MiAmorPickles

MiAmorPickles has 25 years experience.

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1. Refusing a case in home care

   MiAmorPickles replied to Katesp91's topic in Private Duty

   I’ve gotten out of pediatric private duty work since I posted on here. Had some health iissues come up and couldn’t continue working full time so took 3 months off and then went part-time filling in for call-ins or no-shows. Then, two incidents o...

2. Are LPN's being phased out?

   MiAmorPickles replied to JSlovex2's topic in LPN/LVN

   I am at the end of my career and it makes no sense to go back to school now to get a AD/RN degree or BSN . Worked in hospitals all my life until recently and loved med/surg and stepdown. The hospital I worked at before no longer hires LVN's. Learn...

3. Is this LTC facility trying to take her license?

   MiAmorPickles replied to Spouse_of_nurse's topic in LPN/LVN

   This is so sad but true.

4. The nurse and patient's family yelled at me. I feel horrible.

   MiAmorPickles replied to mamacita2's topic in CNA/MA

   I took rectal temps on a total care ped patient and the day nurse (5 year history with child) got upset and told the pulmonologist the next day and told me the doctor said no rectal temps and that it required a doctor's order because it was invasive....

5. Working as an rn in puerto rico

   MiAmorPickles replied to phosphorus's topic in US Territories

   I don't speak Spanish except for maybe 20 words and have been dreaming of moving to Puerto Rico for the past few years. Don't know why. Life is not always about the rate of pay but the experiences along the way.

6. Working below your license

   MiAmorPickles replied to happ09's topic in General Nursing

   I worked in a hospital that would use RN's and LVN's as CNA's when the census was low. Saw a new RN quit the day she was assigned to work as a CNA--she was very offended by it. It was hard work and I was always running around like a chicken with it...

7. Refusing a case in home care

   MiAmorPickles replied to Katesp91's topic in Private Duty

   The day after writing this, I got an email from this agency with a list of open jobs for my consideration. So everything worked out as it usually does in life--one way or another.

8. Refusing a case in home care

   MiAmorPickles replied to Katesp91's topic in Private Duty

   I went to do a few hours with the day nurse at a new patient's home and things looked okay, but when I went back the next day for a 5 hour meet and greet with the family I knew I did no want to go back. The agency offered me $3 more an hour than wha...

9. To Tell or Not To Tell

   MiAmorPickles replied to MiAmorPickles's topic in General Nursing

   That is the same advice another nurse friend gave me. I have made it a habit not to repeat secondhand info to higher ups during my career and I don't know if it's old age or what making me second guess my normal reactions to something like this!! T...

10. Out of the frying pan, Into the fire.

    MiAmorPickles replied to LunaTunaPineapple's topic in LPN/LVN

    My first night as a new nurse in med/surg, I showed up and was given an assignment. No preceptor, nothing. I didn't know better. This was almost 30 years ago. I did the best I could. Looking back, I am surprised I managed to make it through the s...

11. To Tell or Not To Tell

    MiAmorPickles posted a topic in General Nursing

    I work in private duty nursing. I met a nurse this morning at my current assignment who just stopped working an assignment I had also previously worked on before this current one. She remarked that she needed to leave because the nurse's there were...