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Excellent post Marachne!! Very informative presentation of the data. Thanks! Kathryn

I'm at SELU.....graduate nursing program.

I personally feel you should have experience. First year as a nurse is hard enough. I know I felt like I didn't truly begin to learn to be a nurse until I actually began real life nursing. Being in the home often means you will encounter many diff...

You definitely need a copy. Someone might actually need to look at those orders so that they can care for the patient. The state would also expect to see the orders on the chart if they were to come in for a survey. Actually, there's many reasons ...

I worked for an Interim agency. Although Interim is a national company, not all of the offices are part of the corporate office. Many of them are local franchises. They use Interim paperwork, P&P, etc and have to show they are giving a good st...

Thanks RN1989....I do think it would be something I would immensely enjoy as all those things you mentioned that many might not like or be good at, I think I would. I guess like anything else it is just kind of scary to think of getting started much...

Thank you RN1989. The things you just outlined are the exact concerns I am having about investing the money to do this program. I would love to do it and know I would do the work necessary to have success, but does that necessarily mean that I woul...

It looked to me like it was $286.90 per credit hour. The over $600/hr, I think, would be for on campus, non resident students.

I did the ASn program through EC in 2001. I was an LPN. I am like 99.9% positive that in Louisiana, you must be an LPN prior to doing the EC program as far as the BON is concerned. There are some other states that will accept other disciplines doin...

This is simply untrue....do not believe everything everyone tells you. Maybe agency RN's, but definitely not LPN's. Also, I personally know many people at the corporate level....they laughed when I told them I read this.

Just wondering, did all of you that are midwives have L&D experience before becoming midwives? I am struggling with why I'm not totally happy in nursing. I think part of it is b/c I always envisioned myself delivering babies...I mean, I could liv...

Sounds like someone could have seriously benefitted from an OT eval.... Kathryn

I just reread your original post and realized you were in pensacola....have you looked into Covenant hospice? That's where I worked in FWB...the corporate office is based out of pensacola. They have their regular office there where all regular fiel...

I am fairly familiar with them....I lived in FWB for 2 years....did not work for hospice of the emerald coast, but the other in town. I know they are a bigger entity in alabama, but also growing in florida. I don't think I've really heard anything ...

This conversation could have been over a long time ago if more people smoked pot.....:) As home health nurses, we go into the patient's home, we assess and we treat....but more often than not, our primary skill is to teach. I have been into many ho...

Thanks for the link....that whole website in general has an incredible amount of information. Kathryn

Thanks...this should be informative!!! Kathryn

Depends on which hospice you might be referring to....I used to live in ft walton beach, and the hospice I worked for also had a branch in dothan, yet i know there are probably several. Just curious if you want to name the agency. Kathryn

I don't think the zero frequency is a bad idea. Like everyone says, it's a place holder sort of. If I didn't have a calender in front of me and the first week of the new cert started on a thurs or fri and I wasn't supposed to go, 0W1, 1W8 would be ...

if i'm understanding you correctly, you wouldn't need to write any frequency for those 10 days left. I am assuming, for instance, that maybe you had 1W9, and so the recert was done sometime between thurs and sat, with sun and mon left over (really o...

I am an RN, but worked hospice the last 2 years...we definitely used LPN's...primarily to do continuous care cases...but sometimes they would help us with regular visits. Kathryn RN CHPN

I am still amazed at how many times I have read on this site about nurses so ready to call the BON to report another nurse...and many times, with half-baked information and nothing of any harm done. This story has WAY TOO MANY holes in it....or at l...

Hey Laura..you are right down the street....I live in mandeville...wonder if i know you...I too bridged lpn to RN through EC....small world!!! How do you like LVRMC??? I work for Guardian Home Health...I was reading about the child care thing they w...

Not just inexperienced nurses..but also experienced nurses, who continue to go about "the way it was always done." I think this is a good example of why nursing requires continuous learning....nursing education is simply just the beginning of what t...

Very good advice. Kathryn