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  1. What's It All About, ALFie?--Help and Support for Assisted Living Nurses

    ohlpn replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I submitted my resignation today at the ALF where I've worked as a "part time RA" and "prn LPN" for the last 3 years. I showed up for work yesterday to do the month end audits and was told that the...

  2. What's It All About, ALFie?--Help and Support for Assisted Living Nurses

    ohlpn replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I've been an LPN in ALF for 3 years after retiring from a skilled nursing home position after 13 LOOOONNNNGGGG & painful years. This past year I was "asked" to return to a "part time position" as...

  3. Neuropathy & it's effects

    ohlpn replied to nursemary9's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I don't want to be a whiner or complainer, but Diabetic peripheral Neuropathy absolutely inhibits physical and mental/emotional cabilities in the field of nursing! After working as an LPN for over 15...

  4. Crocs Specialist - experiences?

    ohlpn replied to MiaLyse's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    My company does not allow Crocs, yet they are the only shoes I can wear comfortably throughout my shift. I've found Easy Spirit walking shoes offer comfort, but they don't last as long as Crocs....

  5. LPN Wages

    ohlpn replied to Tua15395's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I graduated (LPN ) in 1993 and made $9.50 straight out of nursing school. After a few years I discovered our company was paying $2 more an hour to the "kids" than I was getting. Get this...I was...

  6. Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    ohlpn replied to DanFNP's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I haven't read many of the previous posts concerning this issue, but my unbiased opinion is that the US needs some type of Universal Medical Coverage. My story is a case in point.... My DH had PRIMO...

  7. I have Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy

    ohlpn posted a topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Diagnosed with Type II Diabetes in 1997, & contracted diabetic peripheral neuropathy in 1999. I've been working as a nurse with this syndrome for the last 11 years & it really doesn't impede...

  8. Things nursing school FAILED to tell us

    ohlpn replied to Debbie_LPN's topic in Nursing Humor

    In the LTC arena (& probably in hospital venues, as well) how nasty & demanding some families can be when family members are patients. Many of these folks project their anger & guilt...

  9. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    ohlpn replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    I think I've posted this one before, but here goes! I was a fairly new nurse in a nursing home & we had a bedridden patient with an enormous abcess on his back...it actually looked like an...

  10. Need some support because of fear of failing

    ohlpn replied to bmackd2's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I started nursing (in '93) vigorous, healthy & overwhelmed with optimism! I am now 61 yo & my priorities & abilities are challenged beyond what I could ever have dreamed! I recently...

  11. NFLPN Health Discount Card??

    ohlpn replied to rockexrolloh's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    i agree, but as a semi-retired lpn, deals like this are very enticing to me & my dh! it's times like this that sway me toward socialized

  12. Blood Glucose Monitoring w/o Dr.'s orders

    ohlpn replied to kels764's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    In LTC, we frequently check blood sugars without an order. Behavioral changes & other physical symptoms often require "nursing judgement" where chem sticks & other procedures help with...

  13. Nurses digging in laundry barrells???

    ohlpn replied to catlynLPN's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    i feel for ya! i finally got out of "nursing home" craziness because of this kind of "administrative" mandates thought up by pencil pushers. i'm now working prn in an asisisted living facility &...

  14. Hostile Family Members!

    ohlpn replied to NrsheartTS's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    When I was a CNA in LTC 20 years ago, a female resident died. The nurse called the son but learned he was on a cruise. The 17 year old grandson answered the phone & a loud party was heard in...

  15. Positive Mantoux

    ohlpn posted a topic in General Nursing

    I've just reviewed some old posts on this subject & found many of them to be very informative. However, I still have a couple of questions I hope can be addressed. I retired from LTC in Dec....

  16. Positive Mantoux

    ohlpn replied to ohlpn's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks so much for all the reply's. They were all so informative & re-inforced what I think I already knew. As a post script, my son-in-law says that this nurse was mistaken about the military...

  17. magnet therapy

    ohlpn replied to weezieRN's topic in Holistic

    A lengthy treatise follows on magnetic therapy quackery:

  18. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    ohlpn replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    In the nursing home I worked I had a male CNA holding a bedridden/nonresponsive resident on his side so I could change a dressing to his back. We had been treating this resident for over three months...

  19. Stressed out and Getting Out

    ohlpn replied to CseMgr1's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    My story is similar to yours Dixielee but I was sidelined in the middle of nursing school.... got married, had kids & was a stay-at-home-mom. Went to a 10 month LPN program when my youngest was...

  20. Stressed out and Getting Out

    ohlpn replied to CseMgr1's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I left my nursing job in Dec. '03 (stress=health concerns) & have put in a couple nursing applications since then. Declined the jobs after I was hired, because I recalled the stress I was under...

  21. Can a LPN be a school nurse?

    ohlpn replied to therealnurse's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I could be wrong, but I was told by a school nurse a few years ago, that in the state of Ohio you must be an RN with a teaching degree. However, I am aware of some LPN school nurses in very small,...

  22. Nurses week Cheap gifts from admin.

    ohlpn replied to nilepoc's topic in General Nursing

    Last year the nurses got a catered luncheon from the Olive Garden. Sounds great, huh? Yeah, if you work 1st shift! I worked 3rd shift and we got two large containers of salad (it had been...

  23. Dealing with incompetent nurses

    ohlpn posted a topic in General Nursing

    I work third shift in LTC and have been faced with a problem regarding a co-worker who is dangerously incompetent. I think because of staffing shortages on our shift, her incompentency is not being...

  24. Dealing with incompetent nurses

    ohlpn replied to ohlpn's topic in General Nursing

    My incompetent nurse is a retired RN recently hired at our nursing home. She is often the relief charge nurse on our shift but prefers to be called the supervisor. Heaven help us when she is our...