LVNwannaBE2007

our ltc facility houses 6 pedi patients. the one night stay you are referring to is ryder 28 program. there is so much money tied up in the state of texas to help special needs children the loophole is they are uspposed to stay for 30 days. the MD wr...

i am mailing mine out tomorrow.... i also put the city and state where im from in case you want to like put on a map where all you got cards from.... **im a dork like that** and think its neat to see wehre all ive gotten one from.... also a quick ...

okay guys i dont want to go into much detail but i have a med aide on my hall who is constantly drugged up to the point of not even being able to walk or talk. the other day a whole care of 60 norco 10's went missing on her shift and everything point...

this didnt happen to me but a coworker of mine the other night..... she drew up some phenergan with a filtered needle then went to give it to the resident... she came back talking about how cheap out needles were and it was so dull it wouldnt go in ...

i just started at a new LTC facility that takes children..... (we have 4 CP kids that im already in love with) but one had a G-tube but it wasnt long like normal it was right against the skin..... the nurse i was orientating with said sometimes you h...

hey **hugs** it happens to all of us. my 1st med error was in nursing school too.... i was doing clinicals in a LTC facility and gave insulin to teh wrong person....... i didn have to sign all teh paper work and everything but i didnt get kicked out ...

thanks for all the help..... i am a new LVN in charcge of about 48 people a day on average..... our window just opened in march and state walked into a neighboring facility 2 nights ago on 10-6 shift. anything else you all can add to this. even when ...

i am an LVN who is IV certified as of yesterday... i work LTC who is about to start accepting IV residents..... but not yet so no in my 1 day at work as being IV certified i havent got to use it lol

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i work in a ltc center. the ONLY RN we have is the DON.... the other day i was short staffed on a hall and my DON came in as an aide..... **btw our management is quick to tell us what needs to be done then do it themselves..... our administrator the...

okay here's my question..... im 23 and never been to the gyno..... **ya i know i really should see one** but i have been having problems and finally decided i will grin and bear it and go.... my question is... what should i expect... what will they ...

i have only been a nurse a few months but while assisting a resident to eat the other day she looked at me and said "are you hungry? arent you going to eat?" and then proceeded to offer me some of her food.... lol

if i wasnt a nurse i would actually be a religon teacher... i love theology and the study of all the diferent religions.... lol

we have a new lady where i work in LTC.... veryyyyyy confused and combative to say the least..... first off she thinks we kidnapped ehr and tried to call the police all day long.... then the otehr day in the dining room she didnt finish her meal com...

i said a little prayer for you i rem i was freakin out thinking i failed when i took mine and i passed.... let us know how you did!!

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even if i had sick time at my job right now i wouldnt be able to take it..... 2 weeks ago i had the flu and worked with a 103 fever for 3 days (i work LTC) they threatened to fire me if i didnt come in because the adon didnt want to get off her hi...

i am a new nurse (LVN) just graduated last august... heres my problem... i work at a LTC facility..... my DON is very crooked... today she asked me to do a 3 day follow up on an incident report when i didnt even work that day... (state surveyors just...

[quote name= I can understand freaking out as a new RN if you had never seen the NG snake through the mouth. In school, many students never get a chance to place one on a real pt, only in mannequins, and nothing ever goes into the wrong place on man...

i saw a guy walking around the mall one day and i told my best friend "i would really like to stick him" she was like what the heck lol his veins were amazing

i am a brand new nurse... not even 3 mths old yet... lol but i never had to do a drug test all through school... even though i knew they could if they had reason to believe we were under the influence..... now at my frist job there was NOT a preemplo...

i work ltc and the only standing order we have it for treatments it is clean c n/s, apply TAO, cover c 4x4 and tape qday and prn one of our experienced nurses wrote the oder to read clean c n/s, apply new skin. sadly enough this wasnt caught till ...

i never accept food gifts eitehr no matter how sealed i think it is.... we have a woman who watches over her son (in this 40's c cp and a variety of other problems....) in the LTC i work at. (APS has custody of him and hes on hospice) she is always ...

i have a question i got in a heated debate today with my DON over if care planning is a rn or lvn school... (btw she was one of my lvn teachers) yes they teach you how to write a care plan in lvn school but i was also told it was an rn skill...... bu...

ok i understand that but who initially writes them... rn or lvn?