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  1. choosing a specialty and personality type?

    UnderpaidNurse replied to TRousse's topic in Nursing Career

    I'm ENFJ, unfortunately I couldn't find the link where it would tell me what I'd be best in. I know ultimately I want

  2. Help with first med/surg interview

    UnderpaidNurse replied to UnderpaidNurse's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Well, thanks for all the best wishes. It seems for some reason my application wasn't as good as the four others in my class that applied for the position. I was the only one who didn't get a call...

  3. New LPN interviewing for ortho floor needs help with interview!

    UnderpaidNurse replied to UnderpaidNurse's topic in Orthopedic

    Well, thanks for all the best wishes. It seems for some reason my application wasn't as good as the four others in my class that applied for the position. I was the only one who didn't get a call...

  4. Need input please!!

    UnderpaidNurse replied to mwasmer's topic in General Nursing

    I can totally empathize with you! I'm six weeks out from graduation, and I have a little voice from the past that keeps wanting me to self destruct and not finish. I keep shoving that aside, and...

  5. Advice needed on Personality 'Fit' to Specialty Choice

    UnderpaidNurse replied to RebaAdams's topic in General Nursing

    I'm with you! They put ob/gyn as one,but they redeemed themselves with number 2 being

  6. ECPI versus Wake Tech, DTCC, Wilson, or Barton

    UnderpaidNurse replied to Princess74's topic in North Carolina Nursing

    I will be graduating from the LPN program at the Raleigh ECPI this June. While there are some things that need tweaking, they are looking into those things and rectifiying it. But, for all the...

  7. New dermal nurse doesn't seem to know what she is doing!

    UnderpaidNurse replied to dinkymouse's topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    As a soon to be LPN graduate, and most likely going to end up in a LTC facility, is there somewhere I can look to become educated in wound staging and management? While I wouldn't be considered a...

  8. Military/VA RN's - Please post experiences for Students

    UnderpaidNurse replied to RNPATL's topic in Government, Military

    Is there anyone who can tell me about VA's in the Raleigh-Durham area. Let me rephase..there is a VA in Durham, do they hire LPN's?. I'll be graduating in June and take my boards in July. My...

  9. New LPN, is there someplace for me?

    UnderpaidNurse posted a topic in Camp

    Hi, I'll be graduating in June, and before I find a place in the LTC world we seem to be relegated to in this state, I was wondering if camps hire LPN's? It sounds like agreat way to spend the summer...

  10. New LPN interviewing for ortho floor needs help with interview!

    UnderpaidNurse replied to UnderpaidNurse's topic in Orthopedic

    Thank you for your response. I will take it to heart, being me is the only way I know how. I spoke with the nurse manager on the phone and the vibe is pretty good. I'll be set up with an interview...

  11. Staff/Patient Ratio - 30 Patients per Nurse

    UnderpaidNurse replied to Colima's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I'm scared! I'm about to graduate from a LPN program and in this part of the country, the planets have to be aligned perfectly to get into acute care.(something they forgot to tell me when I was...

  12. Who is the oldest Nursing Student here?

    UnderpaidNurse replied to APP's topic in General Students

    I'm thirty six and when I get my LPN license I'll be 37. I'm the third oldest in my class. I was beginning to feel frustrated, because everyone looks at us with the," Why aren't you a RN yet"....

  13. Help with first med/surg interview

    UnderpaidNurse replied to UnderpaidNurse's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Thank you for your reply. Your suggestions are invaluable and I feel a tad bit better now. thank you for taking the time to help me

  14. Co-workers on allnurses...

    UnderpaidNurse replied to HisTreasure's topic in General Nursing

    When I first found the site, I didn't even think that anyone that I knew would even read anything I had written. I found out differently, when I posted about a frustration with some classmates and...

  15. LPN program without Prereqs and waiting list

    UnderpaidNurse replied to tommybrowner's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Hi, I am in the second to last term of the ECPI LPN program in North Carolina. There are no prerequisites required, they offer them to you during school. It's an intense program, one year, M-F from...

  16. Deputy Coroner Trainee

    UnderpaidNurse replied to NickiLaughs's topic in Forensic

    wow...I went off on a tangent after clicking on the offered sites and ended up applying for a job as an evidence technician after I graduate from a LPN program in the next few months. Four months in...

  17. School you'll be attending

    UnderpaidNurse replied to IcantThinkofaName's topic in LPN to RN

    Is that Forsythe Tech community college? I'm in Raleigh and trying to find a bridge program so I don'thave to go through the first two semesters of a regular ADN program. Anyone know of any others in...

  18. Help me help a new nurse

    UnderpaidNurse replied to ShayRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Wow, I graduate in June of '06 can I come work for all of you. After all the horror stories I've heard about starting off, you all sound like

  19. Share Your Saying

    UnderpaidNurse replied to angelique777's topic in Nursing Humor

    I am still in LPN school, but when we get frustrated during clinicals or in lecture I pipe in with " Just as a kidney stone, this too shall

  20. How do I get IV certified?

    UnderpaidNurse posted a topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Hi, I'm in a LPN class in North Carolina and I was wondering where and how I get IV Certified? I believe ( I don't know for sure so I apologize) that you have to have one to work med/surge in...

  21. Mental Health Clinicals

    UnderpaidNurse replied to BonnieSc's topic in General Students

    OMG! I LOVED my psych roatation. I am only in a LPN program at the moment and we were relegated to the Gero Psych, but still...we ran the gamut of all diagnosis. People don't just stop having...

  22. How do I get IV certified?

    UnderpaidNurse replied to UnderpaidNurse's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!! You all have given some great information. I really appreciate

  23. Psych nurses in NC???

    UnderpaidNurse replied to NurseKate's topic in North Carolina Nursing

    Hi,I was wondering if anyone had any opinions on John Umstead? What the working conditions are like? Would you work there? etc... I'm in a LPN program at the moment and then transfer on to a RN...

  24. The new AMA TV propaganda drive me nuts.

    UnderpaidNurse replied to epiphany's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not a nurse yet, still a student...but when I first saw the beginning of the ad I was proud of the nurses being shown in such a good light....and then, after finding out it wasn't an ad for...

  25. "What do you need Christmas off for? You don't have kids!" (rant)

    UnderpaidNurse replied to Marie_LPN, RN's topic in General Nursing

    When I first was married my husband was in the Navy so holidays were always held over until he returned from overseas or whatever bum fudged part of the planet they were in at the time. After he got...