What are the different procedures I should expect to do in hospice or a nursing home?

[NursingBro]

What are the different procedures I should expect to do in hospice or a nursing home?

I just got my LPN/LVN license and want to practice several procedures at my old school. (One of the teachers is my friend and told me to go this Friday)

I remember doing pegtube meds, foley catheters, trach suctioning. What are other procedures I should be familiar with?

I want to be very good at all of these procedures before I apply for a job. :)

[sarahlee23, LPN]

I work nights as an LPN in a LTC facility. This most likely isn't all the procedures I've done, just the ones I can think of right now. In addition to the procedures you've listed, I've had to do blood draws, start an IV, give meds through central lines or IVs, IM injections, reinsert a g-tube, start a sub-q line for residents that end up on hospice with frequent sub-q meds (did not learn that in school but learned on the job). Many of our residents who end up on hospice frequently get sub-q medications, so we start a sub-q line using a butterfly needle so we don't have to give them a million sub-q injections. I usually don't do dressing changes as those are done during the day at my facility, but have changed dressings during the night when they come off (one of which was over a PICC line insertion site). Much of it I learned in school, but I've picked up a lot of useful tips that make some of these tasks easier from my coworkers.