Lexxie LPN

There is a resident who is on Hospice and actively dying. Towards the end of my shift today, he had an extreme amount of secretions that he was unable to clear by coughing. We have an order for Atropine Eye Drops, 2 drops SL q6 hrs. However the 2n...

Southcentral PA $15.50 in Urgent Care setting

I would also check to see which residents are full codes vs. DNR or have living wills. In the LTC facility that I worked at, those things ultimately determined what was done in a emergency situation, ie: 911 call or comfort measures.

If you take A&P now, you may be able to skip that in the LPN program. Two girls in my class were able to do this because they'd had A&P courses within 5 years of starting the program. I'd check into it.

The only thing I regret about being an LPN is that there are limited positions here in my area. Hospitals stopped hiring us about the time I graduated, which is where I really wanted to work. Otherwise I had planned to become an LPN first to gain ...

None of the employees at my job have received raises - as far as I know. Being an almost 2-year old practice though, it's still getting off the ground, so I haven't really complained. However, my 2 year "anniversary" is coming up in April and I do...

My current employer has NO attendance policy, nor policies for anything else for that matter, but that's another thread. One of my fellow co-workers was a no call/no show about 3 weeks ago. This is after she was written up and suspended. Seems lik...

The Blind Association in my area provides free books on tape to those who cannot see.

Nope I guess not. We had a good laugh about if for the first month or so after I went back to work tho.

I've just completed my first year of pre-reqs. One more year of pre-reqs. I can apply next summer for the nursing program that will start January '11. I will then graduate May 2012.

With my third child, I worked until the day before my planned c-section. I was working FT in LTC and also PT doing wheelchair transports. I performed all of my duties with the exception of any heavy lifting. My one boss,who has no children of his ...

South central PA Nearly 5 years experience as an LPN $15/hr in an Urgent Care Center

I was in the same situation. I was single and pregnant when I graduated from nursing school. There were many factors involved other than that, but bottom line is that it was a full year before I could afford to take boards. Luckily, I was working ...

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You mean the quarterly pain, fall risk, elopement, etc. assessments? At my old facility, floor nurses had to do them as well. They were divied up between the shifts - days did pain, evenings - fall risk, etc.. Could medical records pick up the TB...

The Hospice inpatient units in my area require the LPN to have med/surg experience. Kinda stinks as the hospitals around here have not been hiring LPNs for several years.

I work in Urgent Care and love the fact that you never know what's going to walk through the door next. Sasha is right, it's not really a mini er, but more of a doctors office. As long as the situation is not life threatening, we'll evaluate the pt...

Here in PA they're sending the H1N1 vaccine to those areas that have been hit the hardest with swine flu first. So it's my understanding that it won't be widely available to start with, but eventally available to everyone.

1). A medic that I know made a bad choice in transferring a patient and in doing so, caused serious harm to the patient (with the patient ultimately dying). It's been rumored that the family may sue. So my question is this: is there malpractice i...

They are the monthly doctor's orders in a LTCF which generate the MARs. Each month they need to be checked for accuracy, ie: any new orders, d/c'd orders, new dx, diet or allergies, etc.. The PCP is supposed to review them (after all of the above...

At the vo-tech shool I went to, we were able to take the Nurse Aide certification test after we completed all of the basic care modules. If you want to work as a CNA while in school, I'd check to see if that's an option in the program you want to at...

One of the school districts in my area was only paying $8/hr for school nurses! Sad isn't it?

If paying the loans at this time will create a hardship for you, you can try to get a Forbearance, which is for people with financial hardships or a deferment which would allow you to pay the interest only on your loans. Good luck with your job sear...

Ain't that the truth! I worked as a receptionist in the LTCF I became a nurse at. So I knew in the back of my mind that I'd be mostly pushing pills, but had managed to kid myself into thinking it would be more than that. The reality of actually pa...

School districts in my area of PA hire LPN's. As others have said, there's an RN for the whole district and she/he won't necessarily be in the same building.