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  1. Whew! First full week of classes done!

    I know this feeling all to well! The LPN program is very intense, we learn 80% of what RNs learn in 1 year. My dear, take this course seriously! When you start to get into pharma, maternity, and...
  2. So green tea you dont have any advice then on what should chart on? You have advice of were I should look for information about gall bladder excision. Thanks but that wasnt really what I was looking...
  3. Interesting, Edger Allan Poe mixed with
  4. Hello every one its been awhile since Ive done any posting. So I have a narritive charting assignment for a preop head to toe and teaching for a pt. that is admitted for an open cholecystectomy. Im...
  5. Trach care

    Again thanks for the tip(s). I love this team work thing....so much different from my last
  6. Trach care

    Thank you for the
  7. Become an RN online?

    Its called "bridging". In CANADA its about 18 months + (depending on your course load). But, I dont know about online. I think that you do your courses online, and then your skills and exams are done...
  8. Trach care

    Hi everybody or anybody! Just starting my last semester of the LPN program and we just picked up trach care. I know that this question is quite general but, I have found that exploring responses from...
  9. Patients' "home remedies"? What have you seen

    Epsom salts are supposed to have laxitive properties. But I would drink MY bath water
  10. I just can't do anything right.....

    Sometimes people like to "blow out your candle so that theirs burns brighter". Low self-esteem on his part? Maybe he feels threatened by your skill. I just finished my second clinical at a LTC...
  11. Who actually ENJOYS clinical?

    I have 3 days left in my second clinical as a LPN student and I love it. I think it depends were you are working and what kind of instructor you have. Currently Im at a residential care facility c. 92...
  12. My achy breaky feet!

    Alternate hot and cold therapy! Hot bath c. epson salts. And my personal favorite...I like to go to the hot tub at my gym and focus those jets on the bottom of my feet. When my feet start bothering me...
  13. Two med errors... I'm sick!

    Im currently doing my 2nd clinical in LTC and I have already realized that LTC is a horror show. So many casuals, so much missed communication; botched orders
  14. Two med errors... I'm sick!

    Med errors happen, be thankful that it wasnt something like giving insulin to a non diabetic. Remember that the only one that judges you is you. I'm not even a nurse yet but, I do know that a good...
  15. Patients' "home remedies"? What have you seen

    I would stay away from mercury (Hg) Have you ever heard of the term "mad as a hatter"? well people that used to make hats used Hg and it drove them