AndiMac

Does anyone have a clue about the LPN's scope of practice working in Hospice? I have a hospice orginization about to start hiring LPN's, but they need to do all the research and call lawyers etc, ect. I'm tired of waiting and would like to know the ...

I was reading on another forum/thread in New Jersey, I believe, that by law, an LPN can not work as an aide, working under their license. Has anyone ever heard of this? Is this true in Ohio also?

I don't know where to start, but here it is ... I recently graduated, new nurse, and feel I'm being taken advatage of. Or tried anyways. The Assistant Director left a note in one pts MAR to continue her ABX, do not sign it off. I opened the package,...

I just applied to a LTC facility PRN. They called me the next day, had me come in the next day, had my physical appointment set up before they had even interviewed me. Today (the following day) I've had my fingerprinting done, drug testing done on si...

deadend, i think you just summed up most of my orientation, the tour was horrible, they gave me a scavenger hunt, the nurses station alone looked like a daily scavenger hunt. 2 nurses were sitting there when i went in and were sitting there in the sa...

Mine shut off at 75 in about 45 minutes ... I passed the first time ... I took my test on a Tuesday and had my license in my hand that Friday. :chuckle

CCU NRS, I didn't mean anything bad about hospice, i think it's not used enough, i wasn't critisizing your post or anything. I agree with ... well it was someone ... that said communication is a lost art, and md's seem to give those false hopes. Peo...

I don't think enough patients/families are aware or made aware of the fact that Hospice is around. A lot of these people when getting so close to death, are "snowed" and don't know they are dying or anything else that is going on. Which maybe/may not...

I recently got my rear chewed off by a family of a resident. This res. had severe back pain, she couldn't stand from a sitting position. This res. is also notorious for having anxiety attacks. I gave her a PRN Darvocet and a PRN Ativan. She was unabl...

They wouldn't let me without checking out our bands even though out of 5 babies mine was the only girl there. And the nurse was my cousin at that, but still, it made me feel better knowing that she still did her job and checked the bands.

Semen? Vaginal secretions? Exactly how do I go about getting these "splashed" on me? Unless you work in a sperm bank of course...

make a fort out of shoe boxes in the shoe department get on the PA and announce everything in the store is now 50% off for the next 20 minutes announce the first customer to get to the automotive department gets a free car of their choice from the "t...

Now I understand why I was told it helped to know someone to be able to get your foor in the door ... They always manage to run off the best by doing favors for their "friends" ... Just remember what's going to happen when they realize they can't r...

well, as long as you're working for what you feel you're worth, and they aren't highering drug thieving scumballs and the like, i don't think it's to bad.

Could you sleep at night knowing what you had done?

Sounds disgusting. I run in to the same thing all the time. Only problem is I have no one to back me up.

Hi, I'm an LPN at an assisted living home here in the Buckeye State (Go Bucks!). We have 2 units, one for regular residents, and where I work, the Alzeimer's Unit. The regular residents, most generally care for themselves. Most of them have their pil...

I've never had any job where it was OK to discuss salaries. Although everyone always did, and still do. $11.25 sounds extremely low, especially for my area. I'm a new grad, no experience, working in a low paying area any way, (assisted living) and I...

I had always thought if you hadn't graduated for an accredited program you couldn't take boards ... here anyways ... *shrug* ...

Now that I know there are several nurses that would have done the same, I don't feel so bad. It never seems to be the patient, it's always the family. Never fails.

in reply to myself, i just found a letter to staff from our don at work last night, that says we are not allowed to leave for any reason, other than emergencies. apparently it is an issue at my workplace and didn't know it ...

I hate LTC, I hate hospitals, where does that leave me? An LPN that hates the health field. I want to take my license outside the box. I currently work in an Alzheimers Assis. Living unit, which I absolutely love. They pay is low for assis. living a...

Wow, have you hit the nail on the head. I get this not with my nurse co-workers, but with my aides. The aides are so bad they request not to work with certain nurses, and this particular one that has her nose so far up the DON's colon, gets what she ...

I tried, I did manage to explain it to one of the family members, who works in a md off. she understood. the rest of the family was so irate, they either ignored me or gave me dirty looks, so i just charted and charted to cover my butt. nothing was e...

I work in an itty bitty 11 resident facility, my lunches are usually spent eating with the residents, then running outside to hotbox a cigarette. Sometimes I do the same as the rest, spend my lunch with my tray at the nurses station charting and sme...