RubyDeeRN ADN, LPN

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1. Is home health that bad?

   RubyDeeRN replied to trinan71's topic in Home Health

   I totally agree with you about the charting in the home, I find I get a lot more accomplished if I chart while I'm there. But I'm still learning how to do SOC's and I've never been very good at multitasking. I need to learn to listen with one ear and...

2. Is home health that bad?

   RubyDeeRN replied to trinan71's topic in Home Health

   I see that the last comment was posted July 2018, but I'd like to keep this thread alive, for any nurses out there considering home health. I just started a home health job, and my company is excellent. I love everything about the job... minus the ch...

3. Study groups in nursing school

   RubyDeeRN replied to sol_shine's topic in General Students

   Sorry if this reply is too late to be of help; I hope not. I went through nursing school twice, once for my LPN, and then again for my RN. I have to say YES to the study groups, but only in addition to your solo studying, not in place of it. Study on...

4. Feeling embarrassed, ask the md a stupid question

   RubyDeeRN replied to RobertJo's topic in General Nursing

   Nurses are always in the middle. We always take the brunt of the physicians' wrath whenever a patient has a question we ourselves cannot legally answer, even if we already know what the answer will be. Among our thousands of other duties, it's also o...

5. Ready to throw in the towel

   RubyDeeRN replied to autumn_october's topic in New Nurse

   I feel your pain. I graduated in December of 2010, and as an LPN, most of the jobs out there for me are in long term care. I'm on my third job in a little over a year. At first I thought that I just wasn't a good fit for those places, but now I reali...

6. The last thing you want to hear when you get to work

   RubyDeeRN replied to Tait's topic in General Nursing

   I work in longterm care (geriatric/psych) so it's a bit different, but so far what I hate to hear when I first walk in (that I've heard at least ten times in my five months at this job so far, as part time night shift nurse - I fill in for the full t...

7. Is long term care that bad? and Long Term Care To Psych

   RubyDeeRN replied to DA,RN's topic in Geriatric

   This thread was last commented on almost two years ago, but I feel the need to add to it for anyone else out there reading... LTC may seem to be "the bottom of the barrel" as far as nursing specialties, but as far as experience, there's no where else...

8. Personality Disorder Test...how do you stack up?

   RubyDeeRN replied to Thunderwolf's topic in Psychiatric

   The test was interesting; scored a moderate in three areas, low in everything else. Thought I'd score high in obsessive behavior, though. Weird.

9. Tips for first clinical?

   RubyDeeRN replied to betsyMT2003's topic in General Students

   It sounds like your program is WAY different than mine; we started our clinicals in longterm care (where things aren't quite so hectic, medical-wise) and we're now in our final semester. Things just kind of built up for us. After longterm care we s...

10. HACC uniforms question

    RubyDeeRN replied to mnmcbm's topic in Pennsylvania

    About the HACC uniforms, as far as I know, they're going to be white tops, maroon bottoms. I'm in the PN class right now and they had us vote (same with the RN class) about changing the bottoms from white to maroon. We all voted to change the color...