Sandi0302

I am a 29 yr old LPN, and I have a 9 month old son. My boyfriend and I are getting married in the spring and going to try for our second child next summer. My family and being a mother is the most important thing to me, way above work/career. I wo...

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...

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 ...

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 on...

I am an LPN wanting to go on to get my RN, and I am looking for the quickest/easiest route since I have a 9 month old and have to work full time. Anyone know of ANY programs available that will let you work/get hands on experience AND get school cre...

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...

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?

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. ...

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, brin...

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

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 thin...

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 ri...

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...

SICK!!!!! LOL

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 :)

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 Excelsio...

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 f...

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 t...

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 ...