Re: Help!!! LVN's giving IVP medications in Texas. Whats the problem?
I would def contact former employers where you worked in critical care. Tell them it's urgent (tell them why and mention your deadline) and ask them if they could provide (fax) copies of: your evals, and job descriptions, and most importantly: your competencies.
(If you don't have a fax, get the fax number of a local copy store and use that. You can pay a fax fee and pick up the copies there.)
Most hospitals now require EVERYBODY, RN or LVN, to be competency certified on every piece of equipment, and even on stupid things, like, 'answers phone professionally'.
If you can find IVP on one of your competency grids from a former employer, then - you're done, proof in hand.
Other than that, talk to former co-workers, preferably managers but not necessarily and ask if they'll write you a statement saying that you were competency certified to push drugs.
Also, you CURRENT manager could sign off on that, if he/she were so inclined.
The rule is that you have to show that you've been trained prior to doing that. That could mean a class - but that sounds like a difficult thing for you to find. But, it could also mean OJT from any of your former or your current employer. You just have to find a record that you were certified (competencies) or someone that says you were certified/trained (former managers/co-workers).
If I had worked w/ you in critical care, I'd sign a statement attesting to your competency. This is silly - although the result isn't silly for you, I know; it's surreal.
~faith,
Timothy.
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