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  1. Difficult Interview Questions

    fridayannelpn1974 replied to adamsli88's topic in Nursing Career

    These are very difficult questions, that I was (after 36yrs of being a nurse) never asked. To expect anyone to come up with answers to these vague questions - in an interview- is ridiculous- and...

  2. work while on narcotics?

    fridayannelpn1974 replied to deehaverrn's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Hi, I worked for many years while taking narcotics -Vicodin and then Morphine to be specific. When you have intense pain, morphine or any other drug does not make you "high' or impared if the dose is...

  3. Warning to New Grads

    fridayannelpn1974 replied to Little_Mouse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    After 36yrs in this business, many of those years in LTC, if you have found a facility that staffs adequatly- Thank your lucky stars!! My guess is that at least 90% or more are seriously...

  4. Warning to New Grads

    fridayannelpn1974 replied to Little_Mouse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    If it is any help, I work in a facility where I have resposibility for 52 long term care patients on the 11-7 shift. If you think long term care means there is never any drama - think again. Any given...

  5. Is It Possible An LPN Can Make More Then An RN?

    fridayannelpn1974 replied to smartnurse1982's topic in General Nursing

    WOW- I normally don't make personal comments BUT, you need to get your head out of your a--. LPN's are not technicians!!! We ARE NURSES! Rn's may have taken freshman comp. social studies etc. but the...

  6. Is It Possible An LPN Can Make More Then An RN?

    fridayannelpn1974 replied to smartnurse1982's topic in General Nursing

    When I applied for the job I currently have, I was shown a list of nursing wages that included Lpns and Rns. I am an LPN. Because I had worked for the nurse who hired me at another facility, she...

  7. Having another nurse check insulin doses & other med Qs

    fridayannelpn1974 replied to Plagueis's topic in General Nursing

    OMG, I hope there are not very many nurses out there that really can't draw up ( for example 8 units of insulin -in an insulin syringe marked off in 100 units per cc.) That's 8 little lines. DUH! It...

  8. Having another nurse check insulin doses & other med Qs

    fridayannelpn1974 replied to Plagueis's topic in General Nursing

    To ChicagoPeds- Your reply was kind of disjointed, so I don't know exactly what you were trying to say. I just want you to know that the patient ratio in vogue today of 1:4 or 1:5 in the hospitals is...

  9. Having another nurse check insulin doses & other med Qs

    fridayannelpn1974 replied to Plagueis's topic in General Nursing

    YES, it is MY license and it has been queaky clean for 35years.I graduated as an LPN at the age of 19. I am now 56yo. Since I see you have been a nurse for all of 3 yrs. contact me (in another 32 yrs....

  10. Having another nurse check insulin doses & other med Qs

    fridayannelpn1974 replied to Plagueis's topic in General Nursing

    Canoehead was right there about WHY insulin used to be double checked as an absolute! I too remember the complicated mess insulin dosing was. There were times when the MD would order 13 units of U40,...

  11. Tasers being used on mentally ill patients.

    fridayannelpn1974 replied to mmtk's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    The Florence Nightingale era is gone! Wake up

  12. Tasers being used on mentally ill patients.

    fridayannelpn1974 replied to mmtk's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Over the years I have seen all kinds of patients injure nursing personnel or other patients. Before "mainstreaming" became popular, I worked in a facility with 90 mentally retarded patients. Now they...

  13. Warning to New Grads

    fridayannelpn1974 replied to Little_Mouse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hang in there. You won't be a new grad forever. The longer you stay in nursing the more tricks and tips you learn. I just recently had a pt. with bulous phemphigoid. I was the only nurse on my wing,...

  14. Warning to New Grads

    fridayannelpn1974 replied to Little_Mouse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Nursing used to be a mostly female profession. Not any more. There are many more men going into nursing. Females left the work force frequently for a multiple of reasons: ie. child birth, child care,...

  15. Warning to New Grads

    fridayannelpn1974 replied to Little_Mouse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Welcome to MY world. Let me state right up front I am not talking about YOU personally. I am an Lpn and have been taking care of this kind of patient load for YEARS. Those of us LPN's/ LVN's who have...

  16. I am doing a research project on why nurses become nurses

    fridayannelpn1974 replied to dmckague's topic in General Nursing

    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...

  17. CPR on a person who is in rigor mortis?

    fridayannelpn1974 replied to ARRR10's topic in General Nursing

    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...

  18. Need help with a Next of Kin issue

    fridayannelpn1974 replied to StudentBeccy's topic in General Nursing

    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...

  19. CPR on a person who is in rigor mortis?

    fridayannelpn1974 replied to ARRR10's topic in General Nursing

    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...

  20. CPR on a person who is in rigor mortis?

    fridayannelpn1974 replied to ARRR10's topic in General Nursing

    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...

  21. CPR on a person who is in rigor mortis?

    fridayannelpn1974 replied to ARRR10's topic in General Nursing

    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...

  22. CPR on a person who is in rigor mortis?

    fridayannelpn1974 replied to ARRR10's topic in General Nursing

    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

  23. CPR on a person who is in rigor mortis?

    fridayannelpn1974 replied to ARRR10's topic in General Nursing

    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...

  24. CPR on a person who is in rigor mortis?

    fridayannelpn1974 replied to ARRR10's topic in General Nursing

    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...