CashewLPN LPN

okay guys... this is the big question... actually a point of curiosity... i want to know what is the max nurse to pt ratio for you all! I max out at 12.... I usually have 1 CNA.... and yous? Be Brave! Fill it in!!! Make your number count... Bar...

I know that swollen feet are bad... oddly enough, my poor puds have gotten edematous... I just noticed it. My legs are not swollen, just the tops of my feet... I've just put them up on a chair... its wierd... yesterday, they got swollen, but I wa...

What are the average nurse to patient ratios for all of you on inpatient rehab? (where I work, we're between 1:6 to 1:10, depending on staff and the census...) danke shoen --Barbara, LPN

hi guys! I just wanted to see how the breakdown is between 'City Dwellers' (aka, 5 borough people) and upstate dwellers (aka-- everyone else.... I love NY.. .aint it grand?) me, personally, I am a Staten Islander... an outskirtish city dweller (tee ...

In this time and age, ADN's and BSN's are still RPN's (basically, there is no license difference between ADN's and BSN's..) Usually, the only difference between either is pay rate. Also, Most (if not all) employers do not look at the school you went ...

I hate to say it, but its extremely hard to predict passing and failure based on the number of question... Please refer to 'How the NCLEX works', at the top of this forum for more info. --Cashew

I have to agree with the above... until you are issued a license number, and have the license in hand (your employer needs a copy) you are still a GVN, or GPN, legally. So, you'd still have to be co-signed under someone else until you get the snail m...

hmm...if you just called for 'ms. smith' or, 'Mr. Joe Schmo' it would be ok...but if you called out 'I need the Ms. Smith with Cancer' or, ' Mr. Schmo, please come in for your chest x-ray' you'd be leaping over the line of ok... Names are cool, anyth...

hmm... I was in the hospital I used to work for (my mom still works in the ER as an RN) for biliary colic. I recieved several mg's of mso4 for pain. unfortunately, I was having mild relief, and noted a little old lady sitting in front of me, screamin...

Hi, and welcome to allnurses.com Nursing is not typically taught by a traditional apprenticeship... You must attend classes at a school that teaches nursing for a set period of time, then you begin the clinical portion of your schooling, (which is cl...

ooh--bucks-- I"ve got a lol in it now, and, its the first time I've seen it since school (in 99) -Cashew

Hello, and welcome to allnurses.com please check out this thread, its covered here. https://allnurses.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101290

just to let you know, CSI also offers a BSN program. (I as one will not go there, as when i was a freshman in college, one of the instructors [who did not know I already was a nurse] looked at my high school transcripts and told me with my grades I w...

hiyas yall! I was asked a question from one of the members from my religious group today... She has to have a Transvaginal sono... She has had the standard gyn exams.... she does not/never had intercourse... Would the sono be painful/ultrauncomfort...

wow... I have'nt seen this thread in years.... 3 years actually... I'm gonna lock it, so that we can move more into the present. Tis always better to start something anew, than to live in the past... --Cashew

Since there have been oh so many questions on 'did I pass at 85 questions' or 'did I pass at 250 questions' I figured I'd make a nice big sticky explaining it. -The NCLEX-PN is the licensing exam for graduate PNs. This is the basic idea on how it wo...

Please read the post entitled 'How the NCLEX Works' at the top of the forum Yes, you can either pass or fail. We all feel like we failed until we get the news. It happens, you'll find out in a few weeks... take a deep breath, and see what happens. b...

perhaps a shower chair and an assist for showering may be a better thing than just the non skids... a Grab bar may be a good idea too... those non skids can be found in hardware stores --Cashew

there is no law dictating that a patient must have bloods drawn in event of a needlestick in NYS. Other states may be different.... So, basically a patient may refuse. Needlestick survivor x2 --Cashew

At times it can be similar, but you end up doing the same tasks for different means... (using bedbaths to learn to assess skin, et al) Sometimes ya gotta pay your dues... --Cashew

contact the school you intend on going into, and request from them which study guides to use, as well as the format of the test. Theres more than one entrance exam --Cashew

uh... jokings fine, heck, I play around all the time, but, in the wild and wooley world of medicine, I will give you a creed you should always follow... Thou shalt not misrepresent yourself. Never Ever Ever. Ever. If your nursing instructor were ...

forgive me for going off topic-- Hippotherapy? Whats that?

congrats, and good luck, let us know how it goes! Cashew

my schedule for example, I work 12 hour shifts, with an every-other weekend... I work Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, Tues, Weds, Thurs, later, rinse repeat... Seriously, though, I work an entire weekend, then the next weekend, I am off. so on and so for...