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Here in Virginia and other southern states, LPN's with 2 years of experience can travel working in Med/Surg, PCU, long term care, and home care. A couple of my friends are travel nurses and they say the pay and benefits are great but the bad thing is...

Nursing School eventually equated to Hell for me but then again I was working part time weeknights and weekends and going to school and clinicals on weekdays. My class mates with the exception of a couple were backstabbing, lazy, immature, nosy bums ...

:chuckle Oops! Sorry about that, but you know what song I meant lol

Taps whenever someone dies? Hell why not Eric Clapton's "Stairway to Heaven" or ACDC's "Highway to Hell" lol that's ridiculous, as far as questions I would ask stuff like You've only been here a x amount of months how do you know you are well versed ...

Thank you very much for the encouragement, I think you may be right about giving it a shot, at least then I wouldn't wonder if it could have been a good fit for me. Thank you so much for posting! :)

Thank you for your response, There are times when I feel I am overwhelmed but I've been told that's normal since I just recently came off of orientation. The people I've spoken with told me I wouldn't be good at psych nursing because I myself have a ...

Hi all, I have a problem, my white tennis shoes from Target just aren't cutting it anymore, my feet ache SO bad when I get off from work it actually is begining to affect my mobility for the rest of the night/day. I was wondering are there any speci...

Unluckily that tends to be the policy at most facilities. I actually have both my ears pierced and was surprised when the hospital was okay with me wearing earings.

Hi everyone. I'm an LPN, new grad, and I work on a busy medical telemetry unit. I had five weeks of orientation and this past monday night was my first night off of orientation, and I felt like I was drowning. I'm comfortable with all the people I wo...

Thank you for all of your encouragement. I had a really good night last night so in general I'm feeling better. I'm still just really nervous and scared over all but I guess those feelings won't be going away anytime soon. Thank you all again! Oh yea...

How about with Geodon, we use IM Geodon a lot on my unit for combative pts and they always complain of it hurting like crazy does anyone know off the top of their heads if it can be diluted in anything? (I'll look it up in my drug book in a few minut...

I too dislike the term subordinate.

Ugh... Just got back home from taking the NCLEX PN. The test stopped at question 92 and I feel miserable!! I had a ton of OB questions which OB is my weakest subject as well as a bunch of the critical thinking priorities of care questions. I remember...

I'm so sorry to hear that! I hope things get straightened out, and I'm that they will, best of luck to you!:icon_hug:

Well, I called the BON this morning and found out my results... I am Licensed Practical Nurse baby!!! I have NEVER been this happy before!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you all for your encouragement!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm lucky, Virginia tends to be kind to LPN's. I work on a medical telemetry unit and at the hospital I'm at there's one or two LPN's in each unit including ER, PEDS, CCU, and even OB. However most of these LPN's have been there for years and althoug...

Yup, in my interview with my nurse manager at the hospital last august when I applied for a CNA position there I told her I was interested in finding an employer that would hire me as a nurse once I finished the LPN program. She said that if I really...

That's WONDERFUL!!! Congratulations:balloons: :) :smiletea2: :biere:

I would inquire about what time of med errors they're making as in, are they no getting them on time, giving wrong dose, wrong drug etc. Then I would look to see if there is a particular drug of drug class that they are making the errors with and see...

Haha probably at this point I would give you $500 dollars if you could guarantee I passed! That's a good point, they probably do have inside info lol. I hope you did well today, I'm sure you did! As for me I'm just trying to make the time pass b...

Well, everyone I finally graduated and was pinned tonight! The past 18 months have not been easy and I've taken a physical and emotional toll due to the stress and chaos. But somehow I survived with my passion for nursing still intact and this feelin...

Thank you all!!! Yes I'm 18 turn 19 in July. And as Commuter said it has been a difficult journey getting here. Before my mother passed she was a Certified Medical Assistant who worked in dialyisis and an urgent care clinic, she was dearly loved by h...

Precious Pain- Melissa Etheridge What we'd like to inflict on some of them sometimes hehe Bring Me Some Water- Melissa Etheridge For those shifts where you go 12 hrs with nothing to drink by the time you leave your mouth is a cotton ball Who Wants ...

Lordy, I graduate this thurs. from LPN school and whenever I go ANYWHERE with my grandparents they make sure that everyone knows that I'm a nursing student lol I just hate it when I go with them to the Dr. the nurse walks in and that's the first thin...

LPN's are the retarded version of RN's :angryfire Med/Surg and LTC is full of all the lousy nurses who don't know what their doing If you enjoy taking care of Hospice patients then you enjoy watching people die Psych nurses are weird and are mentall...