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    County Jails- Please tell me your experience

    BrandonLPN replied to starmickey03's topic in Correctional

    Also, most correctional nursing jobs are through agencies like Corizon, meaning the nurses didn't actually work for the county. If this job is an actual county job, that is a definite
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    County Jails- Please tell me your experience

    BrandonLPN replied to starmickey03's topic in Correctional

    I worked in a county jail back in 2010. As a LPN, most of my job was med pass. We spent half a shift setting up pills for 200ish inmates, then the second half of the shift the inmates would line up to...
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    When to delegate to CNAs?

    BrandonLPN replied to Alexx_xox's topic in First Year After Licensure

    It boils down to: they can't help us with our specific licensed nurse duties, which take up the bulk of our time. Therefore delegation is mandatory. If the CNAs on my team, on the rare occasions I'm...
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    Palliative Residents

    BrandonLPN replied to Newgurl17's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    those ratios are too high, even for LTC on night shift. Did a nurse call in, or is that standard staffing there? My only advice would be that palliative cares take priority over tasky stuff, but I'm...
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    Personal support workers calling themselves nurses?

    BrandonLPN replied to guest1048932's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    In all my years in long term care, I don't think I've ever witnessed a CNA try to say they're a nurse. I've had some very demented elderly residents who are convinced that I must be a doctor and my...
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    How do new grad Nurses that don't have BSN manage to survive this job market ?

    BrandonLPN replied to Wannabenurseneko's topic in First Year After Licensure

    They look for jobs in settings other than
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    Would you have gone to nursing school....

    BrandonLPN replied to RockinNurse2018's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, but I probably would have either went straight for RN or went to an institution with some sort of bridge program. Part of the problem with being an experienced LPN and going back for RN is that...
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    Responsible for 132 clients and Working during breaks

    BrandonLPN replied to Nroh's topic in General Nursing

    To be honest, I'm not sure that sort of facility legally requires a licensed nurse be on duty at all overnight. As far as breaks/lunches go.... it's been my understanding that since breaks are paid,...
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    Nursing conditions

    BrandonLPN replied to Mary3010's topic in Nursing Career

    If you're looking for an area of nursing with no holidays, no shift work, not a lot of standing and little chance of patients dying on you, the only place I can think of is a doctors's office or a...
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    Potential LPN Student Needing Help!

    BrandonLPN replied to ems2nursing's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Well, I'm not answering that whole mass of questions, but the gist is: yes, there are plenty of jobs for LPNs. Not in the hospitals so much. LPNs can do anything a medical assistant can do in...
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    LPN's aren't real nurses

    BrandonLPN replied to laurennnxo26's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I will agree that it irks me when people say "nurses and LPNs". Especially people who know better. I had a DON who would write things like "nurses, CNAs and LPNs" in memos to staff. Pure...
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    LPN's aren't real nurses

    BrandonLPN replied to laurennnxo26's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    If LPNs and RNs were the same there wouldn't be the different credentials. I sincerely hope no LPNs are going around telling people such nonsense, it would reflect badly on the rest of
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    Seasoned Nurses VS Newbie Nurses

    BrandonLPN replied to Alexx_xox's topic in General Nursing

    I'm pretty sure you started a thread entitled "seasoned nurses vs newbie nurses" in which you certainly strongly implied that older nurses use outdated practice and are not very good with electronic...
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    I HATE contingency orders

    BrandonLPN replied to Melanin's topic in General Nursing

    To play the devil's advocate, it *would* be nice of you, when coming in early to look up pt info, to go do it at a kiosk or something and let the poor night nurses sit at the nurses station. They've...
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    Seasoned Nurses VS Newbie Nurses

    BrandonLPN replied to Alexx_xox's topic in General Nursing

    Well, admittedly, the responses here suggest that we seasoned nurses are a bit touchy when it's implied our practice is outdated. But the responses you got also suggest that you didn't choose your...
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    SNu staff ratios?

    BrandonLPN replied to FarrarSanchez's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    My experience has been that LTC units have 25-30:1 ratios. Subacute/Rehab is about
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    Seasoned Nurses VS Newbie Nurses

    BrandonLPN replied to Alexx_xox's topic in General Nursing

    Well, thank goodness you're there to show all the experienced nurses what they're doing
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    why can't nurses get safe staffing laws passed

    BrandonLPN replied to lee1's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I still say that the RN-LPN-CNA "team nursing" model would be the safest and most economical way to staff a hospital unit. More hands on deck is always
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    LPN verses MLPN?????

    BrandonLPN replied to jen405's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I doubt that any of this is true. All LPN/LVNs in all states can administer medication. There are some differences between states when it comes to certain aspects of IV therapy, but nowhere in the USA...
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    Fired Due to Not Being Able to Get to Work

    BrandonLPN replied to Studentworker's topic in General Nursing

    Was the public bus not an option? When I was a financially challenged before becoming a nurse, I took the bus to work, and if it was a snowy day I left *hours* in advance cause I knew the bus was...
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    Tech Change?

    BrandonLPN replied to 4RealStudent's topic in General Nursing

    I miss paper charting,
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    Nurses don't do their 3 med checks?

    BrandonLPN replied to OsceanSN2018's topic in General Nursing

    So she *did* read the labels. This makes more sense now. She saw the drug and dose on the MAR. She saw them again on the label when she grabbed the vial of heparin. In real world nursing, the check...
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    New LPN in LTC with backlash due to Res. on alert/monitoring

    BrandonLPN replied to jromeo93's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Well, I'd disagree that because the catheter became clogged with debris once, that justifies q shift scheduled bladder scans. PRN bladder scans based on whether or not retention is suspected would be...
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    Nurses don't do their 3 med checks?

    BrandonLPN replied to OsceanSN2018's topic in General Nursing

    Well, sometimes you learn as much from watching bad practice as you do from watching
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    Nurses don't do their 3 med checks?

    BrandonLPN replied to OsceanSN2018's topic in General Nursing

    Taking medication out of the Pyxis without even looking at the label is bizarre. How much time did that really save? One second? I've done Med Passes from Hell, fifty patients on evening shift, and...