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Hi everyone, I have been an LPN since June of 2011. I have worked Nursing home until I transferred to home health where I work mainly with pediatric clients and from there I moved to working at a facility for the Intellectually disabled for the State. I have been a very good nurse and I have a large social network regarding LPNs and RNs that work in the facilities. Now my problem is that I got a Disturbing the family peace conviction in May of 2012. What happened was that my landlord(fiance's mother) gave us 24 hours to get out of the house and when we were unable to meet her demands, when she didn't give us the legally required 30 day notice, she proceeded to take my things and throw them in the garbage can. I was in the process of getting my things out when she shoved the garbage can into my stomach(I was 14 weeks pregnant with a high risk pregnancy including Heparin injections twice daily). I went and locked myself in my car and called 911. When the police showed up I stepped out of my car and stepped to the edge of the yard. When the police officers came up to me it was explained they weren't there to referee a family fight and stated that everyone on the property was going to go to jail that day. I received a disturbing the peace charge and his mother got a simple assault charge. I plead guilty because i did not have the money to afford a lawyer and could not get a public one because I made to much money even though I live pay check to paycheck and my medication for my pregnancy cost between 400 and 500 dollars a month. So I accepted my disturbing the peace charge and moved on with my life. I have renewed my LPN license twice since this happened and gave court certified documents to the Mississippi BON and my statement everything has been hunkydory until this year. I applied to return to BSN school and filed the application and made sure to put the conviction on the application. I was accepted and was the ONLY LPN accepted and had a 4.0 GPA on my prereqs. I was up front about everything. I did the background check for the school and the charge showed up and it shows everything. Just now after uniforms and books and everything has been paid for NOW I might not be able to do the program... I have been upfront about it from the very, very beginning. It has never affected my jobs or my LPN. I don't understand how that can effect my position in the program. I called the BON today and spoke with a really nice lady when after I explained about everything and asked her if i could still sit for NCLEX-RN and obtain a RN license.. she said I could and since they already have processed the conviction then I will not have to have it reprocessed with them. I am getting a letter from my current boss(state job) that I am cleared to work even with the charge. What are my chances of continuing in the program even with this conviction? Is there anything I can do to increase my chances of staying?

Well see I NEVER see the other nurses and I have tried to remain very polite with them(this is not the first problem I have had and have gone to them every time even coming on their shift or leaving notes). However that being said after months of trying to be very nice and leaving reminders only to be laughed at or made fun of for doing so(I have come to the facility for different reasons during the week, such as resident's birthdays). I thought that going to the supervisor would help things goes smoothly.

One of MD's at my facility LOVES melatonin 3mg. She prescribes it to everyone with insomnia first then moves up from there. my cart alone goes thru 200 pills of it a week.

I would love if all of my residents had 9 pills. hell I would love it if one of my ladies didn't have 42 to take at 8 AM(I'm sure she would too) most of mine average between 12 and 32 on a good day.

Hi I have been a nurse for around 2 and half years.. I am only 22 years old and I try to do everything by the book. I worked for a LTC facility for most of my nursing life. Well a little back ground i worked 3-11 shift Mon-Friday and around 5 months ago I took the 7a-11p doubles on the weekend so i could pursue my RN degree. Well after training most of the nurses that have come thru the 3-11 shift and the 7-3 shift on my hall that I have been on for so long we finally had 2 nurses stay. One only had around 3 months of LTC exp. and the other was an agency nurse before. Well needless to say that when those two was when the bullying started. I started getting reports from residents that they were not getting their medications(Not all on my hall are dementia most are pain management or psyche). I immediately reported this to the staff development(my direct supervisor). After I did this several residents requested copies of their drugs they received of course them being of sound mind I obliged and gave them the lists and even wrote down shape and color of pills for them. I thought nothing of it at all because it was their records and they have a right to know. (also most medications have not been given as the cycle medications have been building up and liquids not running out on time.) After an incident occurred(long story) I had to come to the facility on a Monday afternoon to finish some paperwork. I sat down at the nurse's station with the RN supervisor and finished my work. It was 330ish so both the other nurses were there and they called me to the medication room to "talk". I have no issues with anyone or really anything I'm pretty laid back unless it comes to residents so I went into the med room with them. they closed the door behind us. One stood in front of the door and one stood behind me. both are taller than me I'm only 5'2. the one in front of the door started asking "What are you playing at by giving her that list?" several other questions were asked. followed with me being called a "*****" and a stupid white *****. granted both these nurses are black. I did not say anything besides I stated 5 times that I had to go please move and they didn't finally i had to push past them and walk out the door. Unfortunately I gave my 2 weeks notice to facility I came to love with residents I love because I feel that it is unsafe for me there (I am only white nurse and have been for a long time). I feel like the administrator and DON should know all the grizzly details but I don't want it to effect my career. The RN supervisor thinks I should write a letter after my last day and give it to them. I have never experienced anything like this and I hate confrontation. I don't know what to do.