loriLPN

Hi guys! I have wondered for some time why my epidural stopped working in the middle of my labor? I got it @ 4cm and it held me for 4 hours, then all of the sudden stopped! When they checked me after I called hollering for more meds I was 8cm and the...

At my LTC facility all of the staff wears scrubs. I am so sick of being asked if I am a housekeeper or a "waitress" that I am ready to break out the old cap and white stockings!!!

i applied for a job and had my 1st interview went great, then on the 2nd i started to feel like i was hiding something by not telling them i was prego- i saw her write "5 months preg." on her notepad and underline it twice... later in the interview s...

do any of you remember having growing pains when you were having growth spurts? i shot up a few inches over a summer when i was 11 and i distinctly remember laying awake at night with the worst pain in my femurs, an aching, gnawing pain that had me i...

in northern indiana in LTC you can expect between 13 and 15 per hour for lpn, and 16 to 18 for rn.

i just had a baby new years eve. he roomed with me the whole stay. he went to the nursery to be circumcised and stayed there for 30 minutes for observation. other than that he never left my room! i was charged by the doc for the surgery, by the hos...

if the end justifies the means...... also, just a reminder- i don't know what setting you work in but do not handle crushed tablets of proscar....i did several times a day for critical months of my pregnancy with a male child (proscar only causes def...

i loooove the depo shot! there is too much room for human error on the pill...my human error is named collin. i didn't even know i wanted him until i held him for the first time, but we do not want another little miracle for a few years. does anyon...

when i was first pregnant (i just KNEW...i know my body very well) i called my doc to see if the blood test would confirm it at only 4 days of gestation. i knew that early. the doc said there was no way i was preggo because i had started my period on...

my littman cardiology came with a interchangable pediatric head...just screw the adult one off, screw the pediatric one on (and it is soooo cute). i really don't think it works any better than the adult size, i have tried both on my 7 week old.

my bill states as follows: 1-2-04 pharmacy $493 1-2-04 pharmacy iv $19 1-2-04 supplies $993 12-31-03 delivery room $2185 1-2-04 room and board $5835 1-2-04 nursery $1325 1-2-04 laboratory $112 the gal at the billing counter is clueless...would they h...

who's decision is it, legally, if daughter wants to keep the baby and mother thinks abortion/adoption is best? ....some young girls actually think it's cool to be pregnant. oral sex is no more personal than a kiss. now, i graduated from high school ...

at the facility where i work, anything over 8 hrs a day is overtime. so what i do is take my time and do all my treatments and meds which I can make fit into 8 hours (with my 15 min break and lunch). i save all paperwork for after my shift- which ad...

elkpark- so the $6,000 it would take me to go for my RN would be deductable? is that only up to a certain amount?

i put a band aid on a lady's fingernail because it was snagging her sweater. i didn't have clippers on my med cart but i was going to clip the nail during treatments. unit manager was lurking in some shadow and saw me do it. forgot to get the doctor...

i had a miscarriage at 16 weeks in my last semester, the morning of a miss-and- die exam. i actually considered going to school WHILE I WAS LOSING MY BABY because the exam was so important. i ended up at the hospital because the bleeding was too mu...

if most of your friends work nights and you feel boring working days, then work nights! if you come home every day after work and never see your friends, you sit on the couch for a few hours eating cold cereal and watching golden girls reruns then dr...

i would have listened to the warning signs next to the tanning bed saying "may cause permanent eye injury", maybe i would still have night vision. I WOULD HAVE LISTENED TO MY MOTHER and gone one more lousy year to be an RN.

is this normal? i had my 1st baby new year's eve and had a 2nd degree laceration on the bottom and a 1st degree on the top. my dr didn't suture the top but put several on the bottom. the first day home, my husband did something funny and i was laug...

hey guys! thank you for all the advise... i went to the dr. today. i tore all my stitches that nite. she fixed it, i guess. it took almost an hour and here i sit on my donut again:) well, at least that buys me another 4 weeks of pelvic rest:roll ...

gizelda- mothers/nurses are the most skilled, careing, patient and wise people on earth- we could do ANYTHING WE PUT OUR MIND TO but chose to nurse!:kiss

emily, as a fellow midwesterner and young (just turned 21)nurse, nothing will stun an older co-worker like saying "yes, ma'am" or "yes, sir". it is polite but will usually stop someone in their tracks, in indiana at least. several nurses where i wo...

i broke out in psoriasis on the palms of my hands my first semester of nsg school (i hear it is exacerbated by stress). for a year and a half i went to countless dermatologists to cure it but all that seemed to help was-this is gross but i was desper...

i am 1 year out of nsg school and work in a long term care facility. before i was a nurse i was a cna for 5 years, so i totally understand what their day is like: thankless, dirty, neverending work. so, is it an unspoken rule among nurses that you d...

hey ladies- the thing you need to know about the nclex is that they have a really cruel way of scoring it...well, it not so much cruel HOW they score it but that they don't TELL you how they score it. you are given a few questions based on difficult...