Sandi0302

I will be applying to the one day a week program at OCC.

Was is everyone attacking the original poster for her opinion? There really isnt anything one can do about situations like these unless they do actually effect the workplace, but, then again, doesnt it? How can you concentrate just on work when you have your "fling" working with you? Hence the saying "Don't s*** where you eat". Everyone has their own personal moral standings. Some things offend people more than other things. Marital infidelity highly offends some that still believe marriage is a sacred thing, unlike celebrities...but I digress.... No, you cannot stop it from going on, and it is likely that any other place you work will have it also. One nurse I work with actually brought her ugly "playthings" to visit her on the 3-11 shift. In my opinion she is a filthy thing for it because she has three kids. However, it didnt happen on my shift and I didnt see it, so i kept my mouth shut. As a previous poster said, what goes around comes around.

Amen. I worked in a Level 1 Trauma center ER for four yrs (Not as a nurse, but as a tech), and EVERYTHING you said is true. I think we all had a love/hate relationship with it...loved the challenge, different things everyday, but high burn-out rate. One time this guy was complaining about how long it was taking for his wife to get her TOE xrayed. "Sorry sir, there are 7...yes 7 trauma pts on the other side right now, so it's gonna be awhile" Personally, I think we should have Nurses Tell It Like It Is Day during nurses week..."Hey buddy...@#$% &%$!" :)

Whats an ATI? I think it sounds like when I was in LPN school and we had to take an NCLEX-like test on the computer...is that it?

Refuse care from a NA? I work in an Assisted living facility, which has quite a few Russian/Ukrainian/Georgian employees. Some can speak English very well, others okay, and three speak very little English. I am the day LPN. We all have to carry around portable phones with us to communicate (which is great). However, whenever one of the girls that speaks little English calls me, they need to speak with the med-aid (who is Gerogian) to tell her, so then she can tell ME what they said (ie translate). This is seen as a problem because it is not everyday that this med aid is there to do this. The other problem is that one of the residents one day refused care from the one girl because she cannot understand English well, which in my opinion is a hazard. According to the GEORGIAN administrator, the resident cannot refuse care from any staff member...am I wrong, or isnt it the pt's RIGHT to refuse care from anyone?

What does a nursing association do for you? Any perks? I have also heard that LPNs cannot join? (If that is true that is re-damn-diculous)

I was just wondering how already being an LPN helped you in getting your RN, any advice, ect. Thanks in advance. :)

I dont think it is this website that is depressing to me, but how nurses themselves eat each other alive. I think it is NURSES who dont respect nurses, not people in general. I have been given nothing but respect from non-nurses for being a nurse. Look at how we talk to each other "Oh, I am an RN, your an LPN, you're not really a nurse." Or I am a BSN, you're only an associate/diploma RN, your're not really a nurse" The constant, "I am a nurse more than you are a nurse" is REDICULOUS, downgrading and sad. We are all in this field together right? Oh, and i think the one that really floored me was "Oh, psych nurses arent real nurses." :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire $#@%!@# STOP THE BULL PEOPLE!!! As far as the other threads about people quitting: happens in EVERY job field, and those aren't typical. We'd really have a true nursing CRISIS on our hands if that was the norm, and NO ONE would go into nursing school. Good luck to you, and I plan on going on for my BSN...so therefore i must like what I do :)

That was REALLY uncalled for...I am sure they were just trying to help...

Its Ocean County College in NJ...

I work in an ALF, and ours is NOT like yours, but we have a nurse who came from a similar facility where the aids were "universal" workers and served food and such...which in my opinion is too much. In our facility, they get assigned residents, bring them towels, shower them , bring them down for meals. Thats it. We have seperate kitchen servers, housekeeping, ect. To me, it just sounds like it borderlines on slavery. If you are really close to finishing school, maybe just wait... Good luck!

I gave myself one last year because I was pregnant, and this year I will be getting (or giving myself) another one because I was recently diagnosed with asthma

I have officially decided to go back for my RN ( I am an LPN). My local county college offers a "one day a week" program aimed towards those in the health care field with full time jobs and/or kids. You do at home online work during the week and once a week for 12 hrs you have the clinical. I am going to apply for the 2008 class, and finish my pre-requs in the meantime. I have it all planned out and I am so excited! Oh, and my SAT scores were higher than required, so I am set. I was wondering though....I thought for RN Biology and Chem would have been a pre-requ, but theyre not? I took them at Rutgers and were hoping they'd account for something...guess not. My Microbio will though.

Oh geez, are you insinuating that because THIS LPN didnt know what she was doing that ALL LPNs dont? I didnt judge the RN that didnt know what to do when her pt's blood sugar was 54 , so don't judge someone just by the title. Personally, I dont think it's worth ANYONE'S license to cover ANYONE.

Lifting a pt is different than lifting a box. No one, pregnant or not, should be lifting a person on their own. That is the way people get injured. As far as lifting while pregnant, the first trimester is the most critical, and the tri where the risk for miscarriage is highest. I have said this in another post, and I will say it again: An unborn child isn't worth risking for anybody or any job...period.

I think a lot of other nurses feels the same way you do. It takes some people a lot of trial and error before they find their niche. You'll find your's, dont worry!

My LPN course had MOST of the clinicals in the hospital, and , like i said in my previous post, we learned a lot more that we are actually able to practice. Nothing out of our scope of practice, but in NJ, it seems hospitals are phasing out LPNs and not letting us use our skills.

SICK!!!!! LOL

The community college near me is "not pursuing" the bridge program any longer. I called today for info and they are doing away with it now that they have a one day a week program, which I will be doing after I finish my pre-requs. I was in Excelsior before, but I have this huge desire to get some regualr classroom time, and with my having to work full time, the one day a week program works out. Good luck to you!

Have you tried Excelsior online? I had started out doing LPN to RN with them, and they were helpful. Tuition they let you figure out how you want to pay, which for me work out to about $75/month. And when I accidentaly ordered the same book twice from their online bookstore, they called me to tell me! Good luck to you!

I just signed up with an agency today, just per diem for some extra cash for Christmas. For those of you who work agency, is there anything I should know? Any advice? Thanks :)

My son is 9 months old, and he had a circ done. I believe the Dr used lidocaine gel, but he did use something. They told me he didnt even cry, which i believe...he is a toughy. I have heard of grown women complaining about men they have been with that weren't "cut" smelling bad, ect. One woman on the pregnancy boards i used to chat on said this, and had sons that she didnt circ, and they got infections. Personally I wouldnt "go south" on a man who wasnt cut...

Hmmm...well, if they start requiring MSN, I am sure there will be a lot less people going into nursing, and I my friend, unless someone else is willing to pay for it, will become a cop. If one is going to put so much money/time into school in order to practice as a nurse, why not just become an MD? I have nothing against education, but it does cost a lot of money and time. I think if under-educated nurses are the problem, then the government should start paying for us to go back to school. Also...Things such as a 20% matenal mortality rate...is this due to medical errors, or other things such as pre-eclampsia? One of the reasons I think healthcare is so expensive has something to do with how poorly we as Americans take care of ourselves. Look at places such as India, or China. Are two-thirds of their population obese as well? I dont think so. Americans are lazy and too quick to put chips in their mouths than go for a run. Americans are fat and lazy. More sick, fat people with clogged arteries requires more money required by ins companies which equals higher insurance costs.

Thats exactly what I am looking for...something to make it a little easier. I already have some credits from a four year university...Bio, Chem, Microbiology, Algebra, English. Things are different these days. A lot of people (like me) have a child(or children) and have to work full time. Having a program where you learn at work doing hands on and getting credits at the same time would be fabulous. Not for nothing, but I have the NCLEX RN study guide, and I breeze through all the questions. I am not saying I should "just be able" to take the NCLEX RN NOW, but there are a lot of similarities in the LPN / RN curriculum. I think the misunderstanding is about what the LPN course actually entails. We learn A LOT more than we are actually allowed to do or end up doing in the career field, which I really don't think is fair.

Yep! Last year I gave myself one