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  1. What would you do ?

    sasha2lady posted a topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    OK....this started about a week ago...on another hall we have a lady who is on rest home ..she speaks only spanish and of course none of us can understand her and vice versa..the only person who can...

  2. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    sasha2lady replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Before I was a nurse I was a cna....had a woman who was pretty much a vegetable with a feeding tube....anyway...it was her shower day that day and when I had the nurse to come in to unhook the feeding...

  3. Whats the 11 to 7 shift like in LTC?

    sasha2lady replied to ThePrestige's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    sounds almost universal where i work 11-7 puts in the new medicare charting sheets in the chart, does so many chart checks that are assigned, a few skin sweeps, any tx which arent many at all, meds +...

  4. What would you do ?

    sasha2lady replied to sasha2lady's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I instructed the aide on that hall to check that pt q hour and write down every time she went in the room and what she did for her so that we would be able to look back at exact times and situations...

  5. new LVN at LTC

    sasha2lady replied to uknowulovemexoxo's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Ive worked ltc x 9 yrs...the past 2 1/2 as a nurse and its always the same story....I had maybe 2 days of training for about 43 pts and I was so confused and overwhelmed i couldnt function well....and...

  6. help with IV's!

    sasha2lady replied to asabater's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I hate iv pumps too! We use the ones from the ice age at my job. They always beep and say occluded etc.... but the only thing i hate more than the pumps is trying to start an actual iv line itself in...

  7. School is kicking my ***

    sasha2lady replied to ksrose1's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I really like being an lpn...ive never really had a gut wrenching desire to be an RN.....shortly after i finished school and started working as a lpn my husband made a comment to me that just cut me...

  8. Med Error question......what do you guys think?

    sasha2lady replied to sasha2lady's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I fully agree....she absolutely did not wanna hear me out on this matter at all....which isnt unusual. I have filled out quite a few reports on this very thing...never really got anywhere with it..I...

  9. Med Error question......what do you guys think?

    sasha2lady posted a topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    We had our monthly nurses mtg yesterday & some of pharmacy issues came up. Our pharm is 3 hrs from where we are fyi....ok so anyway...I asked the DON what we are supposed to do when say...we are...

  10. LPN's get sued more than RN's?

    sasha2lady replied to michelle95's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I too have never heard that lpns get sued more....I think for a suit to be brought against anyone in general....the situation would have to be realllllly bad ....but....thats just

  11. probation

    sasha2lady replied to Medsport's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    If they had all these problem areas why werent they addressed to you as they happened? One would think that the boss would come talk to an employee about things like that instead of letting it pile up...

  12. I am sure this is a silly question but I am truly curious.

    sasha2lady replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Nursing

    When I was going through nursing school I never shed a single tear over anything ...most of my classmates did though...over what i thought were tiny things in the big mix of things...then i passed...

  13. Shift work - why???

    sasha2lady replied to mom2cka's topic in Health, Stress Management

    well...one good thing about my place is that we have regular 8 hr shifts. i work 2nd and i have to work 3rd when someone calls in.....but i dont do any day shift...i too am in a similar boat like...

  14. Late Shift Health

    sasha2lady replied to loricatus's topic in Health, Stress Management

    hmm......i cannot fathom the idea of working day shifts.....i am so weird in that i am a true nocturnal being. i can do 10 x the work at night or evening than i ever could in regular day time....i...

  15. Any advice for smoking/non-smoking relationship?

    sasha2lady replied to thetravellertoplaces's topic in Health, Stress Management

    well...i am a smoker....tried to quit several times...failed each time so far but i have cut back with alot of will power ....however...some people are so anti smoke and seems like you're one of...

  16. define no call no show

    sasha2lady posted a topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Ok heres the story. It snowed last night so a 3rd shift nurse didnt call or show up to work...she only texted the other 3rd shift nurse. When a 2nd shift nurse tried to call her...got no...

  17. define no call no show

    sasha2lady replied to sasha2lady's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    well.....here a few mos back we were told that someone..actually 3 people had called anonymously to the employee hotline and voiced not so good feelings about the way things were being done and the...

  18. I don't hate my job, I hate the people I work with

    sasha2lady replied to SashaO's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I feel ya on the lazy part! I have to say that I like about 95% of who I work with...and there are just a few that I absolutely dread coming in behind or in front of b/c they are sooooooo slack and...

  19. PICC protocol

    sasha2lady replied to LTCgrl's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Here in nc lpns can draw blood from a picc if they've had proper training and certification. I had a class given by our pharmacy infusion manager to deal with piccs, iv's, portacaths......the only...

  20. what paients are kept beside the nurses station

    sasha2lady replied to pecpeclvn's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    we try to keep the ones at higher risk of eloping and falling close to the desk....i cant even count the number of times i've had to bring a resident behind the desk with me while I chart just so that...

  21. LTC being affected by the economy?

    sasha2lady replied to Sensoria17's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    My sister in law is an RN ....works as some kind of nurse mgr at a hospital and she may not have job come september b/c she is contracted in...she said the hospital was in the process of cutting jobs...

  22. vertigo or something more??????

    sasha2lady posted a topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Ok nurses....I need some help here...my mom started getting dizzy this past saturday and of course didnt tell me about it til monday when she went to the md. He gave her antivert, which didnt...

  23. In need of some advice

    sasha2lady replied to kaliah14's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I was put in charge of 2nd shift a little over a year ago ...so I was 25. On 2nd we have 3 nurses, usually 4 to 6 aides, 80 pts divided on 4 halls...one hall of which is total rehab so there are...

  24. define no call no show

    sasha2lady replied to sasha2lady's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Well...I might could believe that she possibly had a call problem if not for the comments she has made about her snowy night...she said "well...everybody else does it..so can i"...which didnt go over...

  25. A question about hiring new CNA's

    sasha2lady replied to Miwila's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    When I made the move into a CNA job it was pretty smooth b/c I was already employed at my facility as a housekeeper so I just got transferred into the other dept and went from there....however....in...