SDALPN

SDALPN

Peds(PICU, NICU float), PDN, ICU

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  1. Looking for the not so typical LPN job

    SDALPN replied to SDALPN's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I've wondered about phone triage. I think its something I'd either love or hate. The job checking for STDs sounds interesting. Doesn't sound like something I could do forever. But it would be a nice...

  2. Perks of the Job???

    SDALPN replied to CloudySue's topic in Private Duty

    I'm getting a perk of the job right now. My pt is taking a nap. It gives me a chance to do what I need to do without chasing a 2 year old around. I can order supplies without background noise, I can...

  3. Perks of the Job???

    SDALPN replied to CloudySue's topic in Private Duty

    I've seen the "suzy/Monica situation" more times than I could count. There needs to be a person who randomly stops at these homes to see if a nurse is there and to check notes to make sure they aren't...

  4. Looking for the not so typical LPN job

    SDALPN replied to SDALPN's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Inserting a picc line is outside of our scope of practice. The type of people getting botox aren't the type if people I fit in well with. I could do it, but I'm not sure I'd be happy. I thought about...

  5. Looking for the not so typical LPN job

    SDALPN replied to SDALPN's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I'm not sure working in an eating disorder clinic is for me. I do visits as part of my job with the PDN company. Visits are too similar to PDN...at least for now. In NC, it exceeds the LPN scope of...

  6. Looking for the not so typical LPN job

    SDALPN replied to SDALPN's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

  7. Anyone have some cheese?

    SDALPN replied to eeffoc_emmig's topic in Private Duty

    Make them think they need you. By saying yes all the time, you look desperate for hours. The office staff get bonuses with most companies for getting cases staffed and for profit goals. By keeping you...

  8. should I leave a client...

    SDALPN replied to anangelsmommy's topic in Home Health

    That sounds like private duty instead of home health. But its clear that the case isn't a good fit. Its best to move on to a case that is a better

  9. Ugh, the MUSIC!!!

    SDALPN replied to CloudySue's topic in Private Duty

    I had a patient that would only listen to country on TV. We weren't allowed to change the channel. It was pure torture. The channel played the same 5 songs over and over. If the power went out or the...

  10. Fustrated

    SDALPN replied to welch07's topic in Home Health

    I almost said that in my last post. Good luck with everything. That other job will be someone elses

  11. new grad, PDN, and experience for the hospital

    SDALPN replied to clearblue3's topic in Private Duty

  12. Fustrated

    SDALPN replied to welch07's topic in Home Health

    They lose a lot of great nurses that way. Its not your fault. But they do that to test flexibility. The nurse I know had 30 years of picu/nicu experience!! She was turned down. The person who turned...

  13. Religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin

    SDALPN replied to CloudySue's topic in Private Duty

  14. Fustrated

    SDALPN replied to welch07's topic in Home Health

    They want to see flexibility. A friend of mine had the same thing happen a few years

  15. Sadness after a child passes

    SDALPN replied to PerfectlyPlump's topic in Private Duty

    I get that. But some people aren't hopeful like you and I. Some take it to the extreme. The ones that take it to the extreme can really cause a lot of harm to themselves and their child. It should be...

  16. You Know You're a PDN When...

    SDALPN replied to Adele_Michal7's topic in Private Duty

    I think I'd be willing to take that risk! Your director needs to relax! On some of my cases, when I've been lucky enough to work with a great team of nurses, we would bring in magazines and leave...

  17. You Know You're a PDN When...

    SDALPN replied to Adele_Michal7's topic in Private Duty

    You know you are a PDN when you really have seen it all and a family manages to prove you

  18. A Day In the Life of a LPN

    SDALPN replied to DrkCocoMurse215's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I'm not sure that's an approved abbreviation if you are charting that way. Usually its written as GT or Mic-key button. Generally I leave out "button"because its clear if I document 14fr Mic-key...

  19. new grad, PDN, and experience for the hospital

    SDALPN replied to clearblue3's topic in Private Duty

  20. Perks of the Job???

    SDALPN replied to CloudySue's topic in Private Duty

    I've had parents sign my papers in advance on a few occasions. But the time was on the page before they signed because I felt it was the right thing to do. Usually because I would have to send a kid...

  21. Craziest PDN/PDN Venting Thread

    SDALPN replied to Adele_Michal7's topic in Private Duty

    I'm sure we all do things that would make someone out there wonder about us too. Maybe its a perk of the job...to see things we would never do and to see things that we learn from and use in our...

  22. Signing your title in everyday signature

    SDALPN replied to NurseGhostHunter's topic in General Nursing

    Guilty! Usually on my checks I'll start to add my title and stop myself. Its just at the moment where I'm mindlessly going through the motions of something. If I accidentally don't catch it and...

  23. A Day In the Life of a LPN

    SDALPN replied to DrkCocoMurse215's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

  24. Craziest PDN/PDN Venting Thread

    SDALPN replied to Adele_Michal7's topic in Private Duty

    http://www.ehow.com/list_5916239_osha-regulations-workplace-chairs.html This says OSHA requires employers to provide a chair with a back. I guess to keep the job, the complaint would have to be...

  25. Sadness after a child passes

    SDALPN replied to PerfectlyPlump's topic in Private Duty

    I feel the same way. I don't think its that we get hardened. I think we learn to accept reality as it is. So we are realists instead if optimists. Nobody wants to know a child they knew passed at a...