nhensleyLPN

nhensleyLPN has 4 years experience and specializes in Geriatrics.

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1. got fired for "clinical issues"... will I find a job??

   nhensleyLPN replied to NurseCard's topic in General Nursing

   Yes, we are all human, for goodness sake!! Part of the stress caused in this profession is from good nurses being made to feel as if we have to be perfect all the time!! I hope I can curry the favor of the nursing gods, too!!

2. got fired for "clinical issues"... will I find a job??

   nhensleyLPN replied to NurseCard's topic in General Nursing

   I was fired six weeks ago from a LTC facility too. I failed to document on the narrative note that I had put O2 on a patient, but I had on the skilled nurses note portion. My boss confronted me with the night shift nurse and asked, "Why didn't you...

3. Ten Ways To Know You're Burning Out

   nhensleyLPN replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in Stress 101

   I imagine there are, but they all have their own brand of stress. WHY does every nurse think they HAVE to work in a hospital to be/feel competent ?? As an RN, one has many other choices!! Doctors offices, home health, LTC, school nursing? Tell me...

4. Pregnant and in Nursing School....

   nhensleyLPN replied to Colleen84's topic in General Students

   I never said a woman shouldn't have a child. I am just saying we all have to make choices in our lives. Why we as human beings TRY to complicate things is beyond me. Life is hard enough! I don't believe that women's lib blarney that says we can h...

5. LPN instead of RN?

   nhensleyLPN replied to nowim clean's topic in LPN/LVN

   I think its wrong that you should have to have as many patients as the LPN does if you are expected to charge too, but as I said before thats the unfortunate reality of the situation. At the very least, hospitals should demand that thier LPN's be IV...

6. LPN instead of RN?

   nhensleyLPN replied to nowim clean's topic in LPN/LVN

   Its not a waste of time, if, for whatever reason, you cannot finish RN school. At an bi-level accredited program, you can "hedge your bet" and at least have a nursing license.

7. Are you CODEPENDENT?????

   nhensleyLPN replied to paradiseboundRN's topic in Home Health

   LMAO!! Only if you get so wrapped up in her problem that it affects your personal life and you can't sleep at night!!???

8. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

   nhensleyLPN replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

   I think you hit the nail on the head when you remarked, "In so many different residents in different places". I beleive in bad spirits, but I also believe these residents could be getting ready to die and are seeing glimpses of heaven. I guess we a...

9. trouble pronoucing some medical words

   nhensleyLPN replied to aflac381's topic in General Students

   One would think that is handled like any other language course, and there would be a CD available or better yet, try YOU TUBE! There is just about everything on that site!!

10. Care Plans - What's their purpose? - What do you think of them?

    nhensleyLPN replied to jjjoy's topic in General Students

    I have seen some really atrocious penmanship, spelling and grammer from nurses. Even we LPN's with (at least)one year of nursing school should be able to write comprehensively!! We still walked across that stage and received our diplomas!?

11. Care Plans - What's their purpose? - What do you think of them?

    nhensleyLPN replied to jjjoy's topic in General Students

    If any of you remember "The Nursing Journal of Jocularity" (my issues are buried in a box somewhere), there is a great cartoon that shows the nurses student going to the bedside of a now deceased patient and moaning, "How dare he die! I just spent 1...

12. Care Plans - What's their purpose? - What do you think of them?

    nhensleyLPN replied to jjjoy's topic in General Students

    Students from graduate on down to jr high have bemoaned the question, "Why do we have to learn it THIS way"? One conjecture I might add is maybe to teach us how to follow orders? Another might be that the NCLEX will present it the "book" way and th...

13. Pregnant and in Nursing School....

    nhensleyLPN replied to Colleen84's topic in General Students

    We all make choices in life, whether we want to admit them or not. There are Active choices and Passive choices. Those of you who choose to go to nursing school in your younger childbearing years (which is very admirable) understand the risks and s...

14. Pregnant and in Nursing School....

    nhensleyLPN replied to Colleen84's topic in General Students

    No, you won't get any slack, because this happens ALL the time!! (I don't understand it personally) I know of an RN student who had her second baby a month before graduation, with a toddler at home. She got thru school, but failed boards the first ...

15. At what point do I complain?

    nhensleyLPN replied to ohmg's topic in General Students

    Lets not be too hard here. It is very typical for some if not most of us to try to "stick things out" hoping they will get better. Well, unfortunately, in this case it did not. We all learn the hard way, and I AM truly sorry your "education" turne...