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I don't consider these places good places to work. If they have shady, unresponsive human resources departments (that the facility allows) what else is the place like. My experience is they are cold, indifferent places to work.

Maybe it's your location. Some areas graduates have jobs before they graduate.

I would brush it off, because someone has to take charge over the code. If it is a medical emergency, people have to move out of the way, get the equipment without thought to their own feelings. I simply would not care what the LPN said, the child ne...

Did you sign a contract? If so how many years? Besides the baked in contract of having the BSN paid for, you have to sign a contract. Is this correct?

It must be very distressing to hear that. It's wrong all the way around. You have every right to let your employer know that this is not acceptable. He smokes MJ and abuses animals. Imagine what this guy would do to children. I would make a police re...

You're entitled to your PTO. Call in, only the amount where you don't need a doctors note if that matters, whatever your policy is, get your paid time off. It's their responsibility to get the shift covered especially if you have been treated so po...

A lot of the doctors in LTC probably 100+ patients and are affiliated with many different facilities. They aren't even involved with the patient and haven't seen the patient in months.

Somebody should have addressed the wound. Whichever nurse was assigned for wound care. It sounds like a practice issue and not an abuse issue.

In Texas I've seen in home health, guns just laying on the table when you go to a patients house. But in hospitals or any health facility that I'm aware of, there is a very clear sign outside the door that prohibits carrying a gun inside a facility.

This doesn't sound like the appropriate action to take, to take this patient to the nurse station, and undress a wound. Maybe the administrator or DON was unhappy because you didn't follow the chain of command, file an incident report, etc? Not sure ...

Not only test taking, but meet with your instructors and identify why your thinking isn't aligning with the right answers on the tests.

Sounds like an unstable work environment. They are stable patients, but when 1 fall turns into 2, and 2 wounds to 3, a patient turns into a hospice patient, the work adds up. You still have to admit, call MDs, ensure code status and send via 911.

Identify where you are going wrong. I would fix that first before attempting again.

Have you tried dialysis, psych, LTAC, agency or home health? Either that or personal physicians office.

You HAVE to know this is wrong. You are a nurse and they don't teach this in your nursing curriculum. You selected everything but this statement on nursing exams I'm sure just so you could 'pass'. Besides, you're being paid to work at a facility, so ...

Actually in many other states, you do not need an I.V. certification as an LVN to do IV's. In Ca, you do need an I.V. cert. So CA is more limited. Also many RNs that I know, do not think they are superior to LVNs but the opportunities for RNs are ma...

Don't go back into the medical record. It is better to get a low grade for the clinical day, a low grade on the assignment, look stupid you didn't get your work done, assignment half done, whatever, than to violate HIPAA and get kicked out. Don't do ...

Same with some other foreigners.

Study how your instructors ask questions and then train your mind to think like that.

Did the doctor not get in the same trouble for changing the cause of death?

Does anyone work for this agency. It's not really an agency, it's just a platform for a nurse to schedule their own shifts. Does anyone have any problems at facilities they are scheduled?

UPDATE: Hey guys. Just wanted to update, this is late but there are MANY reasons why. OK, so after reading the replies after posting, I felt it was best to give my two weeks. So I showed up to work, I ran in to a friend and she told me the Direc...

I just came asking for advice on a situation. There was a situation where a patient had to go the the ER and the nurse didn't assess the patient. This and most situations of this magnitude are swept under the rug. Many shady events have happened ov...

Another one is being short staffed and admin knowing your short staffed. These are the people behind the scenes above the administrator, pulling the strings, 'approving' if there could be extra staff or not.

Does anyone know of this agency? Not sure how many states it covers but I'm planning to onboard as a side job, it seems legit and I hear the pay is very good. Can anyone else give any information on this agency, ie scheduling, how many shifts you wor...