LPN with LTC interview this week!!

Specialties Geriatric

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I have been a nurse for 5 years. I started out in a hospital for about 1 year and then we relocated. At that point I was unable to get work in a hospital setting in my new location (they don't hire LPN's in the hospitals here). I have worked the last 4 years in physician's offices (first Urology for 2 years and now family medicine for the last 2 years).

I have applied for a job in LTC for multiple reasons. 1) I love geriatrics, and that's actually why I went to nursing school was to work in LTC. 2) I would be able to work 3 12-hour shifts per week. 3) The pay would be much better (I have a kid in college).

I have an interview scheduled for this Friday...Please help me know what to expect...and ESPECIALLY what questions I should go prepared to ask them. I really feel like I would be so much happier in LTC...and I also feel that alot of my nursing skills are lost and/or useless in a physician's office setting (my personal opinion).

Any advice, help, etc is greatly appreciated!!!

Thanks!

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Specializes in critical care, ER,ICU, CVSURG, CCU.

your orrientation will probably be very short, most three days, a week if you are really lucky.

you are needed, and probably have the job! best wishes

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Make sure to ask:

-how long your orientation will be ("it varies"=red flag)

-how many residents you will be responsible for on your shift (if the number is over the low-to-mid thirties, red flag)

-if there are treatment nurses, or if the staff nurses do all treatments (no treatment/wound nurse on staff is a red flag)

-ask if you can tour the facility and keep your eyes peeled, observing how many nurses you see, what the CNAs are doing, if the atmosphere seems chaotic or controlled, etc.

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Ditto Brandon LPN!!!!

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