lauriepat ASN, RN

So!! I have been working on a medsurg/tele/behavioral health floor for about a year and a half. I also have some lpn experience in ltc prior. I've decided to make the jump from med surg to critical care. I have an interview next week on an icu stepd...

Hi all, I am an lpn working in an alf. We have a memory care unit and one of our ladies is on hospice. A few weeks ago this pt was receiving liquid morphine prn. Not sure what exactly happened but one of the nurses ended up getting fired bc the pt ...

Maybe hymns, one of my residents plays piano. if your residents have dementia you could do a "happy hour" tomato juice and celery for bloody marys, non alcoholic beers.. Painting, jewelry making. All depending on cognitive level and level of function...

Thank you for all the kind reponses :) I can push through it and will.

Hi everyone, looking for some words of wisdom, lol I have been an lpn for almost 3 years, currently in RN school. It has been a heck of a ride. I was accepted into the program last july, to start in august and graduate this may. However, I thought I ...

Just this last week we got a foot of snow...i live in virginia. Staff and management stayed overnight in the residents' theatre. Some staff stayed from wednesday-friday! Kitchen staff stayed as well. One big sleepover lol

I work in an alf. We have one resident who drives me up a wall. I usually am not sensitive, and i don't let things get under my skin But there is a woman who will curse you, call you every name in the book, refuses to shower/change clothes, and refus...

Maybe rude was the wrong term lol. Maybe it's it more frustrating to me that management admitted her knowing she was like this. I think she should be in a snf, personally but management wants the rent $$ sadly. I mean she's thrown stuff at staff, i'v...

Synthroid, prilosec, pain meds. Some breathing treatments and lidoderm patches.

Hello all! Happy early thanksgiving :) I worked 7p-7a tonight (in an alf) One of my residents fell in his bathroom. C/o lower back pain, not sure if he bumped his head or not, wouldn't respond to me at first verbally, had to rub his back a bit. Deci...

Hi all, i am an lpn in rn school. I am working in an alf. Just wanted to share my little bit of hospice experience and how i enjoy working w hospice pts now. I went to nursing school while i was in high school. My very first clinical i was 17, and th...

My facility does it as well, a few residents like to get up between 5 and 6, and it helps the other shifts out.

Don't wear a mask. Breathe through your mouth. You will get used to it. Remember you are helping someone do something they cannot do for themselves anymore, even if it is as simple as tolieting. They appreciate it. I think every nurse has a "thing"...

There is nothing better than as a nurse than to get a few minutes to visit with a patient during a busy day, especially in ltc. What you're doing is awesome!! I agree w the other poster- you are doing more good than you know. Not sure what your bound...

Hi everyone, I am an lpn in rn school. I was in mother baby clincals a few weeks ago, and i never heard the words "pit to distress" at the hospital i was at however i have heard it's common practice there.. Is it like a forbidden thing in l&d? D...

I know you don't mean to come off offensively.. But it seems like you just think lpn's don't do this, don't do that As you know ltc is stressful. Everyone i work with is stressed out, And to solve issues like this i try not to look at my coworkers as...

ROM, skin check, did you hit your head? CP, HA, dizziness? SOB? If there is a deformity i leave them on the floor until EMS gets there, vitals, grips equal BL? Perrla? A&o x3? Mental status baseline? Then i do an incident report/notify family.

Here we go: 1. Babysitting (some) cna's. You are here to do your job. Do it. Without me making sure you do it. 2. Families calling and complaining because mom or dad or grandpa sleeps in his living room chair/sleeps in his clothes (i work in an alf)...

I am 21. Graduated w my lpn when i was 19. Will hopefully be 22 when i get my rn!! I feel like i face a lot of challenges as a young nurse........people look at me like i am a child sometimes or think i am incompetent because i am young. What kind of...

I know how you feel!! Are you set on working in a hospital? Some specialty offices where i live hire RN's. That is where my first lpn job was..taught me a lot about communication and speaking up. I look back now and see how far i've come in not bein...

Other posters are on point. ALF's aren't regulated like SNF's. In my facility there are 70 some residents to one lpn, which sounds unreal, but we have med techs that pass meds, lpn's are only dealing w the pts that are ill, or having other issues. M...

So today i come in from a weekend of not working, and the 7-3 nurse tells me that an order i transcribed last week was dc'd. I go to the MAR and it is clearly dc'd by a nurse that works only weekends. She dc'd it because she "couldn't find the order...

Amen amen amen. Patients getting mad being woken up at 0600..why do you wake me up every morning for one little pill??!

Exactly!! If an order couldn't be found...it would be an order error!!!