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She is the only one to contact on my off days because sometimes she changes the hours she wants her nurses to come. Yes, this happens with my agency too.

Some background on this patient- I only work Thursday evenings and the patient has nurses 6 days a week, used to be 7, but the nurse scheduled for Sunday is on an extended vacation as she is scared to work during the Pandemic. Mom doesn't want the office to send an unknown nurse as she doesn't trust anyone new during this time either. I have other patients that I go see on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday. I have filled in on some Sundays for the above patient, but then the office called me saying mom went over on her hours so I stopped filling in on Sunday. Well on Saturday night, around 11:00 pm, mom texts me saying she has an emergency Sunday and needs me to come. I didn't come Sunday and I replied back saying I was busy on Sunday. What would you do in this situation?

Hello everyone, I'm looking to apply for 2018, I was just wondering what you all got in your 3 classes? Did they just take the GPA for the 3 classes? Also what did you score on the Hesi? Just wondering since I really want to be in the 2018 class.

Hello, I graduated from the LVN program from HCC in December 2014. You need to take prerequesites, Nutrition and Anatomy & Physiology. There are two types of A&P, the A&P class for LVN, which is just a semester long, and A&P 1 and A&P 2, which is two classes, each a semester long. You just need one of those A&P's, but if you plan on going on to RN, I recommend taking A&P 1 and A&P2 because I only took the A&P for LVN and now I'm having to do A&P 1 and 2 to go back for RN. Once you've taken those classes and passed with at least a C (75 or higher), you take the TEAS test and you need to get a 60% on the math part and 64% on the reading part. Deadlines are June 1st for the Fall Semester which starts in August and October 1st for the Spring semester which starts in January. The program is 12 months long, summer included. After all that, you can apply with your transcript and hope for the best. Then they will send you a letter for interview. PM me if you have any questions. Check out these links: http://www.hccs.edu/media/houston-community-college/coleman-college/pdfs/admission-steps/LVN_Fall-2015-16.pdf Licensed Vocational Nursing (LVN) Degrees and Certificates - Houston Community College | HCC

Another thing I want to add is this particular resident was placed on contact isolation for having infected wounds.

He wanted to leave too, he wasn't happy with his care and being left in bed all day since he didn't have a wheelchair. Rehab therapy is supposed to provide the wheelchair, but I don't know what happened during the week. The doctor that was responsible for him comes to the facility since he's actually the medical director, I think he comes at least once a week, but the resident had missed him since he was admitted Wednesday.

Let me give you some background on this situation: I have been working at my LTC for about 5 months now, doing only weekend double shifts 6AM-10PM. The 10-6 nurse doesn't come on time because she has another job and I have had to wait for her to come. Also recently we got a new DON and she's been making some changes, mainly wanting my unit to become a medicare unit, having residents come in and out. Now this past weekend, a new resident came in during the week, being transferred from a hospital during the week. He was a bilateral below knee amputee, but he planned on being at the LTC short term and going home when his therapy was finished. Sunday night, I finished my shift and was doing some computer charting while waiting for my relief to come. I thought something was fishy when this particular resident had his daughters come to visit him at 10:00. They rang the call light to his room, so I went to see what was going on. That's when they told me that they wanted him out of there. Apparently during the week, he had not been visited by his doctor even though the doctor was supposed to remove the dressing from his hip surgery, and he also had not had therapy. The daughters were not happy with his care. I didn't know what to do and luckily my weekend supervisor was still there so I went to her office and she got the necessary paperwork. The daughters said the hospital had transferred him to the nursing home without her permission, though the reason was because the doctor he had at the hospital practices at the nursing home. There was no talking them out of it so they signed the paper work, they also wanted me to remove his catheter, so I did that as well. To top it all off, since he didn't have a wheelchair, they wanted to get a wheelchair to take him out. There were no available wheelchairs at that time! All the wheelchairs belong to a resident, so they had to borrow a wheelchair. They finally got him out at 11:30PM. What frustrates me about all this is that they chose to come so late at night on a weekend. I mean, who does that when they had all day to do this?

^No. I took 2015 off to study for NCLEX and get a job. I'm now working weekends as an LVN and working on getting my the rest of my prereqs for the LVN-RN transition. I was hoping to go back to HCC, but now since they've lost their accredition, I'm gonna have to look into somewhere else, most likely Lonestar, but I'm not sure of their requirements.

I graduated in December of 2014, if they get their accreditation back, it's classes in the morning and clinicals in the morning. You won't be away from your children for long, but you'll also need to make time to study.

I've been working at my LTC facility for about 3 months now. I originally wanted 6-2 Mon-Fri, but that wasn't open at the time, so I accepted 6-2 Saturday and Sunday. Now, the 2-10 Saturday and Sunday has opened up, so I'm going to start working 6a-10p, 16 hours on Saturdays and Sundays, it will be tiring, but since it's considered full time, it's good since I will only to work 2 days a week. I will also be going back to school during the week to work on getting my RN, so this will also be beneficial. The only downside is my weekends will be gone, but that's ok. Another downside, since it's weekends, is that I do the woundcare and breathing treatments for my residents, on top of med pass since my unit is the only one in the facility that doesn't have a med aide, but that's also ok because I have about 17 residents (unless someone left or came in during the week, but that was last count) and about 7-8 residents to do wound care on (the woundcare nurse posts a schedule for the weekend nurses) and one trach patient to do trach care on and one resident to do breathing treatments.

That sounds like a great shift. I used to work 12 hour shifts, 3 days a week, and when I went to work in LTC, I found myself missing it. I loved having so many days off work.

There were some bad instructors where you had to learn on your own, but having a study group helps. Tests were hard so you need to have good study habits. I figure since I made it through the LVN program, the ADN program can't be much worse.

Hello all. I did my LVN at HCC, that program was a disaster, but not too bad as I'm wanting to go back in Fall of 2017 to do my LVN to ADN, since I still need some prereqs. Plus I did most of my prereqs at HCC and I'm used to them. I'm hoping that all of you will do great so that there still will be an ADN program by the time I apply. Good luck!

I was just wondering. I know 12 hour shifts are mostly in hospitals, but I have a friend who works in another facility and she does 12 hour shifts. Mine only has 8 hour shifts.

My agency supplies iPads, tablets or laptops in the families' homes. If the household has an ipad or tablet, then there is also a keyboard with it. We also can chart online from home if we didn't finish during the shift.