nursesaideBen

nursesaideBen

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  1. Morphine injections

    nursesaideBen replied to beethoven1117's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Depends on whether or not it's in your scope of practice designated by your state's BON. Here in VA they

  2. Magnet and Teaching Hospitals

    nursesaideBen replied to SkateBetty's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, reading these posts really make me see how lucky I am! I work at a Not for profit hospital in VA on the Medical Care Unit as a CNA and the nurses there have 4-6 pts on night shift and I usually...

  3. Organ Donation and Homosexuals

    nursesaideBen replied to mysticalwaters1's topic in General Nursing

    This is an issue that really disturbs me and has for a while. I know last year I tried to donate blood for the first time and was treated like I had the Black Plague when they found out my sexual...

  4. An Enemy As A Patient

    nursesaideBen replied to Kiren's topic in General Nursing

    Simple, when you go in the room to greet your patient/enemy explain it's perfectly normal procedure to place the blood pressure cuff around the neck I'm kidding of course, just like the previous...

  5. My CRNA friends do illegal drugs

    nursesaideBen replied to DrugReptoNurse's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    After reading more of the posts I had to reply. I can't believe that the illegal drug abuse of health professionals is being defended! CRNA's especially hold a patient's life in his/her hands and with...

  6. "Honey"

    nursesaideBen replied to lovingtheunloved's topic in General Nursing

    Honey has never bothered me, I do have a habit of calling my female residents/patients either honey or ladybug. In my area, terms of endearment are used by and for almost everyone. Just depends on the...

  7. My CRNA friends do illegal drugs

    nursesaideBen replied to DrugReptoNurse's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    That's an incredibly tough situation. To be honest I don't know what I would if I were in that situation, best of luck to you in dealing with

  8. Feeling Upset Please Help

    nursesaideBen replied to GiantHeart21's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, either I'm just plain stupid or the program I'm in here in VA is harder compared to some others. I'm in an 18 month LPN program and have finished 11 months so far. The first 9 months weren't that...

  9. First Day of Clinicals

    nursesaideBen posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi all! I started Phase 2 of the LPN program August 14th and yesturday we started our Med/surg clinicals, I had a really interesting patient. He had AIDS been admitted for immunocompromised pneumonia...

  10. But you're a MAN!

    nursesaideBen posted a topic in Men in Nursing

    Hi all, I'm 17 been a CNA for about a year and have 9 months left in my school's LPN program. It really bothers me that so many female patients are distrusting towards men in the nursing profession....

  11. But you're a MAN!

    nursesaideBen replied to nursesaideBen's topic in Men in Nursing

    I've used that tactic of "you'll have to wait a few minutes." several times with a good success rate. It just frustrates me that with todays nursing shortage that patients are allowed to pick and...

  12. Does this bother you?

    nursesaideBen replied to Gods child's topic in General Nursing

    I have to admit I can see both sides of the story, I just turned 18 two weeks ago am half way through the LPN program and am a CNA working two jobs. I love nursing, every aspect of it. I just recently...

  13. Changing Departments

    nursesaideBen replied to mgalloLPN's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    To be perfectly honest, you're probably not going to be able to work in the more specialized units such as NICU, PICU, etc as an LPN. It's difficult enough to get on a Med/Surg floor as an LPN....

  14. Differences between Medical Assistants and Registered Nurses?

    nursesaideBen replied to MA2006's topic in General Nursing

    Well said, it's easy to look at someone's job description and think you're either better than them or that their job is a piece of cake but when you see what they are actually accomplishing it makes...

  15. The fire and drive is gone?!

    nursesaideBen replied to trustar's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Maybe by getting a job, working and using what you learned will help spark the fire again. What I do with myself is just FORCE myself to study by setting up a designated time every day that I have to...

  16. Differences between Medical Assistants and Registered Nurses?

    nursesaideBen replied to MA2006's topic in General Nursing

    Training to be a CMA really just varies state to state and even program to program, where I live there are a couple medical assisting programs that result in an associate degree in medical assisting....

  17. But you're a MAN!

    nursesaideBen replied to nursesaideBen's topic in Men in Nursing

    Thank you all for your replies, all of which have been thoughtful and many very humorous :roll I appreciate your encouragement insight and I'm sorry it's taken me so long to reply!!

  18. Differences between Medical Assistants and Registered Nurses?

    nursesaideBen replied to MA2006's topic in General Nursing

    My mother who is now deceased was a medical assistant right up till the day she died. She worked at a very busy clinic/urgent care centered and truly touched the lives of the patients she helped. Yes,...

  19. No jobs for LPN graduates anymore?

    nursesaideBen replied to Bala Shark's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    That's a very good point, if the nurse practice acts were reformed than maybe more positions for LPNs in acute care would become more

  20. Debridement of vancomycin resistant Stage IV Pressure Ulcer

    nursesaideBen replied to whoopdedoo's topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    I'm just an LPN student but in our clinicals last semester we watched an LPN and RN perform a debridement procedure on a patient, maybe it just depends on the type of

  21. No jobs for LPN graduates anymore?

    nursesaideBen replied to Bala Shark's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I've nine months left in the LPN program I'm in andI'll admit I would like to work in a hospital setting and the hospitals around here in VA do hire a lot of LPNs but I am interested in other settings...

  22. Who knew that a med tech = MD

    nursesaideBen posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi all. I recently got a new job at an assisted living facility in which they use med techs. I myself am just a CNA (just 9 more months of LPN school ) but a couple of these med techs think they know...

  23. Finishing CNA classes and wanna start LPN

    nursesaideBen replied to spoiledbrat0627's topic in General Nursing

    Congratulations!! :) I recommend hard studying and strong coffee :chuckle is the program you're attending 12 month or 18 month. Mine is an 18 month and we just finished the first half this past...

  24. Yikes! Privacy protection gone too far?

    nursesaideBen replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    sad

  25. I didn't get all this education to wipe behinds!

    nursesaideBen replied to SeekingNur's topic in General Nursing

    To me it's a shame that people are going into nursing now with the attitude of "I don't want to wipe butts.". They only want to work with the technical things not the bedside things. I think it's sad...