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I have come to realize that just because you know a skill doesn't mean you know how to teach it. This happened to me, in the middle of my teaching I realized I really actually hadn't provided education on this before. My suggestion is to practice what you need to tell the patient even with co workers and prepare yourself for seamless experience for the patient.

I really appreciate your comment!

Thank you so much for that!

I meant by take control, in that I should have been more vocal and worked with the medic. I didn't work with him as a team, I became timid because of my inexperience and now I know next time to handle it differently. I am now realizing even though it was an emergent situation, stay in my scope of practice and don't feel like I need to be supernurse.I just kept thinking I should do more, in reality everything was being done that could be.í ½í¸Š

I appreciate this! And I agree!

I agree and thank you so much!

Got ya. I didn't ever intend on unstraping helmet but I can see now where any touch and even checking pupils would cause unnecessary movement. I also didn't want to take over the situation ( I worded that wrong previously) especially since I'm new. I've learned a lot from this and from you all. Next time or if I could do it different I would identify myself to the medic only and offer assistance. Of course my friend was yelling out that I was a nurse which caused me to feel much more pressure. I really didn't know my role at that moment other than making sure his heart was beating, he was breathing and no one moved him. I think I was feeling like there was more I should be doing, therefore tried doing other assessments. I realize now, not a good idea. I just need to gain confidence in these areas. ThAnks!

Hi all, I had a situation today. I was out with my husband with some friends. A motorcycle lost control pulling off the parking lot and the rider went down hitting his head and knocking him unconscious. I'm a new RN of 2 weeks on the job and an Lpn of many years. I responded along with others but I was the only nurse along with a " medic". I monitored pulse and respirations while someone else held his head stable. I was also concerned if the neck strap to his helmet may be a little tight and affect his breathing so I went to feel for tightness and the medic told me not to. I also was concerned for vomiting and possibility of seizures. I wanted to check his pupils too but the medic again told me no. The patient regained consciousness and went in the ambulance when they arrived. I didn't speak to actually say what my intentions were and I feel I may have been timid and should have took more control or spoken up more. The patient was taken care of and that's most important. I find in other situations other people tend to take over and I feel incompetent because I don't feel I took enough of a role. I don't really know how to react . I feel like I did the right thing but I'm not really the type that jumps up and yells "I'm a nurse!!" Because I'm not that confident yet.

Hello, I currently work for the VA. I am in an Lpn-Rn program. Does anyone know once I graduate and start working as an Rn will my lpn experience count at all. Here is what it says on USAJOBS]Nurse I Level I - An Associate Degree (ADN) or Diploma in Nursing, with no additional nursing practice/experience required Nurse I Level II - An ADN or Diploma in Nursing and approximately 1 year of nursing practice/experience; OR an ADN or Diploma in Nursing and a bachelor's degree in a related field with no additional nursing practice/experience; OR a Bachelor's of Science in Nursing (BSN) with no additional nursing practice/experience. I get conflicting information from so many people between the nurse recruiter and my supervisor and other employees. I would think my time as an lpn would count as the nursing practice as listed above, but the nurse recruiter that was here previously told me it would, then she said it wouldn't and the new recruiter doesn't know, the union will not answer me. My supervisor says that my raises that I received while here will be taken into account. I just know that starting pay is not competitive for the area however benefits are good.Does anyone have any experience with this?

True, I'd not thought of that

KatieMI, thanks for the feedback. The Facebook page is actually helpful because a lot of us live a distance from each other and are busy with our work and home life and school that this is a way to communicate if we don't understand something in our studies. This particular girl doesn't use it as a resource other than asking people to just help her out but nothing specific. To shorten it, it's just her personality. She's hanging on by a thread and wants someone to basically tutor her. But she isn't tactful when she asks, just pushy and borderline harassing . I just got tired of it but I have to do clinicals so it will be awkward since I told her to stop bothering me

Ok I'm in an Lpn-Rn program. We are in our second semester and the first semester was rough to say the least. Most of our class communicate with each other through a Facebook page we created.We started our new clinical group last week and one of the girls approached me because I happened to mention that I used to work with her family member. Apparently this family member told her that I was " really smart and shouldn't have problems in the program". Not true, we all struggled as I'm sure most do in nursing school. Anyway she mentioned this and in a very insistent way begged me to study with her face to face, because no one else was interested. I told her most of us work and have kids and are busy and that's kind of what our Facebook page is for but she didn't let up about it. So over the next few days she texted through phone and messaged me over Facebook. I told her I would stay over 30 minutes after clinicals and study and she was fine with that but ,the last straw was one morning while I was with my kids at the dentist she texted and when I didn't immediately answer she started calling with a follow up text saying " are you there?"I was so angry I told her that bugging the **** out of me was unacceptable. Now I'm done. She apologized but frankly I don't know her well and don't need to put up with it but I do have a bad habit of caving because of guilt. Just wondering if anyone has ever experienced this.

I work for the VA and realized that the hospital itself does not do anything for nursing staff for Nurses week. At least not mine anyway. Outside hospitals do but at ours we have to do fundraising in order for managers to even get us something.Wonder why that is?

Where are you attending LPN-RN program? I was accepted to one for this fall and start next month. Just wondering

Just an update to this.I got the job that I was pondering about! I also just got excepted into an lpn-rn bridge program!Thanks for the advice!