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  1. Diseases from Needle Sticks

    LadyMadonna posted a topic in General Nursing

    While working a private duty case with a woman who had hepatitis C last year, I received a stick while I was giving her an insulin injection. As careful as I have tried to be in my career, I am living...

  2. Recent Excelsior grad needs to move to California

    LadyMadonna posted a topic in Online Distance Learning

    I know the state has now locked Excelsior grads out of the state. Does that mean they won't grant you a license in their state but if you come to California from another state you can work? The only...

  3. Recent Excelsior grad needs to move to California

    LadyMadonna replied to LadyMadonna's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Thanks for taking every opportunity to rub it in my

  4. Recent Excelsior grad needs to move to California

    LadyMadonna replied to LadyMadonna's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I fully understood my license would be no good in California when I enrolled. Just feel a little panicky because this is kind of a sudden thing. Any way to keep up with what's going on in

  5. Recent Excelsior grad needs to move to California

    LadyMadonna replied to LadyMadonna's topic in Online Distance Learning

    yes, I understood. I did not ENROLL until November of '04. All I had to do were the NC exams and CPNE. I really cooked, I

  6. Recent Excelsior grad needs to move to California

    LadyMadonna replied to LadyMadonna's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I enrolled in November of 2004...this really stinks. There has to be sooomething that can be worked out? Is this what beaurocracy is good for? What would make a grad prior to '03 be good enough and...

  7. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    LadyMadonna replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    We watched a video of a frog that's brain had been pulvarized and it was downright creepy to watch what kind of actions that frog was capable of doing. I say the most merciuful thing would be to let...

  8. Should patients be allowed to refuse LPNs and CNAs?

    LadyMadonna replied to flashpoint's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    This selfish, IGNORANT beyond belief woman should have been made to understand she wasn't at the Holiday Inn, and she was going to get the same quality of care EVERYONE ELSE was getting. That or she...

  9. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    LadyMadonna replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    I think this Terri Shiavo issue is part of a bigger political plan. There are thousands of Terri's out there, and it is costing the government MILLIONS of dollars a year to care for them. We are in...

  10. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    LadyMadonna replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    I don't believe that. I don't believe that at all. The whole world from Larry King to Oprah is trying to make this guy like an evil toad. According to Michael Shiavo's lawyer, this guy is going to...

  11. Foul Mouthed Nurse

    LadyMadonna posted a topic in General Nursing

    I do private duty nursing. I sit with an elderly couple, each one has their own nurse. So there are two of us there at night. I share the night shift for this case with two other nurses. I like both...

  12. Foul Mouthed Nurse

    LadyMadonna replied to LadyMadonna's topic in General Nursing

    She doesn't talk like this around the old folks, which proves to me she can do better than she does. She's a smart woman she just has weird ideas. I wasn't going to mention this but she does have a...

  13. I HATE nursing! (long)

    LadyMadonna replied to InfoNurse1595's topic in General Nursing

    Hey Tirednurse, you need to realize there is more to nursing than the hospital. I don't particularly like patient care myself, and am working on finding something better, but right now I enjoy a lush...

  14. Mc Donalds pays more for CNA with 8 yrs exp

    LadyMadonna replied to Rnltc's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I was a CNA for .50 above minimum wage about two weeks when I decided this wouldn't cut it. I got in th next available LPN class ASAP, which was about 9 months later. I remember no lunch breaks, back...

  15. Please explain this nonsense to me!

    LadyMadonna replied to lovingtheunloved's topic in General Nursing

    What does the DON have to say about

  16. How long after failing an EC exam do you have to wait to retake?

    LadyMadonna posted a topic in Online Distance Learning

    I have a friend who failed one of her NC exams and who called Excelsior today and was told after failing the first time she could take it after 30 days. We read in the catalog and it says 60 days. Can...

  17. Advice please re: evil clinical instructor

    LadyMadonna replied to JennInColumbus's topic in General Nursing

    I feel for you. But I wouldn't feel like I was in the position to reprimand her if I were in your shoes. You are in a precarious situation being a student, and if I were you I would do anything to get...

  18. Has a patient ever described a Near Death Experience to you?

    LadyMadonna posted a topic in General Nursing

    Has anyone ever had a patient who coded and came back and described a near death experience? I have several patients who coded and came back but none of them remembers anything about their eperience....

  19. Terri Shiavo Case

    LadyMadonna posted a topic in General Nursing

    I read they are going to DC her feeding tube again. This is such a sad story. I was wondering what nurses are thinking about this? I know as far as quality of life some may say she would be better...

  20. HUGE A&P Dilemma, object to dissecting cats, any options?

    LadyMadonna replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    Cadavers....yuck! Wild horses couldn't drag me into a room to dissect dead people, it really bothers me to even look at dead people. When someone dies at work it always makes me very uneasy when I...

  21. Nurse Personality

    LadyMadonna replied to trapped_in_light's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Aaron Tippin is my

  22. Nurse Personality

    LadyMadonna replied to trapped_in_light's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    If you're going to lpn school you won't have a lot of choices about where you work. I have heard this has been done before and when the shortage gets worse they start hiring them again, but most...

  23. why a nurse and not a doctor

    LadyMadonna replied to lindskay's topic in General Nursing

    Well, for one thing, it is a lot harder to become a doctor, a lot more years of school and a lot more studying. It's not that doctors are more intelligent, anyone with an average IQ and a lot of self...

  24. How do you feel about your CNA's?

    LadyMadonna replied to Blackcat99's topic in General Nursing

    I work with some really good people. This facility is pretty lenient with the CNA's but most of them don't abuse it. If we get any lazy ones who won't carry their weight the other CNA's generally will...

  25. Am I the only one to feel this way?

    LadyMadonna posted a topic in General Nursing

    I saw one of my former contemporaries from the nursing home where I used to work as an aide at the grocery store today. She happens to be a BSN now and assistant DON of a nursing home. She is also...