Leonardsmom,LPN

From what I have been seeing where I work now as a nurse compared to other places that I have worked at when I was a CNA, is that the people who are being admitted are sicker, more unstable than I have seen in the past. Where I work we are a 100 bed...

Scrubs for work and a nice pair of dankos, don't regret spending the money on them and plan on getting another pair soon. Several months later with some of my money earned with all my overtime I got myself a Littmann cardiology 3 stethoscope, was ab...

This, I have worked with nurses in the past that used cola to unclog feeding tubes. However as JustBeachyNurse said the acid in the cola degrades the tubing. Flushing with water after checking residual, giving meds, or feeding am through an ng or p...

This here is great advice. At some point all of us will make a medication error in our career. The other night I came close to making one myself and had almost pulled a Med that had been scheduled and given earlier in the day. The place I am curre...

Some things that I would want to think about is how many clients are you going to be responsible for, will you have other nurses that you will be working with that you can use as a resource if something happens and you don't know what to do. When yo...

My att came within 24 hours after I made my payment to Pearson vue.

OP as others have mentioned you can also report this to the state. Especially since it has been a month since you had contacted the agency about this. The department that would handle greviances would depend on the state, but if you contact your st...

OP from the sounds of it you did really well. I am guessing that this is your first time providing patient care outside of nursing school? It takes time to get a routine down and day shift can be a very difficult shift to try to learn on when you a...

Is this for an actual patient or a scenario that you have been given? What thoughts do you have so far? There is no details given in which one could base a nursing diagnosis or goals upon. All nursing diagnosis and goals need to be based upon what...

Agree with the above posters, there is a lot of learning that you do within your first year of nursing. I am in the same situation as you are at this time, I took my NCLEX-PN on May 26, found out two days later I passed. I started applying for jobs...

That is just absurd!!! That guy and stating the only difference between male and females is fat distribution, really how about all the scientific evidence about muscle mass and strength, geesh. Honestly unless this is the only job that is available...

The kits they had us use in school had the forceps on the inside. Personally I prefer the kits with the swabs tends to be a little less messy and a little less fuss. However you work with what is supplied. I prefer to use separate sterile gloves t...

Happy that I came across this post. Will be printing it out for a reference when I start my first job later this month. Thanks commuter, great information for a new nurse.

The first forceps would be for opening the wrapper, although I would think it would be easier to do so with your hands since the outer inch of the wrapper is not sterile. I don't believe that you could use those first forceps for arranging your supp...

As others have said focus on you, these girls are responsible for how well they do in nursing school. If you do study well with a group, keep an eye out for people in your class who you feel you might study well with. However, until then focus on wh...

Other posters have made some really good points to think about. Few other things I would suggest to think about would be for work requirement how many hours were you working when you did your LPN? Did you work that many hours or less, how did you d...

Definitely interested in seeing the data that gets posted. Starting my first LPN job in a little over a week in a rehab/LTC.

If your Med surg book has a study guide available, check it out. I used the study guide for my Med surg book for Med surg 1. I worked on questions from the chapters being covered and questions specific to what we were covering. If it provides rati...

Took my nclex-PN last Thursday got my license number on Saturday and had a job offer this Tuesday.

As others have said you never know what may happen. We had several students in my cohort who had been alternates, and the cohort before mine got a call the night before class that a spot had opened. Sign the acceptance form and attend the orientati...

Congrats on the scholarship. Depending on what you get offered for financial aid from your school, if it is based off of last years earnings ask them about filling out a special circumstances appeal for more aid. By doing that for last school year ...

Before starting nursing school last fall I had been living alone for 6 years living off of CNA wages, no kids. Currently living with family again while completing nursing school, but I am looking forward to the day that I can be on my own again. Wh...

Congrats!

I have heard some of the states are like that. Just thankful that I am not in California I feel for the students there, from what I have read some of them have to wait a month or longer to hear back.

Your quick results should become available, mine did this morning. When they do become available before purchasing them check with nursys and your BON. Not sure how quickly they would post it up but if you don't need to spend the $8 I figure why do...