LPNnowRN

Call me old school, but I worked hard on my resume and cover letters. Why do I have to type in all the information AGAIN when it's all on the resume you just let me upload?? If there is a spot that lets you do that of course. UGH. Just frustrated bec...

At least two pots per day. I justify it because I use half milk in every cup so it's healthy calcium intake. I can drink coffee and go straight to bed, no problem. Love the picture--I always joke about needing a coffee IV!!

I kept mine and have loaned them out to other people taking classes--there are just a few that I refer to all the time, and I constantly buy more references ( Introduction to Clinical Neurology by Gelb is good! and a short book). There are just a few...

I know from exerience! Blocked off my common bile duct with a gallstone and had acute pancreatitis. Six day stay until discharged the day after my lap chole. Dilaudid works, but always made me throw up. I never asked for phenergan because I didn't wa...

This really hit home. My Mom died February 26th. She had COPD, went into the clinic on Friday and got some abx. Sunday went to ER with a sat of 47%. My sisters and I got the call she had died right when we pulled up to the curb at the airport, hadn't...

Woot!! You ROCK! State is stressful and you did good, pat yourself on the back!

OMG--pop came out of my nose on some of these!! OK, in to give meds to patient, scan bracelet, try to open little pill blister pack and flip it under the roommates bed!! I'm on my stomach crawling under the bed to find and retrieve it, apologise wit...

I Left My Heart in San Francisco, Tony Bennett. Anything Frank Sinatra or Doris Day. Big band music.

I can only hope that when I'm in the home they let me play Metallica and watch Star Wars and The Matrix on TV!!! Rock ON!

Whew! Good question. I have had my RN for just over a year now. I've changed jobs from a stand alone nursing home to a new job at a nursing home connected to a hospital (more opportunities as an internal candidate in this job market). My first goal h...

I am 48, and I do regret that I don't have that 20 years that other nurses have. I feel like I have much less time to achieve my dream job by getting my BSN or MSN, getting my Med Surg experience. I feel a time crunch because Med-Surg jobs are scarce...

Our med techs know more pharmacology than I do--can instanly tell you about whatever obscure med just got prescribed. They are amazing. That said, take each person and evaluate their skills--not all people are the same!

What?!?!?! Only four days????

My nursing home was seeing low census over the summer and we figured out that the new ALF in town was starting to take residents that would normally come to a nursing home because their census was only 18 total. The residents we ARE getting were for...

LOL!!!

In my last job at 15-20-ect... years of service we had a catalog that we could pick something out of....I still sleep on my two feather pillows!!

Way back when I was working as a CNA I took a resident to the toilet--obviously no one had toileted him in a while because he pooped out, with great difficulty I might add, a hard stool the exact shape and size of a soup can! I had to break it up in ...

Not this topic AGAIN!!!

LOL!!I thought it was just me...no one can figure out why all these people love cartoons!!

I am so sorry for your and her loss. Just last week we caught someone throwing their rings away, and gave them to their spouse for safekeeping. Alzheimer's is a cruel disease on many levels. The person with it loses so much, but can't really remember...

Quietest duing the Super Bowl, then all heck breaks loose!

Keep up with your charting--don't save it all up for end of shift.

Because Lord knows it's always end of shift and the paperwork on a fall will make you late!

Yeah--what's the rush to get a hospital job when the hospital comes right to you? Wound vacs, IV vanco, morphine pumps, fresh ostomies, and on and on...

I had a colleague who came in to pick up her check, ended up being guilted into staying due to short staffing then went to Wally World and bought a set of scrubs and shoes so she could be decent at work!!