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tell him to get over him self. my husband worked full-time and did his part while I was in school. Maybe he need something more constructive to do try asking him if he wants to take up some classes next semester.

I worked home health for a year in a rural area, and there were moments like that. I had this one lil old lady who lived alone,she was disoriented at times , her living conditions were heartbreaking. I didn't want to get out my car and go into her home my first day, but I had a job to do and I'm the type who likes a challenge and besides we become nurses because we care right ?.. I walk in and her house was pretty clean at first glimpse, I introduce myself and I realized she was a bit hard of hearing ,but once you got around that, you couldn't stop her from talking, she had a beautiful smile . I started my assessment and I noticed a few roaches crawling but I didn't get worried at this time, but as I continued on and I had to look around for her B/S monitor I opened a drawer where it was and a whole lot more roaches came out. I looked in her cabinet to get a glass so that she could get something to drink with her meds and a lot more came out,I opened her fridge to get the water pitcher and even more roaches came out. The longer I stayed the more noticable the bugs became.They were on the ceiling, the floors ,and the chairs. I stood there with my bag on my shoulder, B/P cuff in one hand attemping my assessment without putting anything down, it was horrible, . I felt like a greedy salesman trying to get paid.I reported to the supervisors ,but of course they already knew of her condition. I did buy a can of spray around my 3rd visit to her home it helped just a lil. I was told later after I left the company that they finally got someone to come in and put something a lot stronger down around the home.

check to see if your job offer the weekend program where you work 16hr weekends and take the rest of the week off you still receive fulltime benefits and hrs, or you may want to look into doing some agency work, you can work 16hrs every other weekend and make 2wks pay as if you worked da whole week and a half I know I've done it.

OK, I will start by saying that yes there are areas of nursing where you will not have to do the dirty work,also its not that there is a lack of education that PCA'S get stuck doing these jobs. It"s that Nurses have more important duties that something as small as back wiping and toilet assist.They were trained for their jobs and we were trained for ours and it all come together whereas the pt gets the care they need. jobs. I took a 2wk cna class when I first moved to my current hometown before going to nursing school. I didn't tell my mother about it because I had heard her speak about the hard work thats put on cna's. I loved my job the only reason I quit after 4 months was because I didn't take the training because that was something I wanted to do long term I wanted a learning experience first. Now that I am a nurse I respect their work and I think some of the best care pt's get are from nurses who were cna's first and climbed the ladder to LPN or RN. I look at it this way no day is promised to any one. Today you are perfectly fine but tomorrow an accident or anything can happen and you the nurse are now the pt. and you will want someone to respect you in your condition. On the brighter side I did home health and they have PCA'S for the smaller stuff. Also clinics or maybe u can try something different like nurse consulting for law firms they pay really well and also I did correctional nursing this will be good too for you. good luck.

I had a nurse ask me once why r u going to school to be a nurse you should go into modeling instead. I didn't know nurses could't be attractive too.

Yes I did and she is a very big supporter of OBAMA.

I know right.

LOL. Not quite I'm working on it.

You will see a lot more of this in the nursing home area. I have seen this and the best thing to do is know that your license is important don't worry about making friends take charge. what I did was when I did my med passes I checked my rooms I checked diapers even marking them. When working you will learn the good CNA's and the lazy ones they can give you trouble or they will be your best worker find out who you working with by observation. It's not always the CNA's who are lacking in their jobs either, Here is one of my moments: I worked on a med surg floor in a area in MS and the sharp container was full in the room where I had just given an lovenox inj.( I was an agency nurse here.)So i decided to go to the room right next door and waste it in that container but it was full, I went to the room next to that and it was full and had a syringe with blood in it laying on top of the container. I walked out went up the hall with my syringe in my hand still and said what the hell do you not have bio containers in this place this is just unsanitary. So the nurse get up and we drop my syringe off finally in the med room it was well above that 3/4 line but it was enough to get it out my hands so we walk around andfind that not a one room on that hall had containers that were actually usable I was disgusted and I told them they needed to call housekeeping or somebody because that was ridiculous.

Here is my thoughts I will be sending. Dear Oprah, I am writing concerning the current thread posted on allnurses.com website regarding shortage in nursing. There may be areas of shortage but my personal opinion is because of the lack of help the full- time nurses have on their jobs because of the lack of nurses which drives nurses out the door. There are hospitals in the state of Mississippi with great areas of specialty to work in but the pay is below what a nurse working in another area of specialty would rate and in this economy its hard to live off ( I'm working because I wanna help people .)nurses have to eat too. So nurses who need the extra money leave the minimal paying jobs @ the hospitals. Also another problem is the fact that nursing is overwhelmingly women and any time you have a bunch of women around period you have trouble. I've seen women quit in the middle of their first day of orientation because of negative attitudes so there really isn't a shortage of nursing there is just an accumulation of things pulling us in so many directions leaving areas of need very much open which is the real concern.

we be so ready to leave work but somehow it follows us home.

Ignore her has she taken any of these classes is she in nursing school. it's just one of those things. I have 3 kids 12 6 3 I graduated when I was six months pregnant and my baby was about 2 yrs old. This is your best time, focus on what is important and leave da pety stuff behind good luck.

you sign your kids homework S JACKSON LPN

i think i heard just about all of it, but here is one more. I'm 30 and get mistaken as being much much younger. I've done quite a bit agency in my 4yrs as a nurse and whenever I walk into a new facility and the staffing is confirming who all they have to work the shift I'm automatically mistaken as being the CNA. I dress professional, work and act the same.OMG! and my badge says LPN hmm.