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I'm the 3-11 LPN on a highly acute skilled wing of the LTC that I work for. Yesterday I went to work and was told that I was to be a preceptor for a new graduate LPN who hasn't taken her boards. I know that we all had to start somewhere and being cho...

Sorry if this has been asked before, I looked around but could not find anything previously discussed on this situation. My Uncle was admitted to the LTCF that I work at. I had not seen him in 5+ years prior to him being admitted. Too make a long sto...

So, I've become a preceptor at my facility. The past week I have had a GPN with me. She's very emotional. It seems that every little thing makes her cry! She thinks that she should know everything already, and becomes terribly upset when an issue ari...

Holy Moley! I feel you on that one. I'm expected to do about 12 hours of work in 8. If I'm only an hour late getting done, it's been a good day! -Scheduled for 40, but usually closer to 52-54. P.s. Afternoon shift loves to call off and poo poo on d...

I was offered a Restorative LPN job at a Genesis facility. Anyone have experience with this company? I've had mixed responses to this question.

Tonight I worked my tail off. I had two people that I was suppose to orientating, plus I was helping out the agency LPN who graduated in September and thought taking a job with an agency would be a good idea for her FIRST job. So on top of trying t...

It's by no means an every day occurrence and I am in no way asking someone to make an excuse for me. I thought I was doing the right thing by not leaving 3 nurses alone on a unit that they had never worked before.

It's not even so much the fact that she was snippy about me not taking a lunch, but that she was spoke to me in a not so professional way in front of the two orientees. I do have another job lined up in my haste and frustration last night I see I di...

You have just described every single shift I work at my current job. Tonight in a span of about 30 minutes I broke up a literal fist fight between a demented man and a LOL, managed to cover myself in Jevity tube feed because in my rush I opened the c...

At my new facility I am almost always on the Skilled Unit. With all the Alert and Oriented, walkie talkies, short term IV ATBs,Wound vacs, with a few demented LOLs and former marine who likes to beat up the CNAs thrown in for good measure. I don't st...

Here's a good one. They have a contract with a local cab company to deliver STAT orders from a local pharmacy to the facility. I had cab driver show up reeking of booze and an illegal substance with a bag containing a bottle of Vicodin! The C2 script...

I'm almost a month in to this new job. Tonight I check the assignemnt paper and there XYZ RN in parenthesis next to my name? What?!? I have to be reading something wrong. How in the heck am I orientating someone, this has to be a mistake. The RN sup...

The dr at my old facility loved to prescribe Rocephin 1gm IM for 3 days. The vials we had came with 1 gram of Rocephin to which the nurses at my old facility including myself reconstituted with 1.1 of lidocaine in a 3ml syringe. Any chance you are wo...

So I'm two weeks into my new job at LTC facility. I got about a solid 5 days of orientation, which is good considering most LTC orientations before I was thrown to the wolves. But alas that's how it goes most of time. Anyways: Tonight I was floated t...

So I recently started a new job and I really like it. The only thing that is driving me bonkers is the way they do their narc counts. Instead of having blister packs that you just pop the med out of, they have boxes upon boxes of individually package...

While I was still working as a CNA while I was in LPN school, I had took care of a lady named Betty who had Bladder CA. She was the sweetest, funniest, most caring LOL that I still to this day have even taken care of. She and I got alone terricficall...

I just got home from my first shift at me LTC facility. I think it went really well. The nurse who was orientating me was super helpful and patient. She showed me alot tonight and made it very easy to understand. Here's the thing that is bugging me t...

I live in WV but recently accepeted a job at LTC facility in PA. Living very close to PA/WV state line I did not see this as a huge issue. Becuase after searching for work in my town and surrouding towns for 8 months and not finding squat for employm...

Nope I'm not driving her car, nor is she paying for my gas. So I'm not exactly certain as to why she her panties in a bunch over me driving a llittle farther to get to work. I'm 28 and havent even lived at home since I was 18. My brother who is young...

I've recently lost about 60 pounds, making all of my scrubs too big! In my preparation for my new job I decided to go thru them and see if there was anything worth keeping. Needless to say I ended up with 2 30 gallon trash bags full of scrubs! My boy...

has anyone seen the previews for this movie contagion, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598778/? according to this website its:an action-thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the cdc ...

Thanks everyone!! Nursing school is exactly where it came from! There was always some kind of pot luck at least twice a month, plus we had an hour every day to amuse ourselves for lunch. So in the end I packed on a good 60 pounds in the past 2 years....

Oh I know that MRSA is not new. Just my mind wandering off, thinking that how people like my dear boyfriend could take something like this movie. Your statement about people not talking the full dose of ATB, thought to be one of the contributing fact...

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Ok this may be a little silly but I thought I would ask some fellow nurses here on AN. Say you are allergic to mushrooms? Is it possible to have an allergic reaction from just being in the presence of a "cooked mushroom." Even if you have not ingeste...