DeeDee71

Long term Care

Another option would be to check into LTC, most will do on the job training for CNAs. Though you would still need your GED first. Good luck :)

I am planning on moving to Florida this summer. If I were to make $10/hr less then I do here in Missouri, I'll be working for free Honestly after what I have read here, checking into Florida fees and checking other jobs in Florida I doubt I'll be working in nursing there. I will maintain my Missouri license since I do spend time working in Haiti as a nurse there. It doesn't matter what state my license is from so long as it is current for the work I do in Haiti. I will miss nursing and may some day return to nursing in Florida, but I do not think that is what I'll be doing right away in Florida.

I am a LPN in Missouri and am also considering the move to Florida...it seems like there are a lot of nurses here considering that move. Thanks for all the information you have provided thus far. I am not sure exactly were I would be going but most likey around the Vero Beach area. I will be making the move with a horse, so if any one has information about horse cost (hay, land, watering, etc.). Right now I am working in a school and love it. I have never worked in a hospital and don't really care for LTC. I have worked in clinics and enjoy that. I have also done a lot of work in the caribbean and in central america. I did check out the site listed earlier and it does look like I quailify for the licensure endorsment. If any one has more information, I would be interested in hearing it and thankful for it.

As far as I know schools are not required to have a nurse. I've never seen a law stating that. I know a lot of place are cutting nurses due to budget cuts. W do have one district south of where I live that has 4 or 5 towns in the district with only one nurse. So if there is an emergancy in one of the school the nurse could be 30-45 min. away.

I am a LPN and a school nurse here in MO. I have worked as a nurse for 6-8th grade for the last 4 years. During the last 2 1/2 years the nurse at our high school has been a LPN. So yes, schools do hire LPNs. I have also been to many meetings of school nurses/public health nurses where there were LPNs working as school nurses.

I worked H&I for our state's veterans commision, they mandated full time workers there. Being H&I I could not be mandated. Mandation was when someone was mandated to stay after their scheduled shift was completed. Usually due to someone calling in. There was a list kept of who had been mandated if your name was at the top you stayed over. As far as I know only those who were working at the time could be mandated. They were not payed over time for the extra shift, but would get an extra shift off later on. I would check with the policies were you are working for details. Hope this helps.

I volunteer with our local red cross chapter. I know the blood bank workers here always wear gloves when they draw blood.

I'll have to be different then the rest and say yes there should be some sort of dress code. I have seen to many CNA's tell pt. that they will be their nurse for the evening. A clear name tag isn't enough to ID a nurse for a pt. To many people all the titles are confusing: CNA, LPN, RN, BSN, MSN, PT, OT, RT. We know what all of that means but the average person on the street does't. I don't think all white it the only way to go, but why not dress nurses in blues, CNAs in greens, PT in purples.....whatever color you want, just something to help the pt know who's who. just MHO. :)

I rarely ask for a physician's note, in most cases the parents do pretty good at keeping their kids home when needed. I never demand treatemnts or testing to be done, that is up to the physician. The main area we exclude student's for is fever and we do require they be fever free, with out the use of fever reducing meds for 24 hours before returning to school.

I have grades 6-8, there is a standard sports PE form in the main office. The physicals are done by the student's own doctor then brought in to the coach of the sport the student is involved in. If the student is in more then one sport during the year the student goes to the last coach for the PE then takes it to the new coach. I never even touch the forms.