Banded Nurses?

[vivi 33 0]

:wave: Hi everyone. I am a CNS on Long Island. Was banded on Dec 3rd and looking forward to a healthier lighter 2008.

Many nurses and nurses aides at my institution have had this surgery. I received a lot of preop support from my coworkers and will be returning to work this Monday. I am looking forward to being healthier and lighter in 2008.

[munchkin392 1]

Couldn't do my job without the help of my excellent CNA's!! I am lost when they are not there for us, they help soooo much!!

[TNNurse Linda 0]

Hello,

I am a RN, been a nurse for 16 years, love working in labor and delivery, taught childbirth and lactation classes. Am volunteering at a crisis pregnacy center too. Just banded on 12-14, trying to adjust. This is a whole new game. Linda

[Brenda320 0]

Hi all.

I've been a nurse since 1993. I initally worked med-surg but hten moved to the ICU in 1996. Currently I work in an eICU (electronic ICU) We remotely monitor all the ICU pts in the system I work for.

Just got scheduled for surgery on Jan 14th!:clap2:

[MizPeppy 3]

I'm a nurse in the obs unit, its either feast or famine there. We do total care nursing so no CNAs. What a difference! CNAs work really, really hard and I have total respect!

I just got my 2nd fill last Monday and I am much happier! I am feeling a little too tight but I want to give it 2 weeks. I feel a little nauseated all the time but I am able to keep the Protein shakes down. By dinner I can eat food.

My unit is mostly supportive. My boss had gastric bypass a month before I was banded. She has had complications and another surgery. Everyone is shocked at how well I am doing. I continually tell them the difference in the surgeries but they don't get it I guess. My boss has lost over 65 lbs since Sept., I've lost 10 on pre-op and 18 since Oct 5. Of course they compare us. I hadn't lost anything since my first fill on Nov. 15, but now I think I'm on track with this one.

[Suzzzie. 3]

...let me rant about my job briefly...

So, I am an LPN. I work on an Oncology floor. I accept my state mandated limitations such as LPNs cannot hang chemo, blood products, or push IV medications. But we can do dang near everything else. However... The hospital I work for has recently decided that they are going for Magnet status - which means they have alot of work to do.

Now, if you don't know much about LPNs... I spent 1 1/2 years in nursing school, learning head to toe assessment and all the other nursing goodies... disease processes, drugs, IVs, etc...

So, now that the hospital is going after Magnet - they have decided to have the LPNs become merely medication nurses.. I'm so furious about this! I did not go to nursing school to just pass out pills everyday - I did that in my previous job when I was a *gasp* MED TECH! Ugh. The RNs are mad about it too,m cause with Magnet comes more 'paperwork' for them (though we are fully computerized hospital.)

Oh sigh... Soooo glad that I should have my RN by the end of 2008!! I am so going to leave this hospital and go somewhere else!

End rant.

[kaninag 35]

You know lpn's work just as hard as RNs and have just as much knowledge and you guys get a lot more hands on training. for them to put you guys as pill pushers is just wrong. in our office we have one lpn amongst many rns but you know what she works just as hard as we do and knows just as much!

[Suzzzie. 3]

Kaninag - Thanks for the validation.

I'm not saying that I know as much - or at least the same stuff - as an RN. I mean, RNs went to school for a year (or more, depending on the degree) longer than LPNs, but I do know my job. I staill took Anatomy and Physiology, and all those other classes. Basically where they skimp on the LPNs is in OB/Peds... which is fine, cause I don't like parents. Lol.

ANYWAY... just frustrating for us. I've been at this hospital for over 4 years now and I love it - I love 99% of the people I work with. Who can say that? Ha! I'd hate to leave, but if they do push us into the medication position, I will leave. I am a NURSE.