Katie13LPN

Katie13LPN

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  1. New Job and questions

    Katie13LPN posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I just got a job in a assisted living facility. They say it is not skilled but I think it is. I have questions. I wonder what a bipap machine is and how it is different from a Cpap machine. I...

  2. How to Take Care of Me When I Am Old

    Katie13LPN replied to bluegeegoo2's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Hi I think I am going to like my job. I am working in a facility with only 39 units. The clients have Alzhiemer's dementia. The other clients are assisted living clients. I wish other facilities...

  3. New Job and questions

    Katie13LPN replied to Katie13LPN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    We probably did give them I just don't

  4. Charge Nurse

    Katie13LPN posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I am working for Maxim as a per diem nurse. They are going to assign me to various nursing homes in my area. What is the charge nurses responsibility on any particular shift. Are you supposed to...

  5. Story of Lunacy

    Katie13LPN posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    My director of nursing at an assisted living facility told me to argue with the psychiatrist over over a drug change. We had a lady who clearly had sundown syndrome. She was on Paxil. He told me...

  6. Story of Lunacy

    Katie13LPN replied to Katie13LPN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    That lady left or was fired. There was a high turnover for that position. One of DON's was escorted out of the

  7. Charge Nurse

    Katie13LPN replied to Katie13LPN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Gosh you guys are rough on me. I would like to stay at the place I will be going to. They really need people to work

  8. Charge Nurse

    Katie13LPN replied to Katie13LPN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I have been reading the book Mastering Geriatric Care. Are there other clients recovering from surgeries in nursing homes today? The reason I ask this is because I had a friend recovering from...

  9. Home health interview or other possibilities.

    Katie13LPN posted a topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I am an LPN. I have not had any action taken against my license. Two years ago I lost my home care case for some reason. I really don't know why his mother decided to fire me but she did. I do...

  10. The cases that break your heart

    Katie13LPN replied to KelRN215's topic in Pediatric

    I took care of a teenager who I believe was like the way she was because her mother drank during her pregnancy. She had scoliosis and was on a ventilator by the time I was on her case and her legs...

  11. Nursing Care Plans

    Katie13LPN posted a topic in Home Health

    I am an LPN and I have worked in home health for a long time taking care of sick children and disabled children. I have several questions. I often feel frustrated with the "medical care plan" that...

  12. Nursing Care Plans

    Katie13LPN replied to Katie13LPN's topic in Home Health

    I do over chart I think. Every line of my nurses note is filled out. They say it is Exception charting. I just don't understand how my charting relates to the nursing care

  13. Job Interview on Monday

    Katie13LPN posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Okay I have a job interview on Monday. I feel like I am cramming for an exam. If anyone wants to leave me a note go right ahead. I am interviewing at a long term care facility. The reason I asked...

  14. Empty the foley they said...

    Katie13LPN replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    When I was a care giver we had a couple move into a tiny little room so undeserving after a marriage of fifty years or so. The nurse on the previous shift had given him a stool softener and he was...

  15. patients who don't age out

    Katie13LPN replied to anon456's topic in Pediatric

    I have not read all these comments but I think by law the cardiologist is supposed to follow them. I had a little girl with down syndrome. Her family told me

  16. My Resume

    Katie13LPN replied to Katie13LPN's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Sorry about

  17. My Resume

    Katie13LPN posted a topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Work Experience Nurse, Heritage Inn Assisted Living, Bowling Green, Oh 2001-2003 Collected Patient Histories when clients were admitted. Obtained phone orders for treatments and drugs...

  18. Deceptive firing practices

    Katie13LPN replied to TLDey's topic in Private Duty

    I cannot stand private duty nursing. I always get fired. But I feel I am at most to blame because I had trouble doing all the repetitive paper work involved. I would write a lot but that did not...

  19. My Resume

    Katie13LPN replied to Katie13LPN's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Hello fellow nurses and friends. Would you mind critiquing my resume. I would like some feedback as I would like to apply for a pediatric position in a doctors office. I have worked in home health...

  20. My Resume

    Katie13LPN replied to Katie13LPN's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    To replace the word Diagnose, I put "Developed care plans for clients dealing with blood clots, atrial fibrillation, stroke, heart attack, arthritis, kidney failure, respiratory distress, dementia,...

  21. My Resume

    Katie13LPN replied to Katie13LPN's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Thank you all for responding. I took out the segment about diagnosing. I will make the other

  22. Job Interview on Monday

    Katie13LPN replied to Katie13LPN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Thank you all for all your comments. It is so helpful and

  23. Heparin with high INR

    Katie13LPN replied to PediLove2147's topic in Patient Medications

    My pediatric client received Heparin after a spinal stenosis surgery. The whole process went very well. He received Heparin before he went home and when they went to drawl his blood they told me to...

  24. Job Interview on Monday

    Katie13LPN replied to Katie13LPN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    The reason I would like to come back to long term care is because I was fired by the last HomeCare agency I worked at. My patients Step Dad who was also a sexual predator ( I did not know this at the...

  25. Time Management

    Katie13LPN posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    HI Everyone, I have been working in Home Health Nursing and I have an opportunity to work in Long Term Care. I was wondering how you guys manage your time on the floor. Do you pass meds first...