RHope
has 15 years experience and specializes in Med-Surg/Telemetry.
Just remember, keep moving forward with your life regardless of what you may be going through. Do not be defeated by where you came from or even where you are. Stay focused on where you're going. Try not to carry to much baggage if you can possibly help it. Pack lite. ;)
Excelsior College Associate Degree nursing program recently lost its accreditation with the ACEN, and a lot of state nursing boards have stopped licensing Excelsior grads. I was one of their LPN to...
You feel dumb. The only problem is there were other nurses that cared for the patient before you. So that would mean you're all dumb together. It took more than one shift for that patient to get...
I also agree that if they still allow you 2 1/2 hours to complete a PCS, you should not have been rushed. It was up to the CE to stop the clock if the patient had to go somewhere, and restart it upon...
I'm so sorry that you were not successful with the CPNE. I do remember that you must chart every assessment finding that you assess according to the critical elements, even if it is not an assigned...
This is so true. I have encountered some BSN prepared nurses who have NO CLUE what they're doing and they graduated from the prestigious schools. I'm not exaggerating. Trust and
I think that study on patient safety decreasing when there are less BSN prepared nurses working is seriously flawed and should have gone right into the shredder. It seems to be more of a gimmick to...
If you like hospital A better, you may do better staying there. Would also consider things like staff to patient ratios, unsafe policies, working conditions, attitudes of staff, managers, and...
I worked on a hospital floor that was very clickish. Half the nurses had no clue in hell what they were doing or how to be a nurse. I never bragged or put myself on a pedestal. I was nice and...
RHope replied to Vocationofalifetime's topic in LPN, LVN Corner
Does anyone feel they should end all associate degree nursing programs being that most employers are beginning to no longer hiring them? What's the use of graduating new associate degree RNs if they...
RHope replied to soon_2Bnurse's topic in LPN to RN
That sounds like the school I went to. But thank God there were a few professional, ethical instructors and managers there too. I stuck close to them. The unreasonable, rude, unprofessional ones,...
When I was an Excelsior College associate degree nursing student, I was enrolled in a phlebotomy program and an EKG/monitor tech program at a local college. I also had LPN med-surg experience at...
Hearing about situations like this make it all more clear to me that I should not invest anymore time and money into getting a BS in a profession as awful and unfair as