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Why did she get an article written about that! Shoot, I have been cleaning a pt. BM all over and have my stomach growling because I was hungry I thought that was normal for nurses!

I know how you feel because after working at the same hospital for 32 years I and all the LVNs were laid off. I felt so sad, mad, betrayed,humiliated, disgusted and depressed about the whole thing. I also got screwed out of my 960 hours of sick time ...

I have worked at an acute care hospital in CA for 32years and as of Oct 1, 2013 all14 LVNs will be laid off. So at 54 years old I need to go find a job. I thought I would be able to retire from here. I also have 960 hours of sick time and when you tu...

I have been an LVN for 30 years and I work in a critical care unit. At my hospital we were told to start getting our RNs because we are going to lose our jobs if we don't. My advice for you especially if you're young is to just go right to the RN ...

I have my very own 911 call. My husband had bought a used phone from a thirft store that had 911 programmed on it in speed dial. Anyways, we also own a 50 lb African spurred tortise. It was winter time and we usually have his dog house fixed up for ...

Here in California, there is a website "MyFreeCE where you can get accepted and approved CE units. The classs/articles are from 1-5 units each. You read the article then take the test and you can print out the cerificiate of proof afterwards. There ...

One of my biggest pet peeves is when you have a patient in a critical care unit and they are intubated and they have all kinds of lines here and there and the previous nurse has everything tangled up , going across and under the patient. to the point...

I am a LVN in California and I work in a acute care hospital and I assess my own patients. I can assess a patient just as well as a RN can maybe even better. I have worked on med/surg, post-partum,telemetry,peds,burn unit,icu, and currently have a po...

I agree with you 100% especially the golden rule. That is exactly how I feel about treating other people. Treat them just like you want to be treated. It is very simple, it's in the bible, Almost every human being responds to kindness and respect, bu...

I know that there are some RN's that when they have to cover your IV meds they act all put out and sometimes if can make you feel like you are a burden, which is something I do not want to ever be thought of. What I have found that helps with that si...

I also had an instuctor that didn't seem to like me. My patient was a 20 year female who had a thyroidectomy and I was also in my twenties. The patient and I got along very well because we had a lot in common. Anyways, this mean instuctor told me tha...

I used to have things like that happen to me alot years ago,and it hurt my feelings but you just have to deal with it and ignore those comments. When you are an LVN/LPN you have to show that you are not an idiot.Do your job to the best of your abilit...

A new nurse charts too much about stuff that you chart in school and her penmanship is neat. An old nurse charts the pertinent stuff, not neuro checks on an appy patient and hopefully it is legible. A new nurse will have every instrument, kellys, sci...

I once had a patient that had expired down the end of the hall. She was in room 210a by herself, and there were only maybe a couple of other patients in other rooms in the same area whom could not get up OOB. All of a sudden a call light goes on and...

Well everyone has the same Q word that you are not suppossed to speak that word, ever! Another for me personally is when someone is giving me report and they tell me that "this patient is easy", this seems to jinx me a lot. when the day shift leave...

I have had experiences with patients, namely the moms of peds patients that when they come in to see their child the first words out of their mouths are "Well I'm a nurse!" That is like a big red warning flag that you have someone here that probabl...

I have a position in CCU right now but being an LVN I don't get first priority. We have a lot of travelers and they have in their contract that they only will work in critical care. I expected that I would not be in the unit all the time because I am...

You use surgical tape to fix toys, wrap presents, tape up books and anything else. You have more scrubs in your closet than anything else. Whenever you go one a vacation or trip somewhere you are prepared for diarrheria, constipation, vomiting, sore...

Nurse 1986 I agreed with you. I've been an LVN in a acute care hospital for 24 years and I work everywhere, including critical care. I feel I am very competent and and very experienced. But the BORN in CA doesn't give me or any other LVN any credit...

I live in northern California and I have worked at the same acute care hospital for 24 years as an LVN. I make $23.30/hr plus we get a night shift differential of $4.00/hr, which is the same differential the RN's make. So it is $27.30/hr. And next ye...

This happened about 23 years ago when we had to take all of our BP's with a manual cuff , and all our temps with a mercury thermometer and when cataract patients stayed for several days. I was taking the BP of my patient, a little old man about 80 y...

The weirdest thing that has ever happened to me in the hospital was about 22 years ago. We had just passed out all the dinner trays and we had gotton KFC . I told the other LVN and CNA's to go ahead and eat their chicken and I would watch the call ...