JTworoger

JTworoger

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  1. Day In The Life of an LPN/pay

    I feel your pain I was an MDS Coordinator for two years!! LPNs do get paid well if they have experience and depending on what State or the "population" of the area they are working in. I work in a...
  2. LVN to RN online programs

    Your best option is to research more in to. I attempted to do "The College Network" program and it did not work for me at. It was horrifying, but I have also read several people have succeeded with...
  3. Science-based, evidence-based medicine is good in theory and practice. It is always good to be to have this perspective. However, holistic modalities exist and are IN FACT more popular then...
  4. Subq Heparin

    I don't know how it is on other Medical floors, but on the medical floor I currently work on the hospitalist group goes extreme with the subq heparin. The big problem with this is we have to scan...
  5. Subq Heparin

    Ok, so using the phrase, "trying to talk my patient out of something" was a tad bit misused. I'm not "TALKING" my patient out of anything. I am after all a nurse as one of you guys sorely pointed...
  6. Med surg nursing getting more exhausting

    Wow are you serious? The hospital that I work for just built a new hospital. We now have 7 stories with a department on each floor after the 4th floor. Our hospital layout has its pros and cons....
  7. Ok, let me start off by saying that I am only a Licensed Pratical Nurse and I have A LOT of questions and statements to make. I have been an LPN for 7 years now and I'm actually enrolled in a college...
  8. I need a place to vent and probably some advice.... I've been a MDS Coordinator for 2 years now, and I do just about every thing.. all portions of the MDS for 70 beds including Med A residents. (Which...
  9. Lets also not forget the many other jobs that the MDS Coordinator has to do... audit charts, keep up with wound care, making sure the other nurses are documented like they are suppose to, dealing with...
  10. Pre Nursing Student--ER Tech?

    Jollydog and I have actually been through this conversation before, but I'm going to say it again, but this time in a different perspective because I have actually been through what you are going...
  11. MED A DOCUMENTATION

    Hi bzyadon, I understand your frustrations with documentation, especially when it comes down to Med A charting. My facility is also in the same ball park. I am the MDS Coordinator and have educated...
  12. I apologize if I implied I felt like you where discrediting my opinions, I don't feel as if you where doing that at all, so no hard feelings on that part. I know I'm an LPN, but experience as a nurse...
  13. I knew that there was some speculation regarding the 2015 date of the NP - DNP situation, that is why I suggested that she completed her BSN program first and check around for degree requirements....
  14. This is not a personal attack, but an observation... this did not help the OP at all, so why you even bothered posting a response like this is beyond me. Anyways, to better answer your questions OP......
  15. New grad wanting to work in ICU.

    Cindycin, I think that it is great that you want to work in Critical Care, I find the job myself to be quite exciting and a very great place to actually feel like your nursing care is going somewhere,...
  16. Nurse Practioner Diagnostic Ability

    syberianpuppy, not to get rude or give you false hope or anything... but before you came onto the site full of nurses, shouldn't you of researched it yourself the difference between a np and a md?...
  17. Male going into nursing (hopefully)

    To be quite honest, I am a male nurse and there was 3 male nurses in a class of 21. At the end of my program it dropped down to 2, another guy and myself. It doesn't really matter if the nursing...
  18. Can I work as LPN once I have RN license?

    That is a crazy response to a question. You have a higher ranked license, in which you have the capablities of performing, why wouldn't it be in your scope of practice. If I'm an RN and have an LPN...
  19. Oh crap, I'm sorry... for some reason I thought you where talking about a plain discharge. I wasn't paying attention, my apologies.
  20. LoL, the only reason they take 5 minutes was because they developed a very special character code called the "dash" or simply - .
  21. Aggrevated LTC Nurse!

    Where do I even begin... We have one of our residents here in our SNF that was having misappropriated behaviors, so one of our new psych doctors, who seemed to be very crazy, put this resident on...
  22. Ok, so... why have social services get involved with the MDS process of the MDS Coordinators are already fully overloaded with their own current duties... I know I am. I would much rather just do all...
  23. asking all nurse supervisors...

    Enchantedpixie, I answered your question in the ADON/DON forum, but I repost is it here. This is a very difficult question to answer, because I'm sure that many would either agree or diagree with my...
  24. LTC nurse supervisors ...

    Enchantedpixie, This is a very difficult question to answer, because I'm sure that many would either agree or diagree with my statement that I'm about to say. I personally feel like a nurse who has...
  25. workload-am i too slow

    Are you kidding me Rukiddingme? lol Our facility is all about money, I just don't think our Administrator understands how important doing a good MDS actually is. That is way I'm afraid to take off...