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I can understand an A&O x4 patient at risk of death wanting to sign out AMA. Some people just don't want to die in a hospital or nursing home. Some people are terrified of the thought of losing control. To some people, death in a taxi or a dri...

I voiced this fear to one of my instructors a few weeks ago. Her take on it was that as a DON she would rather have a mature employee with a little life experience in her tool kit. She said that she has seen very young new nurses get out there in t...

I know some of the nurses where I work do this. I don't and some of the residents get irritated with me because of it.

I'm also in PA, about 2 hours away from Philly. There are plenty of jobs for LPNs here, just not in hospitals.

I would bet my license that your facility has a policy requiring two staff members to participate in any transfers using a lift. At my facility all transfers requiring lifts require two staff members, but the aids never follow this policy. If they ...

America is not a civilized nation. Civilized nations have a security net. Civilized nations take care of their own. A civilized nation has a single payer health system.

I took A&P I and II at the York campus. We used models, photos an drawings to learn anatomy. The was no dissection.

Another way of saying this is: Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference. You can't change the past. You can't change your situation. You can change you...

I am an LPN, currently in a bridge program, with 6 months of school to complete before I finish my RN training. I really wish I had gone straight to RN. I never wanted to be an LPN, but I thought I might be able to find a job at a facility that wou...

Get out of there. It's a toxic environment. Find another job before you get sucked in any deeper.

Um, "Nurse"ladi, if you DO attend nursing school you had better check your attitude at the door. The instructors will devour you if you let them know you think this way. They are all powerful, and they can fail you if they don't like your attitude.

Thank you for this post. Well said, and necessary.

Central PA here. Most of the hospitals in my area are going for magnet status. They phased out LPNs a few years ago. LPNs are needed in long term care and home care.

It makes me INSANE to go to get a dose of a scheduled medication and find that there is none, or even worse, that the card is still in the cart, empty. This stuff happens because people don't reorder. I always wonder about the nurse who took popped...

I just bought Nursing Central at 20% of the regular price at www.unboundmedicine.com. This smartphone app gives access to Davis, Drug Guide, Tabor's Dictionary, a bunch of journals, and several other resources. It's for sale at my college bookstore...

Circumcision is a surgical procedure. As an LPN you won't be in an environment where they are done. I doubt that a circumcision (or abortion) has ever been done in long term care. Don't worry about it. I don't ever want to do anything having anyth...

Not from the school bookstore. Not ever. They mark everything up to full retail. Ooooooo I hate them. Amazon is pretty good. I have picked up a few things on craigslist and from bookbyte.com. I managed to get a cheap, International version of ...

I am an LPN, who just completed a bridge semester at the local CC. In January I will step into the 3rd semester of an RN cohort that has been together for the last 2 semesters. I am aware that I am taking the place of a student who didn't survive Se...

Apply again. They might like see just how serious you are and accept you this time.

Don't cram for tests. Short study session every day of the week will help you retain information. Adult learners remember about 10% of the material presented in lecture. You need to reinforce lectures by reading the material through several time to...

My LPN Peds class was terrible, due to a really terrible instructor. She kept contradicting herself and veering off topic, while using tests created by another instructor. She tested us on material that she never taught. Many of the "correct" answ...

December 2014. 2 more semesters with the summer off. I am counting the days.

I messed up. I should have gone to a second degree program, but I didn't know that they existed. Also, I did not know that hospitals were phasing out LPNs. I was hoping to get a job at a hospital and have them pay for my further education. I list...

There are other schools. And yes, many of them accept and graduate students who don't have As and Bs in all of their pre-reqs. The kind of smarts that allow you to do well in the pre-reqs are not necessarily the kind of smarts you need to succeed a...

Ack. I started to write something about my own experiences as a veteran of infertility in an OB rotation. None of it really matters. All I really want to say is that I dreaded it. I got through it. I hope you get through it as well. I wanted to ...