JasonValentine

That sounds more like what I am used to as nursing. But from my understanding the US has gotten very very ..stringent regarding these regs.

@Jenni811 My diagnosis was "downgraded" from MS to Transverse Myelitis. My symptoms are a feeling like some one is inflating the disks between my L 2-3 and 4 vertebrae, a huge maddening balloon of pressure. I wake up with tingling in my legs from the knees down and by the end of the day it goes to the feeling you get when your face is starting to wake up from morphine. Pins and needles. My feet, after an hour of being on them, feel like I'm standing in two buckets of 120 degree water. I know the specific temp, because until I get my license, I'm washing dishes in that hot of a water. After 7 hours its more like 130 degrees and feeling like a bone or two is fractured. How do I measure my pain on a scale of 1-10. On a good day it is 5-6, at the end of a work shift,7-8. On a bad day...its a 9/10 and I can barely bring myself to set my feet down, but I don't have a choice. For me 10/10 means...I can't put my feet down. Lately I've been nudging that end of the scale. And no..I'm not going to be moaning and limping and crying. I'll be sitting there cracking jokes, talking on Facebook and if I can ,be up and walking. Why? Because it fooking HURTS ya numbwit..and that's how I deal with my pain. Doesn't it mean I don't need pain relief. If my pain has driven me in desperation to a hospital..you can bet your sweet bustle I'm hurting. And I'm one of those patients that has a terrifically HIGH pain resistance. It's called pain agnosia. People who are in chronic pain for a long time learn to put it out of their minds. Often associated with child abuse, and child abuse survivors learn not to express their pain...ever.. So no I'm not going to scream and moan...I don't cry. I worked 8 hours at a nursing home with an unset broken wrist because they couldn't get a replacement for my shift. I broke it riding my bicycle into work. When I wasn't pacing the breakroom, I was helping on rounds because in that home LPN's turned patients and ran lights. When I'm in pain, I'm not a nice..sympathetic patient worthy of your tenderness...I'm the guy who won't ride the call light, won't make a sound..eat his sneaky cheeseburgers and laugh on facebook cause it's all I got... because I got you for a nurse...and I won't get anything for pain relief until the decent one from the next shift who bothered to get a pain assessment history gives me the medication I needed on YOUR shift, but you were too busy being judgmental to get a decent history and give me something for pain.

You're constantly fighting over not being told why a patient is in any form of isolation? Do the nurses even know?...how can you take care of someone if you don't know what you need to look for? How do you keep a patient who is disoriented in bed at night? Are side rails even permitted?

I'm taking a distance learning LPN refresher course to get my licence back after 15 years away, yes, it is accredited. I haven't done my clinical yet and two of the situations I have come across in talking with the few nurses I know are the changes in freedom from restrains and confidentiality. Back when I worked in a nursing home, we could still put people in vest and belt restraints or in a sedan chair with a tray in front so they couldn't wander. Ditto with side rails and bed restraints. I realize things have changed, and I wouldn't mind a clinical discussion as to how you ensure patient safety now. Also, not calling patients by their last name? I also have been told that being informed of a patients HIV status is now considered invasion of privacy? Wouldn't mind hearing from anyone who is in the trenches..... ~~~Thanks, Jase. Former Army nurse and critical care pediatric LPN.

Thank you for the most positive input I have had from posting on this site. This isn't the only thread where people have been less than helpful. My history is 15 years as an LPN, 4 as an Army Combat Medic. I'm 48, and 15 years ago, they though I had MS..I was paralyzed from the waist down. My ex decided to do something other than parenting and I was left with a 7 year old son who had a rare form of growth hormone deficient. He's fine, HGH shots were all that were needed but at the time it was all very unpleasant. I was basically alone...told by the schools and everyone else, to put him in a foster home and get a wheelchair. Heck my neurologist even advised that. I got a new neuro , duct taped my knees straight, got crutches and kept on going. Kids fine. 21 now..and 4 years ago this May..my last neuro goes "Guess what..you never had MS!" ...Transverse Myelitis. You'd think the young dufus was giving me a Christmas present. 12 years of treatment, gallbladder and liver shot to heck because of Beta interferons, *chuckles*...he honestly thought I was going to jump for joy. I can walk, but the pain from the nerve damage is just charming. I let my licence go because I thought I'd be on a vent by now. I keep fighting. And...yeah...this is frustrating, but I am determined I am going to make it. Doesn't matter how I get the licence. I'll make sure I get the experience. This course says it should take 80 hours to complete the theory section and that bothers me. Not to mention some of the comments made about this course have got me thinking.l I honestly do not have any other option at this point. But..the things they ask and the way it's run....it's bugged me for a while.

I'm sorry you were so confused and uncertain as to your ability to keep up with changes. I do appreciate the insult though. Between that and the inference that I'm in prison I'm ticked off enough to just "Git-er done"

No not too enthused. I'm sitting here with a book, and a binder full of questions to answer. I enjoy discussing things, debating things, bouncing ideas off people. It's like being locked in a closet. If you notice, the question is not about research..it is about discussing from my personal experience. My personal experience was 15 years ago, before I was paralyzed,. and it was still ok to use 4 point restraints. I'd like to hear from people who have had experience, ask them questions. As for the program..of course it is recognized by my state board. THAT..I certainly researched... I'm far too old to be a complete idiot. Freedom from restraints then anyone care to share an anecdote regarding a recent experience with it??

This course I'm taking has no online component, no give and take. I don't learn very well like that, and they have posed a question that has left me stumped. No reading material on it, nothing to reference. It's almost a lecture discussion question, but I'm the only one in the room..til now....the question is as follows: The following issues in nursing have legal implications. You may be confronted with these in yoru nrusing career. Deriving from experience, choose three of the 10 issues below and describe the legal implication. The there topics I've chosen are Negligence Freedom From Restraint Malpractice If anyone would care to air thoughts on these I'd appreciate it, a discussion would certainly kick start my mind.

I can't afford to leave my job at a gas station right now in order to take part time hours. And my son needs the car to get to work. The closest tech school is 45 min away..and they only offer a refresher course if 3 people sign up. I paid the fee and signed up, but no one else ever joined in. I'd have to go through an LPN course starting from scratch which in retrospect would have been best. *chuckles* the nearest grocery store is 35 minutes away one trip. Like I said...out in the boondocks.

Independent Study Refresher Course for Licenses Practical Nurses by Minnesota State Community and Technical College

All right correction time not eight bucks..re-enroll for 800 bucks. and Yes I AM going to get my lisc. back. Or try... Regrading Accredited. Yes it is. Regrading CLinicals : You have an independent contract with a local facility where you do 85 hours with a preceptor. Minnesota sends a contract to the facility. Yes, it is a refresher course. No...I'm not in prison. Not sure where that question came from.

Hello all I have been struggling with Min State's pencil and paper correspondence course for about 3 years. I've been out of the LPN field for 15 due to what they thought was MS but turned out to be transverse myleitis. I am not trying to get my lisc back. One problem. This course makes me want to tear my hair out. You sit with your book, and answer questions. No feedback..no discussion...just read, look up stuff and write. It's frustrating... and I wish there was a forums or page for it or something.

I'm in WIs and currently enrolled in an LPN course out of Minnesota to get my LPN lisc. bac. It is an old fashioned paper and pencil course with no interaction, feedback or monitoring...or assignment time limits. You just do this whole chunk of reading and writing and send it in. I started 3 years ago. Have gotten no where. The lack of feedback, the whole mess chunked on me...now, if I don't finish by May I have to re-enroll for 8 bucks I don't have. I'm just frustrated and because I'm in the boondocks..it's my only option that I can find.