ChristinP

I have had an assortment of situations when I felt EMS should transport a patient but as long as the patient is of sound mind they have the right to refuse. I make the appropriate calls and document. Sometimes it's a matter of cost I have a nice pati...

I have been working in home care for about 5 years and with 3 different companies. Your orientation to homecare seems terrible. All of our nurses spend several weeks learning how to document a routine visit before moving on to Oasis admissions, recer...

I live and work in Ct for a large HH agency. I only do revisits and I have to do a minimum of 35 visits a week. I average 8 Pts a day. If its mostly status checks & prefills without problems I'm finished In 8 hrs or less. But lately my 8 Pts are...

I live in Ct. I don't believe lpns are being phased out. It's been the same for a while. The job market is poor, I have friends Rns with degrees who have found the job pickings here to be poor. It's the economy. Ive always had 2 jobs, when the VNA of...

open doors are invitations LOL we leave it closed!

Sounds like a typical day :)

I'm in Ct, as long as the patient has the slip from the MD, I'll check the site. We do this routinely in my school nurses office for our students and staff and I've done it for patients in home care. The slip gets faxed to md. Any positive reaction, ...

Many of my classmates felt the same during nursing school. Some used meds, some of us exercised on break or found something to keep our minds clear and free of the craziness. I called it enviromental depression with situational bi-polar :) It really ...

Amazing...... After reading the OPs statement which I believe is just a 'happy, feel good type statement' and then reading all of the comments both negative & positive..... remembering I live in the USA land of the free My comment is to the OP: "...

Hospital Schools/ Diploma nurses are a dying breed. It's a shame because I've met so many wonderful nurses who graduated from these programs.

i've written many cover letters and i am currently job seeking. my cover letter is constantly evolving. i tailor it to suit the company i want to hire me. i've had mine critiqued. i'll pass on some of the advice i was given. 1. if i can't find the na...

i recently applied for a job as an intake nurse (lpn) with a local home health and hospice facility. i've had experience as a home health nurse (lpn), ltc and school nursing. i applied because the hours are great - monday through friday, no nights we...

How about you ask the MDs office straight out. How did you get my information? Show me where I signed permission? Then ask how you can prevent it in the future? Shoot, I understand you are upset but I wish my MDs did this because repeating myself get...

i know some spanish mostly learned from my patients and students. i do use google translate on my phone when i visit patients in their homes. the written translation is good/not perfect. when it reads the translation out loud the pronunciation is hy...

I don't get paid a lot but, I will have a nice pension when I retire. I have the same days off as my kids, snow days off, multiple vacations and summers off. My oldest even went to the same high school I work in (that was and wasn't a benefit). It's ...

I'm currently working in a high school health room it doesn't change with age :) our very old poorly designed office only has one bathroom so we save it for the "really" sick kids and send the poopers to the public bathrooms! All I can say is thank G...

While I do love my patients google and webMD moments my favorite of all time was..... Sunday morning 8am home visit, the patient insisted I call his MD (not the oncall, his real doctor) because he was watching Animal Planet and there was this fly tha...

When I graduated my LPN program I knew what my strengths were, I knew what I needed to study. I had great instructors who let us know exactly what we needed to focus on. Did I know everything? No. There were a few questions that I swear I didn't kn...

This question can not be real! I wipe butts prn and my cna does too!

Do I love my job? Yes! I have patients who become family and patients I hope I never see again. Is every day, hour, minute of my job fun, exciting and rewarding? No! I need to complain to friends/co-workers and I come here read other peoples rants an...

I carry a folder with some notes to study from if I have downtime or when I have my lunch but I would never do homework or even think about plugging in my laptop while at work. LOL here I am right now at work reading this post & commenting but, ...

i worked 2 month at a ltc/rehab facility. it was every friday night snf and every other weekend days rehab. i was lured by the pay $35/hr. first night there a cna slapped a patient across his face leaving a red swollen cheek. i didn't see it but hea...

:) Congrats on the job! I LOL'd out loud when I read the calculator comment - been there, done that! You also have good advice for interviewing, I hope others who come across it will read and learn.

I've educated, instructed, shown video, given brochures drawn pictures and even printed webMD handouts from patients (they prefer webMD to CDC or othe reputable sources) I've reasoned. begged and yes I've bribed (it was homecare & my patient was ...

I had three interviews and the job went to someone who had been an intake nurse previously. This job was with a large homecare agency. In Connecticut you must have a licensed nurse take all referals/intakes. Honestly what this company wanted of thei...