scott2010lpn

I think its good that therapist, or even different nursing staff, have favorites, it gives the patient someone extra to talk to, but sometimes they over step their boundaries, and need to be told about it. They just dont always understand why we do what we do, or even why the patient does what they do due to a certain illness or condition.

6-2 shift, 34 residents, 1 LPN, 1 medication aide, 3 CNAs- usually have about 7-8 SNF and the rest LTC..its still way to much! Keeping residents, families and staff satisfied is way too much for one person to do!

At my facility, I pass all of the PO meds, and the charge nurse takes care of the G tubes, and Blood sugars, since theres fewer G tubes, and FSBS. When the charge nurse took over these, i was able to get all of my meds passed in the correct time.

Im in LPN school right now in Oklahoma. I am almost finished, and have only spent around 5000.00 for the program. I dont know where your located, but here we have Bridge programs for LPN's. When you finish all of your pre-reqs, here, you have one year of Saturdays to get your RN, ADN.(depending on how fast or slow you would want to go) Also there are always jobs here for LPN's in most settings. Most of our hospitals, LTC, hospice, and dr.offices hire LPN's. Most all of the people in my class already have jobs. Good Luck!