Gr8LVN12

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   LVN scope with ventilators?

   Gr8LVN12 replied to riquelle's topic in LPN/LVN

   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? Thanks.
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   LVN scope with ventilators?

   Gr8LVN12 replied to riquelle's topic in LPN/LVN

   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 definitely goes for our RN case managers. Office s...
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   LVN scope with ventilators?

   Gr8LVN12 replied to riquelle's topic in LPN/LVN

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

   Gr8LVN12 replied to riquelle's topic in LPN/LVN

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

   Gr8LVN12 replied to riquelle's topic in LPN/LVN

   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 7.
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   LVN scope with ventilators?

   Gr8LVN12 replied to riquelle's topic in LPN/LVN

   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 to them now that someone suddenly decides this is an is...
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   LVN scope with ventilators?

   Gr8LVN12 replied to riquelle's topic in LPN/LVN

   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 “scope of practice” , fine. But it’s throwing the baby ou...
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   LVN scope with ventilators?

   Gr8LVN12 replied to riquelle's topic in LPN/LVN

   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 hard enough time getting LVNs because of less than stel...