[Rexie68]

Originally Posted by CapeCodMermaid

You are not the norm....LPN's where I work in Massachusetts wouldn't make that much...especially since you can't even sign the R2b.

Catching up....

CCMermaid, we usually agree, but when you wrote "can't even sign the R2b." it offended me a bit. I know I'm not an RN and can't sign the R2b (yet....220 days until graduation!!) but I work in a 139 bed facility, do all of the MDS'....Medicare, Medicaid, HMO, quarterly, annual, significant change.....write ALL of the nursing care plans, work the RAPs, run PPS, set ARDs, get HMO updates/auths, get Medicare D prior auths/ appeals, run care plan meetings....etc. I may not be an RN, but I contribute a heck of a lot to my facility. My boss signs the R2b.....but I capture the money-making events!! Anyway, I wouldn't have blinked if you'd left out the word "even".....

PS....not close to 78 grand, but as an LPN in PA I make $40,000 doing MDS...and our cost of living is pretty low up here near Lake Erie, so I do ok. Plus, the flexibility while in school is really nice!!