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  1. Being Ordered to Give Whiskey

    Family usually provides the alcohol of choice. If there is no family, the money can be taken from the patient's account and the admininstrator or other office admin goes to the liquor store and picks it up. At least, that is how I have seen it done...
  2. I can empathize...I herniated L4-5 and L5-S1 in 1990 and was disabled for 13 years. While working a part time receptionist's job got me in hot water with Social Security and they said I owed them $20,000.00 overpayment, they stopped my disability pa...
  3. Advice/tips needed for going into LTC job

    I see that your interviews were a few weeks ago. What happened? Where you hired by any of the 3 LTCs that interviewed you?
  4. Help: Which states allow an LPN to Determine death?

    It's the same in Ohio as it is where BrandonLPN is. I've just had to call family, MD to release body-some places even had a standing order for that-heaven forbid we would have to wake a doc up in the middle of the night, the ME if a coroner's case, ...
  5. Documentation and EMR

    If your system tracks all users, when an audit is done, it will show that the nurses changed the diagnoses, thus leaving YOU open for possible sanctions. Some EMR systems do not give anyone access to the problem list other than the provider. Has po...
  6. Do Nurses Get Traffic Tickets?

    I was pulled over on a 4 way stop due to a power outage affecting the stoplight, because I didn't fully stop. because it was so icy, instead I did a rolling stop. I was in uniform and received a ticket. On the way to work several years ago, I was ...
  7. What can you tolerate the least?

    Vomit, of any kind, and emptying a colostomy bag...UGH!!! The worst!!!
  8. The Health Insurance Marketplace: One Nurse's Journey

    I have navigated the Marketplace. Due to a few physical ailments, I am not able to work at the present time. In my case, I qualified for my state's Medicaid program. No cost to me, but I had to choose a MCP (Managed Care Plan) to administer the he...
  9. Any specialty type LVN's ?? what's yours?

    I train MDs, nurses and ancillary staff in Epic EMR. I started doing it when I got fired from the AL facility is used to work at. The pay is exceptional, but the field is becoming saturated with internal employees who get credentialed before the im...
  10. What's the highest blood pressure you ever recorded?

    When I worked ICU a number of years ago, a patient had a BP of 260/140, hypertensive crisis. He was asymptomatic and was discharged a week later.
  11. Electrical Stimulation Therapy

    I was a TENS fitter for a podiatry group many years ago in Ohio. It was my job to instruct the patient on use and level of pain to increase as needed post operatively. The company that employed me wanted a licensed professional for the position.
  12. best i quit or fired story

    I worked in a billing office and was supposed to be able to work from home when the new manager took over. Got a new desk with all the trimmings, then found out she lied to me about it. I typed " I quit" on the floating screen saver with a note wit...
  13. When I was in LPN school 32 years ago, there were several older students in there. One was 58 and laid off from a manufacturing job with no hope of getting called back. Another was a grandmother at 55. So at 38, I'd consider you a "youngster". G...
  14. What makes a COB crusty?

    Epic does have programs for iPhones and Android devices, where MDs can enter orders from their devices. Haiku is the program for entering orders. Canto is for iPads where an MD can review a patient's notes and labs as well as dictating notes after ...
  15. Should I quit my job?

    Are the patients being neglected or harmed in any way? Maybe it's time to anonymously call the state for an inspection or the local Ombudsman to alert them of the dangerous nurse to patient ratio.