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Wow, I just kind of got a shocker. I'm an LVN out here in California and would like to move to Maine after recently losing my husband. I've just gotten off the phone, was talking to a few perspective employers (My chosen vocation is home hospice). ...

2 patients with MD private duty in the home.

After 25 years as a data communications engineer I decided to retire and go into nursing. So far after just 2 years I am horrified. Can't go back to engineering because everything changes so fast while you're out of the loop - it'd be like starting...

I just accepted a position in Oncology with a $5000 sign-on bonus. I get $2500 after the first month, the balance after 6 months. The committment is 2 years - if you leave before the 2 year mark you only have to pay back the prorated balance. It's...

Hi Josh, I'm just up north from you in the Ventura area. You can go to http://www.bvnpt.ca.gov/provlist.htm to find lists of those who are authorized by the State Board to provide IV Therapy and Blood Withdrawal. Some can only offer IV, others can ...

I see this all the time in hospice. We have a small facility for those patients who cannot be cared for in the home. When we admit them we automatically get out the supplies for wound care and fecal impaction. Nearly every patient we take in requi...

Wow, it sounds like my nursing program was BOOT CAMP compared to some. We hit the floor at 0545 to gather info on Dx, H&P, recent orders, med lists, labs and diagnostics for the last three days, etc from the patient charts. We had to have manua...

I couldn't have survived without my study group! We'd break reading assignments out and then get together and brief each other on the main points of "our chapters" if it was IMPOSSIBLE to get the entire assignment read by oneself. In a pinch I'd fo...

Oh! OK, the hyperlinks are created automatically. Kewl.

I can't seem to figure the hyperlinks out, but here are the links to the bills to ammend: Michigan Senate Bill 0609 http://www.legislature.mi.gov/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2003-SB-0609 REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY 7/3/2003 Michigan...

What an emotional roller coaster! And how can anyone wonder why? I think we all have to remember that for many of us this case was not in our own personal spotlights until recently, but for these two families it has been going on for 15 years. Non...

OK, so it wasn't the parents writing the book...it was their lawyer! Sorry. The book to which I was referring was Litigation as Spiritual Practice written in 2000 by George Felos, Michael Schiavo's attorney.

God rest her sweet soul. I just have this huge lump in my throat thinking that over the weeks and months to come, all of the unsavory details of this whole episode are going to come out bit by bit and shed light on all of the procedural irregulariti...

Loss of feeling in LLE s/t salami strapped to inner thigh and pants too tight to get off. Tx: cut pants off and unstrapped salami.

I'm confused. Way back in like post #21 or so someone was kind enough to post a link to this bill. So I went up and read it. Sec. 11. (b) A health care provider shall not assert an objection to providing or participating in a health care service b...

I personally found that most hospice organizations (and home health agencies) prefer that you have at least a year on the floor to get you up to speed on your skills. I would recommend telemetry or oncology but I think medsurg would be acceptable as...

brwnngj, Ooops! Thanks for catching that typo (LOL).

Both of the ICUs that I have experience with have restricted visitation but I do have a strangely humerous story to share regarding the open trauma ICU that my brother was in up in December. Now you must understand that my little brother is GORGEOUS...

I'm an LPN who is overworked and overpaid, but what LPN or RN or CNA or ... isn't? (LOL). If you find someone who isn't, getting all frantic about it isn't going to add a single day to your life. Healthcare is life in the fast lane and I wouldn't w...

This is my first post on this forum so please be patient as I learn :-) This post is not directed in reply to any specific post - it's just MHO. I have been trying to focus primarily on the legal aspects of this case. The emotional issues are too s...