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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.

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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!

Does anyone have an idea of approximate cost of the lpn-bsn program with Indiana State? With getting outside pre-reqs or doing the entire program with ISU.I couldn't find current info on it and don't want to go through the whole process of calling them just yet because then I start getting bombarded by the College Network and I am not using their materials ugggh! ANy info would be great!!.

starting salary for an lpn in southern Ohio is around 12$ an hour.I've been an lpn for 16 and was only at 14.80$ an hour and that was at a hospital.

Sounds like you wouldn't want that job.Alot of places have policies against social media anyway. I will be honest,I saw a scenario where an candidate was interviewed and turned down for the job just because of something silly he had posted on his facebook page. It was very unprofessional of the interviewers in the way they did it.Good luck with your job prospects. Your experience goes a long way. Think outside the box and maybe you could find something else that your nursing degree would be a benefit to as well.

Thank you

I am an lpn. I took a health tech position at the VA to get my foot in the door and eventually get a nursing job. I applied for an in- house lpn opening a while back but after I interviewed the supervisor and nurse recruiter found out from HR that I am technically not allowed to apply for in-house nursing jobs since I am not working currently as an lpn, and would have to apply when it comes open to the public, so it does not count that I am already an employee. Another person from that same clinic I interviewed for and who was present during the interview is the one who approached me telling me there will be another opening and to keep an eye out as well as the nurse recruiter.

Is anybody familiar with the Galen college of nursing.I am interested in the lpn-adn-bsn program and curious how it works. I would want to do the online program and also wondered about the cost.

I currently work at the VA and do not work in the scope as an Lpn but as a health technician. I want to get into a nursing position here, but I have a complicated situation in that I have to wait until jobs are posted out of to the public before I can apply. So I emailed my nurse recruiter just a random check to see if there may be any openings for the near future and she responded saying that there may be 2 positions, where I had interviewed before( and then found out I could not take the job because of my situation) and it is possible they may get posted to the outside. She would know by the end of the week. Well that was three weeks ago, and since then one of the nurses who was a part of the interview the last time stopped me to tell me the same thing and to be on the watch for the position. However I have yet to see anything. Would it be a bad idea to shoot an email to the supervisor of that position to inquire?Sorry if this is confusing...

A wife of my husband's friend was an RN. When she referred to RN's she called them nurses and referred to LPN's as that. She separated lpn's from RN's saying the LPN's weren't really nurses. I don't know what she thought the N on the end of LPN meant. It drove me insane!!!

I will fully admit I gave in to the hype of Ebola. I felt quarantine was necessary. Now that I have done my research and read differing opinions, I no longer think there should be mandatory quarantine? Not yet. Not to say it won't be necessary later. There should be mandatory monitoring, and these are healthcare professionals.I'd like to think that if they started to have an elevated temp, despite what a technical definition is for a fever, that they would make a choice to seek some medical attention. As for me, if I were in the same situation I would overkill and quarantine myself just because I tend to go with the " I'd rather than be safe than sorry" approach.A loss of my freedom for 3 weeks is better to me than the alternative.And yes I know these are two contradictions of my opinion and what I would do.

I just saw this interview and that's what nursing is all about. I've gone though varied emotions and opinions about this situation and this clears up a lot.It contradicts a lot that was in the news. I couldn't be more proud to be a nurse and they are the true heroes of all this