fridayannelpn1974

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 unfair. I would ask the interviewer to give me the q...

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 equavilent to the amount of pain you are having. I...

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 understaffed. Most of the time the thing that interfers with p...

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 night one or more of them go "BAD", and I have t...

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 Rn's who graduated when I did with Associate Degre...

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 started me at the top wage for Rns. & said that sh...

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 makes me worry about what else they are responsible...

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 a peice of cake . When I worked in hospitals, year...

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. if I am still alive), and tell me if you have don...

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, and the only insulin available was U60. This meant...

The Florence Nightingale era is gone! Wake up Nurses!

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 are called Developmentally Disabled. If not for th...

I find it amazing that patients wait until 2am in the morning to complain about all kinds of things, like their TV, roommate, diet, patient account, provider, toenails, hairdo, missing clothes, stolen teddy bear, wheelchair, family, medication, ap...

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, who had ever seen it before. That's because I had s...

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, care of elderly family members, or husband oposit...

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 been breaking our backs in these kind of faciliti...

Every single nurse has something that someone else can compaint about. We're too fat, too short, too black, too white, too mexican, too religious, too atheiast, too lazy, too blonde, too loud, too quiet, too uncareing, too involved, too rude, too sto...

Be CAREFUL how you handle this situation! In theory you are correct, but in actuality sometimes you are seen as the villan. It's disgusting that this is so in too many cases. If you depend on your health insurance and wages, pay check to pay check- T...

To: Brass Monkey I think after 3 yrs in this field, you MAY know all there is to know - I'm not sure. I think that nurses who travel as you do & are in a specialty fields like pulmonary, are not held to the same standards as the floor nurses wh...

Thanks to ORCA who said what I was so happy to hear. I am one of those nurses. Other nurses come to me to start IV's or catheterize pts. or tell them what's wrong with their pt. I am not smarter than them, but I have seen most of these problems seve...

To: Vital.nurse- Thankyou for your comment! FYI I am still working as an Lpn. I work the graveyard shift (I wonder why they call it that?) I take care of 52 patients and sometimes there isn't an RN in the building. Normally we have one, but when she...

From Fridayanne--- There is nothing about a bunch of letters next to your name that elevates you to professional. I have run into a LOT of Rn's who are nothing more than pencil pushers. At our long term facility the state requires an Rn. sign off o...

Maybe we should tell the PATIENT'S to file it away and leave it unsaid!

You sound like a virgin, smiling. as you are walking to the edge of the volcano to be sacrificed! Walk one mile in our shoes before you offer to take anything off our hands. You have to earn that right. Book smarts won't do it. ( This is in response ...

Let me say that I just read most of this thread's posts and WOW! One thing I can say about everyone, is they seem to be passionate about their profession. As it SHOULD be. I think the main problem is that there are many nurses with much higher work e...