nhensleyLPN

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!!

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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

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...

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!!

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!?

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 my authority with the CNA's, I got blamed when anot...

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 myself There are jobs for LPN's though, even th...

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 INTER-dependent WITH your employers. They need us t...

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 is...

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 concern!

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 felt that , for me, I was good with that after I ...

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 best one that I remember, tho, happened after a resi...

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 school, only because it gave me a chance to decid...

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 contacts them. I was there 5 months; I have heard t...

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 after class maybe? Be persistent with checking t...