MissSpectacular

There are some great options out there! -School Nursing -Corrections Nursing -Public Health Nurse -Nursing Educator (at a college, university, CNA instructor, etc.) -MDS or other office nurse Look into it!

It's DEFINATELY a good experience, if nothing else. In a nursing home you will learn how to do quite a bit.....your telephone orders, your appointments, admissions, discharges, med pass, narc counts, patint and family teaching, become familiar with h...

We also combine mucomyst with albuterol. I suppose if you have the time, then by all means give the albuteral before the mucomyst.

Absolutely, if it is in a private practice and the MD is the primary. Patient comes into an ER, then no. I have seen MDs refuse to continue treatment for patients that are consitently non-compliant. Just last week we had an MD notify a patient and h...

Did you have the scratch beforehand? Or did the patient scratch you? Was the patient bleeding anywhere when they came in contact with your scratch? If no blood made contact with your scratch then I wouldn't worry too much.

What area of the country are you located in? I am very sorry to hear this.

I burnt a few bridges during my CNA days, one at a decent hospital and one at a large nursing home chain. I was under a ton of pressure at home and undergoing a major shift in my personal life while being pregnant. Trust me when I tell you....once i...

i have become a believer in the supernatural since starting nursing. First bad experience with a malevolent spirit is while I was working as a PCT at a ventilator hospital. We had one room on the C wing that was reputed as haunted. I was working a n...

I graduated from Americare and so did a few of my co-workers. Its not too bad. Northwestern Institute is actually the "mother school" to Americare, as the director of NWIHT is a family member of the director of Americare. I would not recommend PCCTI...

Nursing homes are your best bet. There is a job fair on September 16th at the Drury Lane in Oak Brook, IL, I believe, and some big names hospitals will be there (Loyola, Alexian Brothers, Sinai,etc.) But for a new grad, hit the nursing homes and the...

lol @ all of these! I was brand new at my LTC facility, and I saw a younger man in seil blue scrubs coming down the hall. Our physical therapists wear that particular blue scrub, so I assumed the man was a therapist. I started asking him a question ...

I need advice on what to think here. Before I start, I feel incredibly stupid for not realizing this ahead of time, and I need your opinions. I work in a LTC center on a Medicare floor, so many of our patients are higher acuity. We have one particul...

I don't see how "getting drinks with co-workers" is an irresponsible thing to say. It became irresponsible because she had the patient on her page, where he had access to the status updates. It's not just "embarrassing" pictures that merit keeping m...

Ah...the micromanager. Be respectful, but firm. I have a particular manager that feels the need to berate the staff nonstop in front of the families and other staff members. I told her in no uncertain terms while I respect the fact that she is, inde...

DO NOT add patients as friends. We had a pretty nasty issue at our facility not long ago regarding Facebook friends. Long story short, one of our patients is alert, and spends a lot of time in the multimedia center downstairs playing around on Faceb...

I do not believe she actually recorded the resident, I believe she used "I'm recording everything" as a threat towards her to get her to stop harassing her. Later on, the resident took it upon herself to report her. I agree 100% with what you said: t...

She volunteered at DuPage County Clinic and she was hired at a long term care facility later on, somewhere north of Arlington Heights.

Illinois: long term care. Night shift: up to about 60 patients Days/Evenings: About 20-30 Salary: surprisingly good for the area. LPNs about 25/hr and RNs about 30/hr

BE CAREFUL what you post on Facebook! We had an incident recently at my workplace due to this networking site. A group of us went out one evening for drinks for a co-workers birthday. Nothing major, just a few cocktails and some dancing. One of the ...

BE CAREFUL what you post on facebook, especially when you are friends with patients or coworkers! We had an incident several weeks ago due to facebook. A group of us went out one night for one of our birthdays, nothing major, just some drinking and ...

Go check out your community clinics. The clinic in this area hires RNs and LPNs to volunteer doing vaccines, blood sugars, basic check ups, etc. They hire strictly volunteers.

Hang in there! When I started in a LTC facility, I was shocked at how depressed, angry and bitter the staff seemed to be. They seemed like they all hated being there. The doctors weren't all too friendly either, the patients were miserable, and the ...

Hospitals do not, but clinics do. I have a friend who works as a volunteer LPN at the County Clinic. She graduated nursing school with me and had a very difficult time landing an LPN job, so to keep her skills fresh and pump up her resume, she took t...

Don't say a word. It's illegal to discriminate against someone for pregnancy, yet they WILL do it. Once you've gotten the job and done a few rotations on the schedule, OMG, you have a miracle.

I was in nursing school with a 3 year old daughter and pregnant with my second. It was extremely stressful yet at the end of the road it was 100% the smartest choice I made! It IS harder with kids, because you don't have the luxury some of your class...