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  1. What to bring to work

    Anything alcohol based. Alcohol pads - they will suck on them. Drink hand sanitizer.. Whole different world.
  2. What to bring to work

    A clear bag (like for stadiums) that you can see thru. Your stethoscope, a pen, small note pad, a couple dollars. No contraband, no cell phones. No hand sanitizer. I'm new to corrections and learned fast. A sign of contraband items will also be pos...
  3. Drowning in prior authorizations... Help!

    This sounds just like my office. In try to use the online covermymeds but its still cumbersome. I don't think the drs in my office even know what prior auths are. I'd try to delegate to MAs anything you can. I've had allot of declines lately so do t...
  4. Start Excelsior LPN to ADN July...

    Well, I graduated from LPN school May 2010, got my license July 2011, got my first LPN job September 2011 - I am still there... Now - I signed up for Excelsior - hoping to start July!!! I'm starting from scratch - I need everything as I have no pre-...
  5. Advice - Patient Ratio and BS Check in ALF

    I meant to say.. holy crap - low on O2?? WOW... that would freak me out!! how did they think you would make it last??? how do you do that? and the hours thing - that happens to me, and I often wonder... do I clock out and come back up to chart... as...
  6. Advice - Patient Ratio and BS Check in ALF

    I find it all very interesting all of our experiences and how similar they all are. My facility is "for-profit" hence the moving around and transfers of recent.. combining 2 memory units into one very large one is a money maker. ECC giving the "space...
  7. I am a fairly new LPN in a ALF which has a ECC license. Most of our residents require assist with ADL's, most are incontinent,lots of answering call-lights, parkinson's. My floor has a couple colostomy/urostomy care - recently due to some moving aro...
  8. This sounds about how my day is every day... I'm sorry your day went like this. :-( It's so disheartening.. I came searching tonight as I have about 40 residents, it's going up tomorrow by 3.. and 9 BS - AC/HS .. 2 aides - yes, it's ALF - but with a...
  9. Is this a system flaw?

    This is very interesting as something very similar happened in our facility recently. My floor in particualar has 3 res on coumadin, an outside company does lab draws. The coumadin draws are typically scheduled out... for ex: Resident A to take couma...
  10. Patients dying

    I am a new nurse - working in an ALF, caring/passing meds for 34 residents half of them in a locked memory unit. I would say 80% of my residents suffer from parkinsons. On my third day alone a resident who had been coherent, refused to eat for 3 day...
  11. methadone clinic..good 1st job?

    You know your right... It's only PT... but I don't care- I hope I am offered the job! I'll take it! After I posted this yesterday a former classmate called me - her first day on the job in a ALF, she had 35 residents, 2 CNA's, the only RN was 4 floo...
  12. methadone clinic..good 1st job?

    I was wondering what you ended up doing? Do you work at the methadone clinic? How'd you like it? just asking as a recent LPN grad - interviewing at one next week... Thanks!!
  13. NCLEX PN - Which book helped you the most?

    Awesome! thanks for the info - I really do appreciate it!!!
  14. Who pays for your pin?

    I can see everyones point and understand where everyone is coming from.. I supposed it would be nice to get offered a pin to purchase at perhaps a lower cost??? I think some said it was $5? not sure - but $80 is 2 weeks of gas for me to actually get ...
  15. Who pays for your pin?

    I like the ribbon idea... that's a nice thought.. I am so ticked off with school I could not bring myself to fork over $80... I got my CNA license almost 2 years ago.. when we finished they GAVE us a super nice PIN... You might think that at $17K in...