Katie13LPN

Katie13LPN specializes in Pediatric and Geriatric.

Latest Activity

1. How to Take Care of Me When I Am Old

   Katie13LPN replied to bluegeegoo2's topic in Geriatric

   Hi I think I am going to like my job. I am working in a facility with only 39 units. The clients have Alzhiemer's dementia. The other clients are assisted living clients. I wish other facilities would have this kind of system. I don't believe Lo...

2. New Job and questions

   Katie13LPN replied to Katie13LPN's topic in Geriatric

   We probably did give them I just don't remember.

3. New Job and questions

   Katie13LPN posted a topic in Geriatric

   I just got a job in a assisted living facility. They say it is not skilled but I think it is. I have questions. I wonder what a bipap machine is and how it is different from a Cpap machine. I worked in a facility once before and I had a lady who ...

4. Story of Lunacy

   Katie13LPN replied to Katie13LPN's topic in Geriatric

   That lady left or was fired. There was a high turnover for that position. One of DON's was escorted out of the building.

5. Charge Nurse

   Katie13LPN replied to Katie13LPN's topic in Geriatric

   Gosh you guys are rough on me. I would like to stay at the place I will be going to. They really need people to work there.

6. Story of Lunacy

   Katie13LPN posted a topic in Geriatric

   My director of nursing at an assisted living facility told me to argue with the psychiatrist over over a drug change. We had a lady who clearly had sundown syndrome. She was on Paxil. He told me that he wanted to change it it Zoloft. I did not ar...

7. Charge Nurse

   Katie13LPN replied to Katie13LPN's topic in Geriatric

   I have been reading the book Mastering Geriatric Care. Are there other clients recovering from surgeries in nursing homes today? The reason I ask this is because I had a friend recovering from bowel surgery. She lived alone as was recuperating in...

8. Charge Nurse

   Katie13LPN posted a topic in Geriatric

   I am working for Maxim as a per diem nurse. They are going to assign me to various nursing homes in my area. What is the charge nurses responsibility on any particular shift. Are you supposed to tell them when someone is in declining health? What ...

9. Home health interview or other possibilities.

   Katie13LPN posted a topic in Job Hunt

   I am an LPN. I have not had any action taken against my license. Two years ago I lost my home care case for some reason. I really don't know why his mother decided to fire me but she did. I do know that the nurse that came into replace me decided...

10. The cases that break your heart

    Katie13LPN replied to KelRN215's topic in Pediatric

    I took care of a teenager who I believe was like the way she was because her mother drank during her pregnancy. She had scoliosis and was on a ventilator by the time I was on her case and her legs where very contractured too from her seizures. She ...

11. Nursing Care Plans

    Katie13LPN replied to Katie13LPN's topic in Home Health

    I do over chart I think. Every line of my nurses note is filled out. They say it is Exception charting. I just don't understand how my charting relates to the nursing care plan.

12. Nursing Care Plans

    Katie13LPN posted a topic in Home Health

    I am an LPN and I have worked in home health for a long time taking care of sick children and disabled children. I have several questions. I often feel frustrated with the "medical care plan" that my home care company puts out. I would like to w...

13. Empty the foley they said...

    Katie13LPN replied to Brian's topic in Rock

    When I was a care giver we had a couple move into a tiny little room so undeserving after a marriage of fifty years or so. The nurse on the previous shift had given him a stool softener and he was able to go. But instead of putting him on the bed ...

14. patients who don't age out

    Katie13LPN replied to anon456's topic in Pediatric

    I have not read all these comments but I think by law the cardiologist is supposed to follow them. I had a little girl with down syndrome. Her family told me that.

15. My Resume

    Katie13LPN replied to Katie13LPN's topic in Job Hunt

    Sorry about that.