Gr8LVN12

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   LVN scope with ventilators?

   Gr8LVN12 replied to riquelle's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

   My company states Home Healthcare Services after their name. Is that the same thing then? Will we all have to go to Sacramento for that meeting then?
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   LVN scope with ventilators?

   Gr8LVN12 replied to riquelle's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

   This is going to boil down to money again, whether we like it or not. Everyone knows that nurses in home health don't make any money as it is, (thats why we're chronically short staffed), and that...
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   LVN scope with ventilators?

   Gr8LVN12 replied to riquelle's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

   Extremely well put, Cherry Aims!! Could not have said it
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   LVN scope with ventilators?

   Gr8LVN12 replied to riquelle's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

   Good job! I still can’t imagine what or if anything happened to prompt this. These meetings on June 7 may clarify,
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   LVN scope with ventilators?

   Gr8LVN12 replied to riquelle's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

   It seems they (CA Respiratory Board) just made a proposal saying LVNs shouldn’t be doing ventilators in home health now, either. I’m going to a meeting June
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   LVN scope with ventilators?

   Gr8LVN12 replied to riquelle's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

   Yes!! I’m just waiting for that too! I don’t think RNs are going to flood home health agencies, do you? Patients on ventilators have been cared for by LVNs for decades. What’s going to happen...
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   LVN scope with ventilators?

   Gr8LVN12 replied to riquelle's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

   Yes!! If it was a problem, then WHY are LVNs continually being hired and why isn’t the Board making sweeping license inquiries?? If the Board declares that I can’t work on vents because of...
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   LVN scope with ventilators?

   Gr8LVN12 replied to riquelle's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

   That’s what I’d like to know too! What happened to make this sudden shift?? I’ve been a ventilator LVN for seven years!! My home agency works with a majority of ventilator patients. We have a...