SheldonCooperPHD

This is the other problem with nursing today. We have more responsibilities regarding paper work, a necessary evil in todays society. CYA! But in order to do this, we need to have more staff and better hours. Until the administration realizes this, good nurses are going to continue to be lost, patients are going to suffer and ultimately healthcare is going to implode. Then what?

See I think this is the problem. Nursing is attracting too many "non nurse" minded people because of this attitude. Nursing should be kept bedside. It shouldn't be an "administrative" position. Every since nurses have left bedside to take on jobs "outside the clinical setting", our profession has declined. Today we are more concerned with titles and superiority over one another that we have lost the basis behind why each one of us got into healthcare in the first place....that is to HELP other people. Nurses belong bedside. Only when we return to that ideal will the profession regain the nobility it has lost. Too many students do not go into nursing for the right reason.

As students, do we have the right to refuse to participate in any given clinical assignment or proceedure? For example, if you are assigned a patient or order you are not comfortable with can you decline? Being "green" and nervous we all have to put in our chops, I get that, but what if it is an area we are really not ready for? What happens if we refuse?

Unfortunately I believe the statute is that if a child over 12 years of age discloses and requests confidentiality, it must be honored per HIPAA laws. That said, as a professional your power comes in coaching the child to value the mothers support. Remind her she cannot deal with this problem alone, nor should she. Both she and the potential baby are at risk to do so. Also remind her that since she came in with mom, under moms insurance, that the statement could give her secret away.

I've been an MA for 25 years. I am now just going back to school for nursing. I say do the LPN program instead. It is the same amount of time and you get a better title and better pay when done. You can always do MA office work as a LPN. Don't waste your time with MA school.

OMG this post made me cry. My mom just spent the better part of the last 2 years in a nursing home because of serious complications with diabetes. She was basically 24/7 care and could not do anything but eat and talk on her own. To know that anyone would have the audacity to treat someones loved one this way is infuriating and heartbreaking. This CNA needs to be fired! Report her immediately! Her looking at you the way she did was her way of begging for your help.

WOW! Is that normal for an LPN program? It seems excessive.

Hi, I'm in Cleveland area. Right now I am working towards LPN but I am thinking I should get the RN afterwards. I'm currently a student at Tri-C and quite frankly, I'm not loving it here.

Is anyone here in an Ohio school? Do you like it? Would you recommend your school to someone?

What are the differences in RN vs LPN clinicals?