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Has anyone done the Lpn to bsn through ISU in Michigan, and if so did you have problems with finding a place doing your clinicals? Also does anyone know how many credits ISU accepts through straighter line? I know excelsior will only accept 7. I h...

tnmarie, What materials did you use to study for this?

It probably depends on where you live. I do know that the major hospital here in Grand Rapids michigan will not even look at you if they see Excelsior on your resume/application

Hello everyone. I have been going back and forth between excelsior and ISU. Frankly the cpne scares me. I like the idea of ISU and actual clinicals. But I got this info from ISU:Enrollment in Indiana State University is not required for completio...

Yikes! Ok thank you!

Sorry not sure why it posted in one big paragraph. I didn't type it that way.

Hello, What I usually do is start like this "observed resident on the floor on his/her left side......." and describe exactly what I saw when I entered the room.

Oh, ok ty!

what do you mean by 7 acceptable ace exams? Excelsior only accepts 7 of them? thanks, Kathy

I have a question. Seems to be a confusion where I work. We had a resident who was on some narcs (vicodin) We got the narcs in. He was dc'd to the hospital a couple of days later. Two week later (yesterday) He returns to us. Still has order for vi...

Just have to add, I am an LPN in LTC and the cena's do the vitals there for us. I put out the list of the vitals that needed to be done at the beginning of the shift. At the end of the shift I looked at the vitals and noticed I had put a patient o...

Hello everyone. Does anyone know how many hours legally a nurse can work in Michigan? Where I work some of the nurses are working 20 to 24 hour shifts. This seems extremely unsafe to me. I have tried to Google it and can't really find anything sp...

We work 12 hour shifts, and when the next nurse calls off or there was not one scheduled then we have to stay over, this is where some of the nurses and doing 24 hr shifts. All management has to say is "they can do it". I miss the days when we had...

Goodmorning everyone! I have seen a lot of post here regarding the college network. I just wanted to make everyone aware of this before they decide to sign on with them. A friend of mine signed on with them. I tried to explain that they were a pub...

Gummybear, My facility is same as yours! I work in a LTC facility and they are so overly focused on customer service and nothing else. The other day I was told to drop what I was doing (I was working on Doctor orders and in the middle of transcrib...

Hello, I work in a LTC facitlity. If we don't get a chance to take our lunch (which is often) we fill out a time edit slip stating that we didn't and the facility pays us for the half hour. There are actually some staff memebers who didn't get to t...

Hello Everyone, Just wondering if anyone has taken classes through Edukan colleges, and had a problem with Excelsior accepting them? I have been looking around and Edukan seems like the cheapest choice so far. Ty Kathy

well, obviously my question was answered. Should not use the med that we should not still have in the first place. Doesn't change the reality of the situation. We do have a back up supply of narcs, but we cannot use them until the pharmacy give us...

ty for all the reply's. Seems like there is no good situation here. The patient was sent to the ER, via ambulance, so no meds go with him. We were expecting him back, thats why we kept them. We are not allowed to send Narc back to pharmacy. Not ...

Hi, I work in a nursing home. ty

I work in LTC, and we have residents go out over night frequently. Our pills are in bubble cards. We just send the meds they would need for the time out, in little pill envelopes.

I have been a lpn in LTC for 8 years, before that I was a CENA for 7 years. Sad to say you will always run into families like that. I have had families believe EVERYTHING they have been told by their mom or dad, even though the resident barely rem...

Ok, the FDA has decided to make new rules (Or inforce old ones I think) that now to obtain narcotic for our residents our pharmacy has to have a actually written order from the doctor. Before if I took an order for Vocodin or any narc I could write ...

Good Morning everyone! I work in LTC and have the same problems with family! We have a resident on Tube Feeding, the speech therapist has been working with him for a long time. He has had swallow studies done, family came in one day yelling because...

Hello everyone!! I am an LPN in LTC, I have a question about C-diff. When a patient is treated for c-diff with flagyl we are being told by the NP that works with the doctor that you have to wait 30 days to retest the patient for c-diff. She is sayin...