MrBrown says ...

We'd do better with a "class clown" than "the jerk at work" bit. But, oh well.

 

How true Mr. B

Cheers - Tim, R.N.

Oh gosh you hurt my feelings. Oh boo hoo. A pinhead called me a name. Please post where you intend to "practice" so some of us can avoid the unpleasantry. And your pic is great. Your hair style covers the point on your head.

Thanks for the message in my inbox. Mr. Brown...I'm flattered, but NO you cannot be my sugar daddy!!!

pfffff!! your an ass

LPN Holly,

I'm glad that you are proud ur? arrogant  to be an LPN.  Proud and arrogant are two different things.  Yeah I've been an RN since 82 as an ADN and have worked my way up to MSN, I would love to work with you!  You had better know your pharmacology, physiology, psych , psychosocial skills and make a mean bed Holly girl or I would eat you alive.  How is your time management?  It is different when you are in charge and have your own patients and responsibility for the staff and patient safety and well being.  Team building is part of the job-- as an RN you may need to work on your communication skills as they seem to put people off somewhat.  There are courses for this.  Believe me nursing is 80 % communication skills.  Talking with providers, insurance company reps, staff, management, family and pharmacy etc.  Being a blonde bombshell only gets you so far sweetheart even if you are surgically enhanced. 

Too bad I don't live in NC cause I would love to have you assigned to me as a new grad orientee.  You would definitely learn something.

Best of Luck in your new role, you'll need it.

I come on here and vent because I cant at work!!!   and what the hell is with the "surgically enhanced" comment?  Cant I go to the gym, use moisturizer and exfoliating cleansers, and wear a good supporting bra without people thinking I have "help"?  Its called good genes!!!  We as nurses know that our bodies appearance is mostly genetic!!!  I thank God for my oily skin and high metabolism everyday!!! I have two teenage daughters and they are the same way!!!  I'm tired of people assuming I've has plastic surgey when its good old fashioned genetics combined with taking care of myself!!!    and Mr. Brown...the price is 20

RNprogressive says ...

LPN Holly,

I'm glad that you are proud ur? arrogant  to be an LPN.  Proud and arrogant are two different things.  Yeah I've been an RN since 82 as an ADN and have worked my way up to MSN, I would love to work with you!  You had better know your pharmacology, physiology, psych , psychosocial skills and make a mean bed Holly girl or I would eat you alive.  How is your time management?  It is different when you are in charge and have your own patients and responsibility for the staff and patient safety and well being.  Team building is part of the job-- as an RN you may need to work on your communication skills as they seem to put people off somewhat.  There are courses for this.  Believe me nursing is 80 % communication

skills.  Talking with providers, insurance company reps, staff, management, family and pharmacy etc.  Being a blonde bombshell only gets you so far sweetheart even if you are surgically enhanced. 

Too bad I don't live in NC cause I would love to have you assigned to me as a new grad orientee.  You would definitely learn something.

 

Best of Luck in your new role, you'll need it.

so far sweetheart even if you are surgically enhanced.   Maybe I should move where you are, so you can be my preceptor. I would love your advice about my boobs~~~~. LOL!!! Not a blond bombshell though.

 Amen to that  RNprogressive, you are sOOOOOO  my hero, you tell it how it should be told!!!. 

Ok, Holly, I was an LPN who became an RN. It's easy to critisize when you aren't an RN yet. Believe me, I was the same way.

I used to say thet if you could be an LPN, then you surely could be an RN! Easily said until I did the BSN program. Not sure where these RN's were educated, but the school I went to was tough. I studied more than I ever did as an LPN. The details in assessment, critical thinking, and pharmacology in the BSN program were astounding compared to what I had learned as an LPN. I stood corrected by the time I graduated.

Another favorite saying I have is"The day you think you know everything as a nurse, is the day you become dangerous." At least this RN asked you about the vent instead of harming the pt. I would have done the same thing. I don't have expertise in vents. I work in ICU, and when I'm not sure, I ask. I don't care if anyone thinks I'm stupid. I'd rather that then to do something that would harm a pt. Asking is also how we learn.

I'm sure there are some areas this RN has expertise in that you do not. Management perhaps? See MSN's are usually geared in that area. She may have been a nurse that went straight for her MSN, and didn't get alot of vent training along the way. I had an instructor who did that. Does that make her less of a nurse? No, just trained in different areas.

As for the Furosemide thing, who knows? Don't know why someone would not know that.

There are far too many personal attacks in this thread. Can't some of you get your points across without resorting to childish name calling?

ckruszka, I heard from some of my classmates, that here in California, some hospitals are requiring that all nurses, take a pop  pharmocology test, without a review, they said if you score 80 percent and below, you will be canned. The employers are concerned with medication errors. I guess, I will  review my pharmocology everyday lol!!!!

You know, Holly, you're probably smart as a whip and more fun than a sack of puppies. But look at the title to this topic that you started. Now, go figure why people want to kick you in the seat of your breeches.

And the advice to watch what you post on any social networking site, including this one, is standard fare. Is it something you might want to come up in say, 20 years? Because once something goes online there is a good chance it will never go away. And the companies that peruse the internet to check on potential job candidates probably don't spend a lot of time scanning the whole page. Just enough to get an impression. Like "Look at the party girl, drink in hand, whooping it up". You might not ever get the chance to explain you were working. It was just a suggestion by somebody else.

Heck I learned what Bell's Palsy was by repeating the symptoms a woman was reporting on her 16 year old son when a ward clerk said what it was. And she was reading a Good Housekeeping magazine, drinking coffee! The woman brought the kid in, a doctor examined him, called in the local neurologist and after a few hours of hoopla the neuro told the woman "I'm quite sure he has Bell's Palsy". I was a brand spanking new RN, charge nurse on a surgical floor and covered the ER too when they fired the ER nurse and house supervisor when a regular supervisor was not on duty! Now THAT is scary. The ward clerks best friend was a LPN who pulled my fat out of the fire more than once and we both knew it

I went and asked the ward clerk how she knew that from what little I had repeated and she said "He's 16, took a nap, woke up with half his face paralyzed - that's Bell's Palsy nearly every time".

I do not "diss" my techs, aids, unit clerks (or whatever name they go by each year), LPNs, scrub techs (good God they helped me a million times as a circulator) or even housekeeping and maintenance. I've gotten laundry when a commercial laundry went on strike and our ICU was on SHORT supply! I was mocked by the RN staff for buddying up with the laundry guys until that day.

But if I meet a dumb LPN I do not pronounce LPNs as a whole "stupid" or "ignorant". I thought they teach you as a little kid to not generalize?

RN or LPN, we were all once new and unexperienced. I learned to be a good nurse by soaking up anything anyone with more experience regardless of their title , was willing to share with me. There were great LPN's ,  RN's, and CNA's who taught me alot over the years.

Guess what? I'm still learning all the time. I had a nurse in ICU explain to me what the signifigance of an art line was just a few months ago. She was younger than me and I'm sure had less years of nursing, but she knew more about art lines than I did. I so appreciated that she was more than happy to explain it to another co-worker and I when we asked. She could have been condescending, but she was helpful, and more than willing to explain.

As nurses we should be willing to nurture each other. We take care of pts, but can't seem to take care of each other. Why is that? Why do we feel the need to "outdo" each other and compete for who is the smartest? I never got that.

Holly, good luck with your future. Just don't neg out too much. You'll only cheat yourself if you do that.Be a mentor, and don't put down or begrudge anyone regardless of whatever title they may hold.

MrBrown says ...

Heck I learned what Bell's Palsy was by repeating the symptoms a woman was reporting on her 16 year old son when a ward clerk said what it was. And she was reading a Good Housekeeping magazine, drinking coffee! The woman brought the kid in, a doctor examined him, called in the local neurologist and after a few hours of hoopla the neuro told the woman "I'm quite sure he has Bell's Palsy". I was a brand spanking new RN, charge nurse on a surgical floor and covered the ER too when they fired the ER nurse and house supervisor when a regular supervisor was not on duty! Now THAT is scary. The ward clerks best friend was a LPN who pulled my fat out of the fire more than once and we both knew it

I went and asked the ward clerk how she knew that from what little I had repeated and she said "He's 16, took a nap, woke

up with half his face paralyzed - that's Bell's Palsy nearly every time".

I do not "diss" my techs, aids, unit clerks (or whatever name they go by each year), LPNs, scrub techs (good God they helped me a million times as a circulator) or even housekeeping and maintenance. I've gotten laundry when a commercial laundry went on strike and our ICU was on SHORT supply! I was mocked by the RN staff for buddying up with the laundry guys until that day.

But if I meet a dumb LPN I do not pronounce LPNs as a whole "stupid" or "ignorant". I thought they teach you as a little kid to not generalize?

 

I learned about Bell's Palsy, when my friend, and mother had it. The doctor told them to stay off the salt. I learned about  Bell's Palsy, way!!!, before I was a CNA and LVN or LPN.