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You have a good point CCM. I've been meaning to bring this up. Women should stop wearing trousers! Dresses are so much more professional! Also, I think we’d all agree, the nurse's cap is poised for a comeback. Gotta go put on my spats and sock suspenders now. Tom

Do you guys have to document injuries with pictures? maybe show some papercut pics at the staff meeting, to show what the kids are missing class for... And yes, I realize paper cuts are painful; in fact, my son, who can play at home while dripping blood, goes to the nurse with every paper cut. It's embarrassing. The nurse (RN-Paramedic) is a personal friend of ours so my son loooves an excuse to go to the nurse and have a little social visit with him, and talk about the latest time he had to run the lights & siren! there are only seven kids in my son's class... we were worried about the lack of social interaction from this, but I think I like it better than the 950 kids per school scenario... Sorry to ramble... Tom

You should go to the Texas Nursing forum on the regular AllNurses site. Click "allnurses" on the right at the top of the page. When you're in the right department the bar at the top will be yellow, not blue. Good luck, BTW I'm going to be an LPN too, God willing... Tom

I admit that's far more than I thought, but still...

Just remind the parents that if you have to call EMS they'll be out $250 (or whatever EMS charges near you) and the ER charges... That should do it. How much do inhalers cost, anyway? This is pretty ridiculous. Of course the real answer to your question will be in the school's policies, I bet.

I guess I didn't really start the topic as I said so I went back and made a proper thread here...

Hey is anybody else out there going to start next TCAT-H Tuesday? (09/03/13) My bio: I live in Hendersonville (former home of Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison). Married, two wonderful kids (one each, ages 10 & 12). I like cars especially Audi (Have an A8) and my hobby is doing laundry and reading the entire internet. I was at one time an EMT (volunteer) and I have worked as an equipment tech for Apria Home Healthcare and KCI (the air bed company). I also sold metal cutting tools and started my own industrial supply company. Now I'm going back to school to do what I was doing when I was offered the "brass ring" and took it back in 1994. I was taking Micro and A&P and applying to RN programs when I was offered a lucrative sales job. I took it, it paid pretty well but was utterly unfulfilling. So now I shall start the LPN program at TCAT (Tennessee College of Applied Technology) which until last month was known as the Tennessee Technology Center Hartsville (TTCH). There are five guys in the class of forty-some students. I am as giddy as a schoolgirl, if you'll pardon the expression. I truly am excited!

Hey Jann I'm in your class! I started a thread here "TCAT-Hartsville" or something like that. I was the fat old guy in the second row on the left end. Where were you? (EDIT: no caffeine yet -- she didn't say Hartsville campus) I'm so nervous, which is unusual for me... can't sleep, weird dreams, back/neck aching... silly but true. I've got lots of real life college experience (WKU, Vol State) but this LPN thing is freakin' me out! Or maybe it's excitement! I have a friend who graduated from the program last year, she got a job at a doctor's office and loves it. She gave me some of her notes, it looks like fun if you love science/medicine, or a nightmare if you don't. I stayed after the orientation and talked to Lou Ann, who is from NY like me, and she seemed super cool! I was surprised no one stayed around after orientation. My biggest concern is getting there on time. I live in Hendersonville, drop the kiddies off at SJV school in Gallatin at 7:30 then gotta get to Hartsville by 8... my friend did it but I worry I'll be stuck behind farmer John and his 30MPH thresher... surprised I haven't had THAT dream yet! And lunches? There are only 3-4 restaurants in HartsVegas, so I gotta find a cheap, easily made/packed/eaten lunch for myself. Anyway, wah wah wah I know... Glad you posted here! Say hi on Tuesday! I wish it started today. I'm so sick of waiting!

No, Belle, this is about PATIENTS' problems... Just kidding, that is hilarious... are you serious?! Where, San Fran??

Yeah, right "Elementary" Statistics... if ever the course catalog needed to use quotation marks, this class is it! For me, it was hard the first time; it didn't "click" (got a D/W), but when I took it (same prof) with only one other class I got an A... Had a GREAT PhD prof who just loved to teach it, I went to his office and told him (confessed to him?) how hard it was, and I really think he slowed it down a notch from then on (to the relief of the other students)! Don't be scurred, as they say it's really great to understand how studies work and it allows you to interpret them. It's true what they say about "Lies, damned lies, and statistics"... my old professor loved that quote, and for good reason! By the way, this was STAT250, back when undergrad classes had only three numerals, as God intended... YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN!! Sorry, where were we?

I'm sure it's hard to realize at this point in your life, but you are the same person you were - maybe even better (by society's standards)! This, too, shall pass. Be who you were. Keep trying. (Enough cliches?) Good luck, you'll be OK! -Tom

Haha I just saw on Google their logo is the anniversary of the "I HAD A DREAM" speech. Life is so strange.

Haha, Sarah, see that's a nice imaginitive dream you had. Mine's just meh... I'm not some Jen Aniston fanatic, she's just the first "babe" who popped into my head.

If I read this posted by someone else I'd ask myself why they would make up and publicize something so obviously contrived... but it happened, so I'm doing exactly that... I start my (L)PN program on Tuesday. It is like a high school in that we sit in one classroom Monday through Friday from 8:00 AM until 2:30 (!). I'm not as worried about the scholastic aspect (although there is that) as I am about the fact that I will be missing my snack times, interweb breaks, and just the freedom to get up and do stuff! Not to mention that I am the maintenance manager of my rapidly disintegrating cars, home, and everything in it, and there's a lot on my to-do list before classes start! Point is, I've been really stressing. I mean, by the time I cut the grass each Saturday there'll be no time anything - even for AN.com! How will I (and all my fans here) survive?! Anyway... I hit the snooze this AM and fifteen minutes later awoke with my heart racing. In my mind I had been in a strange, tile-walled circular institution (round, like my high school, hmmm) and I was LATE FOR CLASS and could not find the right room! I realized I had arrived early enough to drop off books and find my desk, but now here I was panicking, going around and around this Orwellian roundhouse of a school-asylum, embarrassing myself by peeking into all the wrong rooms! Oh, did I mention that by arriving early I had evidently had enough time to remove all my clothes except my boxers! And I had some stylish blue silk ones on, too! I promise, this is soooo hokey and mundane, why would i make it up! My brain is on vacation! Well, the snooze alarm interrupted before I could find the room where Jennifer Aniston would've been waiting to help me, ahem, get dressed again, so the story doesn't really have a happy ending. But you can bet when I go to the first day of class I'll be wearing my blue silk boxers. Just in case. Tom

Unbelievable. Do you get paid anyway if they won't let you in? I have a theory that more and more adults are stuck in some sort of un-grown-up limbo - children trapped in the bodies of adults, in a way. These folks might be like that: afraid to open the door because that'll cause discomfort (dressing change, shot, social interaction, etc). I blame participation ribbons and unscored sports events. And Nascar.

Can anyone even imagine a show where the NURSES were the sole focus? I mean, the docs are completely undeveloped characters? I used to really love House, MD, but now if I watch it the lack of nurse characters is glaring! Kind of ironic since these shows are called "dramas" but in real life, the REAL drama is in the nurses' interactions!

Now THAT's true love!

YAY! Thanks guys! Way to make a stressful Monday a heckuvalot better for me!!

I'm not even a nurse yet but I sometimes want to interrupt practitioners' third-grade level descriptions of procedures and say "I'm not a grade-school dropout!". Like now I'm trying to get Aetna to approve a new Rx for testosterone for me, and spending time on the phone with some of their reps is grating on my nerves. Not just because of the sophomoric explanations, but because of misinformation like this gem, from an actual pharmacist: "You cannot get the 22 gauge needles your doctor prescribed because the testosterone is too thick to go through them"! Hmm, I used 22ga needles for several years without a problem and one pharmacist even gave me a couple 28ga needles, I think they were - pediatric anyway, and the oil went through those fine; slow but it worked. (used the 18ga originally rx'd to draw it up). So, OP, I feel your pain. How and when do nurses "reveal" to other medical professionals that they are a nurse?

Haha, I lol'd. And to DadStudent; sorry to hear about your mom and the "nurse" who peed in your wheaties. Some people should find a job that doesn't involve interacting with the public.

I guess there aren't any guys on the team, huh? That'd be precious! I have never heard of a church needing first responders (that's what it sounds like your team is providing) standing by during service. Is your church near a retirement community? Do you do the snake-handling thing? Good luck, remember God does have a sense of humor, he invented the duck-billed platypus!

I agree with these but I cannot bring myself to click "Like"!

Maggots have been used (and still are) for debridement. Google "maggot therapy". pretty unusual. Links (no gross pics in case you're wondering) pubmed national geographic

Wow, thanks; I learned a word I'd never even seen before! (Sounds like I am going to need it, too!) [h=1]Definition of squick in English [/h][h=3]verb[/h] [with object] informal cause immediate and thorough revulsion:was anyone else squicked by the potential adoptive parents? [h=3]noun[/h] a person or thing that causes immediate and thorough revulsion.

Okay, re-thinking this whole nursing thing... (Kidding) but it reminds me of one of the funniest things I read on AllNurses.com; someone reported a student who dropped out of nursing school because they "didn't know they'd have to see old people naked"!