zebsmom2002

Great points. Far lower stress & lots more autonomy with home care. Many people do it because they love it. Re: Pay- employers can't pay you more than they get from the people that pay them, or they wouldn't be in business very long.

Actually, all the agencies around here are paying about the same for medi-cal contract cases. They don't get paid, so the nurses don't either. Also, with these cases, they can't bill more for RN's-licensed=licensed. I was an LVN at the time, but the ...

Actually, she had been laid off (from a $63/hr job-inpatient psych), lives in the bay area (no jobs) and is now working home care....she was out of work for 1 1/2 years before she got this job. I did the same job 20 years ago-for $18. It just hasn't ...

A friend of mine is an RN (in CA) and is now working for $21 an hour!

Best of luck to you! The job can be incredibly rewarding. I used to joke with my roommate years ago (I was a CNA, then an LVN & she was a waitress) The biggest difference in our jobs is you get tips & I have to feed the customers their dinner

don't you just LOVE having to push the cart into a pt room, scan the pt, then scan the med, then wander the halls trying to find someone to co-sign, then the computer times you out....so you have to go back & scan the pt & start all over agai...

I don't know how it is now, but when I went to LVN school, RN was only 1 semester longer-and the pre-req's were very similar. not a huge difference in education.

I totally agree with you. I spent 20 years as an LVN, then got an ADN RN, a BSN and then a MS. I've found that at this point in my career, it's best not to mention the 20 years as an LVN. Very sad, because I gained so much experience during that t...

Interesting, we have to check with the pens too. Lucky you! I'm so jealous!

Most of the ADN programs I've seen at least cover some community health, though no where near the extent of the BSN programs I've seen. In fact I had it in my LVN program (30 years ago though)

Sorry about the rant, but I hear the same complaints every day and it gets very, very old.

I hear these on a daily basis from students, and I've included my responses What I have found: 1. If you give it half a chance, you will learn stuff in community nursing you will use forever-ie-TB info (found in all populations) where to refer peopl...

This seems somehow strange to me. I've been a nurse for over 30 years, and have always had to have a co-signature for insulin (sq) and heparin. now most facilities require it for quite a few other meds, strangely enough including po's-warfarin &...

I found the nursing courses to be faster & lots easier than the general ed

I did most of them in 2-3 months (mostly 3 months). The only thing that took me longer was stats (5 months) If i remember correctly, they notified me of the CPNE workshops when they occured in CA (where I live).

When I was in school--between school & work & the several different places I volunteer with children I had to have 11 a year. Now I'm back down to 7.

Usually it's facility requirements. You can only release the results to one agency--thus the multi times. Again, try suggesting that you have only one a year done & release it to the school & they can cc the results to each agency you'll be ...

It's a workman's comp thing, not a facility thing.

Rather than doing one for each facility, you might suggest that the results go to the school (rather than the facility) & the school forward the results to each facility....same for drug tests. That should at least cut it down to one of each a y...

Addendum: some schools do them & some don't-my understanding is that it depends on what the clinical facilities require or what the school's insurance requires.

I've only seen urine tests where I am (Bay Area CA)

Hang in there! My prayers are with you. I know how hard it is to switch to different areas-and NICU is a whole other planet!

Unfortunately, your instructor is most likely between a rock & a hard place. They have to keep a good relationship with the manager & facility to be able to keep students there, so depending on the relationship between your instructor & t...

BTW, this was after 25+ years of nursing, I'd just never worked in a nice enough neighborhood to have run into this before.

Oh, and I almost forgot about asking several other staff to see if the MD was aware..... I was taking care of this cachetic (75 lb) 85 year old woman. When I went in to assess her--her breasts were rock hard and DDD+ size. I thought she had breast ca...