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i was in real estate sales back in the 80s and 90s and one day i woke up and realized the only reason i had to get out of bed was to find someone...anyone..and take their money. I got up but i never sold another house. i went to lvn school then rn s...

Please do not encourage her to apply for any RN jobs anywhere. We dont need any more Rns with this type of work ethic.

You need to move to where the jobs are even if that mean leaving the state.

there is a 10% increase in return bloodflow to the heart while on treatment. It sounds like her cardiac status has changed and is unable to tolerate the increase in bloodflow. the aortic baroreceptors are sensing the increase in pressure and is signa...

I just turned down a job that was a ccu step down/medsurg overflow/pediactrics unit. When they asked how I would handle this situation I responded I would not allow myself to be placed into that situation.

Here is the file from the Texas BNE... ftp://www.bne.state.tx.us/lvn-guide.pdf The is RN vs. LVN Chart is about half way down the page. it all really comes down to three words. "Unpredictable Health Status". We had some long discussions on this in my...

I can see why an absolute newbie should work med surg for a year. However I have been an LVN for 7 years and feel more than ready to go to ICU....i hope that clears it up.

I can see why an absolute newbie should work med surg for a year. However I have been an LVN for 7 years and feel more than ready to go to ICU....i hope that clears it up.

I was an LVN and I went to RN school to be able to work in ICU. I have seen some great LVNs in ICU. But the fact is I invested 5000 hours of my personal time to meet the state requirement to be able to take care of the critically ill. And they shoul...

I think you need to be a great ICU nurse before you can be a great med surg nurse. You still need all the critcal thinking skills and nursing knowledge in either area and med surg doesnt have all the infomation readily available..you have to just be ...

I think you need to be a great ICU nurse before you can be a great med surg nurse. You still need all the critcal thinking skills and nursing knowledge in either area and med surg doesnt have all the infomation readily available..you have to just be ...

I am still amazed at the lack of computers in hospitals for nursing staff to use. We had them ten years ago at my hospital and its wonderful to be able to read all relevant information without trying to decipher bad handwriting...I am looking in Aust...

I agree. I was an LVN for 7 years I just passed my Rn boards But basicallyTexas Rn's are allow to work with more medically unstable patients. Most of my Rn transition courses were a review of what I learned in Lvn school with an emphasis on the patho...

Nurses who talk about their patients for any reason should be givien applications for Domino pizza. They talk to us becuase its private...that is the social contract.

Before I became a nurse I saw all the same problems yall talk about. I watched adults treated badly by others for things like the cost of cheese or who would pay for bushes damaged during a move...truly foul abuse. I became a nurse knowing that woul...

5-1 o my god yall never quit moving at top speed do you. idoes that include a changeover 5-1 am and takeoff and 5 more on wow....

and icu acutes 1-1 inpatient 3-1 with 2 nurses present at all times or 2-1 but that situation always scared me there are no rules about double crashing while in the hospital it can and does happen...

I have 6 years as an LVn in dialysis my answer is during changeover 4-1 for techs 3-1 for lvns due to the added responsiblites of caths and meds for the techs. 8-1 during cruisetime for staff breaks RN charge no more than 15 alone 30 with a non char...

Call the board and ask to speak to their legal counsel. That should clear it up. I had a legal question about our NPA and they were very helpful.

did yall see that thread about changing the name of nursing to somthing else becuase of so many men entering the profession...what bs..i love being a nurse. . .

Is it me or what. I have a beautiful resume...nice fonts and setup But all the online applications say cut and paste your resume..and it completely wrecks the formating and then I have to input all the same info into their fill in the blank applicati...

Pharm and Patho will save your behind almost every time but dont forget its the nurse who does a large part of the pt teaching about meds and side effects and when the pt should call the MD once they get home. So your RN program should concentrate on...

Davis for nurses is a much better program than Epocrates in general but Epocrates has a very critical feature that Davis lacks and that is a drug compatiabilty function. you can put in upto 30 meds on epocrates and it tell you which are synergistic o...