MEL55

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1. LPN working with Developmentally Disabled population

   MEL55 replied to MEL55's topic in LPN/LVN

   Fiona An outside Agency LPN is covered under her Agency RN. She can come into the Day Center & do the tubes and go.When the Arc RN resigns...there is no RN.

2. LPN working with Developmentally Disabled population

   MEL55 replied to MEL55's topic in LPN/LVN

   Do your clients live there, where you work? The clients I deal with don't live in the Center I work in. It's a Day Center that the clients come in a school bus to mon. thru fri., & then go home... to the Group Home they live in, or to their fami...

3. LPN working with Developmentally Disabled population

   MEL55 replied to MEL55's topic in LPN/LVN

   Thanx for the feedback. Just found out today the way they're getting around it untill they can hire the RN is get an outside agency LPN to come in daily & pay her to do the skilled care part(tube feedings... meds through the tubes & hydration...

4. LPN working with Developmentally Disabled population

   MEL55 posted a topic in LPN/LVN

   Hi all I posted this in another forum... I don't remember which one, but got only one response & it was kinda vague, so I wanted to post it here. I'm an LPN working for the Arc(association of retarded citizens), in their Special Needs Day Program...

5. LPN working under an RN's license

   MEL55 replied to MEL55's topic in Disabilities

   Thank you for the clarification. My concern lays in the fact that I work in a Special Needs day program with the severly developmentally disabled giving medications and also G-tube feedings (and administering medication through the G-tubes), and onc...

6. LPN working under an RN's license

   MEL55 posted a topic in Disabilities

   Hi all Newbie here Got a question... I have been working in a Special Needs day program for going on 3 years now. I am the only LPN in the whole agency that I work with. There is one RN that has an office in my building, and I was told I ne...