Lupan

Lupan specializes in med/surg; LTC.....LPN, RN, DON; TCU.

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1. Do you guys see a lot of people saying they are nursing students....

   Lupan replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Students

   I work with several pre-req nursing students and 2nd semester nursing students. I don't really have a problem with what they call themselves EXCEPT when the students attempt to act like nurses and...

2. Patients and the race card

   Lupan replied to CanadaEh's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   I was looking at some of the responses and I would like to make a statement. As a Native American/Anglo male nurse I find it amusing some of the things I hear. 1 DON refered to me as "the tan white...

3. Nursing Career Questions

   Lupan replied to ttpurtee's topic in General Nursing

   I have an EMS background so nursing was easy. The good points are stable pay and hours ( in LTC ), self worth, getting to meet some of the most interesting people in the world, the medical community,...

4. Is it to late for me to become a Nurse?

   Lupan replied to louis345's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

   If you can dream it, you can do it. If you want it bad enough you can get it!! Don't let others decide for you. Being a male nurse is great and you will be suprised that a weak stomach goes away. AND...

5. I'm sure this has been said.. MA's calling themselves Nurses

   Lupan replied to AprilN's topic in General Nursing

   I have been in positions where pts thought that the CNAs and MAs were their nurses and I couldn't be their nurse because I was a man. I have also seen CNAs and MAs and CMAs ID themselves as nurses as...

6. Texas: Methodist Hospital Moves To Hire Only RNS' with BS degree

   Lupan replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

   Ah here we go again!! That infamous Atkins study was about staffing/pt ratios not AD versus BSN. And don't we all take the same board exam?? On that note let's say ADs pass the same exam as BSNs and...

7. Time to call a duck a duck?

   Lupan replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

   I once worked with an RN that had over 20 years at bedside. She gave me a piece of advise when I first entered nursing. "Nurses are their own worst enemy". Everyone wants to protect their pie but...

8. How do you wash your scrubs?

   Lupan replied to gumby1411's topic in General Students

   Years ago while attending an EMS training class for BIO hazards and NBC warefare we learned of a magical solution to wash our uniforms in. Anti Bacterial DISHSOAP with CITRUS OIL. I have used it on...

9. The Great Emergency Prank War

   Lupan replied to murphyle's topic in Nursing Humor

   One time at halloween I took a rubber zombie and put it in a bed. Everyone got a kick out of it because I told no one except there was a new resident in room #310. At one hospital we tied a sleeping...

10. Attractive Students Being Hired First

    Lupan replied to bioniclewoman's topic in First Year After Licensure

    If some nurse gets hired because of looks so be it. My experience is that they live to regret such hiring policies. In rural areas it don't take long for the word to get out and the backlash can be...

11. Why do many nurses look down on LTC?

    Lupan replied to Kitty Hawk's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    LTC has challenges that I didn't find at the hospital and vice-versa. I really feel that the issue is more on a level of I am better than you plus the rep of nursing homes hasn't been the best in the...

12. A Wardrobe Malfunction, or Why Not to Wear A Halloween Costume to Work

    Lupan replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    I can see the whole event!! It is better than the time of monster movies on halloween and working that night. Needed the

13. sex in the work place...really?

    Lupan replied to Mr. Evans's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Sorry to upset the apple cart folks. Some of the female professors hit on us male students or flirted extensively with

14. sex in the work place...really?

    Lupan replied to Mr. Evans's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Sorry tejas but they were mostly the female

15. sex in the work place...really?

    Lupan replied to Mr. Evans's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    At the hospital where I use to work seperated the couples when caught by unit assignments or day and night shift assignments. They really didn't want to fire people because of possible backlash. I...