JasonValentine

JasonValentine

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JasonValentine specializes in Long term care vent pediatric vent.

My history is 15 years as an LPN, 4 as an Army Combat Medic. I'm 48, and 15 years ago, they though I had MS..I was paralyzed from the waist down. My ex decided to do something other than parenting and I was left with a 7 year old son who had a rare form of growth hormone deficient. He's fine, HGH shots were all that were needed but at the time it was all very unpleasant. I was basically alone...told by the schools and everyone else, to put him in a foster home and get a wheelchair. Heck my neurologist even advised that. I got a new neuro , duct taped my knees straight, got crutches and kept on going. Kids fine. 21 now..and 4 years ago this May..my last neuro goes "Guess what..you never had MS!" ...Transverse Myelitis. You'd think the young dufus was giving me a Christmas present. 12 years of treatment, gallbladder and liver shot to heck because of Beta interferons, *chuckles*...he honestly thought I was going to jump for joy. I can walk, but the pain from the nerve damage is just charming. I let my licence go because I thought I'd be on a vent by now. I keep fighting. And...yeah...this is frustrating, but I am determined I am going to make it. Doesn't matter how I get the licence. I'll make sure I get the experience.

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  1. Freedom from restraints & confidentiality.

    JasonValentine replied to JasonValentine's topic in LPN/LVN Students

    That sounds more like what I am used to as nursing. But from my understanding the US has gotten very very ..stringent regarding these regs.

  2. You make the decisions on YOUR shift and I'll make the decisions on MINE

    JasonValentine replied to CrazierThanYou's topic in Relations

    @Jenni811 My diagnosis was "downgraded" from MS to Transverse Myelitis. My symptoms are a feeling like some one is inflating the disks between my L 2-3 and 4 vertebrae, a huge maddening balloon of pressure. I wake up with tingling in my legs from the...

  3. Freedom from restraints & confidentiality.

    JasonValentine replied to JasonValentine's topic in LPN/LVN Students

    You're constantly fighting over not being told why a patient is in any form of isolation? Do the nurses even know?...how can you take care of someone if you don't know what you need to look for? How do you keep a patient who is disoriented in bed at ...

  4. Freedom from restraints & confidentiality.

    JasonValentine posted a topic in LPN/LVN Students

    I'm taking a distance learning LPN refresher course to get my licence back after 15 years away, yes, it is accredited. I haven't done my clinical yet and two of the situations I have come across in talking with the few nurses I know are the changes i...

  5. Minnesota State LPN refresher course, correspondence based

    JasonValentine replied to JasonValentine's topic in LPN/LVN

    Thank you for the most positive input I have had from posting on this site. This isn't the only thread where people have been less than helpful. My history is 15 years as an LPN, 4 as an Army Combat Medic. I'm 48, and 15 years ago, they though I had ...

  6. Minnesota State LPN refresher course, correspondence based

    JasonValentine replied to JasonValentine's topic in LPN/LVN

    I'm sorry you were so confused and uncertain as to your ability to keep up with changes. I do appreciate the insult though. Between that and the inference that I'm in prison I'm ticked off enough to just "Git-er done"

  7. Doing a correspondence refresher, need help with topic.

    JasonValentine replied to JasonValentine's topic in LPN/LVN

    No not too enthused. I'm sitting here with a book, and a binder full of questions to answer. I enjoy discussing things, debating things, bouncing ideas off people. It's like being locked in a closet. If you notice, the question is not about research...

  8. Doing a correspondence refresher, need help with topic.

    JasonValentine posted a topic in LPN/LVN

    This course I'm taking has no online component, no give and take. I don't learn very well like that, and they have posed a question that has left me stumped. No reading material on it, nothing to reference. It's almost a lecture discussion question, ...

  9. Minnesota State LPN refresher course, correspondence based

    JasonValentine replied to JasonValentine's topic in LPN/LVN

    I can't afford to leave my job at a gas station right now in order to take part time hours. And my son needs the car to get to work. The closest tech school is 45 min away..and they only offer a refresher course if 3 people sign up. I paid the fee an...

  10. Minnesota State LPN refresher course, correspondence based

    JasonValentine replied to JasonValentine's topic in LPN/LVN

    Independent Study Refresher Course for Licenses Practical Nurses by Minnesota State Community and Technical College

  11. Minnesota State LPN refresher course, correspondence based

    JasonValentine replied to JasonValentine's topic in LPN/LVN

    All right correction time not eight bucks..re-enroll for 800 bucks. and Yes I AM going to get my lisc. back. Or try... Regrading Accredited. Yes it is. Regrading CLinicals : You have an independent contract with a local facility where you do 85 hours...

  12. Minnesota State LPN refresher course, correspondence based

    JasonValentine replied to JasonValentine's topic in LPN/LVN

    Hello all I have been struggling with Min State's pencil and paper correspondence course for about 3 years. I've been out of the LPN field for 15 due to what they thought was MS but turned out to be transverse myleitis. I am not trying to get my lis...

  13. Minnesota State LPN refresher course, correspondence based

    JasonValentine posted a topic in LPN/LVN

    I'm in WIs and currently enrolled in an LPN course out of Minnesota to get my LPN lisc. bac. It is an old fashioned paper and pencil course with no interaction, feedback or monitoring...or assignment time limits. You just do this whole chunk of readi...