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I work in LTC, I have always used Z-track, mostly in the VG, but with agitated, combative patients, sometimes, you have to hit the biggest muscle you can reach easily...such as the quads, or delts in...

how bout..... your letters are one long sentence strung together with abbreviations that your friends and family don't understand (@ first, but have learned to over the years) such as /c, /s,...

the only skills that i feel i have really lost are peds/ob experience.... i have post surgical patients, cvas, ivs, sometimes with lipids, or tpn, irrigate catheters, not to mention insert...

Been in LTC for 17 years...1 as CNA (during LPN school) and 16 as LPN, and never hurt my back ON THE JOB.... however, I was in an ejection MVA in '97 and broke my back, but thanks to a talented...

I am an LPN in LTC in a little town in north central Arkansas... i work in one of the higher paying facilities there, and have 16 years experience. I gross about $3000 a month. sometimes more...

in my state (Arkansas) the legal ratio is 40/1 on days and evenings and 80/1 on nights (11/7) of course there are ways to get around that, and it depends how your facility is broken up... in my...

When I first Graduated from school I worked in a small hospital, that would frequently put noncontagious pts such as kidney stones or chronic pain, on the post-partum unit, when the hospital was...

the best thing to do, is check your policy and procedure book, and ask your don. also ask the other lpn's in the building what procedure is, or the nurse on the previous shift. at least find...

the best thing that i could come up with on the web was a patient guide for self-injection of lovenox, put out by aventis pharmaceuticals, for their prefilled syringes, and in it, it said: "may i...

I work at a LTC facility in North Central Arkansas, our nurse pt ratio 30-40 residents per nurse, depending on which area you work in the facility, at maximum census, the most residents a nurse could...

Ok, here are some of my favorites: "Too broke to pay attention" "Sharp as a bag of wet hair" "Dumb as a bag of hammers" "Squirrelly as a bird" (remember i'm from the South) My dad's...

The only thing you can do, Nic, is what you are doing....it sounds like a no win situation to me also. Just make sure that you document everything you do, (as you seem to be doing) and keep bugging...

Our facility has red heart stickers on the charts, and on the name cards outside the resident's rooms if they are a DNR. Also our MARs have the code status on the bottom. Another thing that...

Hi commuter, Ok, first off, and I know this doesn't help much...NEVER state or chart a measurement that you haven't measured yourself, don't trust YOUR liscense to anyone else! That's just to...

DO IT THEN.... don't leave it for later, don't wait at all if you can avoid it, it just takes 10-15 minutes max, to call family/RP, doc, fill out the form, and chart the details after ya assess and...