jupitercrash LPN

jupitercrash has 5 years experience as a LPN and specializes in School Nursing.

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1. Love school nursing, but can't pay my bills.

   jupitercrash replied to jupitercrash's topic in School

   I've thought about going PRN somewhere. My friend from school got an agency job and she is making really good money, she keeps telling me to apply but being thrown into new facilities all the time makes me very nervous.

2. Love school nursing, but can't pay my bills.

   jupitercrash replied to jupitercrash's topic in School

   I know. I took the part time for experience, hoping to get into something full time next year. I could make it work if I was getting full time hours. But thankfully since I posted my SO got an unexpected raise so I am less screwed than I originally t...

3. Can’t a nurse be fired?

   jupitercrash replied to Barbara Fouch Lentz's topic in General Nursing

   Saw this all the time working on a long term vent floor, people would come in with awful stage 4 pressure ulcers from the hospital. We would spend months treating them, they would go back to the hospital and we would have to start over. I had a man ...

4. Mailing Medication

   jupitercrash replied to Csn2016's topic in School

   Our schools policy is meds must be picked up and signed off on in person. if they aren't picked up they are supposed to be destroyed. What do you do with meds that have been in the graveyard for a while that parents have no interest in getting? I h...

5. Spacers: Do you order extra?

   jupitercrash replied to RNTadaaaa's topic in School

   I don't even have a cot. I have one single chair. If I have more than one kid, the others have to sit in the secretaries office and wait. I am pretty sure my "clinic" used to be a supply closet or something.

6. Hired on the spot? Take it or look elsewhere?

   jupitercrash replied to Dani_Mila's topic in General Nursing

   Sounds like you interviewed at the facility I got my first nursing job at. I didn't even finish orientation before I RAN. Way too many red flags. I ignored them because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to find anything else as a new grad, but I regret...

7. Love school nursing, but can't pay my bills.

   jupitercrash replied to jupitercrash's topic in School

   I can be fulltime, but would have a district nurse over me. That seems to be the way most districts do it in this area. Definitely a lot to think about.

8. CST drew up and administered medication....and it was wrong amount

   jupitercrash replied to Alyk3309's topic in General Nursing

   I guess I don't understand why the medication was taken out by the nurse then left unsupervised with the CST, if the intention was to be given later by the nurse. Obviously, this opened you up to the possibility of someone else giving the medication ...

9. Plant-based (vegan) mandate for NY hospitals

   jupitercrash replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

   I think it is great, I was vegetarian for 3 years, when I was in the hospital after delivering my daughter they had ONE vegetarian meal the entire time I was there. I couldn't even order a salad because they had ham in them already,

10. Love school nursing, but can't pay my bills.

    jupitercrash posted a topic in School

    LPN working through agency. School has me come in for 4 hours a day to deal with all the daily meds and recess injuries. Just did the math and after taxes I am making like $11 an hour this month. I made more as an aide. Kind of feel like I'm wasting ...

11. Live in lpn

    jupitercrash replied to Rockinurse's topic in General Nursing

    I worked as an aide for my grandpa before he died and they said the only time they do not pay for a family member to be a health care provider is when they are also the power of attorney, but they would have still allowed it if I lived at the same ad...

12. Do you ever miss bedside?

    jupitercrash replied to JLA's topic in School

    I would quit nursing altogether if I had to go back to bedside.

13. School nurse questions.

    jupitercrash replied to littleduckrn5's topic in School

    I am an LPN working in a school in Ohio, I am also through a health services company (maybe the same one lol) This seems to be common. A lot of schools hire the aides and LPNs to save money. I have an RN supervisor but she is over the entire region. ...

14. Looking for financial aid

    jupitercrash replied to Mthom17's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Seriously. Go to a community college. 4 classes was under $3000. Fafsa covered all of it. I only had to pay about $150 for books and school supplies.

15. I Want To Be A Nurse, But My Grades Aren't Competitive. Help!

    jupitercrash replied to TheCommuter's topic in Pre-Nursing

    I live in a pretty rural area. GPA must be 2.6 and the only thing you need to do to be "competitive" is finish all your science classes before you apply.