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  1. Pay grade: experienced nurse vs new grad

    lindseylpn replied to rehric00's topic in General Nursing

    I've been at my job for over 10 years. Several years ago they did away with yearly raises and decided to do yearly performance bonuses instead, plus they might give an occasional cost of living raise....

  2. I can do your job, you can't do mine.

    lindseylpn replied to crobson221's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    When I worked LTC I always tried to help the CNAs when I could and they helped me when I needed them. That's the way it's supposed to be. I have noticed though that some CNAs fail to realize that;...

  3. Night shift and clinicals

    lindseylpn replied to amygrizzard's topic in General Students

    At my local community college their policy is you can't work the 8 hours prior to clinical and it's an automatic F is they find out you have. You might want to really look into your school's

  4. Being Evicted from the Nursing Home? Hunh?

    lindseylpn replied to traumaRUs's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I've seen 3 people evicted- 1 for selling drugs (crack) out of his room, 1 for continued destruction of property (he liked to shatter windows with chairs) and 1 who liked to start fights with staff...

  5. Wages

    lindseylpn replied to awall04's topic in Nursing Career

    I just did a quick glass door search of some hospital systems in my area (east TN) to see what their salaries say. Covenant: $17-$26 Tennova: $18-$23 UT: $18-$24. I'm not sure how accurate glass door...

  6. Wages

    lindseylpn replied to awall04's topic in Nursing Career

    I'm in Tennessee and from what I hear the hospitals in my area start new grad RNs around $18 with other areas starting higher. I work at a group home and RNs here make $20.25. I've been an LPN for 12...

  7. Involuntary commitments in LTC

    lindseylpn replied to nurseebol's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Do you have access to "mobile crisis"? It's like ems for psych patients. It usually has to be an emergency before they'll come out though. That could be an option is she gets too bad. When I worked...

  8. Travel nursing with a tiny house?

    lindseylpn replied to DeenieRN's topic in Travel

    I love watching tiny house hunters but, some of these people spend what I spent for my 2br house on a tiny home. That's crazy! Get a nice little travel trailer

  9. New LPN grad seeks advice about DNRs

    lindseylpn replied to trixy005's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    When I worked LTC there was rarely an RN in the facility but, there was always one "on call". Also, I know this wasn't the exact question asked but, I wanted to add.. When a DNR passed and there were...

  10. Scabies outbreak in nursing home!!!

    lindseylpn replied to YoungMaleCNA's topic in General Nursing

    We had a scabies scare at my job several years ago. We all got treated but, none of the staff ended up getting

  11. Working Night Shift as a Student

    lindseylpn replied to bobcat17's topic in General Students

    I worked 2nd shifts and weekends during school and it worked out. Make sure your school doesn't have any rules regarding working before a clinical. My local community college won't allow anyone to do...

  12. Medical Assistant or LPN?

    lindseylpn replied to Marzyq's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Oh and also check job postings to see what is utilized more in your area. I just did a quick search on indeed.com to see and in my town there were 68 job postings for an LPN and only 5 job postings...

  13. Medical Assistant or LPN?

    lindseylpn replied to Marzyq's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Also with the search function type in MA vs LPN there are a lot of more postings you can look

  14. Medical Assistant or LPN?

    lindseylpn replied to Marzyq's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    A lot of MA's end up going back to school due to lack of pay, inability to find work etc. Keep in mind too that your classes from an MA program will not transfer into a nursing program but, an LPN can...

  15. Is this illegal?

    lindseylpn replied to Taratoes's topic in Home Health

    As long as you're talking care of her in her apartment and not yours I don't see why it'd be an issue. You're just neighbors. I'm sure people get assigned to take care of people in their own...

  16. New ltc nurse looking for advice

    lindseylpn replied to QueenOfTheNuts's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    At the beginning of each shift take a few minutes to write yourself a schedule for everything you need to get done on your shift. Then as you do things cross them off. Sometimes scheduling things out...

  17. Double Shift

    lindseylpn replied to Adele_Michal7's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I never had to work a full double when I worked LTC but, for they people who did they were expected to show up for their next shift. At my current job I got stuck working a 17.5 hour shift once. (It...

  18. Facebook and employers/school

    lindseylpn replied to daisybird27's topic in General Nursing

    I've had my co-workers and bosses as friends on Facebook for many years but, I just try to keep posts PG rated. I also have family on there too that I wouldn't want to offend. Most of my posts are...

  19. Need Advice should i start my RN preqs while getting LPN

    lindseylpn replied to soon2bnurse5's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Do you mean doing your RN prerequisites WHILE in school for your LPN?? Unless you are going to an extremely part time program I honestly don't see how you'd have time. Most LPN programs are around 40...

  20. RN being pulled to work as aide?

    lindseylpn replied to Llame_Llama's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Since you are new it's probably more of a seniority thing. In LTC LPNs and RNs routinely do the same job/have the same duties so, I suspect that the reason you are being pulled is because, they have...

  21. $2,600 too much money for PCT course?

    lindseylpn replied to nifty_n's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    The PCT course at the community college near me is

  22. How to manage life on night shift?

    lindseylpn replied to Larry2016's topic in General Nursing

    I work 13 hour nights and have a 45-50 minute commute and it's really not bad at all once you get used to it. I've done it for over 10 years. I usually listen to audio books during my drive....

  23. Day VS Night shift...help

    lindseylpn replied to Joanie49's topic in General Nursing

    LTC, assisted living, group homes etc. frequently have 3-11 shifts if that is something you are interested in. One of my local hospitals has a 3p-3a shift, you might could look around for something...

  24. Med pass 55+ residents and med error

    lindseylpn replied to Newnursey86's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Sorry, Maybe I phrased that confusingly, I didn't mean don't look at the Mar at all. What I was trying to say was at the beginning of med pass go thru the whole Mar and write down who gets meds and...

  25. Should I quit nursing?

    lindseylpn replied to rnsavinglives's topic in General Nursing