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I have been a Hospital Corpsman in the U.S. Navy for 6 years, and an L.V.N. in California for 6 almost 7 years now. Yes I am a pre-nursing student, I am finishing up some pre-req's for nursing school, so I guess that means in your books "hey_suz", I am not smart enough to know not to falsify my charting?!?!?!?!?!?!? I am sorry NurseLoveJoy88, what you did was WRONG!!! YOU LIED!!!!! Good to see you are brave enough to admit your mistake, but it was stupid in the fisrt place!!! Also since you were written up five times in such a short time frame, you should actually be thanking your supervisor for not just firing you earlier instead. I am glad you gave a PRN notice, because the way the picture is painted, you would have hurt someone soon enough!

Safe to say most people like/"love" being in the nursing profession, BUT.....tell me of any job/job field that the employee's don't grip, complain, some times hate, ect... Yeah, didn't so.......

I think it is safe to say....with all due respect of course, you just need to mind your own business and let other people live their lives instead of judging them.

Hey Kiru - Remember the NCLEX is a proficiency test.... If you fail it multiple times, sadly it means you don't know your stuff! It doesn't matter what school you went to, or where you did your clinicals, or any experience you might have or have not, it means knowing the BASICS of nursing. Also you got to remember just having the desire in your heart doesn't always cut it (if that was the case I would be a Major League Baseball player for the past 15 years), but that is just my two cents. Also if you can't take a little critizism either get a new line of work or get some tougher skin. Because if you think I am mean, rude, or whats between your glutes, wait unitl you deal with some family members, or doctors at 3 AM, or your manager yelling at you because you are five minutes on over time.....Oh yeah, lastly....welcome to nursing!

You want to know on how to pass it the first time around...???? Plant your self in a seat and STUDY!!! And with all due respect if you fail it 3..,4...,10... times maybe nursing isn't for you, and you just wasted a couple of years of your time and thousands of dollars for nothing. Better failing and knowing this gig isn't for you than going out there and killing or seriously injurying someone later.

With all due respect, should be fired. Since you are ADMITTING that you LIED on your charting (why didn't you just either A. wake the pt up and do your treatment, or B. Wait until the pt woke up, or C. Just pass it along to the next shift.....??? Remember nursing is 24 hour care!!!), how can your supervisor trust you now? Also if this is your FIFTH write up in a short time frame...wow, I think it time try to realize you need to cut your losses and MOVE ON, either new career, or somewhere else more at your speed sister, cause you just aren't cutting there.

Umm...I don't think you will get into trouble/fired over this small petty event, it's just a stupid locker! To help prevent anything like this in the future, just invest in a backpack, leave things in your car, or don't bring so much junk to work with you. Problem solved.

Wasn't in the NCP, but was a Hospital Corpsman for six years, and did run across a few RN's. Can't go over the info you request (sorry), but as far as what to sort-of expect, oh yeah... OCS (Officer boot camp), is in Rhode Island, and is about 6-8 weeks. Your contract is for 3 years, and your first duty station will be state side in a Naval Hospital. That way you get some training under your belt prior to any other action. If you decide to re-up, other duty stations for RN's are either oversea's in again a Naval Hospital, "Green side" (assigned with the USMC), mainly in a clinic. You won't see any first line action due to the fact that is what HM's are for, and as a Officer you are considered to important for that (but you can still be deployed as needed). Your patients are brought to you. If you want to go to ship, good luck... There is only a couple of ships that carries RN's (Aircraft Carriers (only ONE RN per ship), and the two Hospital ships Comfort / Mercy (Unsure of the #'s, but they don't sail often, only on humanitary missions). But if you want to futher your education (i.e. specialize), go for it, there is a ton of free training programs. Plus the benefits are kinda hard to beat (free medical,vision, dental, cheap life insurance, discounts for a ton of stuff galore, travel, training, education, and so on...). The pay is a bit on the lower side, BUT you will get BAH (tax free housing allowence), plus a healthy tax free food allowence. Including 30 days of paid vacation yearly, the stasifaction of serving your country, and V.A. benefits once out. After reading all of this, it might sound as though I am a recruiter, but it actually is pretty darn neat. Honestly, I can say I didn't meet an RN's who didn't like it or regreated it. Plus it gives you a major standing leg up when looking for a job after getting out (if you do). And lastly, if you are young (and it sounds you are...), live your life a bit, you just busted your ass for four years, enjoy it a bit! Lastly, as far as all the paper work, welcome to dealing with the government.......Have a fine Navy Day!

Same in my book Bro.,.....But I guess it does to others.

If you want a big brother over you to tell you what is best for you, instead of your own mind be my guest. Also if you want a safety net for dirt bag nurses who should have been fired many moons ago, be my guest. If you don't mind having to strike for a fifty cent raise, while someone else who is doing your job for five to ten dollars less than you, again be my guest. Perks like patient ratio, unions don't produce (just look at the other comments), better pay, yes but while rising the cost of care. Benefits (health, vision, dental....), would be provided anyway (what hospital couldn't offer any of these and still compete for workers?). At my work, about 5 years ago, we the employees were courted by a union as were another hospital around 15 miles away from us. Long story short, we didn't go union, they did. They have been on strike twice, loss their Blue Cross PPO (Health Net HMO now), and thier ability to discuss any work related subject w/o a union rep with management. All this for what you might ask...a 75 cent raise in those five years, plus 5 extra days a year of vacation, and a lightening of a 154 dollars a month for dues, no to begin to even mention about morale. If that is what a union can do for me, no thanks.

Best bet is follow your hospital's/work place rules or regulations on the issue. Just because if something happens, guess who management is going to throw under the bus??? The co-workers who told you, or you who has a license and did it??? Remember, take everything that anyone tells you with a grain of salt.

I think it is time for your work place to come into the 21st century and get some of the advances you are talking about. Then I think you wouldn't have this issue anymore.

Forget the schedule, if you are on your 3rd job in 6 months....I am going to guess nursing isn't for you, with all due respect.

You are getting paid right? Then do your job.

Does it really matter??? Just do your J-O-B to the best of your ability, and that's it! Why worry about something so petty.

As far as it goes, like everyone says, it depends on your union plus the state you live in (weither your states likes or dislikes unions). But some people forget to remember that you are your best represenitive, not some political-minded yahoo. If you don't like the way management runs things, quit and go elsewhere. If you don't like the benefits offered, quit and go elsewhere. If you feel your voice is not heard or the standards not to your liking.....quit and go elsewhere. I am pretty sure if enough people did that on their own, management and hospitals would get the picture. Remember they DO need us in the long run, so they will listen and make change. But like most Americans, nurses think they are entitled to have everything go their way. The culture of me. But if you want to pay around a hundred dollars a paycheck, or monthly to go to someone who may not your best intrest at heart, go ahead!

As a LVN at Loma Linda VA, there is no boards here (including RN's), to "remove" or fire any personal. Though as with most gov't jobs you have to go above and beyond to GET fired here, and if that does, all you got to do is complain to the union. case in point, a fellow LVN got rehired a month later after filing a complaint w/ union after being caught asleep with a suicidal 1:1 patient. A RN was rehired here after giving potassium iv push with full back pay for 2 months. A HT was not fired for being AWOL for 3 days, her excuse......."Just didn't feel like working.", no lie!!! Even as my manager has some-what jokingly as said "This is the only place where you could punch me in the face and be back to work next week". So no matter how big of a dirt bag you are, you always have a job here at the wonderful V.A., at least Loma Linda!!!

If you are so damn smart that your dumb-a$$ fellow students bother you, and that you are correcting the instructors, why are you wasting your time in nursing school??? Was medical school not challenging enough for you? If you had an ounce of brains left in your head that your ego hasn't pushed out, you might realize that you don't know everything there is to know about nursing, now or after 30 years of work. I, for one personally am afraid for your patients because your cockiness will kill someone one day instead of double checking with a fellow R.N., or calling the M.D. at 0300, no instead you are God's gift to Nursing. If only if we could all be like you.....