Kgusty30

bhcc has really strict policies with their application process, esp for lpns...its quite ridiculous...for one, they dont even let you mail in your application!!!! and you have to take a dosage calc course that only they offer!!! i would try roxbury cc if u are in or around boston...good luck!!!

I am not a L+D nurse, but I spoke to one at work who was visiting her relative who happened to be assigned to me one night. She offered me some good advice. I am due in July and this baby is my 2nd. My plan for my first was to go "as far as I could with no meds", but I caved and got the epidural approx. 11 hrs into labor only 3 cm dilated.....my water did break at home before I got to the hospital, and my belief is that once I got into the hosp bed, I was hooked up to the fhr monitor and could not get out of bed (for whatever reason I don't know why or can't remember) and that really was detrimental to having a drug free delivery because I couldn't move through the pain or manage it on my own...this time, I plan on being very specific with the nurse that I would like the freedom to walk, use the shower and/or other techniques that will aid me in achieving a natural delivery (this was the advice that the L+D nurse told me). I think that the nurse is the person who you need to communicate with the most....good luck!!!!

I love the CNAs that I work with, but sometimes, we have to work with no CNA, usually when they are needed as sitters for pts on 1:1...that annoys the crap outta the nurses bc then we need to take each other away from what we are doing to help each other with weighing pts, cleaning pts, doing vitals and blood sugars, while in turn taking away more of our time to spend with pts, and answer pt's familys questions, etc etc....I had a CNA say to me,' hey are you going to stay and do a double, they need help..?", and I thought to myself, yeah, sure I would love to sit on my butt for 8 hours!!!!!!

I am an LPN on a LTACH vented floor in MA. I typically take care of 4 pts on 3-11, while most of the RNs get 3 and complain about it. On a lucky rare night I can have 3 if our census is low.Some nights I will have 5 if an RN gets an admission, which he/she then would get one additional pt for a total of 2 for the night. I rarely see 6 patients, but sometimes it happens. My pts are generally stable and are usually the chronic patients (ones that are not getting better but their families either gave up visiting or are just waiting for them to die). The RNs get the more complicated pts. We sometimes do not get a CNA and have to turn, clean and flip our pts, do vitals and CBGs on our own....there are generally 3-4 med passes during the shift, and the RT gives the resp meds...

hey there! i just applied to bcc for their bridege prgam which starts this aug '10, then you go into 2nd year nsg to then graduate with an adn in 2011. we'll see how it goes. i got denied from mcc because i had too many transfer credits...did my prereqs at a 4 yr college and my lpn credits brought be over the amt that they would accept...so im tryin bcc..i'll let u know how it goes if i get in....good luck w/lpn school!!!