SweetPoo

I work out 4-5 times a week, and it bothers me that most of my co workers are severely obese, and are constantly eating. I'm to busy with work to be sitting down eating all day, how do some nurses balloon to such a size? If I were a patient I wouldn...

Never say "I'm sorry," say " I apologize," sounds better.

Why do RN's make more when we practically do the SAME THING. I don't understand how RN's having the ability to start IV's and give a few medications IV push make them more valuable than an LPN. Those extra courses you take to become RN's, heck even B...

Thank you, finally someone who sees what I've been saying. You RN's have become too "great and elite" to now dismiss us as LPNs as a real professions.

Obama will make LPNs the standard of nursing, and they will bump NP's up into the role of physicians and take over. RN will have 2 options go back to school and get a NP or work with LPNs doing the same thing making what we make now. Only way to solv...

I change wet diapers, you change pooped diapers along with me. I hang IV meds which I have Calculated the drip rate and all, and all you do is pretend to double check my work, and sign off on it. Oh the physical exam, not really hard to listen to whe...

Im pretty sure what I stated in regards to HYPOkalemia and insulin and so fourth are a fact. Whether I pulled it from wiki, Journal article, some physician, it's free knowledge and it's correct at least in this case. Thank you.

You stated more education makes you better than me and must know more than me, so how can you say you chased doctors in July and stated you have more knowledge than them. Because you don't according to your own statement of more education equals gr...

Can I tell you about the time when the RN who had recently graduated asked me "hey this PTs BUN is really Low, should I call the doctor to see if he wants to give the pt more BUN. I don't know what they are teaching the new generation of nurses, but...

My knowledge has been attacked all day, I respond with 1 snarky comment in response to someone trying to clown me and I'm the bad person?

You're real bright, the future looks good for you. The nurse mentioned a pt who was HYPOkalemic, less than 3.5. And Mr. Steven Hawkins, who ever you may be, you should know giving insulin drives K+ back into the cells worsening their HYPOkalemic stat...

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2010/04/15/nurses-masquerading-doctors/ This arrogant Doctor is what you guys sound like at the moment. I don't understand how my case should be any different.

I do the same thing you do, only I am "inferior." I understand now, trust me.

Isn't that what NP's use when we back them against physicians? That their training as nurses with extensive experience adds up to be on par with their training? That makes the case for LPNs as well. Once again, you have proven my original point. I c...

For someone with a lot more education than this mere LPN, your sentences make 0 sense. I hope you don't chart like that. "Patient hurts butt bubble burst."

A lot of condescending statements here in regards to LPNs and our training. You guys are starting to sound like physicians when they bash RN's, and now you guys are bashing LPNs. You guys should know that nurses should stick together. But, seems li...

I guess I won't find support here, as a new user I was expecting more backing, I guess I was dead wrong.

Can you please link a study that compared LPNs vs RNs? They don't exist. So how can you make that claim? Second, you can claim NP and Physicians should get the same reimbursement for doing the same thing. Thank you, you made my point. You can't hav...

I guess we can agree to disagree. You here that same statement "I didn't know what I didn't know" from NP's who went on to medical school. Even though when asked, they will say they do the same thing but we are restricted by physicians. Yet, we bac...

Did you read the whole thread before you judge. NP's argue and state they should be paid equally with physicians, so why can't I Make a valid point as an LPN to be paid as much as an RN's since we do the same work except "yes you do nave more educati...

No they basically want me to take the retirement plan or work on the long term care facility. That's not fair, and not fun. I will further lose money by down grading my self to long term. I'm to told for school, and honestly feel I can handle the cha...

I feel the effects truth me, being pressured to retire or quit. And I won't. Seeing how NPs will be running things soon, and every RN want to be a NP, that should open the market back for us to fill those gaps. As nurses eventually becomes docs in a ...

It's so hard with this house and car. I can't afford it. If I were young maybe. But, I will hold on to my unit making money and leaning. You think it's really that worth it? How can I live, work for a year to get this degree.

I make less than brand new minted nurse with a associates degree fresh out of college, barely old enough to drink, with 0 experience. But I guess it depends where your from. If you don't mind me asking but how much? It's 30% less here on average.

Don't you feel like RN's look down upon us? Some have even said from reading these forums that we are not even considered "real nurses." Makes me sad, first time on this forum and I didn't know thats what they thought of LPNs