- C Diff
- Need job change advice please!!!
- Leaving Sub-Acute Rehab/LTC for Oncology
- tips for dealing with an uncooperative pt
- Assisted Living Title 22 Ratio ???
- What if CNA won't work?
- Esbl
- From acute to LTC
- Documentation Audits
- Question about State Surveys
- showers on nightshift and time for residents to get up in the morning?
- Getting pregnant on Nights
- Umm...I will have 47 residence to care for !!!!!
- Am I just overreacting? (CNA vent)
- Nail care restrictions by nursing aides
- Medication aides taking nursing jobs?
- Med competency tests
- Just An Aide Venting
- Anyone out there credentialed as an RAC-C?
- Where's my orientation? (Whiney vent)
- Providing fluids to patients
- D.O.N. concerned more with census than NH residents care
- New to LTC/SNF - Does this sound right?
- pearls of wisdom
- unresponsive patient
- What are the duties of.....
- Need some tips with eyedrop administration
- The DPH/Corporate Blues
- Texas TILE nurses
- Where can I purchase a microchip for Mom?
- Med Error
- Ten Minute Safety Walks
- MDS Job Offer-Need Advice
- Check out the techno advances for elders :)
- medications
- A question re. Texas LTC standards
- friends with management-Is this a bad thing?
- Was I too pushy?
- New CNA Job
- Plan of Correction and IDRs
- Ombudsman
- New Rec Director
- Incontinent Briefs
- Medication Question
- state survey question
- What's a nurse to do ?
- Florida LTC
- Calling all ADON's and DON's in LTC
- what is moi cerification?
- new to site looking for activity info
- What do you think? Advice, suggestion...
- transition from hospital to LTC
- iv therapy
- Starting a LTC facility
- D5 via a g tube
- Another pet peeve....ER nurses who treat us like idiots
- I have a question for everyone
- I just had to tell this little story
- any facilty overdocument???HOW FRUSTRATING
- Ratios on SNF/Subacute
- Nursing home keeps spirits up with own pub
- Dr Jeykel and Hyde Nurse??
- DNR orders
- Computer Charting
- 3-11 in LTC
- Call-off policy
- Illinois LPN - central lines/TPN
- setting limits in long-term care
- Salaries for long term care LVN's in Texas
- Final Rule on Posting of Nurse Staffing
- do staffs have a right not to send pt to hospital?
- Long term acute care
- Nursing Homes
- Private LTC vs. For Profit LTC
- med carts/control freaks
- Terminated from LTC!
- Normal orientation length?
- "Your servers today will be..." Opinions please!
- No Overtime! Period!!
- hidden cameras in patient's room
- Feeding and toileting
- Geriatric nurses, can you help?
- New Job, Need some advice Please!!
- Calling family for TX!!!
- What is average time spent on MDS?
- Ideas for a fun celebration for a colleague who is retiring...
- Parameters for Morphine
- The Crabby Old Woman
- Performance Evaluations
- Burned and fearing disaster
- Hip Replacement
- Fresh perspective
- Another question about "abandonment."
- CNA Problems
- Hourly wage difference
- staffing a subacute rehab unit
- the neverending med pass
- Need some new innovative methods ?!
- How do you monitor labs at your facility??
- How do you communicate between staff???
- Hello
- Words of wisdom for a brand new LTC LPN?
- Job Requirements
- Venting
- State Survey...Advice Please
- ADON job offered to someone outside & not me. Need opinion.
- difficult nurse and ways to boost morale
- Joint Commission Survey
- HELP should I step down???
- moving to day shift---HELP
- Staffing/Hiring: Am I dreaming or is this common practice?
- State Need Their Own Office At My Facility
- Night Nurses: Why Do You Work Nights?
- resident falls
- Too Many Patients
- Day & Evening Shift at LTC
- Will LTC nurse go to jail?
- HELP with ALOT of problems on my unit
- Calling DNS in middle of the night. Can someone please explain to me...?
- need ideas or handouts to give my first infection control inservice
- New member
- Patient Attachment Help!!
- Can Assoc. RN cut diabetic toenails?
- Forced to stay at work, or abandonment
- Nurisng Students in LTC
- My Impossible Resident
- What a difference a day makes!
- 11-7 Getting Residents up.
- The bedpan incident, this is long
- Sick of it!!!
- MDS Process nurses
- Admits/ Re admits
- Sorry To Upset You, But....
- New Grad and I'm Job hopping already
- to be or not to be a gero nurse
- What do your residents wear to bed?
- Does medicare pay for safety products in the home?
- It's monthly summary note time!
- gifts for LTC residents...Christmas!
- Do you ever forget to do things?
- I am new and need some advise
- triple lumen central line policies
- Suicide Residents
- Allowed to die
- How's your pressure ulcer prevention care on your residents like?
- New Member
- Bus Disaster
- Are we slowly poisoning ourselves with meds when we crush them?
- Foley caths as g tubes
- Most common wound care creams
- Eden Alternative???
- Charting Time of Death
- Started 1st job Slow as Molasses!!!
- a blind admnistrator, hard workers go unnoticed
- Head nurse of Alzheimer's
- Case Managing/Managed Care
- Most common LTC meds - help with a list please:)
- New med-surg RN picking up PRN night shifts in LTC=bad idea?
- Bigotry/Racism in SNF's
- Job offer please offer advice
- Low beds, falls and incident reports...
- New Look at the Old Series -- Behaviors Associated with Dementia
- Mild Cognitive Impairment
- first CNA job opportunity, what to look for...
- How would you handle this difficult person?
- How would you handle this?
- nurse:patient~ratio
- What is reasonable staffing?
- MARS missed signing
- Physical Assessments
- Do you all work 12 hour shifts?
- Culture Shock! Hospital to LTC..
- The Experience of Dementia as a Journey
- What Do You Think?????
- how often MDS C. work floor?
- Updating CNA care cards
- What is the difference in
- Starting back into LTC-need help finding a good nursing assignment sheet
- More charting, paperwork and chores than is humanly possible
- New Charge Nurse and CNA's
- Unsafe staffing
- Opening an Alzheimers unit
- My 1st Mistake
- Giving lovenox in LTC
- What to do about CNA disputes?
- Hints for med passes and documentation?
- orientation
- Surviving a state inspection survey
- MDS 2.0 August Revision, Final Section W
- Assisted Living Med. Administration
- Oh what a night!
- Stopping gossip by staff - supervision 101
- Did I jump the gun?
- LPN's just glorified nurse aids in LTC? Huh?
- LPN's just glorified nurse aids in LTC? Huh?
- New Nurses
- patient to nurse ratio
- Problem patient and family
- why pay rate is so good for cna's and nurses
- anyone work 16 hours?
- ????? nursing student needing advice on assesment for aphasic pt
- need info on MDS certification
- Interfering with other nurse's residents
- Looking For A Change Maybe Ltc?
- First impressions of LTC. How to give the best possible care?
- a question about MRSA
- Care plans...what is and isn't necessary
- Handling Admissions in Your Facility
- Nurse Not Doing Her Job
- Signing things you didn't do
- Major shakeups at my ltc
- Help! My grandma is in LTC, advice needed!
- Starting LTC Tonight! In need of some encouragement and tips.
- Abrasive Strips for the Bathtub????
- RN starting new position with mentally ill in LTC
- what is comfort care only?
- What about those signs in residents rooms
- Resident Incident/ Accident's
- I need a good excuse to quit LTC job
- How do they post DNR in the patients rooms at your LTC
- dementia and mental health services
- medicare charting and documentation
- Modern Facilities
- You think your staffing is bad....
- Orientation-not enough
- transition to management
- how much do DONs earn per year?
- nursing home routine
- RECALL:Vail Products, Inc. Enclosure beds
- skills review
- Restorative Nursing
- abuse/neglect investigations
- Alzheimer Patient Advice
- 3rd shift people please help
- DON threatened the Nursing Staff - pending Dennis landfall
- English, please
- MDS Coordinator Salaries
- Did I do the right thing?
- I Quit!
- Complaint Survey Today
- can CNAs refuse patient care?
- Mistakes
- Why is it that
- Need Advice
- Do your on-call nurses come in if short?
- Irritating residents
- Beginning to dislike LTC d/t a coworker
- Resident to nurse ratio
- Help, need tips for doing a much faster med pass...
- Pushy family members??