PALPN4018

PALPN4018

med surg, pediatrics, geriatrics, family

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About PALPN4018

PALPN4018 has 17 years experience and specializes in med surg, pediatrics, geriatrics, family.


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  1. Finding a new niche

    After being an LPN for 20 years I am having difficulty finding suitable work for my age (55) and physical abilities. With cervical and lumbar spine DJD I am no longer doing LTC. Despite my experience, local physician offices prefer the cheaper to h...
  2. Fired After 50, Part I: What It's Like To Be A Statistic

    I'm also a 17 yer LPN with 16 years phlebotomy experience at age 50. Reinventing myself in urgent care clinics and school districts (pay is awful for schools). Always hoping, praying and looking for anything to help me pay the mortgage. Another ar...
  3. Fired After 50, Part III: It's Always Darkest Before Dawn

    Thank you for this wonderful story. I am a 50 year old LPN and also struggling with job loss and reinventing myself. My self esteem has taken a nose dive and so has my self confidence as a nurse. My bf wants me to go back to school to either finis...
  4. Amedysis

    mel - I've never done home health. Mostly offices and nursing home care. Can you describe what you do for your six patients. I am certified in phlebotomy and IV therapy. Will Amedysis use my skills in those areas??
  5. Amedysis

    I am considering applying to Amedysis for a home health position. I've been an LPN for 16 years with phlebotomy and IV experience, some cardiac telemetry. Recently worked in a personal care home for a year. Has anyone worked for Amedysis and did you...
  6. Fired all the LPN's

    Good Samaritan Hospital in Lebanon PA recently laid off 32 LPN's in order to hire RN's for "better customer service". I am presently trying to remarket myself in the area of phlebotomy. I am working parttime in the paramedical insurance exam indus...
  7. Are LPN's being phased out in hospital setting??

    PA hospitals are no longer hiring LPN's on the floors, only in clinic type settings. My first job as anLPN was on a hospital med surge floor. I was trained to do phlebotomy, start IV's and monitor the telemetry unit in addition to administering medi...
  8. Should medication aides exist?

    Mentos - don't fell guilty about what almost happened. The administration at your facility is not utilizing CMT's properly. Experience can be the best teacher and in your case you did not have adequate experience before being thrust onto that posit...
  9. Completing my RN schooling

    I'm in a quandary. I'm an LPN although I was trained at an RN school. In 1990 I entered nursing school and completed two years before having to quit. My mother was diagnosed with cancer and at the same time the RN program I was attending decided I ...
  10. Should medication aides exist?

    No, no, and no to all three questions.The med techs take a brief course designed to train them to safely pass medications. They must renew every two years. This is not a pharmacology course. Other than a brief demographics sheet listing medications...
  11. Personal Home Care Communities

    Thanks for your reply. I did do some online research on personal care homes. According to what I found, PCH's do not have to hire nurses at all.This facility began hiring nurses about 5 years ago. I guess given the state standard for PCH's, the "D...
  12. Should medication aides exist?

    Yes I do not know if privately owned Personal Care Homes can operate under the beat of a different drum. They only started hiring LPN's five years ago. I do not mind medication techs working in personal care or nursing home facilities. However, t...
  13. Should medication aides exist?

    I work with medication aides - sometimes they are assigned as shift leaders when a nurse is on staff. This happened to me last week - I was assigned nurse aide duty on third shift. The facility DON, who is also a med tech, assigned a med tech as sh...
  14. Personal Home Care Communities

    Hello - I am new to allnurses.com and decided to pose my situation online. I recently began working as an LPN in a personal care retirement community in PA. It is privately owned and family operated with most of the administrative positions appointe...