swimmom

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1. New grad, shoud I take this position?

   swimmom replied to missdeevah's topic in Geriatric

   how many patients? sounds normal. the typical medicare unit in my state has about 30. i've got 60. how may cnas. they will make you or break you with the families. say, if there are 15 patients, you, a cma, and one aid, and you get 3 admissions...

2. Help! Acute care exp in long term care a nightmare

   swimmom replied to Kashia's topic in Geriatric

   I have not worked in a LTC or rehab facility yet in which it was possible to pass your medications at the correct time. As everyone else has said, you have to get to know your patients. I always give the meds that very much have to be on time when ...

3. Why Does It Seem That RN's Hate Us and Hospitals Don't Believe In Us??

   swimmom replied to brown eyed girl's topic in LPN/LVN

   Out of LPN school I also didn't want to work in LTC. The first job I applied for and did a 3 days of Orientation for(they had a month long orientation) paid only $11.29 an hour, but I could get day shift. I was making almost twice as much prior to ...

4. Why Does It Seem That RN's Hate Us and Hospitals Don't Believe In Us??

   swimmom replied to brown eyed girl's topic in LPN/LVN

   The reason that there is an arguement about it is because of people with attitudes like yourself. I and most of the LPNs I work with have bachelor's or master's degrees and have been working in other fields but became LPNs because they wanted to hel...

5. HELP~ Medicare Charting on LTC Facility

   swimmom replied to j3yang21's topic in LPN/LVN

   My facility will not allow those, because they think that people will get lazy and just check what they checked yesterday. We have to write out everything.

6. HELP~ Medicare Charting on LTC Facility

   swimmom replied to j3yang21's topic in LPN/LVN

   It very simple once you get used to it(the medicare charting I mean, not the job). It is just full vitals and head to toe assessment(of which I'm sure you did a hundred of in clinicals). Then you need to know the reason that the patient is being sk...