Nurse Lynette

Quick question.. are you guys allowed to transport a healthy baby from L&D to post partum while mom is holding the infant? In a wheelchair or bed. Not walking. Just curious what other hospitals are doing. Thanks!

I was popular but not bc I was part of the "popular" crowd. I was friends with them all but I had my own "middle class click". I have a twin sister so I think that made me well known. Everyone knew us as "the twins". I was in choir and drill team. I was often called a "goody-goody" but that's only bc my sister was bad! Lol, my grades were average and I sucked at math but I could have graduated a year early. I was in the work program my senior year and only had like 2 classes, one being drill team, so I got to leave early to go to work. I had a boyfriend all through high school, I was engaged my senior year. I skipped school a few times, had in school suspension once or twice, nothing major. My biggest issue according to my mom was that I argued too much. I wanted to be a lawyer!! It wasn't until I had my daughter (age 19) that I decided I wanted to be a nurse. :-)

Your LVN license will transfer to any nursing program. I went to a private school for my LVN six yrs ago. When I got ready to do my transition, I had to take pre reqs first. once I had those I had no problem getting in. I was accepted into three different LVN to RN transition programs. I'm now about to enter my last semester of the RN transition program. If you have your LVN license and all your pre reqs from a regular community college it will all transfer. It's only your license that you'll need for the LVN year credit, plus your pre reqs from a community college.

The book "Dimensional Analysis for meds" came with a CD tutorial that taught me how to do dimensional analysis for all med problems. It was a true life saver!

I'm an LVN in Texas going on 6 yrs. I am currently in an LVN to RN transition program but I've never had a problem getting a job in Texas as an LVN. The pay is decent too.

Im just a student myself but perhaps i can try and help. I would think a CBC would be significant. You'd monitor the WBC (which you already have) and probably RBC, Hgb, Hct, and Plt count to monitor for blood loss. I've even seen CRPs monitored post operatively to watch for inflammation. Seeing the CRP levels drop is a good indicator that the inflammation is reducing. If your patient has alot of vomiting or something you may even see a BMP being ordered. This will tell you your NA and K levels which could be thrown off with N/V/D. Certain antibiotics may even warrant keeping an eye on the kidneys, so you would monitor the BUN, creat, and creat clearance. This is included in your BMP. Hope this helps some. I'm sure someone more knowledgable will come along! :-)

Yes, this is a hospital :-) I feel very blessed! They only took 5 of us this year.

I'm in an externship and it requires you being in your last year of RN school with a contract to work for them for 1 yr past graduation. They also pay for my school, pay while I work, pay for my books, and give me a monthly allowance for gas. It's totally worth it, but I'm sure you'll have to be active in school!

Just to name a few: Following the appropriate diet, reducing stress, following prescribed medication regimens, keeping scheduled follow up appts with PCP,etc ....are ways to decrease the risks of a UC flair up. Think of it like this: What can cause a UC flair up? Not doing those things decreases your risks.. Hope that helps you...

Maybe u should try removing some of the fluid in your flush initially (before you use it), like 1/2 a ml or so. The reason I say that is bc at our facility I've noticed that the flushes are hard to push initially, and sometimes it feels like the IV won't flush when in fact it's just the plunger on the syringe that is tight. Think of it kinda like priming a line. I always prime my flush first. Just a suggestion! ?

Well I'm no nurses note expert but I'd just say: pt has a flat brown symmetrical patch/lesion to R antebrachial area, 3 cms in length with discrete distribution and no exudate. Hope that helps! You pretty much had it! Just put it into a sentence. :)

I've worked in the ER, took my own patients, pushed my own IV meds etc....full patient care under my scope as an LVN, which is pretty broad in Texas, in my opinion.

Go to a 4 year university and work on a bachelors degree rather than another associates. I believe Financial aid picks up and pays additional money for bachelors degrees, just not for a double associates.

My program is a transition program and every student in the program (there are 50 of us) are licensed LVNs. Some of us are considered "community LVNs" bc we have experience and the others, which came into the RN program directly from the LVN program are newly licensed LVNs without actual LVN job experience. However, we are all licensed nurses and the instructors treat and instruct us all the same and hold us all to the same standards. The emphasis is heavy on the transitional role and the only skills we went over and checked off on in skills lab this summer was IVs and trach care. Everything else (skills) is considered knowledge under the LVN role and we didn't review them or check off on them, we are expected to know it and be prepared at clinical. We graduate in 8months and 4 days, but who's counting?! :)

We have clinicals from 0630 to 1500 on Monday and Tuesday Off on Wednesday for "study" we have lecture from 0830 to 1600 on Thursdays Off on fri/sat Sunday's we go to our clinical site and gather our patient info and prepare our care plans for clinical on mon/tues