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Thats great, at least you learned something you can do with out a babysitter..

Okay I am in my second year of nuring school. I have 3 qtrs left until graduation. I have been pre-hospital for 11 years. Let me guess, your an LPN or just an RN with zero experince except passing meds in a nurisng home????

I agree that there are good nurses also.. The ED nurses that we deal with are typically cool.. we see them ALOT and have establised a good rapport and we also have a good open line of communication with our EMS coordinators that typically keeping the bickering to a minimum and address any complaints quickly. I just HATE it when you catch attitude from nursing home nurses that have NO idea what it is like to deal with there cocky attitudes and unpreparedness.

Okay... first of all let me start this conversation out by saying that when we pick up pts from nursing homes... typically they are soo sick and going down the tubes because they have layed there like that for days!!! then when there o2 sat is in the 70's THEN and only THEN is it a medical emergency and this ALWAYS seems to happen at three in the morning?? my question to you super nurse is why arent these pt's taken care of prior to them falling so ill? Also when we pick these pts up, NO ONE EVER knows any info about the pt.. We pick up ur COPD'ers with o2 sats of 60-70, cyanotic and *****.. yet you have them on 2lpm o2??? ever think of calling a DR??? Before you start bashing other people and professions, MAYBE you should look inside and see what is going on inside YOUR facilty. I cannot tell you HOW many times we have saved nursing homes staff's asses taking care of THEIR emergencies.. And for that matter, We have MORE training and schooling than most of your so called LPN "nurses". So rather than saying we have little man syndrome, maybe we are just tired of picking up your slack!!!!

LTC exactly not hospitals....

Your program is a bridge... thats why it is 12 months long..... LOL....

Yeah... well if you would of read my posting I SAID that they are claaified the same by both being called nurses.. I have my opinon snd you have yours...

WOW!!!!! No need to be ugly...It was just a simple observation/question.

Okay.... So i really dont understand how it is that you can go to school for 12-18 months and be classified as a "Nurse" when there are those of us whom are going to school for 2-4 years and are classified the same?? In my opinon it seems to me that LPN's are just overglorified PCT's or Aides. Where I am currently employed as a phlebotomist while going through nursing school, they employ mainly LPN's and from my direct observations it is more of a pain in the Nurses (RN) *** because not only do they have there 5 to 8 pts but now they have to do ALL of the LPN's assesments, PICC line draws, IV meds, hanging blood. How is that benefical when all they are doing is adding to the RN's workload? And not to mention that most of them also work on any given day as an Aide anyway. So in conclusion, I just dont underdstand how and why LPN's and RN's are classified the same when clearly there scope of practice is not the same.

I personally think that is a STUPID idea.. And you would only be setting yourself up for failure. Just my opinon. Nursing test are not just fact based they involve TONS of critical thinking skills and application as well as memorization. NO NCLEX review book will fully prepare you for an exam. I personally take notes in class, copy them again at home, study my patho pages, careplans and ppt's as well as reading from the text books used for that qtr. I also tend to use RELIABLE nursing websites.

At my school, the grading scale is as follows... A= 93-100 B= 86-92 C= 80-85

At my school, the lowest passing grade is an 80% and we have a 100% pass rate for the NCLEX as well as job placement..