indylpn08

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1. AANP call for action - deadline Jan. 17th!

   indylpn08 posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   I received a email from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners calling for NPs to contact The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. CMS is seeking additional input and recommendations...

2. Valley Regional Med Center-Anyone know recent info?

   indylpn08 replied to indylpn08's topic in Texas Nursing

   Thank you for your reply. I will be working at Valley Regional but it is all in the same general area. I was thinking about living in Harlingen for a lower crime rate and it is between McAllen with...

3. Valley Regional Med Center-Anyone know recent info?

   indylpn08 posted a topic in Texas Nursing

   I have been offered a medical floor job at Valley Regional in Brownsville, TX (not to be confused with Valley Baptist also in Brownsville). I have no other offers and am graduating this month from RN...

4. Lost job april 09 ...need help

   indylpn08 replied to indiansfan's topic in Geriatric, LTC

   Do not trust the HR person's word for it! Google "job reference checks" or similar and pay a 3rd party (or have a professional-sounding friend like a secretary do it) to call the facility and pretend...

5. HELP! Afraid to lose license after fired!

   indylpn08 replied to indylpn08's topic in Geriatric, LTC

   Thanks for all your advice! I finally found out that my appeal to the owners of the LTC facility rejected my appeal of my termination. I was not hopeful and I now see that it was a waste of time. I...

6. HELP! Afraid to lose license after fired!

   indylpn08 replied to indylpn08's topic in Geriatric, LTC

   Thanks for your reply. I did write a nurse's note in the chart knowing that I was in trouble. I wrote that I called the MD "3x" (three times) although I did not enter the times. Also, I noted that I...

7. HELP! Afraid to lose license after fired!

   indylpn08 posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

   I was fired from an Indiana LTC facility when I didn't get a resident their pain medication quickly. The resident had just come back from the hospital (from pneumonia) and had pain from a prior ORIF....

8. license renewal if fired from LTC?

   indylpn08 posted a topic in Indiana Nursing

   I was fired from an Indiana LTC facility when I didn't get a resident their pain medication quickly. The resident had just come back from the hospital (from pneumonia) and had pain from a prior ORIF....