Xbox Live Addict

Xbox Live Addict

LTC/SNF, Psychiatric, Pharmaceutical

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Xbox Live Addict has 8 years experience and specializes in LTC/SNF, Psychiatric, Pharmaceutical.


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  1. What do you love/hate about LTC?

    It's rough a lot of days. It doesn't seem like it would be as fast as acute care, but it is. You are right, the patient/nurse ratios are much higher; you are much more dependent upon UAP due to the sheer volume of patient care. In my area, one nurse ...
  2. Mispronouncing a word makes you less of a nurse

    I broke down and got unlimited texting. I do wish that cell phone companies would make texting optional instead of an always-active feature that cannot be turned off or refused though. The 15c/message deal is a racket.
  3. NO LUNCH??? NO BREAKS??? Is that common in nursing?????

    In most jobs, breaks, let alone meals, were a luxury. If I did sit down for a meal, 9 times out of ten an admin nurse or a CNA would be dragging me back to the floor. We weren't allowed to leave for lunch. The same admin nurses would routinely leave ...
  4. Mispronouncing a word makes you less of a nurse

    Any of my professors (I'm working on my B.A. in English) who caught a student texting in class would have a cow - "See me after class" with a threat that if it happens again, the student will be flunked for the semester. A lot of colleges are banning...
  5. Mispronouncing a word makes you less of a nurse

    Given the horrible limitations of the cell-phone keypad, I can understand why people who text use "texting language." What I never got was the appeal of texting itself. I'm an old dinosaur and need the full QWERTY keyboard to express myself on screen...
  6. Mispronouncing a word makes you less of a nurse

    Ah, but anyone can spell anything correctly nowadays by Googling it... provided it's something professionally written. I double-checked it. Bragging on it and then spelling it wrong would make me look quite the fool... Although, I must confess - I wa...
  7. Mispronouncing a word makes you less of a nurse

    Heh... my medical director was impressed because I was the first person he'd ever seen that wasn't a physician who was able to correctly pronounce "Creutzfeldt-Jakob". "Dulcolax", oddly, is frequently mispronounced around here.
  8. CNA vs CMA and training

    Generally, CNA and CMA certification mandate x number of minimum hours of training at a state-approved CNA/CMA training program. As far as I know, no state allows a person to become certified until they are documented to have completed all the requir...
  9. Reverse "out source" nursing? Can we call it that?????

    In the history books, this was called "indentured servitude" and "bonded" employment (hence the term "bondage"), and amounted to slavery, since the wages indentured workers earned were always insufficient to pay back whatever loan or "bond" the emplo...
  10. Nursing in a Blizzard---what does your hospital do?

    My own contribution to this is: I live in the lower Midwest. We don't have blizzards here, very rarely does snow get more than an inch when it does fall, because the climate is too warm for blizzards. Our climate is too warm for full blizzards, but i...
  11. Nursing in a Blizzard---what does your hospital do?

    this kind of stuff is why i'm glad i got out of hospital/nursing home care. it's nice to go back to work in a job that closes during ugly weather.
  12. Only 1 month of orientation !!

    "Only" a month? The only job where I spent more than a WEEK in training was my current job at a plasma center, where you have to do every task in the view of a trainer x number of times and jump through all kinds of hoops. In regular jobs, three days...
  13. How long did you work while pregnant?

    In the US, you're lucky if you get paid leave at all. The FMLA only protects you from getting fired for taking maternity leave. Most employers here would prefer for women to squat in the bathroom, have their baby, send them home with a relative, then...
  14. Gift Idea: Pharmacy

    Bottles of those "pills" Hallmark sells (really jelly beans.) Flinstones Chewable Morphine....
  15. "I Agree" button?

    They could like this site to Digg and have people rate comments that way....:chuckle:chuckle