Long Term Care Facility has 5 nurses and roach infestation

nursel56 · Aug 07, 2009, 04:35 PM

Re: Long Term Care Facility has 5 nurses and roach infestation

Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. . . what, no Terminix, Roach Motels, nothing???

KarynicaRN · Aug 07, 2009, 10:33 PM

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Thanks for the replies. The facility has called an exterminator twice already in the last month. We are still experiencing a high volume of roaches..The DON came running out of her office yelling that there were a group of roaches attached to each other walking along her office floor! YUCK! and the facility got 7 violations on a recent survey. NOT GOOD.

I am currently searching for another job. I hate to leave the residents, but I have to think about myself for once.

Plagueis · Aug 07, 2009, 11:48 PM

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Originally Posted by KarynicaRN

Thanks for the replies. The facility has called an exterminator twice already in the last month. We are still experiencing a high volume of roaches..The DON came running out of her office yelling that there were a group of roaches attached to each other walking along her office floor! YUCK! and the facility got 7 violations on a recent survey. NOT GOOD.

I am currently searching for another job. I hate to leave the residents, but I have to think about myself for once.

Roaches?!

I can't imagine how a facility could continue to have residents if the infestations are as terrible as you say they are. Were any of the violations roach-related?

nursel56 · Aug 08, 2009, 04:27 AM

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[quote=KarynicaRN;3791104]..The DON came running out of her office yelling that there were a group of roaches attached to each other walking along her office floor! YUCK!

You just had to add that, didn't you?

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psalm · Aug 08, 2009, 04:53 AM

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If nurses are documenting meds given that are not given, it is FRAUD. Same thing with treatments or dressing changes signed off but not actually done. Get the state in there, even if you call anonymously. Please.

KarynicaRN · Aug 08, 2009, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Plagueis

Roaches?! I can't imagine how a facility could continue to have residents if the infestations are as terrible as you say they are. Were any of the violations roach-related?

Not one violation for roaches. State should come in when the roaches are active and then we would see how fast state does something. There are specific rooms where I see the roaches. Management knows the roaches have to be all over the place because they have brought in an exterminator twice, but it does no good.

It's really sad. Bad thing is that I am seeing these roaches at work and then go home and "think" I see them here. I could easily take them home in my purse/carry bag. I think I have some kind of phobia now and it really is freaking me out to see these roaches in the residents rooms.

KarynicaRN · Aug 08, 2009, 02:48 PM

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[quote=nursel56;3791377]

Originally Posted by KarynicaRN

..The DON came running out of her office yelling that there were a group of roaches attached to each other walking along her office floor! YUCK!

You just had to add that, didn't you?

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Sorry! I know it's awful. In one way it was horribly funny, in another way it was awful. The DON couldn't even use her office. She came running to the nurses station with her laptop and a handful of papers. The nurse aides say they see the roaches stuck together, obviously mating, especially in the night hours.

YUCK again!

KarynicaRN · Aug 08, 2009, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by psalm

If nurses are documenting meds given that are not given, it is FRAUD. Same thing with treatments or dressing changes signed off but not actually done. Get the state in there, even if you call anonymously. Please.

I am definately calling the state. It's getting old when I see a wound that is clean and healing one day..I change the dressing only to come back 2 days later to see the wound oozing green and my initials still on the bandage and other nurses signing off saying they changed it. The wound went from very clean and dry to oozing green matter in 2 days time. I had to call the doc and have him come in and look at the wound and he started another round of antibiotics. It saddens me because all it takes is a simple dressing change.

nursel56 · Aug 08, 2009, 04:50 PM

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Yeah, the roach thing is funny in a horrible, gallows humour kind of way. DON fleeing her office in horror, aides describing late-nite roach action. . .baarrrrfffff

The lack of basic nursing care, that's not funny. Resident had to go through an extra course of abx 'cause of poor nursing care.

It's frustrating for those who provide good care to see it undone because of the negligence of others.

achot chavi · Aug 10, 2009, 04:43 AM

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and why again did you want to work there?

as long as you are there, dont drink or eat from food that was left unprotected (uncovered)!!!

while roaches can happen anywhere, the lackadaisical attitude from management (watch out for falling...) tells you something, if they dont care about roaches, I am sure there are other things being neglected,
Update your resume, ask for a letter of recommendation and RUUUUNNN

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