downsouthlaff

downsouthlaff LPN

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About downsouthlaff

downsouthlaff has 9 years experience as a LPN and specializes in Nursing Home.


Licensed Practical Nurse. Male Nurse. Currently work in the Nursing Home/Long Term care enviroment as a day shift charge nurse

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  1. LPN supervising RNs

    Interesting question. The answer is yes and no. Say for instance at an LTC facility. A nursing facility administrator would count as being a unlicensed person in the world of nursing practice. But in...
  2. Im sure by now most nurses in LTC have heard the new CMS mandates set forth by the biden administration. Setting forth new minimal federal staffing requirements for all nursing homes. These proposed...
  3. LTC RN Supervisor

    Not a problem at all! You sound like the kind of nurse who would take the input and do well. But yes indeed. LPNs are usually the direct care staff nurses in LTC. Doing the assessments, notifying the...
  4. LTC RN Supervisor

    Experienced LPN here in the LTC realm. Yes this is typically how LTC facilities are staffed. CMS only requires an RN be present eight hours a day seven days a week. A weekend RN supervisor covers this...
  5. Nurses notes on lab results ?

    I am an LTC nurse. I’ve practiced as an LPN in LTC my whole 8 year career as a licensed nurse. I recently started at another facility with young floor nurses, a young ADON, and we share a different...
  6. Nursing Home NA nightmare

    Sorry your going through it. Sad reality is that short staffing in healthcare has caused many employers to trend toward a much more lenient approach. These are not guranteed methods but I’ll give...
  7. Do a career search on the internet regarding what a Licensed Practical Nurse does. You’ll find something along the lines of Then on the flip side pull information from any NCLEX RN review...
  8. You once considered a career a nursing. You browsed the web, looking for different types of nursing education. And then comes the big question, what is the difference between an RN and LPN. On some...
  9. New DON

    Hi, let me just start off by saying welcome to LTC. Although I am an LPN and have never been a DON, I have been working in LTC for 11 years. I’ve been an Asst. in the Activity Department, a CNA,...
  10. How to deal with workplace Drama/Gossip?

    I’m a Work in an LTC facility and you don’t imagine the drama between staff members even in this kind of setting. People are just so entertained by other people’s lives and nothing is gonna...
  11. New grad, 52 residents, anxiety through the roof

    OK first breathe ! This is what you need to do and what helped me tremendously as a new nurse in LTC. One, realize that LTC is very hard. Until you have the advantage of knowing the routine to a T....
  12. NCLEX LPN

    Congratulations and welcome to nursing. NCLEX PN is a nerve wracking test. It really makes you put your critical thinking cap on. The PVT used to be spot on, now we know it’s lost some
  13. Active RN license working as an LPN

    You’ve have my complete aggreance! LPN and RN practice isn’t the same. I agree that we had beat this one to death but I want you to know that completely agree with you on that. Law is law Even if...
  14. Weekend Staffing

    The best for our facility when we had this problem was 12 hour rotations. It worked well for our nursing home. 6a-6p and 6p-6a nurses rotate between working a M,T,F,S,Sone week and then only working...
  15. Do Dept head meetings violate patient privacy ?

    I agree entirely. One of my pet peeves as a CNA for a couple years also. We were told that they can only know the type of precautions pertinent to the disease, but not the disease itself. I also think...