- Frustrated
- Are enteral feedings poorly tolerated?
- New ADON help
- bottom line advocacy
- Why dont we get respect as LTC nurses?
- CNA assignments in LTC?
- Opinion about O2 Education
- What do you think?
- Medicaid-How long does it take?
- Supervisor position?
- THIS Is Why I Love Geriatrics
- Tired and bored
- pacify or orientate? Alzheimers...
- In orientation
- Refusing oral care!
- !st LPN job nightmare
- Lawsuit Threats from Family Members
- RN Hours
- Can a Ward Clerk check in controlled Medications in a LTCF?
- fed up and set up
- E-Kit Question Need Advice
- Another question regarding job hire- AL
- What's it like for you?
- Nursing Home Nightmare
- LVN to MDS Coordinator
- oldie but newbie here ...AL question
- DON Need Help Writing LTC Policies
- Assisted Living vs. Nursing Home
- Gone From Rn To Adon/mds Coorditator Overnight!
- C-diff
- Acronyms
- G-Tube Feedings and loose stools
- Diversity in the Workplace
- Problem with coworker (long)
- A day (night) in the night of a nightshift LPN in LTC- anyone care to share theirs?
- Behaviors and Call Lights! Help!
- Am I just overreacting? Opinions welcome
- Going to start looking for another job!
- the HEAT wave
- chart thinning
- A Cheat Sheet ??
- Hospice @ LTC ??
- NO autonomy!
- typical day i n LTC
- Sundowning
- "Don't Send Anyone Out!"
- Semi-annual survey
- I'm about to take the plunge again
- ethical problem... need opinions
- what would you have done??
- Curious about starting DON pay
- DPH Reportables
- MDS Section G
- What's It All About, ALFie?--Help and Support for Assisted Living Nurses
- Disclipline
- Geriatric Nail Care
- Rn not giving scheduled meds
- My bad night!!
- Can u believe my resident???
- Med Pass/interruptions
- Over-Restaining Patients
- New Policies
- Giving pain meds.
- Vent unit in LTC??
- Pay for new grad, contingent, subacute?
- Giving report in LTC
- popliteal anerurysm
- Help! LTC facility LPN scope?
- Geri-psych?
- continence management
- need help with bedside care
- Help with sundowning residents (long)
- elder abuse
- How hard is it to get Mom into a nursing home?
- medicare policy in LTC
- CNA Training
- Doctor rounds
- What would you do?
- How much CNA orientation to ask for?
- Residents who don't get along
- CNA Week
- what to negotiate for a HSD position
- Abuse?
- Long term care desk nurse?
- No I quit,Do I report to someone about the neglect and other stuff?
- meal intake
- Pros vs. Cons of Geriatrics?
- How many days is a usual orientation?
- Perineal care approach
- Mechanical lift question
- Put on your fantasy hat!
- what do you do
- How do you calculate the staffing ration for LTC
- RN considering LTC
- Unsafe situation? Need advice, please.
- Getting everyone else to sign their books
- Help!
- Please Help! Encouragement needed
- Hourly rate for RN/Charge
- professional assessments
- great article to read for LTC nurses
- How much do you do?
- Quit after a week!
- Staffing Issues
- Noting Physicians orders
- Alzheimers nurses
- Help!!
- Seeking a Pre-CNA job
- New Job as RN Unit Manager
- DOES ANYONE KNOW ABOUT G-Tubes and J-Tubes
- New LPN grad
- taking a new ADON position
- The Bird Flu Pandemic
- LTC Orientation
- Am I worrying too much?
- Sex offenders in LTC
- Older generation vs the Younger Generation! RANT!!!
- PICCs in LTC
- Need Info on LTC
- "Take down" in LTC?????
- New LPN - Job Offer Frightening!
- Cultural Change
- Survey begins
- overloaded in longterm care
- common meds in LTC
- Snf Or Hh?
- residents that smoke
- Advise on how to be a more assertive Charge nurse
- Differences between LTC and Rehab?
- LTC ...I have a question
- Continence Care
- Found on floor - ? fall
- Has this ever happened to you?
- The Proper Manner
- What happens if someone codes?
- Going back to the hospital and I'm Scared!!!
- Alzheimers/ Dementia Director
- Nurses week and nursing assistant week
- Medicare Charting
- Theft or missing items?
- How does this job offer sound to you?
- What to do when state comes in?
- scabies
- Advice for new CNA in LTC?
- Feeling really down.
- 30 day notice?
- Staff eating with residents
- Start first job tonight as LPN in LTC
- Good books on conversing with Alzheimers & dementia pts?
- LTC workplace violence
- weekend supervisor
- New (soon-to-be) Graduate RN Looking to LTC
- med D
- What should I expect to see in LTC?
- MDS Revisions March 2006
- Any tips for new nurses in LTC?
- For those who have lost loved ones...
- restraint education
- Blanks on MARS
- Looking for new daily assignements and care directive tools
- Need advice
- violent alzheimer's....
- The Coumadin Protocol
- So this is Infection Control?
- Elder Abuse??????
- Anyone go to LTC from a hospital??
- What are benefits of being gerontology certified?
- New LVN to Dementia Unit seeks advice
- Interview for LCF! What to expect?
- High fall risk
- are they serious ?
- Role of the RN in LTC
- Code Procedures Please
- Life Safety Code Deficiency cheat sheet
- nurse to pt.ratios
- Medicare Charting: Dx Specific
- Looking for Flow Sheet Ideas
- Is it ever ok to force a resident to change?
- Anyone go from LTC to the hospital???
- Should I go or stay?
- Ambulatory resident with dementia who spits all the time
- mandatory to stay over after your shift?
- Inservices for Restorative CNA's
- Therapeutic tubs
- I need to vent please a little long sorry
- Scared, excited, nervous, anxious.....
- Anyone have too much paperwork???
- anyone frustrated with administration???
- How long to keep paperwork
- Have any of you seen this on a patient?
- talk me into or out of it
- Leaving LTC for hospital
- Will it be a good transition 4 me?
- Happy Vent
- new MDS coordinator/please help
- improerly disposed needle got me!
- how to find good LTC for loved ones (at low cost)
- "Proper" staffing for subacute unit?
- Cameras in nursing homes?
- Role of RN/Supervisor on the floor?
- Changing to 24 (military) time
- Thinking of leaving LTC
- Can CNA's dispense meds in NH? Skilled nurse on site?
- Hello
- anyone doing LTC in Canada? Need advice
- Activities for Dementia Unit
- Fungus on fingers???
- New to LTC. Any tips for me?
- Any Restorative Nurses out there ?
- communicating with CNA's
- Federal Investigation and employee confidentiality
- New DON to In Hospital SNF
- Question for nurses
- Activities on off hrs
- How to if possible switch certification?
- MRSA precautions
- Staff recruitment and retention
- fall interventions
- Scheduled toileting not being done by certain CNAs
- dumb question
- Holy cow - what are people thinking
- staff reduction
- Concerns about orientation...
- don't know what to do
- Hung out to dry by administrator
- Norton Plus Pressure Ulcer Scale Directions
- LPN with a problem
- Help! New grad nervous about LTC state inspection!
- Mary's Rhyme
- Enema?
- 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)