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  1. First job as an lpn !! Helppp!!!

    conroenurse replied to nsalisbury's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Aww, they all have some small version of nsg pop quiz that I remember from place to place, ( though a few didn't), nothing that anyone out of school would sweat over. BUT if you've been one place for...

  2. First job as an lpn !! Helppp!!!

    conroenurse replied to nsalisbury's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Test for TOBAccO? FOR REAL? Why in God's green earth do they test for

  3. Any info would help please !

    conroenurse replied to ronnie2worth's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Okay, now I am confused. Are you saying your LVN license doesn't hold up in NEVADA as an LVN, but does in California. Or they just won't recognise the credits for RN

  4. Are you content with being an LPN?

    conroenurse replied to supermommy1030's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    OH and I am actually going to HR on Monday and having my Supv. go with me. Our Supv, was just hired abt 2 months ago, and she is turning out to be great supv, BUT there is another nurse (RN masters)...

  5. Forced to stay and work under mandatory evacuation?

    conroenurse replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Wow, I really can't believe some of the comments. It's like some of you grew fangs...geesh. In all reality there is ALWAYS going to be someone who HAS to be somewhere else for a variety of reasons....

  6. Are you content with being an LPN?

    conroenurse replied to supermommy1030's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Well, I THOUGHT I was content and been LVN for 30 yrs, but ALWAYS at the back of my head I hear this voice...."JUST an LVN"....so LIKE IT or NOT, need it OR not, for my own self I have to now go get...

  7. Forced to stay and work under mandatory evacuation?

    conroenurse replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Well, while a nurse is a nurse, and we are there for hard times or good. SOMETIMES we have to make calls for our own sakes that might be unpopular with our admin/fellow nurses. In the case of a...

  8. My Breaking Point!

    conroenurse replied to tn nurse's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I'd rather not work than work in a toxic enviroment, it takes such a toll on a person. I know how this can affect you as I left a job abt 5 yrs ago due to similar reason, and unable to do anything abt...

  9. Are LPNs allowed to volunteer to give free health screenings in their community?

    conroenurse replied to LPNKY2012's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    WELL, IMO of course. Call your state board or visit their site and it will give you a set of qx's that help to answer if in your scope or not. I don't think it would really be in an RN"s scope...

  10. Alzhiemers

    conroenurse replied to tsmason's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    It is NOT your job to be beat on. If you company will not supply a 1-1 that helps to keep you safe, and there is not enough staff, meds are not available for those times or you have no company c/o...

  11. Hospital Rules abt reading PPD's

    conroenurse replied to conroenurse's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Yeah, I thought I was mis-reading it, and did ask for clarification and acting DON said "OH YES, ALL the HOSP are like that". Then I wondered, WHY would a marketer have to show his TB test to hosp....

  12. Hospital Rules abt reading PPD's

    conroenurse posted a topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Has anyone ran into (esp in Texas) a Hospital where only RN's can read TB tests? I just received an email saying only RN can read if is on one of our Marketers as Hosp. turned down on him because...

  13. Is it as bad as everyone says it will be?

    conroenurse replied to hopefull1's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    WELL, I've been a nurse for 30 yrs and there are days that I LOVE my job, and days that I just wanna go be a McDonald's clerk because I just don't want to be responsible for anything or anyone. I...

  14. Am I unsafe to practice?

    conroenurse replied to Need2Care's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    an "unsafe" nurse would be one that continually makes the same mistakes and doesn't bother to learn from them and is not bothered by making mistakes. amen. i have been a nurse for over 30yrs, and...

  15. Health care costs are RIDICULOUS!!!!

    conroenurse replied to OhioCCRN's topic in General Nursing

    Geez, so sorry, but are you saying you had to leave AMA and so insurance made you pay all? If so, I'd have stayed...and work would just have to find a agency nurse. USED TO BE I'd crawl to work if I...

  16. Health care costs are RIDICULOUS!!!!

    conroenurse replied to OhioCCRN's topic in General Nursing

    I was told abt UK's/Canada medical care by a health care director I worked with from Eng. (who made pretty good money) and a nurses aide from Canada who made very little. the one from Canada was the...

  17. Bitter dried up nurses that need to RETIRE

    conroenurse replied to mindlor's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    AMEN!!!!!!!!!

  18. Health care costs are RIDICULOUS!!!!

    conroenurse replied to OhioCCRN's topic in General Nursing

    STILLL sad. Here in the USA, IF you are uninsured, there are free clinics, and if no area free clinics (I volunteer at one) then the county will do medical ness. stuff, but not preventive. The deal...

  19. NAI descent: Roll Call

    conroenurse replied to Thunderwolf's topic in General Nursing

    I am a card carrying Cherokee. (yeap my peeps got

  20. Bitter dried up nurses that need to RETIRE

    conroenurse replied to mindlor's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    WOW, and to think MOST older nurses aren't the ones that really don't eat their young, it's the fairly new nurse with less than a couple of yrs that thinks she knows everything~

  21. Is a Certified Back office medical assistant replacing LVN's

    conroenurse replied to nycgranni's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I know several nurses, and a few MA's that made the mistake of getting MA certification, paying out all that money, only to find few jobs and poor pay and then having to wait for admission to nursing...

  22. Health care costs are RIDICULOUS!!!!

    conroenurse replied to OhioCCRN's topic in General Nursing

    "......but I won't have to think twice about the cost of any health care I may need." No, Maybe not, but from what I have heard from your fellow countrymen is that people die because they have to...

  23. Health care costs are RIDICULOUS!!!!

    conroenurse replied to OhioCCRN's topic in General Nursing

    The thing that I wonder abt is how did hospitals cope BEFORE the insurance covered alot of us. I know that when I had my babies (so MANY yrs ago) we paid cash prior to admit. It was alot, but not...

  24. Are LPN's being phased out?

    conroenurse replied to JSlovex2's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    while i to am tired of hearing this. i still bristle when i hear it. don't know why it irritates me as i truly am the one sitting here not going to school for an rn. (kids grown/etc/etc, no reason not...

  25. Where do you peg feed your patients

    conroenurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    If not in the hospital where patients are usually in their room (say residental lifecare home for several patients or nursing home setting)where do you /or would you feed your patients. Esp. if they...