LIRN

LIRN has 30 years experience.

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1. Hourly Rate for an LPN in Florida

   LIRN replied to ANNG7's topic in Geriatric, LTC

   Well, since you're moving from upstate NY, you won't have as much salary shock as you would have if you were moving from Long Island or NYC :) I think she'll find the LPN pay rates about what I quoted...

2. Hourly Rate for an LPN in Florida

   LIRN replied to ANNG7's topic in Geriatric, LTC

   Do you plan to live and work in the Tampa area? I can call one of our facilities in that area and ask what the starting pay for LPNs is. Over here in Martin County it's anywhere from 17-19 an hour,...

3. Hourly Rate for an LPN in Florida

   LIRN replied to ANNG7's topic in Geriatric, LTC

   Worthytosucceed wrote: According to a friend of mine who has been an LPn for years and is a charge nurse in a LTC facility, there is a pay scale that all federally funded (medicaid funded) facilities...

4. Hourly Rate for an LPN in Florida

   LIRN replied to ANNG7's topic in Geriatric, LTC

   I do the hiring in a SNF in Martin County, Florida. Martin County is considered south Florida, just barely. It's a nice place to live. Schools? Well, it's Florida, what can I say. A lot different in...

5. MDS Coordinator salaries

   LIRN replied to Nascar nurse's topic in MDS Coordinator Information

   In five years, the only times I ever worked more than 40 hours a week were during the hurricanes of 2004 and 2005, and that wasn't because I was doing MDS assessments! (we had to evacuate). I worked...

6. MDS Coordinator salaries

   LIRN replied to Nascar nurse's topic in MDS Coordinator Information

   I'm in southeast Florida. As an MDS Cooridnator in Palm Beach County I was salaried and as of late 2006 made 63K a year. That's a bit over 30 dollars an hour. From speaking to other MDS Coordinators...

7. Please help! Possibly moving to Jupiter Florida need some advice!

   LIRN replied to Nikelbee's topic in Florida Nursing

   Hi I live right near where you're moving. Just a bit north. Closest hospital: Jupiter Medical Center in Jupiter. Very good reputation. Communty Hospital, very well regarded. Start there is you don't...

8. Florida Roll Call ......

   LIRN replied to RNPATL's topic in Florida Nursing

   I moved to SE Florida two weeks before 9/11 from Long Island. I got a job as an MDS Coordinator at a facility in Palm Beach County. I do the MDS for all the short term rehab Medicare patients. I have...

9. considering rehab - is 8:1 with a CNA good?

   LIRN replied to kek's topic in Rehabilitation

   I'm the MDS Coordinator in a 120 bed facility in Florida where 60 of the beds (3 units) are short term rehab, a good deal of the patients are orthopedic rehab. On the day shift there are 4 nurses for...