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:Melody:

Okay, I had posted a question on the forum about med orders in HH, but I erased it during an emotional minute now I am reposting it. For future references: Gees, I hate to be so critical but the MAR med ,and TAR tx orders I saw at a clients were un...

Well, I am not planning on staying with this agency, but I am planning on staying in home health care. I just have a bad feeling in my solar plexus i.e. a gut feeling about this one. Thank goodness I found this part of the nursing forum. I do privat...

Well, I knew is was not setup correctly. I have been in nursing over 10 years and I've seen times mostly in LTC where doctors orders would lack either specifics or a diagnoses, but we would get on top of it. Let me ask you this is there a particula...

Does anyone know where I can get some training on Vents or some informative literature? I just started this job. Darcy

Well, when I oriented with the nurse those 2 hours I ask what all the things were, there was a tempature control it read 70 yet in the book on the vent paper the nurses were signing off 84, 88 and I question about the 70 reading and wondered if it wa...

:Melody: sorry empty link

Hello Thanks so much for your concern. Don't worry I am not taking this assignment. I was supposed to go tomorrow and I told them I would not. I just needed a refresher on trachs, but my main concern was Vent care. Respiratory care is responsible f...

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She showed me stuff about the Vent the buttons I already talked to the Nurse about it once in orientation, but I still had lots of questions. I basically did everything right because the patient can talk and helped me through it and there wasn't any...

:Melody:

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:Melody:

Hi I am so new to this this, and this agency told me I would only get paid for 2 hours of orientation. I can't stay any longer if not being paid. I learned very little in the 2 hours I was there yesterday I go tomorrow alone for 7 1/2 hours. This ...

:Melody:

Hi I've never worked this type of nursing before, so I had this fear in the back of my head i.e. the one above along with many others. In the hospital and LTC we are pretty well protected. You speak of records i.e. could someone elaborate on all t...

:Melody:

:Melody:

I was happy being an LPN and making $13-15 hour depending on where I worked. I actually worked more days back then. a 5 day work schedule. I graduated LPN in 1995. By 1996 all I heard was LPN's would be phased out, so I went to college got my RN, bu...