wolf!

I'm glad you are able to respond from experience marvie. That's exactly my point. it has nothing to do with ability to do with the job, and everything to do with peoples misconceptions. I'm not sure you understood what i was trying to convey in my post.

First thing I'd do is send a regerstered letter demanding copies including and not limited to:of any and all files, reports, and corrispondence, e-mails, memo's bearing your name, id number, ss# as granted by right under the federal freedom of information act of 1984. Chances are there isn't anything there. Chances are they will posteriorly emit a brick, expecting a pending lawsuit. See what happens after that.

Hi, I was born hoh bilaterally. I can hear most heart sounds and take b/p's with a good stethoscope. One would expect the medical community to be accepting. They're not. dr's may want to whisper, and get nasty when i repeat orders back to them. supervisors generally ask about it. and I'm always under a microscope for it. I get pretty offended when someone says "didn't you hear that" (like the fax machine printing in the next office on a busy floor), as I was more likely concentrating on something and didn't notice it. after being asked about my hearing (not kindly, as I'm more than happy to discuss it if I'm approached in the proper context) by the third or fourth supervisor in a facility I asked her if we can continue this conversation in H.R. Truth be told, i doubt they'd trust to place a HOH nurse in an or. or anyplace else unless in dire need. Working for a bigger insitution with a union will afford some protection from discrimination. In a dr office, unless they really like you personally (and they can be quite clickish) you might always be walking on an edge of p'ing off the dr and getting fired. All of which have absolutely nothing to do with ability to do the job. BTW I have top of the line aids that cost $7k and have a 98% speech discrimination (better than most the population), and the plus of lipreading, which helped a lot with a lou gherig's(?) pt.

as an lpn you are limited to what you can do. you can gather information and not assess it, you cannot initate care plan or impliment interventions. at least not with how the nurse practice act has been explained to m the reasion yoiu didn't know what to do was because you weren't supposed to do anything except make the pertenant bodies aware of the situation. the rn or md is required to make the intervention. the facility is expected to have a policy for these issues, but apparenty they failed to safeguard the resident, which is apt to get them in trouble.so long as you followed what was in the care plan, and the poweres that be were aware, the feces should hit the proper fan. just my humble opinion in 10 yr nursing home work.