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I take somewhat of an issue with you regarding anonymity on this subject.. I am not afraid to defend my position to anyone from the janitor right up to the director of the LPN program. I had an outrageous conflict with one of my instructors during a clinical rotation. She felt the best way to teach me about sterile technique was to get herself into a literal tug of war with me, grabbing onto a foley cath like a mad dog and contaminating the entire field in front of the patient and in front of two fellow students. You better believe that anonymity was the furthest thing from my mind after that stunt. I called the program director as soon as I got home that day and made no bones about the fact that I felt the instructor should be disciplined for her unprofessional behavior, if not fired! Did they fire her? No. But she was spoken to. I will not be spoken to by any instructor like I am something stuck to the bottom of their shoe. Bull*#$! And if they choose to give you a "bad evaluation" because of an experience like that so what? If you are otherwise a good student with potential to be an excellent nurse, one instructor's opinion is just that--one opinion. Let's face it, they breathe the same air you do and one person can't fail you out of the program. I would NEVER go down without a fight. I've worked too hard to come this far and one instructor will not make me or break me!

YOU GO MIKE!!!!!!! Your comments make me proud to be going for my LPN!!!! Have a GREAT day!!! Jacki

Ya gotta love it... My feeling about ALL nurses is this--they ALL started somewhere! Why do they have such a hard time remembering where they came from? I can honestly say that where I attend school, our instructors have alot of pride and alot of respect for LPN's. They DO remember their roots. Two of our instructors are nurse practicioners, several of our instructors have their MSN's, and they do not make us feel inadequate because we are going to be LPN's instead of RN's. My response always is this: I am 43 years old and have waited more than half my life to go to nursing school. I don't feel the need to jump off the LPN deck right into the RN pool. In Pennsylvania, there is little to separate us from RN's, and, according to our instructors, there is legislation pending that may narrow that gap even further. School has been an adjustment not only for me, but for my husband and kids as well. Housework has had to wait, vacations have had to wait, and basically life as we used to know it, was put on hold for me to go through this program, as I'm sure it has for ALL of us that chose to attend school "later in life". It would be nice if instructors and other nurses could remember their "roots" and respect students instead of making us sound and look like bumbling idiots. Bottom line--we are LEARNING. We can't be expected to be hitting the ground running as if we had 20 years of experience behind us. You will never be able to tell me that the experienced nurses out there--be they LPN's or RN's--just breezed through all the aspects of nursing school as if they were repeating kindergarten. And if they do say that, don't believe them. LPN's or RN's we should all have the same goal: Mutual respect for one another within the profession and above all, the desire to help the PATIENT. If we aren't in it for that, then we may as well go ahead and flip burgers for a living.

I would think it would be classified according to type of fx. as well. Do you have a Taber's dictionary? Check in there. They usually give the definition of "fracture" then subsequent types/classifications of fractures. Good Luck.