nhensleyLPN

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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...

  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...

  3. Ten Ways To Know You're Burning Out

    nhensleyLPN replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in Health, Stress Management

    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...

  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...

  5. LPN instead of RN?

    nhensleyLPN replied to nowim clean's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    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...

  6. LPN instead of RN?

    nhensleyLPN replied to nowim clean's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    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

  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

  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...

  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

  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...

  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...

  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...

  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...

  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....

  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...

  16. Ten Ways To Know You're Burning Out

    nhensleyLPN replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in Health, Stress Management

    What SUCKED about my last job was, not the job itself, but the administration!! The DON hated conflict, so she'd pick on the most-unlikely-to-talk-back (MOI). I got chewed out for trying to assert...

  17. LPN instead of RN?

    nhensleyLPN replied to nowim clean's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    We must be very careful to not get into the hospital nurse vs. nursing home nurse debate. Having said that, no they don't seem to want to hire LPN's at hospitals anymore, even IV certified ones, like...

  18. Are you CODEPENDENT?????

    nhensleyLPN replied to paradiseboundRN's topic in Home Health

    If we do or say anything to try to influence what other's do or say to us, (or about us) we are most likely co-dependent! (I know, by that definition we ALL are then, right? :sstrs:) Its ok to be...

  19. Explaining to a new employer being terminated

    nhensleyLPN replied to sorry's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I would certainly hope that the prospective employer will take the ime to talk to the prospective employee after a line like that! But, life being what it

  20. Explaining to a new employer being terminated

    nhensleyLPN replied to sorry's topic in General Nursing

    Not yet! I am in the process of applying for endorsement to California! I am out here staying with family and want to make this area my home now. Thank you for your

  21. Had to bite my tongue and....

    nhensleyLPN replied to cherrybreeze's topic in General Nursing

    HaHa! That is TOO funny, but I think we all have done that very thing!! I decided not to go on to the second (RN) year as did 99% of my LPN classmates. I was already working at a nursing home and I...

  22. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    nhensleyLPN replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    When I worked as a CNA in Kansas, the facility where I worked at had a nurse die of a heart attack several years previously. So it was always just a little creepy to be working 3-11 and 11-7! The...

  23. LPN instead of RN?

    nhensleyLPN replied to nowim clean's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    For me, I had been burned trying to go to an RN only program. I "flunked out" six weeks before graduation. So, all that work and nothing to show for it. I jumped at the chance to attend a LPN to RN...

  24. Explaining to a new employer being terminated

    nhensleyLPN replied to sorry's topic in General Nursing

    I have that same issue. And the sad part is that the facility that fired me doesn't have legal ground to stand on!! But, you can bet that they can make my life very miserable if a future employer...

  25. At what point do I complain?

    nhensleyLPN replied to ohmg's topic in General Students

    Wow! I would say OMG too. I DO now how you feel, with that spirit of fear and retaliation going on. It seems to be in almost all nursing programs, and I don't know why!! Make use of the instructors...