ibmanda2000 LVN

Peds, Hospice, Home Health, Dementia

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About ibmanda2000

ibmanda2000 has 17 years experience as a LVN and specializes in Peds, Hospice, Home Health, Dementia.


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    Is this salary range realistic?

    I am currently asking the same question. I have 4 years pedi HH experience and am proficient in ventilators making $60k/yr as an LVN in San Antonio, Tx. I am set to graduate as an ADN this coming summer and hope to move back to my home town San Diego...
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    Pedi Home Health- My time with Joseph

    Wow. Now I'm tearing up. Thank you. Just remember when working with sick kids, its only sad if YOU make it sad. Have fun with them, treat them as normal as possible, love them like they'll never leave your side. Good luck in school :)
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    Pedi Home Health- My time with Joseph

    WOW!! Thank you! I am glad you enjoyed it... He continues to touch people :) Joseph would have been 7 years old this coming Saturday. Thank you for your kind words.
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    Pedi Home Health- My time with Joseph

    Thank you everyone for your replies and warm wishes! Pediatric Home Health is a completely different world from hospital or LTC nursing. The bonds that come with the relationships can last long after your job as a nurse is done. Working in someone's ...
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    Pedi Home Health- My time with Joseph

    I had been working with medically fragile kids for over 10 years and while all of my patients were special to me, this one was different. I had been hearing about this "walkie-talkie" five-year-old boy for months, we'll call him Joseph. I was intrigu...
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    Illegal home health operation? Please help.

    I work pedi home health through an agency. Working as an LVN through a home health agency, we can got give the patient ANYTHING without an MD order... this even includes chapstick! I have a child that gets homeopathic Tx also and her formula is a spe...
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    New Grad LVN in home care

    Hi There! I went in to Home Health straight out of school and to this day, 3 years later, I have not worked anywhere but HH. However..... the company never should have hired me right out of school. Do you have any prior medical experience? I had work...
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    new LVN losing all hope in herself

    Also look into being a Hospice volunteer. The training is about 36 hours, but you will make yourself much more marketable having Hospice experience and training. I really enjoyed my one Hospice patient I had as a volunteer! We had fun, I learned quit...
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    new LVN losing all hope in herself

    I am from San Diego and graduated as an LVN in April 2009. I recieved a job through a home health agency right away making $20/hr HOWEVER I later learned what a horrible, noncompliant agency this was... they never should have hired a new nurse for ho...
  10. WoW!!n Are you TRULY looking and applying? Do you have any work experience at all? HAve your fellow graduates found work? Have you gotten any call backs at least?
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    LVN at KAPLAN San Diego plz help

    Exactly! YAY! You need to sign up for Heathcare Essentials ASAP! Its really pretty easy and interesting. You will also have t0o take the TEAS test and your score on it will determine if yo get in! It is just a high school equivalency examine so dont...
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    LVN at KAPLAN San Diego plz help

    just be careful jumping in to something!!! thats what I did with Kaplan and later I realized what a HUGE mistake that was. PLEASE take the time to call Grossmont Health Occ. I gave you the number. Ask about thier CNA program, LVN program and grants t...
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    LVN at KAPLAN San Diego plz help

    Okay.... a Medical Assistant is different than a CNA (Certified Nurse Assistant). An MA is basically a step between CNA and LVN. I do not reccommend going that route. MAs are much more limited in where they work and in order to go through an LVN prog...
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    LVN at KAPLAN San Diego plz help

    ETI? that sounds pretty expensive... I would call all larger nursing homes in your area... also check with Grossmont Health Occ in Santee- 619-596-3690
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    LVN at KAPLAN San Diego plz help

    i see... check online with nursing homes around your area... many times they offer cheap or free CNA programs. Are you sure nursing is what you want to do?