Carebear77

I have a question. I was called by my job saying a nurse called off for her on call shift tomorrow and that they are mandating me to take it and I will have to go in they have scheduled cases (OR). Is his allowed? I'm already going to be on call Sunday during the day then working Sunday midnight. I had plans tomorrow and was not prepared for this to happen. Extremely upset. Any insight?

I'm a hospice RN and last night I received a call from the patients daughter stating her mom had blue urine, and to prove her point she sent me a video of it, and it looks like blue kool-aid. Has anyone ever seen blue urine and if so what would be the cause if this. Obviously with her being a hospice patient we are not seeking treatment or doing any testing. She is not taking any medication or eating anything that would cause this. I have never seen anything like this before and was curious if anyone else has seen this? Can't wait to hear what you all have to say.

Thanks so much for your thoughts and ideas on this. I will definitely make sure it is listed as clinical experience and I'll try to keep it brief as well. Thanks so much I appreciate it.

I'm trying to critique my resume, I'm having a hard time getting any job offers. I have heard people say that you should include clinical sites and hours in your resume as experience. Is this true or not? Do you include it in yours? I appreciate your advice. Carrie

Just wanted to say hi and congrats. I was in the first year LPN-RN (2009-2010) program at AH. Good luck, it is hard work but worth it in the end :) If you have questions let me know.

This thread is awesome. I read every post and I took my nclex-RN the other day and because of this thread I was able to answer some questions I wouldn't have had the answer to and I passed my exam :) Thanks so much for posting this thread and those who gave great stuff to remember. :)

Good luck. I know how hard it is to pick yourself up, swallow your pride and start finding another way to study. Just keep telling yourself you will pass. Review content you're not confident in and review it, and do tons of practice questions, review all questions answered even ones you got right. That way you can understand the topic. You will pass. Don't give up. Good luck.

Congrats. I got a good pop up today as well :)

Put in the time to study. I went back and studied content. Especially the areas I was weak in. I also did an entire book of priority, delegation. I also did flash cards of all labs and critical med values. I also did 100-200 questions a day. It helped a ton changing my way of studying and thinking. Going in there today I felt confident and calm. Good luck. You can do it, don't give up. :)

my other 2 times i failed with 265 questions each time. today i only had 119 and just did the person vue trick and i got the good pop-up :):w00t::balloons:

Thanks. I think I'll try calling their on call answering service. Can't hurt. What will I be called this time a hypochondria? Lol

I can understand. It is a very strong drug. I really didn't care what they gave me. I don't like feeling so drugged up I just didn't want to be in pain. Btw my dose was only 0.5 so not much but it was enough to take the edge off.

Is dilaudid contraindicated for a Chole?? Just wondering? I never asked for dilaudid itwas what the surgeon ordered.

Yes im home. They gave me rx for norco 5/325, 1 q4 and it isn't touching the pain. I took 2 to see if that would help but no. I'm miserable and I have a bad feeling I have an infection. I've had many lap surgeries for my endo and not one has ever looked like this. Mine is bright red approx 10xcm around my navel and very hot I'm keeping an eye on it. if I call my surgeon and need to go back I will tell him it better be a different hospital.

I waited cause I don't like to constantly ask and ask. Why would they test me? I had surgery. I have 4 incisions. I think it's pretty obvious I was in pain. Every time I moved I would be in tears. The meds they sent me home in are not even working. But I am scared to even call and say to anyone cause I dont want to be treated like a druggy. I might call though cause my navel incision is burning red and hot. I think I have an infection. It is the worse pain I've ever had and I have 2 kids.

I didn't know this. I might call the BON and ask them. I'd like to know for future reference.

Thank you so much. I was shocked at how unprofessional they were and judgmental. They know that pain is subjective and is whatever the patient says it is. I just couldn't believe they said I was drug seeking. I don't like taking pain meds. However being in this much pain I wasn't going to suffer. It's so sad that some nurses make their patients feel bad when they ask for something. They should find another career. Thanks for the advice I plan on reporting them.

I didn't think so either, that isn't something a nurse should delegate to a Cna. She had it out before I had a chance to say anything.

I'm so upset. Tell me what you would do. I had my gallbladder removed yesterday and was kept overnight which I was glad b/c I was in a ton of pain and the Dr had dilaudid Q3 and vicodin Q 4. I asked my nurse for pain meds this am she said she would give me the dilaudid that was at 10:30. At 1130 my aid walks in and says she gonna take out my IV b/c I'm d/c. I say well my nurse was gonna give me meds. So she leaves the room and comes back and says they won't do the IV push med b/c you're d/c. I was like umm ok. But I asked an hour ago. So I say can I get my pill at least and she says ok. Well the 2 of them (nurse and the aid) were walking out of my room and I heard the aid say " she ant in pain, she is just fine, she keeps changing her story she is just drug seeking" they were saying some other things but I couldn't hear it all. I'm so shocked and mad. How dare them talk about me like that. I'm not a piece of crap who is here to use drugs.I was in so much pain (still am on a scale of 0-10 I am about an 8). I swear I wanted to run out there and go off on them. But I'm in too much pain. I just don't understand people. I got their names. If you were me what would you do??

Thanks so much for posting this. I really appreciate you helping us. I know in scared to death of taking my boards. I failed already and have not had the confidence to retake. I think this will help tons. :)

Not sure where you heard baker is not accredited, but it is, I went/go there. If you have questions about it call the school and ask to speak with the nursing director who can explain things to you. Also, as long as you pass your boards and have a license it doesn't matter, you can move and no state is going to turn you down in transfering your license. But regardless of where you go make a list of pros and cons and decide from that which program is best for you. I wish you lots of luck in your journey.

Just wanted to mention I just looked on Bakers website, to see if the LPN-Rn was on there yet. It doesn't show it yet, but if you go to the Open Classes for fall of 09, scroll down to Nursing and it shows the LPN-RN transition on there.

they were just approved for the lpn to rn bridge last week so they wouldn't have it up yet, it's only been since friday. i talk to chris l. regularly (don of nursing program) and she is the one that told me they were approved and i got the letter in the mail on friday telling me about the program starting in the fall and that previous lpn baker students were top priority/ accepted. this year the program is going to be 1 year(starts in fall ends in the summer, just like the lpn program) b/c it was such a short notice they are including some pre-reqs (like patho and some others) but next year people will need to have those pre-reqs done before applying. next year might be only 3 quarters, but not sure.

Baker in Auburn Hills just was approved for the LPN-RN program. I will be starting in the fall as one of the first students in this program...I'm so excited. Just wanted to get the word out. (I graduated last year as a LPN from the A.H. campus)

Just stopping by to say hi. I graduated as a LPN in August last year, I have all my pre-req's done so I'm applying to OCC (a community college near me) and hopefully will begin in the summer (crossing all fingers :) ) I was origanlly going straight for RN but the school I was attending denied my 2x's because I didn't have a 4.0, so I applied to the LPN and got right in. I can't wait to finally be a RN. Good luck to everyone pursuing their RN :)