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I previously had made a post in first year of nursing about my orientation experience. Basically, new lpn grad, no preceptor, just ask questions if I haven any. Working on a med-surg/cardiac unit. My nurse manager says I am getting a normal orientati...

I just got finished living in central Texas for the past 8 years and I am from Western Mass. and I spent many many summers in the mountains of New Hampshire. I can tell you as far as scenery/mountains nowhere in Texas is it going to be the same. Don'...

I live in central Texas and pay $3000 yearly for property taxes on a $115,000 dollar house. I will agree that even though we have no income tax, I find the property taxes here a bit high. Plus, our sales tax is higher than other states. BUT, I think ...

I like ER. I watch grey's anatomy also, but lately that show has been making me upset. They portray the docs as the ones who do everything for the patient. Last time I watched Dr. Yang went into the room to give a patient PO meds (yeah right) and the...

Trust me, there is a reason why you see a lot of job openings for nurses in your area and sign on bonuses. I am willing to bet its not because there are not enough nurses in your area...its because those places cant retain nurses. I would suggest wo...

What I dislike the most is going into work hardly having a chance to get organized, then going out on the floor and running my butt off for the entire shift hardly being able to get a sip of water, nevermind eating a meal or take any sort of break, a...

If I had to do it all over again, I would just go for RN. It depends where you want to work though. If you want to work in LTC you could find a job as an LVN. I knew I wanted to work in a hospital from the start, which is where I am working and do al...

I'm sorry this happened to you. It could happen to any of us. To BinkieRN- Yes, we can ask patients what their allergies are, but sometimes patients are unresponsive, or simply do not know what their allergies are. I dont know what the details are in...

honestly, what will people think to complain of next??!! pretty soon we will all be walking on eggshells around our patients, because we might do something that "offends them". I've had patients complain about nurses to the nurse manager about " a lo...

We didnt use anything to scoop them out. The docs were aware of this and pretty much said the maggots were doing their job....even though the patient had them pretty much falling out of the wound onto his gown After about a week of TID wet to dry dr...

I have seen this before in a patient I once had. It was an unusual situation as the patient had let this tumor go on for years and it had pretty much eaten away at the side of his face. When I did wet to dry dressing changes his eyeball was completel...

like "oh what have you been doing? Reading magazines?" :banghead: This coming from my perfectly alert and oriented patient last night. She rang her call light asking for a blanket and when it took me more than 2 minutes to bring it to her I guess she...

What are the things that made you want to go into nursing? The real world of nursing is a lot different then most of us imagine before we enter school. You may be able to find jobs like in the OR where you wont do this kind of work as much, but I wor...

Well I commented on that post, I dont think the comment I made was too critical, but I admit I did get a bit peeved, because I felt like whenever someone tried to explain something to him, he came back with a "well it still cant be that hard" respons...

Thats not all there is to dealing with people's lives. We have to be able to assess patients and take necessary steps when we feel a patient is deteriorating. The doctors are not there unless we call them. No offense, but are you getting your ideas o...

Hi, I am also a fellow military wife and contemplating what I'm going to do. Right now I am pregnant, but would like to go back to working maybe 6 months after I have my baby, but my husband will be deployed. I am an LVN and the best solution I can ...

Not to be rude, but you also have no idea the meaning of stress in the nursing world. I get its stressful not knowing if you are going to get paid or not, but there is a different kind of stress in nursing. I would assume as a lawyer you realize how ...

I know for sure the answer to question two is the second one. I am 26 weeks pregnant and that is what I have been advised to do by my doctor and that is what it says to do in all my pregnancy books!

Here we go again...lol. To the original poster have you ever worked in a hospital before? Most people have a distorted image of what nursing is like. Even my husband does not get it. Hes been in the army for 7 years...he knows what overworked is and ...

For me, it was mostly the fact that I dont think nursing school prepared me for the real world. Then my orientation with the hospital was not great either. Most of what you need to know in nursing you learn on the job though. It's just at first when ...

usually its just whoever the charge nurse picks or whoever has the first empty bed. My floor is so unorganized that the charge nurse usually doesnt even know whos got the heaviest load. Sometimes if we explain we are busy, they will give the admit to...

I dont understand why the nurse was just watching you??!!! Jeez for something like that I always try to help so we can get the patient cleaned and go on our way.

My husband is in the army and is due to go back to Iraq in December for the THIRD time and did I mention this will be two weeks after I give birth to our first baby??? He is SEVERELY underpaid for his job. Even being back in the states he works 14 ho...

Genetics56 you are right 20-27 dollars per dollar IS good pay! During nursing school and during clinicals, I did not get why nurses were complaining about pay. It took my first week on a med/surg floor when I became the one responsible for my patien...

IMO nursing provides a comfortable, middle class lifestyle. I dont see many nurses driving really expensive cars or living in mcmansions....unless they are married and their spouse makes good money. However, you can live comfortably. The thing is wh...