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  1. can you be a DON/ADON without having your license?

    Aren't your CNAs and LPNs working under the license of the DON? Or am I mistaken?
  2. At work for 36 hrs straight

    Good job! Whenever I have gotten "stuck" at work in a snow storm, somehow the residents seem to sense that there is something going on, they are almost always on their best behavior as well as so much more teamwork than usual. ALL the services help o...
  3. What was your starting LPN pay?

    OMG! That was a long time ago! $1.50 in 1968!
  4. $35.00/hr.!!

    Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!
  5. What is WRONG with this??

    OMG! This is ME! I am ALWAYS ready to help my pts and coworkers, WHILE I'm at work! Once I get home, I don't want to talk on the phone evn. I check in with my kids, quickly find out if everyone's OK, make dinner and either go knit and watch TV or iro...
  6. Steps of a wet to dry dressing

    Non of those were wet to dry! wet to dry is not done 3 times a day. The reason for wet to dry is to debride a wound. If it's done 3 times a day, there isn't enough time to allow the gauze to dry. That being said, this is cruel! Think of it, it's mean...
  7. What was your hourly wage at your first job as a new grad?

    I graduated in 1968. I started working in a LTF for $3.50 hr. Whem I got married in 1969, I moved to New Mexico and started working in a small hospital making $1.50 hr! I make $34.00 hr now at a LTF, the same one I started at back in 1968!
  8. balloon testing prior to insertion of foley

    Ahhh, now THAT DID happen to me many years ago! The cath wouln't deflate, my supervisor said to "cut the cath and pull it out" Guess what? I wouldn't come out!!!! Had to send her to a urologist! Bad thing to do! Never did that again!
  9. balloon testing prior to insertion of foley

    I have been inserting foleys for 40 yrs! I have never pre-tested a foley bulb! Never was taught this practice in school! BUT, yesterday I was placing a foley in a pt with a new graduate assisting me. She asked me if I was going to pre-test the bulb? ...
  10. Hit a road block with the wound vac?

    Thanks CMARM! As a matter of fact, I did have a KCI rep come in, she really had no more suggestions than what we were already doing. BUT, I really never thought of the condom cath! DUH! As it turns out, we had wound rounds today and the doc I usually...
  11. Hit a road block with the wound vac?

    I have a client who arrived at my facilty with a stage 4 wound to his ishium. After a few weeks of the wet to dry dressings he arrived from the hospital with, we decided to try the wound vac. It has healing well up until a point. We are now having mo...
  12. Wound tx's

    Only every three days????? I never heard of calcium alginate dressings being changed so infrequently! Ca alginate is for draining wounds, so why would this be ordered q3days? That's neglectful! If this pt is on hospice, they are at the end of life. T...
  13. What do you think of agency LPNs?

  14. What do you think of agency LPNs?

    I work in Long Term, I understand the need for Agency Nurses and the need for nurses to work for agencies. I don't feel positive about them at all! I find MANY medication errors, I see how some do treatments ( if they actually do them). They don't do...
  15. Staple Removal

    In our facility nurses are not allowed to remove staples!