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I am an RN looking to travel starting later this summer.My daughter is an LPN looking into either travelling also or just wanting to relocate. With everything that I have looked into as far as travel nursing is concerned, it is rare that a company will use a new grad without some kind of experience after getting her license. You really need to have at least a year of work behind you before they will consider you. Also, because my daughter wants to travel and is an LPN, I am finding that few agencies take LPNs as clients- they tell her there isn't a great need for LPNs in the travel industry. Don't get me wrong, a lot of companies will take an LPN on as clients, but it might be hard to find an ideal place for you to go. Good luck in getting your degree and don't give up on your goal in travelling, from what I am reading, it is very exciting to explore all the possibilities in this country. Just make sure you explore more than one company.

Babies seem to be born just about any time they want to. It just seems that they come more at night than during the day. It also seems that they really decide to come about the time the nurse wants to go to lunch, supper, or go home after being there for 12 hrs and there isn't enough help for the transition from one shift to the other. Babies--ya gotta love em!

To all the women in the world who think that babies can survive @ any age gestation: Pregnancy is suppose to last for 40 wks, not the 28,32,34,36 wks that you think, so dont ask or think up reasons why your baby needs to be delivered when you get tired of being pregnant! Yes!! You DO need to drink more water than just one glass a day- especially when its hot out! Stop wearing stupid high heel shoes when you're pregnant - why do you think you fell 3 times today???

jeepgirl=By the way---congrats on your BSN! Hope to get there someday myself unless I get to old to in the meantime!!! :rotfl:

Helping out just comes naturally to me. We have come a long way - it used to be policy to get up out of the chair we were sitting in if the dr comes into the teamcenter. We would have to stand or get out of the way when they came around. Now we sit and even ignor them unless they look as if they want something. But the common courtasy of putting gel on the glove, getting the amnihook ready, tying the gown, etc should be no big thing, it comes with the territory in helping the doc with the neccessary needs.

We used to have a doc who wrote an order for an incident report to be made out because there wasn't enough room on the order notes for more orders! He also wanted a report made because there weren't any more progress notes on the chart - talk about attitude. He eventually was made to go to anger management classes because of the fits he would throw at the nurses!

Just because your administrator says you are going to be getting a NICU, doesn't mean it is going to happen any time soon There are so many legalities involved. Is your hospital licensed as a level II or a level III? Can your area handle neonatal intensive care babies? Do you have the staff who are trained for NICU babies? There are so many needs to be met before any hospital can handle something as big as this. It probably would be better for your PR dept to concentrate on how your area can be relied on to care for mother/baby couples to the best of your ablility and the best well-being to them instead of boasting on having a NICU

18g are big enough as it is. We have one ansthesia dr who wants a 16g once in a while but he is the only one who requests them. Who wants a garden hose in their arm anyway?

I started out in our unit as an LPN. I worked on the postpartum/mother-baby/ nursery area for 25 yrs. I was trained in doing OBT work when our unit became LDRP and stayed in that capacity until I decided to become an RN. We now have only 1 LPN in our area, who really does only tech work. She also has been there forever. Until recently, our supervisor didn't want LPNs because she felt they really weren't needed, but she has changed her mind and is trying to hire LPNs into the area as both OBTs as well as doing LPN work. In my opinion an LPN can really help when it comes to mother/baby care as well as scrubbing as a tech. Believe me, it really helped me when I went on to school to advance my career.

Up until recently we had to mix our own pit-10mg/500cc LR until just this last month when our pharmacy started using premix pit. We have always (at least since I've been an RN-6 yrs) had premixed mag from pharmacy. I really wouldn't want to mix that. It really has to be exact. We usually start of with a 5gm bolus over a 30 min period and then 2gms over a 1hr period. Emergancy ? most of the time our emergancy occur when the pharmacy doesn't get the order in soon enough for the dr. We then will just over-ride the system in the pyxis and get the fluids ourselves and either mix it as per our protocol or get the pre-mix, but only with pitocin, never with mag. we don't even have the magnesium on the floor I think that any situation on our area is considered an emergancy when it has to do with what I want when I want it at the time that pharmacy doesn't think that it is an emergancy to them!