Rexie68

i tried the "trick" 15 minutes after I took NCLEX....and it worked!! =)

Some of us have a hard time even waiting till the next morning......

:wink2: Oh thank goodness...I tested today...75 questions in 45 minutes....and just tried to reregister with Pearson and it wouldn't let me...HOORAY!!! Thanks for this tip!!!

Hi! I'm not sure if we're talking about the same thing....the ARD is the last date of the assessment period. Staff then has 13 days after that to complete the MDS....with the exception that the admission MDS must be completed by day 14 of admission...

I'm an LPN and I do everything except sign R2B....including writing all of the nursing care plans. However, it's a lot of responsibility and i recommend having an RN and an LPN work together if your facility is large enough to support 2 people in th...

if it were only a few hours a week, i doubt many would "whine." when you have 4 patients a week who each have 5 or 6 diagnoses and many more nursing diagnoses, you could spend 4 hours a night on care plans. perhaps your school doesn't require that ...

That sounds like a great idea! We do something similar in our mental health rotation. For med/surg we just have to fill out a nursing assessment form. No care plans at all this year! woohoo!!!

i wear scrubs....whatever color(s) i like. they're just more comfortable and easy to wear...no worrying about hose, dress shoes, made up face or hair. this way i throw on cute scrubs, put my hair in a ponytail, wear comfy sneakers and i'm good to g...

I agree that care plans aren't on their way out, but they definitely aren't as important as they used to be in our nursing school. We definitely need to know how to do them, but they're less of a focus. In this day and age, it doesn't take a rocket...

suesquatchrn has more willpower than i...i tried online but only got through a few classes. had to go the traditional route and go to college. some people are able to do it, though. as long as the prereqs are lpn or paramedic, i don't see a proble...

as long as you don't want a social life (ha, ha......what is a social life?), 20 hours a week should be ok, since you're children are older. i find that, as an older student, i'm able to concentrate more on what i need to, since many distractions ar...

hi dave, if i can do it, anyone can do it! i've got one semester left for my rn (may 16, 2009..hooray!) and have worked full time as an lpn the entire time i've been in school. i'm also a 40 year old single mom of four..... you'll be fine. it's am...

You don't have the time or energy to worry about them...just keep smiling and keep your chin up..it'll be over soon! I get the same thing....20 years as an LPN and will graduate in May with my RN....some are jealous, some are cynical...and some are g...

i think i understand, perhaps because i write care plans for a living (as an lpn) and am also in nursing school for my rn. care plans that look great on paper but aren't realistic are frustrating for students to write. i'm very lucky that my program...

oh gosh, i disagree. i write care plans for a living for a snf, and still have trouble figuring out which instructor wants what!! some just don't like the way we word something, while the other insists that it's worded that way. it's not necessari...

ouch. the doh was in last week....and, for the second year in a row....i'm getting dinged for not doing significant changes. i truly didn't think that i had to do a significant change for medicare a residents getting rehab because they're supposed t...

are you certain they're people too? *sigh* some were actually nice...it was only one surveyor on one unit who was extra tough....and i do the mds' for all of the units. but it was my mistake, so i'll toughen up and live with it. just frustrating ...

one small thing that might help with the gtube....we have plastic gtube uncloggers....they look kind of like a knitting needed but are specifically made for gtube...and they work wonders. good luck!

ouch again. today our administrator told me that we (i) received two deficiencies for our mds'. the second one was apparently because i transposed two numbers on an mds (made the person bowel continent and bladder incontinent when it should have be...

i've been in nursing for about 20 years (lpn since 1989 and will graduate in may 09 with my gn..hopefully rn soon after that!)....and i can honestly say that i've never used a care plan to actually take care of the pt. i suppose it's a nice outline ...

great point...i hadn't thought of that!

yikes...what do they let you do??

it would be nice if there were some continuity between the states, but there isn't. in pa i can start the iv and administer iv meds....but not continuous infusion insulin or narcotics, no blood or antineoplastic agents, and no iv push except flushes...

there are two of us in the mds office. we have 139 residents....anywhere from 15-20 of which at a time are skilled. i do all assessments for the 139, including medicare, hmo, significant change, annual and quarterly. i also write all nursing care ...