nursejane236

nursejane236 has 5 years experience and specializes in long term care.

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1. Your A LPN, Sooo.....

   nursejane236 replied to DarciaMoonz's topic in LPN/LVN

   congratulations on passing your boards and on your career choice! as a lpn, and a mds coordinator (which many of my peers don't know exactly what it is that i do) i can tell you that you can set your sights to whatever you desire. it is much harder...

2. DNR Orders Overturned By Doctors

   nursejane236 replied to DaFreak71's topic in General Nursing

   Had a 22 year old end stage dialysis patient that was waiting for transplant and was a DNR living at our facility. Patient was competent and signed her own DNR. Mother came to visit from Germany and patient collapsed. Mother who was POA screamed t...

3. LPN as MDS coordinator

   nursejane236 posted a topic in MDS

   I am a LPN that functions as MDS coordinator, however, my official title is Resident Care Coordinator (because I am a LPN). I work for 120 bed facility with medicare skilled patients averaging 20-30 and manager care another 10-15; average skilled is...

4. Nurses as Patients

   nursejane236 replied to alex1's topic in General Nursing

   Hate to admit it but am not the most "compliant" nurse. Collapsed my lung from a fall earlier this year and was asymptomatic (O2 sats 98 on r/a and little pain and not even a bruise) went to hospital thinking I broke a rib and was stunned to learn I...

5. LPN vs RN

   nursejane236 replied to dcrrlb8185's topic in LPN/LVN

   It appears that your facility is choosing the RN to be in compliance. It is a sad fact that when a facility chooses an RN to be a unit manager (newly hired) over an experienced LPN that they don't value their employees. The worst part about it is t...

6. Did you work as a CNA before RN?

   nursejane236 replied to doglover1's topic in General Nursing

   Couldn't have been said better!

7. Narcotic Theft

   nursejane236 replied to smartass_nurse's topic in Safety

   First and foremost patient safety and welfare. Report them. Not an easy task. Takes a lot of courage. If using the various tiplines such as BON, state agencies and local authorities get you nowhere. You might want to try a local news channel. Cho...

8. Incident reports: Who uses, completes and where do they go???

   nursejane236 replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in General Nursing

   Incident reports in my facility are about anything out of the ordinary. Consequently, there are several incidents from everything such as skin tears to medication errors. Every incident that happens to a patient is investigated, careplanned and all...

9. What's your story? Why did you take up nursing?

   nursejane236 replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

   You have a guardian angel that will always be by your side!

10. Florida nursing salaries - seriously????

    nursejane236 replied to centralflorida's topic in Florida

    Ok so quite frankly the wage scale in Florida for nurses is not what it should be. But there is no human service field that ever measures up. (For example, teachers, police officers, firefighters, etc.) People do it because they love it and they fe...

11. Will I be too old for nursing school?

    nursejane236 replied to nrsbetsy's topic in General Students

    I finished nursing school at 35. At first I too thought wow is this a young person's career. But after going through it and realizing that more than half my class was 30 or older with at least 4 women who were in their 50's, I soon recognized that ...

12. Professionalism

    nursejane236 replied to dbledutchs's topic in LPN/LVN

    The commuter said it best. Having worked in several different professions prior to my nursing career, I have learned that corporate politics is not reserved for the white collar world, cattiness is not reserved for the office and backstabbing isn't ...

13. Fishy interview-need advice

    nursejane236 replied to Curious1alwys's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a LTC with acute rehab. Most acute rehabs are skilled nursing faciity which have federal and state guidelines that they have to abide by. One of the most important is the cna/patient and nurse/patient ratio. As an LPN I am a unit manager...

14. Are nurses unsupportive spouse magnets??

    nursejane236 replied to sticknurse's topic in General Nursing

    I got started in my nursing career later in life in my 30's. One of my reasons was to use all of my nuturing energy towards people that would benefit and appreciate it. I have used nuturing energy towards people my whole life (mainly family) and ge...