fridayannelpn1974

No one has ever told me that being an LPN is a stepping stone to being an RN. I'd like to see that in writing! Certainly my school never said so and I have always been told by my employers that the LPN is an essential part of the team. Since I am 55y...

I graduated in 1974 as an LPN and have been told all my life that they are phasing out LPN's. It hasn't happened yet. Hopefully I am close enought to retirement that I will not be effected by this. I work in a rehab/long term care facility in Ariz...

You should have titled your research" Why do people become RN's if you only wanted their feedback. As an Lpn for 35years I am STILL tired of being excluded from the term "NURSE". "OH! are you a nurse or an LPN" ? MAKES ME GAG!! We ARE nurses. If you ...

I'm not worried about looking like an idiot. I'm only worried about actually being an idiot. I have brought back at least 3 patients, who I didn't think had a chance in hell of being revived. Each one of them, or their family, thanked me for my effo...

You don't specify what kind of setting you are in, but in most cases it is up to the social worker to clarify, who is the immediate next of kin, or Power of Attorney. Contact the SW. immediatly and ask for a document that specifies who you should con...

Why should patients bother to fill out advanced directives and CPR wishes if the nurse in charge can just decide, not to do CPR? I have never seen an advanced directive that specifies: Do CPR unless the nurse in charge of my care decides it's not ne...

Check out the new guidlines for CPR for Healthcare Providers. (not basic CPR for anyone). It gives specifics about how aggressive CPR should be. The adrenaline rush that we all get when we kick into CPR mode sometimes causes too aggressive CPR. Th...

Thanks for the comment. There have been a lot of comments on when, where, & what rigor mortis is. These things are all self evident and of course true. But the issue is not if the person was dead or not, of course he was! The problem for nurse...

I was just using the McDonald's coffee thing as an example of how sue happy our society is. You don't need to defend McDonald's to me. I eat there. Sorry if you took it personally.

When we live in a society that someone can sue McDonald's for a burn injury, and WIN, when THEY put hot coffee between their legs, what do you think is down the road for nurses? As a prior wound nurse, I have been deposed several times and come out...

In the state I currently work it requires 2 nurses to pronounce death. Either an Rn & Lpn, or 2 Lpns. Here, if the person is a full code status, only their primary physican can OK the cesation of CPR and allow the nurses to pronounce. I work in a...