PurpleHairUnicorn

I worked for them for 3 months somewhere in Texas in late 2015, and my experience was less than stellar. They offered me one payscale when I hired in, but when I actually worked for them, I was getting paid the same (lower) rate for a Trach/Vent, G b...

I work for a home health agency, we do mostly medicare patients. The RNs are supposed to do Start of Care Assessments, Recertification assessments, Transfer and Discharge assessments. The OASIS forms that need to be filled out ask the discipline of t...

Sorry I haven't updated....Here is what happened....I went to the meeting, they placed me on 'administrative leave' and gave me 2 weeks to get my weight restriction lifted. I left the meeting, was on my way home, they called me back to the office and...

I received a call today (Sunday!!!) asking me to please be in the office at 10am Monday morning for a meeting with the DON, Operations manager, and the home office HR person....I know they are going to try to give me the axe, even though I have email...

They are aware of the regs, they just choose to interpret them differently. They say I can do any thing OASIS wise as long as the RN countersigns it. That's not the way I read it. SO, NOW I was "suspended" because I have a 50 lb weight restriction. ...

You were right, it did come back and bite me, I got "suspended" today, because I have a 50lb weight restriction, Funny thing is,...they knew that when they hired me 3 months ago, (I will probably receive the axe on Monday.) My weight restriction was ...

Mosby's drug guide for nurses states to dilute with 9ml NaCl and administer over 2 minutes. Always dilute phenergan when giving it IV. My DH was in ER a while ago for what turned out to be food poisioning, they gave him undiluted phenergan and his ve...

We had a conversation with a legal nurse consultant about "borrowing meds" from one patient to another just this morning. She said that "borrowing" meds constitutes a number of crimes including dispensing without a license (doctors prescribe, pharma...

Stumbled across and ad from Kindred Hospital in Chicago (on Monster.com) They are looking for LPNs with "Intravenous Blood Certification" Does this mean LPNs can GIVE/START the blood transfusion as well as monitor for a reaction?

When my DH was in the hospital years ago, he INSISTED I sleep in the bed with him. He was scared out of his mind,and couldn't rest with out me next to him. (they thought he had pancreatic cancer. He didn't, turns out it was food poisioning) I have NE...

RE: Happy2behere96 This is off topic, but regarding your calling docs to pronounce death, how does this work? I mean do you chart Doc pronounced death at such and such time. Could you explain to me the steps you take when someone dies in your facili...

Been there, done that, and from personal experience I can say, you can always lose weight and learn a few makeup tricks, (have plastic surgery if truly "deformed"), but he will STILL be a drop out loser with an $8/hr girlfriend,who will probably ch...

I once worked with a nurse who was also a DC. On her charts she signed her name "Sally Smith RN" Her full legal title (at least in Georgia) was Dr. Sally Smith RN BA BSN DC. She always introduced herself to her patients by saying "Hello, I'm Sally a...

When I went through clinicals back in the dark ages, we went to the hospital the evening before and got our assignments. Allong with the schedule, I also made a check list of what needed to be done, and crossed it off as I did it. Hope this helps.

I think the problem could be in part , that LPN programs don't have a standardized curriculum,and the scope of practice varies so much from state to state. One school will teach iv therapy, one will not, some places LPNs can drop an NG some places th...

They need to pass something similar for ltc. Currently they look at staffing over a 24 hr period, counting office nurses and administration (if applicable)for their nurse hours total. Which amounts to 164 residents,2 nurses (usually lpns) 5-6 cnas o...

I agree with Daytonite, although I would suggest a yearly review of policy and procedure to cover those who have "been there since the doors opened" and equal enforcement of the policy and procedures, and make sure they are up to date. I have been in...

I have requested a copy of my employment records ( start date, stop date, pay rate) and a copy of my last employee evaluation (which I received a copy of but have since lost, I was at this particular hospital in 2001), and was informed that I could n...

Thanks I didn't think of that, perhaps I'll try the TN board of labor as this is where the corporate office is supposed to be located

Sorry I didn't mean to hijack the thread either.... From Il nurse practice act... (i) "Practical nurse" or "licensed practical nurse" means a person who is licensed as a practical nurse under this Act and practices practical nursing as defined in p...

re:Here is a problem sample; Give lidocaine 30 mcg/kg/min to a child weighing 55 lbs. the drug available is 120 mg/100 ml of fluid. How many mcg/min will be given? The total mcg/min will be 750 mcg/min. 30mcg/min times childs wt. in kg...30 x 25 = 7...

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re; schroeders piano..the illinois lpn scope of practice is not currently defined,the Illinois Practice Act Task Force is currently working on defining the scope of practice for the LPN, therefore it is up to each facility to decide what it will and ...

This is a little off topic but...re:traumaRUs - In Illinois LPNs can take verbal orders and telephone orders, and our scope of practice varies from facility to facility. LPNs can do much, much more in a critical access facility as opposed to a jacho ...

For your first question the answer I came up with was 45 mg/hr. The pump setting would be 37.5 ml/hr. I took the child's wt, converted to kg., (25kg), multiplied that by 30mcg ( that's 750 )then I multiplied THAT by 60 (60 minutes in an hour). 45000...