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I am a new school nurse and start the 29th. I am extremely nervous. Its totally different then ltc. I have been talking about school nursing for at least 4 years. I have a bigger school then I would like. I have approximately 1150 students. The...

Hi all. My name is Chris and I have just taken a position in a charter school of 1018 students. I hope I did not take on too much. At this point in my career I need to do something else. I have been a nurse primarily ltc for 20 years. I also ha...

Thank you all for the kind welcome. I am so excited cause I feel like I am on my way to achieving a goal. I hope to be able to learn a lot before school starts for the kids. Reading here will keep me busy. Thanks all

I would have sent him especially if full code. It's all about money sometimes that is why I hate long term care

My husband and I both nurses work in the same facility. We work the same floor sometimes different shifts We have a patient on one floor who becomes very argumentative and seems to think my husband walks on water.(he just yeses the lady no matter w...

I worked New years eve. I work as a pool nurse in drug and detox. I was never oriented to 3 to 11 and have been on 11 to 7. Unfortunately the regular nurse had a fit when she saw two pool people that she really did not want to work with. Her word...

I went back to school 2 years ago to get associates in nursing after being an LPN since 1995. My goal was to get out of LTC . I am still stuck . I do private duty one night a week but want a school case job. My private duty is a peds case. I c...

I am in the Philadelphia area and if one does not have a BSN then hospitals won't hire unless you have a connection . I tried to relocate up to the pocono area and had a few interviews at hospitals. I guess I did not sell my self well. I still s...

In our facility we do 15 to 20 grams of fast acting carbs and recheck in 15 min. for blood sugar under sixty or depends on patient 70. Also notify md. I would have wanted to do that and not play with an even lower blood sugar in the afternoon. It ...

I totally understand. I have been lpn since 1995. RN 2013 and can not get out of LTC. Nothing wrong with the elderly but I am tired of the scenery. Good luck

In our building we were taught SBAR a long time ago. The long time nurses are usually right in sending the patients out but we have to fight with admin. One of our patients pulse ox was in the 70 -80 range when I came on and no one could get him u...

Wow our management does the same. I guess its better for the census if the patient codes and then dies. (sarcastic) I am tired of the people in the office having blinders on. I have been in ltc to long I guess and I am just about burnt out. I th...

I am currently per diem in the facility where I work for . Have been there for 17 years mostly as regular staff. Now I am Per diem. Not my only job either. My question is does your facility mandate its pool people. Mine has this list that they g...

Our facility went over to an ADU machine. It dispenses pills in packets and night shift stocks the drawers. we have blister packs too of the more uncommon drugs. prns that are common come from the adu machine. meds on blister cards were being fed...

Thanks Esme , I have not looked into ltac. It looks like kindred hospital is the only ltac around me which is still a little far but tolerable drive. I checked their website and they said acute care experience preferred. Stil...

Here goes I graduated in may of 2013 from an adn program. Prior to that I was an LPN since 1995. I have been in long term care work ever since the begining. (18 years to be exact) Hospitals in our area phased out all the LPNs so I stayed in long ...

Oh my I do not know what to say except oh my. I have been an lpn for the past 18 years in long term care and went on for my rn. I am official as an rn. I dont want to work in the same place as i have been for the past 16 years now in long term car...

Thank you Maura. I think once I get the hang of paper work and organized I might like it. Its a matter of getting confidence I am only a fill in. The Oasis is all on paper. I was reading that people were actually getting more for soc's . It is a ...

your night shift nurse sounds anal retentive

I just need to say I am a new rn who was an lpn and some of the rns that i have worked with are careless in the way of orders to. lpns to . it happens. in my facility a second person is supposed to check the orders. How often does that happen? w...

Doing a happy dance right now. I passed the nclex rn test. Just got the quick results. I actually dont know how i passed because I thought I bombed it. My only tip for future test takers is to answer as many questions as possible. practice pract...

good luck

I purchased the ati nclex review and found it frustrating. I did not even finish it. It is good but very intensive. There are questions with each module and I felt like I was writing a book to answer some of the questions. I gave up on them and c...

I know what a feeling . I took my nclex on aug 1st and found out i passed on aug 3 to. Felt like I failed terribly after taking the test. Happy belated birthday to you and congrats:yes:

I did it . I took the nclex yesterday . The waiting is so hard. I felt like i did not pass and am trying to think positive. I did the pearson trick and got the good pop up . keep on trying it and trying it. Driving me nuts. Some people are ...