We have just started our clinical rotation in...

  10. dishonesty in clinical rotation

    donnapalmer replied to donnapalmer's topic in General Students

    Hello, Rapheal...a couple of thoughts on your post.. Besides this, there were three people who independently of each other, had the same suspicion. We are also all students, and are transitioning...

  11. Bathing - scared to death!

    donnapalmer replied to jennysjewels's topic in General Students

    Actually, Jenny, the facility I just left (CNA 14 yrs) was County-run, which has the same reputation, but actually has a lovely campus, (largely) caring staff, and a broad mix of social and economic...

  12. dishonesty in clinical rotation

    donnapalmer replied to donnapalmer's topic in General Students

    I appreciate your concerns, RN2be--it so happens that the two students in question were already under scrutiny for unrelated incidents, that nobody outside the faculty was aware of. We did make sure...

  13. Bathing - scared to death!

    donnapalmer replied to jennysjewels's topic in General Students

    I was a CNA for a number of years before beginning nursing school. The first time I even knew that adults used incontinent briefs I was 22 years old, and shocked by the revelation. In quick...

  14. dishonesty in clinical rotation

    donnapalmer replied to donnapalmer's topic in General Students

    Thanks, everyone, for your help--my classmates and I approached our instructor this morning and got the whole situation out in the open. (I actually navigated to the subject of this thread on the...

  15. dishonesty in clinical rotation

    donnapalmer replied to donnapalmer's topic in General Students

    delete--"Dooped"

  16. dishonesty in clinical rotation

    donnapalmer replied to donnapalmer's topic in General Students

    just a test to find out why my image won't upload...didn't want to "play" in someone else's thread! (these are my three kids' names, by the

  17. dishonesty in clinical rotation

    donnapalmer replied to donnapalmer's topic in General Students

    Thanks for the warm fuzzies...I'm sending select of my fellow classmates over here ASAP to get an eyeball on what the real world of nursing is like, outside of our limited experience in our LTC...

  18. Websites...

    donnapalmer replied to FutureRN~Pookie's topic in General Nursing

    Here are some that I've found immensely helpful, and am always looking out for others... http://www.ehc.com/vbody.asp http://spot.colorado.edu/~dubin/bookmarks/b/1010.html...

  19. dishonesty in clinical rotation

    donnapalmer replied to donnapalmer's topic in General Students

    I truly believe that the lazy ones will be weeded out by the time the program closes, but I fear being associated with their attitudes and work ethics. I do believe that tolerating poor behavior is...

  20. dishonesty in clinical rotation

    donnapalmer replied to donnapalmer's topic in General Students

    The only reason I believe they did not bathe the resident stems from the fact that a similar bath the week before took the students nearly an hour to complete, and that was leaving the resident in a...

  21. dishonesty in clinical rotation

    donnapalmer replied to donnapalmer's topic in General Students

    Funny, it's the hardest part of transitioning from CNA to LPN, is no longer thinking like a CNA! One day in the lab, while demonstrating a bed bath to my instructor, I found a "wound" on a sim.--I...