[michelle126]

BTDT...got the t shirt. No....not all places are like this, but there are enought of them that gives all of LTC the bad name.

Is this corporate or a independant facility? DO they have a compliance hotline? I would call the state on this.....these are not isolated incidents. What are the families and pts doing or saying? Maybe pointing those state numbers out to them and nudge them to call too (all of those # should be listed for them to see).

Yeah...if you weren't putting out all of those fires, you prob could fill out incident reports on all of those issues, but I'm willing to bet the form is at least 3 pages long. A lot of those would qualify for med errors and I would call the doc and tell him that xyz pt has been here for 2 days and hasn't received his meds....I'm willing to be the doc isn't gonna be happy.

As far as the double...if you ever do it again...I would tell them you need the next day off. I always try to do that if I'm getting someone to double out. That or at least offer to have them come in late and do part of a shift.

Good luck!

[ChanceORiley27]

Originally Posted by Falon

I cannot deal with that screaming difficult resident (of all the people who this had to happen to why THIS particular resident?) who is still lying in a broken bed with no side rails screaming, "NURSE! NURSE! Where's the NURSE? This is abuse!" when I have just left her room and haven't even made it down the corridor yet. I cannot deal with another shift with our incompetent new supervisor who is a friend of the DNS and was brought in to replace the old competent supervisor who was let go because of "nursing politics."

If you read this far thanks for letting me vent, because non-nurses (like my spouse) just don't get it.

1) Thank god someone else has a significant other who DOES NOT understand nursing bullcrap. I just want to knock him up side the head sometimes.

2)Um... maybe you need another job?

3)I really dislike 'melodramatic' patients who can't understand that you've done EVERYTHING you can for them, but you cannot personally make everyone do what that patient wants right that second.

4) I wonder if this is why my facility doesn't want to use agency. I hate when people leave orders for me, but I do them so the patient doesn't suffer. I could never leave work for someone else - espically once I knew the shift before had done so. The agency your facility used - kinda sucks...

[pepperann35]

Oh my! It sounds like a horrible place to work! You better start looking for something else ASAP with much better management. I am a supervisor in LTC. I work 8p-6a. Most of our admissions come between 5p and 11p. We can get 3-7 admissions on any given eve. The floor nurses are so busy it is hard for them to complete and admission right away, but if they can just do the initial assessment, verify the orders and get a few papers signed, I do the rest as soon as I get there. They are all done within a few hours. I can't imagine working in a place like you are working. You sound like a very good nurse and need to be working with other nurses who have a similar work ethic.