As far as 'who' you are dealing with, RN, LPN, Tech, Lab, etc. At our hospital everyone wears different scrub colors. If your an RN, white shirt/navy bottoms. If your LPN, white shirt/maroon bottoms,...
At the LTC facility I worked at they didn't have ANY arm bands! They only use those in the hospital here. No scanning arm bands, drugs, etc. They had no way of idenitying the residents other than the...
I feel your pain! I used to work for a LTC facility and only worked there for about 3 months because of the exact same reasons! I feel there is NO WAY to do your job and do it right in only 8 hrs!...
And if you were a Home Health Nurse and your client DID smoke medical marijuana and they smoked around you while you were there then you left and went to your next client and that client smelling it...
LPN2RNn2011 replied to mariposa311's topic in Emergency
I work in Dialysis and even if we are not able to take our 30min lunch break, they dock our pay anyways. I have went on break before, clocked out, 15mins later I'm called back to the floor for...
LPN2RNn2011 replied to mariposa311's topic in Emergency
At the hospital in my town, if your hired on in the ED then your stuck there for at least 6mos. But you can request to float around the hospital every 6mos too. So if you don't like the way things are...
"if i understand this, your husband was at home and caring for/evacuating your children when you got a request from your work asking you to come in and help to evaluate patients. was your concern that...
I also work there n wish I didn't! I originally was hired on at a private clinic where I got most of my experience. I thought going corporate would be a great idea with all the benefits that DaVita...
I live by the Okefenokee Swamp n here a few years back it was on fire. I was working at that time as a LPN/PRN for a LTC facility. Everyone around my neighborhood was under a mandatory evac. and so...