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LPN is competitive with about triple the apps to spots. One trick I learned was to buy the edition before the latest version of the textbook, or even two editions back. They are dirt cheap and those old texts are the ones the tests are actually from....

I've taken the in-class version. If you do the Summer session, it will be 12 weeks and it will be INCREDIBLY fast paced.

I love cartoon and cute scrub tops. I think one of the cutest I saw was a Scooby Doo print a nurse of about 50 or so was wearing on our (adult) floor. Good grief, why get so aggravated by something somebody else is wearing? Personally some of the wei...

If you had a bowel movement this afternoon, you are NOT constipated. Yes, I am Satan for refusing to give your pain meds early. Notice the Satan, RN on my nametag - even the lord of the underworld needs to have a job, and I plan to keep mine, thank y...

Haldol & Geodon But personally, I am still bowled over by the fact that I have three little boys who love me and who always have something new that they want to share...

I had a patient a couple of nights back who was fine but her daughter was a total nutcase. She hit the call button every few minutes to tell me... the pillows weren't fluffy enough the air vent wasn't blowing enough air she didn't have the same chann...

Are you serious? Intake charting, shift charting, admission charting, rounding charting, skin assessment chartment, focus note charting. If my hand isn't cramping by the end of the shift, I know I have forgotten something :-(

Because he told her she had about 4 more months to live. Seriously, why do people think they are going to be immortal? If I was told tommorrow that I was dying, I would try to make the best of the time I have, not curse the person telling me about my...

I am certain she cursed him because she called him a dumb^&% *** of a ***** who didn't know his rear from a hole in the ground and who &*&^*&^ ^%&%^ %$$^%$... The direction of her anger was pretty clear ;-) I am not judging the pa...

I watched an experienced nurse push Phenergan into a hand IV in less than 10 seconds. The patient started howling about how it was burning and she told him that was normal

Um, is this even a real post? If it is, you seriously need to rethink your financial future. A nursing license will not make 65k worth of loans disappear. Getting an RN designation is not automatically buying you a winning lottery ticket. You will no...

It is to make sure you are the right, "Jane Doe." So many nurses have tried to pull tricks to avoid the black marks on their licenses from other states from following them around. There was a recent scandal about this where it was determined that tho...

Is there any way you could volunteer at a hospital to try to see how your body handles the stress? I frequently work as much as 16 hours per shift and I am healthy as can be, but I still have to practically drag myself out to my car when I am done. 6...

Just curious about what other nurses have done. My LPN license doesn't expire until 2011. I am now an RN, which doesn't expire until 2013. I am working as an RN but was wondering what I should do when my LPN license expires. Are there any advantages ...

I'm not sure why I would want to...other then maybe flexibility? I am also very attached to my LPN license, since I worked really hard for it :-) I was just curious as to what others have done.

LPN school was tough and, to me, was much harder than RN school. LPN school was 8 a - 3p, M-F, every doggone day...hundreds of quizzes and tests...tough as nails instructors. RN school - Monday and Thursday. Clinicals on some Tuesdays. 5 tests per se...

Wow, I went to an interview for a hospital looking for a nurse to take care of mainly CHF & chronic renal failure patients. I honestly went just to get interview practice. I only graduated a month ago and just got my license. I never thought they...

Ouch, what school are you planning to attend that has tuition that high? I will be going to a state university and my MSN will cost only about 9K.

It took about 3 weeks for my license to arrive in the mail. I called the BON and apparently there was some kind of glitch at the printers.

I passed my NCLEX on Thursday and had been told that my license number would be posted in about 48 hours. It has now been nearly a week and no number. Normally this wouldn't be an issue but I have to have my license number to get into a RN-BSN progra...

I only failed one test in nursing school but I failed it spectacularly. That test was cardiac. I hated those little strips with the squiggly line and could not read or make sense of them. Take a wild guess where I am working? Yep, not one, but two, s...

I have to say, as a recent grad, and serial interviewee - skip the hose and heels. I dressed up and felt like I was ready to take over a corner office somewhere ;-) The hiring manager took one look at me and said, "why did you wear heels; you know we...

This has been tried before in my area. It doesn't work. The redirect clinics are huge money losers, which end up getting shut down after about a year or so. The uninsured who are diverted to it don't pay and usually know the system well enough to giv...

Thanks everyone. I have been offered three jobs this week and I think I am going to take the one that is closer to home and has a much lower patient acuity level (and a lower patient ratio, as well).

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