nekozuki LPN

A prime example of how racism plays out at my job: I'm biracial, but with my light skin and dye job, I am perceived as a white woman. I am treated differently at my job in subtle ways -- I am seen as more approachable and less aggressive. I am the fi...

We received the email last week! On Tuesday, six weeks exactly from the due date.

Nothing yet! Myself and two coworkers also applied, none of us have gotten anything.

CNA duties *are* nursing duties. There is no separation between the two. For the sake of efficiency, nursing tasks that are safe for a layman to do can be delegated under supervision, but there is ZERO distinction. It's always weird to me when nurses...

Throw a small group of people together in an extremely stressful, high-pressure and competitive situation, and this sort of thing can happen. Benign quirks and personality differences get blown out of proportion, little annoyances become intolerable,...

If you want to avoid hoop-jumping and want easy exams to pass, just go to one of those 50,000 dollar for-profit degree mills that do clinical rotations in some terrible LTC one violation away from being shut down. Standards protect us. Standards ensu...

Honestly, pretty much every field sucks. Retail sucks. Hospitality sucks. Some of my friends are engineers, and sometimes it sucks. Education sucks. In just about every job, you have to get up at the same time every day and do things you might not wa...

Honestly, q4h albuterol is normal in our facilities (different medical daycares and groups homes with patients of various ages and conditions, some ventilator dependent, some that are highly functional and eat/breathe on their own). For a few of my p...

I'm a queer nurse that must provide care to homophobes and people that think that simply existing in a queer body is bringing about the apocalypse (and tell me to my face). But that doesn't really matter. Nursing isn't about me being a champion of m...

I applied for the fall 2018 LPN to RN/accelerated track as well! 4.0 pre-reqs, 3.96 overall GPA, 91 on the TEAS, so I'm not worried about getting in, more worried I missed something on the application or that east campus never passed it along.

Income-wise, I'm considered upper middle class for my region, but I also have no student loan debt, no children, and I keep my credit card balance at a few hundred bucks. But I also have to work 60 hours a week, constantly negotiate for higher pay th...

Hey guys! Just wanted to impart what I've learned through becoming an impromptu tutor over the past month. My secret to doing well in A&P is flashcards, but they are only useful if you do them in a certain way. I firmly believe that simply rea...

I work in a series of pediatric group homes with six patients staffed by two nurses. Most of the kids are on hospice or PVS, nearly all of them wards of the state with little parental involvement. It's a pretty sad atmosphere where you're just caring...

When I quit or request to be taken off a case, I'm not shedding any tears over my agency being inconvenienced, but I do feel a tremendous amount of guilt for (some) patients. Sure, there are the wacky new assignments you never accept again (Mom runni...

Underwear color. We were forced to wear all-white scrubs with white underwear to prevent colors/patterns on our butts from showing through. Then, a new clinical instructor later docked us all points for not wearing nude-colored underwear, because the...

Thank you so much, SnowyJ. There are so many children whose abuse and exploitation could have and should have been detected, reported, and stopped at the school level, and I'm so grateful you're refusing to play a role in that brand of neglect/inatte...

Any updates on HamsterWatch 2016?

Pediasure, pediasure, pediasure! It's a great supplement. Also, I have a patient on the spectrum (also showing signs of anxiety/OCD although doc says she is too young for a formal diagnosis on those particular fronts) who hates pediasure and many tex...

I feel you, OP. Those peds nights shifts are so hard, especially when equipment gives off that dreamy lullaby of white noise. Even if nothing can be proven and the agency takes your word for it (and the family doesn't pursue it), a complaint about yo...

You have two choices: 1. Quit and try to find a less toxic work environment 2. Take a step back, re-evaluate yourself, and figure out how you can develop and improve your interpersonal relationship skills to function in a work environment that someti...

Can an LPN be an independent provider in the state of New York? I thought they had to go through an agency due to initial assessment, RN oversight, etc.

42 bucks an hour? Wow. I have nothing to contribute in terms of advice. I would simply like to know if you want to adopt an LPN.

5-6 days a week if I agree to it, but only because I work in PDN.

I don't post much, but I have spent four years lurking. I know if Thecommuter or Ruby Vee have already posted, I probably don't need to; anything after that is a subpar rehashing. Lots of smart nurses here!

They may be shorter, but LPN programs have 2-3 times the required clinical hours of an RN/BSN program (at least in my state). Less time in the classroom, more time studying on your own and working the hospital floor. But we are also subacute. You tak...