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Lpn ccf 20 19 hr agency or snf 15 years lpn exp

Go to faith based facility luthern catholic methodist go small i loved welcome nursing home in oberin ohio go where people stay drive the parking lot look at the cars see how they are paid dont be impressed by the look when you go in the door peek at the back room to see if there is supplies ask to see the medcart come during 9pm med pass see how they scramble are the sharps containers flowing over are the nurses scrambling to keep up do you feel negativity when you walk in the door do they treat you like you are just another who will come then go soon ask the family leaving what they think of this place find out the nurse aid to pt ratio make sure orientation is formalized and comprehensive make sure there is no scheducling problem or an unadressed call off problem these are brutal when you have to do your load and half another nurses load because she called off think twice if its a corporation does it smell like urine? Ask what pca make ask what starting lpns make starting rn s

I HAVE BEEN AN ARMY NURSE RULE NUMBER ONE RECRUITERS ARE LIARS THEY ARE THE WORST CAR SALES MEN YOU WILL EVER MEET. KNOW THIS THEY HAVE SLOTS TO FILL. THEY WILL WITH HOLD BONUSES AND OTHER THINGS GIVEN TO OTHER OF YOU SAME MOS JOB SKILL THEY CARE MORE ABOUT FILLING SLOTS THAN MATCHING NEEDS INTEREST AND CAPABILITY OF THE INDIVIDUAL WITH ARMY NEEDS SHAME ON THEM. IF YOU GO IN GET EVERY PROMISE IN WRITING ON YOUR CONTRACT. JOINING THE EVEN THOUGH I WAS LIED TO WAS THE BEST THING THAT HAPPENED TO ME. AN AMRY NURSE: CAN WORK ON BASE HOSPTIAL (taking care of dependents) OR A COMBAT NURSE DONT LET THEM SHOW YOU CLINICALS PICUTURES OF AN ON BASE HOSPTIAL THEN SIGN YOU UP FOR COMBAT MOS HERE IS THE DEAL YOU ARE A SOLDIER FIRST THEN A CLINICAN SECOND. so take this riffle out to the permiter we are being over run. IF YOU DO THIS, DO IT FOR COUNTRY. dont be one of these weenies when it comes war time who says I SIGNED UP FOR THE COLLEGE PROGRAM I DIDNT SIGN UP FOR THIS. Go help our boys who legs get blown off ok. Dont be a wuss who says I did not come in for this. If you do this, go hard core for the right reason. Military pay is not always that hot. (if you are trying to escape a crappy economy) Ask yourself will these skills and experience I get here work for me on the outside. Unless you plan on doing 20 years. WHATS IT LIKE TO WORK IN A COMBAT HOSPITAL I WORKED IN A C.A.S.H. ITS A MASH BUT THE C STANDS FOR COMBAT SUPPORT HOSPITAL ALL YOUR PATIENTS ARE YOUNG ITS TRUAMA TRAUMA TRAUMA NUCCLEAR CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL CASULAITIES, SNAKE BITES NO DIABETICS. CAR ACCIDENTS , STAB WOUNDs GUN SHOT WOUND ALL THE WAR STUFF. AS AN LPN YOU WILL BE MIDDLE LEVEL MANAGMENT. YOU WILL BE EXPECTED TO PROTECT YOUR PERIMITER. MAYBE EVEN TREAT SOMEONE YOU SHOT. GENEVA CONVENTION YOU WILL HELP SET UP A COMBAT HOSPITAL IT WILL TAKE 300 PEOPLE 3 DAYS TO BUILD CONNECTING TENTS, GENERATORS AND PORTABLE PHARMACYIES AND SURGERY BOXES. ALL INTERCONNECTING GOOGLE COMBAT SUPPORT HOSPTIAL THEN CLICK IMMAGES. YOU WILL HELP RUN ELECTRICAL LINES, WATER LINE , HELP WITH GENERATORS YOU WILL SLEEP IN TENTS YOU WILL LINE THE HOPITAL WITH AIRCONDTIONING DUCTS AND LIGHTING SYSTEMS. IT WILL SEEM PRIMITIVE THERE WILL BE FOOT PUMP HAND WASHING STATIONS. YOU WILL SET UP IN A BIG FIELD OR RICE PADDY IF YOU ARE OVER SEAS AS AN LPN YOU CAN PUSH MORPHINE SUITURE AND INTUBATE. IF YOUR RNS HEAD IS BLOW OFF, YOU WILL HAVE TO BE ABLE TO DO SOME OF THESE SKILLS YOU ARE USUALLY PROTECTED BY INFANTRY AROUND YOU. (the enemy may think wouldn't it be demoralizing if we hit their hosptial) geneva war convention says thats a no no but will the enemy fight fair) YOUR M16S WILL BE LOCKED IN A RACK AT ONE END OF YOUR WARD. IF AN ENEMY GETS INTO YOUR PERIMETER HE CAN USE A KNIFE SLICE YOUR TENT BE IN YOUR FACE BEFORE YOU CAN GRAB A RIFLE. ITS NOT A COMBAT MEDIC JOB OK BUT... YOU WILL OFF LOAD HELICOPTERS WHILE BLADES ARE STILL SPINNING. YOU WILL KNOW WHY THERE IS A FAT BOY PROGRAM IN THE MILITARY 4 FEMALE NURSES CARRYING SOME BIG STRONG STRAPPING GUY ON A GURNEY IS A BLAST ACROSS AND UNPLOWED FIELD FULL OF MUD. I HAD A BLAST. HUHHHHH..... IT WAS NOT EVEN WAR TIME THOUGH. IF YOU LOSE POWER OR SOMEONE SPRAYS CHEMICAL WEAPON ON YOUR HOSPITAL WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO FOR THE GUYS ON RESPIRATORS. YOUR JOB WILL BE TO RETURN GUYS TO COMBAT OR MEDIVAC THEM BACK TO VA FOR REHAB. AMPUTATIONS SECOND NATURE WOUND CARE OH YEAH SUFFERING THAT TOO. VERY FEW HEART ATTACKS IT NOT SO USEFUL STUFF TO THE OUTSIDE UNLESS YOU WORK FOR A TRAUMA HOSPITAL OR ER. IN THE MILITIARY YOU MOVE EVERY YEAR OR 2 ITS HARD ON A FAMILY BEING GONE TO THE FIELD FOR 30 OR 60 DAYS AT A TIME. COMMUNITY SHOWERS IN THE FIELD. TENT FULL OF WOMEN SHOWERING AT THE SAME TIME. YOU LEARN TO GO IN AT 5 AM FOR PRIVACY. WHEN YOU GET BACK TO BASE AND SHOWER YOU WATCH THE DIRT RUN OFF YOU DOWN THE DRAIN. DONT FORGET THERE WILL BE AN ENEMY WARD. NO ONE CAN SUE A MILITARY DOCTOR WHAT DO YOU THINK THAT MEANS HMMM. YOU WILL HAVE MEDICS UNDER YOU 8 OR NINE YOU WILL SCHEDULE, COUNCIL, ACCOUNT FOR PROPERTY 100 OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS OF DEFENSE DEPARTMENT EQUIPMENT. YOU WILL BE HOUSED IN A TENT NEAR BY THE WARD YOU BUILT. MINE WAS ICU. SUMMERS OK I CAN DEAL WITH 106 DEGREES IN THE SHADE IN CALIFORNIA DESERT. (SOME TIMES IT IN A FOREST AREA AND TEMERATURES ARE OK SOME PARTS OF THE HOSPITAL ARE AIR CONDITIONED. IT WILL BE FUN DRIVING TENT STAKES IN THE FROZEN GROUND IN THE WINTER TIME. GUARD DUTY IN THE RAIN. HUUHHHHHH oH AND THE FOOD IT WILL BE THE FINEST. STAND IN LINE IN THE COLD TO GET YOUR FRENCH TOAST WHILE YOU WATCH THE GREASE HARDEN ON IT. IT ISN'T CALL A MESS TENT FOR NOTHING SLOP SOMETIMES YOU EXPECT ME TO EAT THIS. THEY CALL IT FEEDING IN THE MILITARY NOT DINING. YOU LOSE YOUR DIGNITY SOME TIMES EAT WITH YOUR HANDS YOU DON'T CARE ANY MORE. JUST GET FOOD IN YOU ARE HUNGRY. YOU WILL LEARN TO SWEAR LIKE A SAILOR THAT'S WHAT YOU WILL HEAR. YOU WILL SEE AMERICANS AT THEIR FINEST AND THEIR WORST. BY THE WAY DON'T GET FAT YOU WILL HAVE TO FIX THIS OR GET OUT......... THAT IS FIELD EXPERIENCE: WHEN YOU ARE BACK ON BASE IT WILL BE MORE LIVABLE THERE WILL BE CONCRETE BARRACKS TO LIVE IN PERHAPS YOU CAN LIVE ON OR OFF POST YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FED. BACK ON BASE FOOD IS GOOD TO OK BUT IN THE FIELD YOU ARE SERVED BY MESS SERGEANT WHO WILL SERVE YOU UP SOME MESS THEN YOU WILL BE FED M.R.E.S MEALS REJECTED BY THE ETHEOPIANS COMBAT RATIONS THEY BIND SOME PEOPLE UP. GET USED TO PORT A POTIES IN THE FIELD OR SNEAKING OFF BEHIND THE BUSH TO DO YOUR BUSINESS. FOR MEN MILITARY EXPEREINCE IS KIND OF LIKE PRISON SHAVE YOUR HEAD DRESS YOU ALIKE CUT OFF FROM THE OUTSIDE SUBSTANDARD LIVING QUARTERS. RESTRICTIONS. ITS PART OF THE BRAINWASHING EXPERIENCE TO TRANSFORM YOU INTO A SOLIDER. ITS EXPERIENCE YOU WILL NEVER FORGET. LIKE GOING TO THE GAS CHAMBRE. IF YOU D LIKE THE CONFIDENECE YOU COULD SURVIVE ALMOST ANYTHING WANT THE PRIDE TO SAY YOU SERVED YOUR COUNTRY (REMEMBER YOU ARE EXPENDABLE) THE MILITARY HAS THIS TO OFFER YOU. GO GET SOME THEN GET OUT. DON'T STAY TOO LONG. YOU WILL BECOME BITTER ONCE YOU SIGN ON THAT DOTTED LINE YOU LIFE WILL C H A N G E . OFFERED THE CHANCE I WOULD DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN. DO IT WHEN YOU ARE YOUNG. WHEN YOU TRAVEL IT WILL BE TO ARM PIT PLACES LOST IN THE WOODS. IT TOUGHEND ME UP. HUHH COME GET TOUGHENED UP IF YOU DONT KNOW BETTER YOU WILL BE BETTER OFF. I AM PROUD OF MY SERVICE I LEARN ALOT STRAIGHT OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL IT MADE ME A MAN. I CAME BACK MATURE AND THANKFULL I WAS BORN IN AMERICA I SAW HOW RICH WE ARE MADE ME APRECIATE AMERICA. THE POOREST KID ON WELFARE IS BORN WITH A SILVER SPOON IN ITS MOUTH COMPARED TO SOME COUNTRIES IN ASIA. IT BUILT CONFIDNECE IN ME I COULD HAVE GOT NO OTHER PLACE THEY PUSHED ME TO NEW HEIGHTS I AM A BETTER PERSON FOR IT I WOULD NEVER DISCOURAGE YOU FROM GOING I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT HONEST TO GOD NO SARCASM. HAY MAYBEE YOU CAN GO WORK WITH PTSD OR AT THE VA. YOU WILL HAVE EMPATHY THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE IN FOR. HUHHHHHHHHHHHH

I am you guy 20 year veteran, combat nurse for 6. work ltc now 15 year expereince. lpn working on rn. FIRST : 10 years ago as an lpn with 3 years of hosptial experience I made 25.oo hour. at a small private ltc. after 10years more experience hospital cleveland clinic 7, 2 other hospitals. I went back to a sniff I was making 20 at clinic. then 19.00 agency, and now 19 at ltc. If I dont get rn soon Jobs are getting tougher to find. SECOND: iVE BEEN A ARMY NURSE

LCCC 9 months ago I heard it was not so bad there are fewer lpns waiting to transition to rn then off the street rns may be a semester or 2 go talk to counselor they dont call it a "wait list" but its a wait list It was not too bad 9 months ago. A semiister or so stay acitive on the list keep your priority up

Got a's and b's at lccc. ask instructor what matters. Visit upcoming classes make friends ask some one who has went thru the course to copy thier notes. read chapter ahead. before the lecture tape the class, re listen to the class Live breath and eat the subject. Go to you tube look for videos on tough topics concepts pull in outside resourse material (maybee your book sucks). My micro bio teacher sucked. I went to you tube for a lot of lab concepts. Pair up with smart students who sit in front row. Ask for any extra credit you can. What kind of learner are you. simple tests on line available. If you are audio modality listen to lectures. if you are a visual watch videos on topic try different tutors If one sucks. Go to other instructors for hints. Try to scope out instructor reputation ratemyprofessor.com talk to student who are getting thru ask them how they do it. Sit in front row become known to the instructor. Pick instructors brain off class hours. 1 x a week asking for a quick snyopsis ask this question at the end of each class. What is the take home message. determine if it is recall or getting it in your head. One instructor published pod casts of his class. last years were archived Id listen to his post cast from last year on the this years topic before I went to class. GEt a study group together. teach others the topic you are studying.. make flash cards keep a master note book so you can study the final. Ultimately Student have undergound study guides that have been passed down from semester to semester (not test answers) These study guides help drastically. When you finish pass on a copy to someone after you. I found out My anp instructor has not changed her class notes and "speach in 5 years" even the jokes were simular. I previewed her lectures before I went to class. I was able to answer questions she threw out there and she would ask how did you get that. I was on top of a n p . If you are artistic make a poster . Total immersion. don't miss any days. Turn you phone off allow no distractions the net the tv or any adult friends and family interfere till this semister is over. Tell them you fell off the face of the earth. be back soon. If you can tutor the stuff to your class mates you should be able to get b's on a tough teachers test. Learn how to take multiple choice tests. here is a sceince. read a book called how to beat the act" there are strategies to removing 2 disstractors. even google this topic. (look as a prior education student I had to learn to make multiple choice test) If you know how to make multiple choice test you can get it down to 2 choices (example all of the above is a good choice, line out any obvious wrong answer) (look for the answer with the longest most precice answer thats probably the one) condense that chapter down in to cliff notes make acronyms then come to school 1 hour prior to test hide out in the stairwell where no one will find you. Saturate your mind with you cliff notes. the second you sit down in the margin of your answer paper brain dump you acromyms on you answer sheet pull from these while taking the test. after graded test is given back take note of what concept you missed on. You will see it again on the final. ask to preview your tests before the findal make a list on conceptual areas you missed view silly mistakes you made come to the final having this knowledge learn from your tests. If you were sucked into answering a question and missed it find out why its right were you went wrong. do every thing extra credit you can. While riding to work listen to lectures on mp3 or burned to cd listen in your car. At work during lunch while you are in your bath play the lecture 1 more time you recorded. IF YOU BELIEVE YOU CAN YOU CAN, IF YOU BELIEVE YOU CANT YOU CANT. you will dream about the subject at night if you totally emerse

seems low at my snf 14.00 new grad im 19.00 with 15 yrs exp. used to be 25.00 10 years ago i must be in bad place

Its not true. new grads still get hired. People retire, go on maternity leave. Nurse managers agrivate people and they leave. Keep your head up. This is a tough economy People are less quick to retire. Husbands laid off from factory job so Wife stays in the job market. Its an employer market. Some times Jobs not even posted in the "Computer" ARE POSTED so you can access them. I have made connections with nurse managers on the floor who have opened positions for me. It help if you are a nurse aid and then get your license. Employers want to be sure you are a performer before investing in you. Some hospitals are making new grads take a lesser wage during you 2 months of orientation. Would you be willing to do this? Hospitals are making cut related to the New health care law that just passed. Hope they don't spread us too thin. Try every where Google all Nursing homes, Assisted livings, hospitals, home care agencies, vetrans administration. Psychiatric facilities. dont forget hospice care. Keep trying. I am not sure if temporary staffing agencies will hire new grads probably not. Keep your head up. Its not bad to be a new grad. I like faith based facilities over corporate ones. Small ones over big ones. Teaching hosptials are nice also.

As an Lpn I worked at ccf with 15 year experience 20 an hour skilled facility 19 an hour 10 years ago I made 25 an hour 22 or 23 seems like starting for hospital new grad rn 2 years at cleveland clinic new grads with bsn seem to start out at only a 1.00 or so more per hour hope sallary info can help Look at South West general bagley and route 71 New grad rns sometimes get hired there they are expanding.

South west general Hires new grads there were some in my orientation 5 months ago They are expanding new Icu and er. Its a decent place to work. 71 and bagley road in cleveland go for it. There are always crappy departments At cleveland clinic where nurse managers run out 12 nurses at a time. They they hire new grads no smokers need to be fit pass fit test. Go thee for one year tuff it out learn alot and get out.....

Sorry to hear this perhaps Nurse manager is overwealmed forgetfull, ill on vacation I would write a letter or e mail thanking them for the chance to see the facility be persistant but not a pest you know. maybe she is trying to soften you up then get you IN and say something like I can pay you what you are worth. hope not keep spirits up Keep looking just instead. It always easier to blow an aplicant off over the phone appear in person. Read body language and voice tonality. I worked and cleveland clinic. there you are just another hiney standing in line best of luck