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Baby, you are going to have to make some tough sacrifices. It sounds like to me that you will not be able to squeeze any hours in except weekends and just a few hours on those days. ..
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Honey, I promise you alot of it is that you are new. You should have never allowed them to put you on the floor if you did not feel comfortable. Your residents will warm up to you once they realize that you are confident in your practice. However, you will have a few that will refuse meds. I would document each time and after 3 days I would inform the MD and the family just to cover yourself. You may want to check your facility's policy on that. I keep detailed documentation on my problem CNA which thank God they are few and far between. If you treat them like the way you want to be treated they will be the best help for you.....Get with a nurse that's been around for a long time and show yourself friendly. We all had to be a new nurse at one time or another. Good luck hun!
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I have been nursing for 2 years and I make 18.80 per hour. I live in Mississippi.I am a LPN with a prior Bachelor's Degree. I didn't have the money to go back to school in the first place, but somehow it all worked out. I cant obtain any money through the federal program to go to RN school and I have been applying for for scholarships. The program through the WIN job center will not help because I already have the potential to make 10.00 or more per hour. My question is what did you guys do to get over this obstacle. ...To be honest I am grateful to have had the opportunity to become a LPN. I have strong skills that I would have never gotten. The only draw back is it so freaking hard to get money to go back to school for a bridge program... especially since I have a prior bachelor's degree. ..I did have a decent paying career outside of nursing. This was a career change for me. I absolutely love my patients, but with the increase in my workload everyday. .. ( work in a nursing home) and with the short time to complete paperwork it's just unreal!! I will just have to ride the storm and look to the light at the end of the tunnel because no one said it was going to be easy anyhow!As much as I love what I do with my patients... with the ever increasing workload in nursing I have thought about going back to my old career. Any of you ever thought about it or have you taken a break from nursing?You do realize that despite taking a CNA job you will be held liable like the LPN you are. I would not want to risk my license for anything other than working in my nursing compacity. #ijsIM a big fan of Med couture! Holds their color and shape! No see through!This will be my last shift here. I told the agency that I should have never been asked to stay after that type of abuse. Thanks for your help!I work in a peds client home that needs continuous care. Last evening the client's mother did not like the way I was cleaning her child's bottom and shoved me out the way and told me that because I have only went to nursing school for one year I didnt know *ish. She also told me I needed to watch and learn. I told her I have worked here for several months and he has never had skin breakdown. She said well yeah you don't know anything move over. I let her clean her child as it is her child and she shouted a lot of obscenities to me in which I told her that I was not going to shout with her in front of her child. She said around here you are not the boss...I have no idea where this all stemmed from, but I told her that I was going to let her finish handling business with her child and I will go outside to cool off. She followed me outside to tell me that his pads needed changing. I just changed them. Instead of picking up the linens and putting them in the hamper she left them in the middle of the floor for me to pick up. I called the agency I worked with and I was told to finish the shift and ignore her because she is bipolar. I have had dealings with mentally ill people before, but I have never been shoved. Mind you last month she does not like the nurses talking to any other members of her household. I can't prove that she left water for me in the middle of her kitchen floor last month for me to fall into, but it was abnormal to have water in the middle of the floor away from anything close. She saw me fall and immediately said she had no insurance. If you were me what would you do to protect yourself and to from yourself from abuse. I don't want to quit my job and I realize that I'm a guest in her house, but I should never have to deal with abuse. P.s... She takes a lot of pills in which 4 Xanax Bars are in the mix not to mention occasionally she adds adderall to her collection to... I'm sorry I had to post this, but I need some helpful advice.
