PNCC2001

You're welcome. Slowly but surely. Take the time to do some reading that you've wanted to do. Or learn something new on you tube videos or watch travelogues or learn more about nutrition. This is the perfect time. Before you know it, all of a sudden you'll realize that you are feeling better.

I think there are many more false positives than we hear about. Possibly, even many of those that we are told are asymptomatic carriers.

The other possibility is that you ARE having allergies symptoms, and that the test was a False Positive.

This is a really old thread. In my area LPNs were phased out of the hospitals and the push has been for BSNs. However, over the last couple of years clinics and doctors offices have started hiring LPNs again, in place of Medical Assistants. The BLS is also considering LPNs to be a hot career now, because many nurses are retiring and they can't graduate RNs and BSNs fast enough. Most RNs also seemed to be working short-staffed the majority of the time; which would seem to compromise patient care (contrary to their supposed reason for wanting all BSNs). Not sure that LPNs will be re-hired in hospitals, but it seems like they never should have eliminated them to begin with. We have PCTs in the hospitals with the RNs, which are CNAs with additional training; but they have less training than LPNs.

I have many years of Case Management experience and IMO they are being unrealistic for you to be able to accomplish all of that; and many of those duties are not in the job description of a Case Manager.

O'Net says $16.40 - $29.83/hr. for New York in 2017. 29-2

You should be able to look online for the Nurse Licensing Board in the state where you want to work. They should have information regarding licensing for foreign educated nurses.

There are a ton of great nursing apps for NCLEX prep.

In the community college in my area, the LPN program and the first half of the RN program are identical.

Many hospitals will train you to be a PCT (Patient Care Tech); if you have your CNA, so your hospitals may not advertise PCTs. So my suggestion would be to get your CNA (which is a requirement anyway for most nursing programs). You will not find any 10-12 night shifts as an MA. You might want to call HR at your hospitals to see if they hire their PCTs from CNAs within.

Many state Medicaid programs have Perinatal Care Coordinators that are certified by them who provide in-home pregnancy, nutrition and postpartum education. You also can develop a referral list of Antepartum, Birth and Postpartum Doulas and Monitrices who provide childbirth education and other services in your area; and provide those to patients.

I realize you assignment is to come up with a theory for training; but if this is an actual scenario, my feeling is that it is probably not that the RN is not accurately assessing them, but that the patients know the symptoms of withdrawal and are not being candid. They likely are trying to get admitted because they know withdrawal is coming and they are trying to get something to take the edge off of the symptoms. I would suggest maybe redoing the assessment to include more objective signs in the criteria, because using patients generally are not honest. That way withdrawal will be more obvious and patients will not come in jumping the gun (word will get around). You stated that you are going to be involved in training the ER nurses; and I think there needs to be a re-focus.

As a Medical Assistant (not nurse), you are also under the supervision of the doctor; as are all employees. A Medical Assistant doesn't have any supervisory responsibilities, generally; unless the doctor delegates them. Even in that case, the doctor is still the one responsible/liable.

They aren't required to have college degrees; but many in fact do have them and are professionals in other fields as well as, their Doula work.

Many Doulas do tell women and there partner exactly this; that's why a few hospitals in the U.S. have instituted a ban on Doulas because they don't like educated patients.