BAMBI321

It's a done deal for me.. No longer wanna be an lpn !!! Sick of trying .. Homehealth agency will not hire me unless i have at least 6 mos. Experience in a skilled nursing facility !! Pediatric lpn position lasted 2 days i can't fake confidence.. Snf lasted 10 days .. Well they wanted to give me a shot but really wanted someone with 6 mos.- 1 year experience and didn't have the funds or time to train me.. So, 10 days and let go .. It didn't help that i spoke up when the lpn training me left me went to nursing station and within earshot told everyone that i wasn't gonna make it.. When she came back i asked her if i was doing such a poor job why did she leave me by myself !! She explained that i was to slow even if i never did a large med pass before and i needed to move faster and she wished that when she first started that she got ten days to train and that she wasn't going to baby me.. I ended up 30 minutes behind.. Please !!! My mistake was after graduating lpn .. For almost a year i worked in assisted living might i say a sinking ship that we tried to keep afloat and lost the battle.. We had med techs that passed most of the meds. No caths, no feeding tubes no high level wound care just residents that were stuck in the red tape of healthcare.. Some belonged there and some didn't.. There is a huge difference between skilled and assisted living.. Its wasn't easy and evenually they closed.. That experience has been my prob. Ever since.. I will no longer put up with training where i get told do it like this and if the state is here well you know don't use the shortcut .. Also that if we do everything by the book we would never get to go home or omg you need to get what they told you in lpn school out of your head this is the real world.. And if you get caught doing thoses shortcuts you get written up or fired or worse your license gets taken from you. The facility doesn't care about you only the fine they will get if they get caught letting you take the shortcuts.. Isn't it funny that the are understaffed and they have to know that shortcuts are done.. But don't get caught !!!! That is the bottom line.. Well i would rather let my lpn license expire than have it taken from me because our healthcare system sucks!!!! I'm going back to be a cna or a greeter at walmart there is no shame in anyone of these jobs as long as i do the best i can.

Wow!! I just don't think i can be a lpn anymore. I just filled out an application to be a caregiver. I miss the pt. Contact i had when i was a cna. I have been put on so many meds to stop the panic attacks that wake me up at nite and the sick feeling i get driving to work... I had to resign from a nursing home because of the pressure to do my share ,work long hours etc. My next job i lasted 10 days that was all the training i got for 5 separate wings averaging 32 residents per wing. My last job pediatric home healthcare. Ummm they sent me to a home and told me the mom was to train me .. After 2 days i said good bye.. I must have dumba## written on my forehead.. They keep telling me i care to much !!! Sick of it !!!

Boy do I know this one. Try having a person call for the ambulance and then try to give you a DNR paper for the person that is lying on the floor unresponsive and no pulse . FYI .. If the person has a DNR don't call the ambulance right away... We can't abide by your paper. We have to do CPR and try to save the person ... Also, as a former EMT I would never let a person refuse treatment without contacting medical command for the go ahead and if you do refuse treatment you have to sign off.. Yep the cowboy attitude lives on .. I would contact the county and state about this . If nothing happens go to the paper and news station..