SYDNEY

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1. Advocacy for Elderly

   SYDNEY replied to Cameron Johnston's topic in Safety

   ]Cameron I just got home from work. Some time in the wee hours of the morning, I sat outside and cried. Like you, I have almost 50 patients and two aides. I had two patients last night, on opposite ends of the building, who were reported to me a...

2. nurse aides rules

   SYDNEY replied to reylem's topic in Geriatric

   I once heard it said that we should load all the elderly up on buses and send them to the white house lawn, where they could proclaim VERY loudly, 'NOW, what are you going to do for US?" At the time, I laughed at the bizzarre image of my people rolli...

3. shift to shift report/staff assignments

   SYDNEY replied to catskillrn's topic in Geriatric

   How do other facilities handle report time? Report time used to take up too much of our time until the DON decided to invest in cassette recorders. Now the off going nurse merely has to record report whenever is convenient for her, count off with...

4. nurse aides rules

   SYDNEY replied to reylem's topic in Geriatric

   [The only way they got rid of the ring leader cna was when she beamed the don in the back of the head with a coke can! NO DOUBT? Hmm, and I thought working nights with less than 10 employees in house was a hazardous job! We had problems for awhil...

5. staffing

   SYDNEY replied to SYDNEY's topic in Geriatric

6. staffing

   SYDNEY replied to SYDNEY's topic in Geriatric

   out of the loop? Oh, yeah..and a lot of times not welcome to the party, it seems. I'm kind of the noc team mascott that tries to make it to most of the inservices regardless of their timing being the middle of my night, because I live close to the ...

7. staffing

   SYDNEY replied to SYDNEY's topic in Geriatric

8. staffing

   SYDNEY replied to SYDNEY's topic in Geriatric

   Indiana here. Yeah, we've been through all that incentive stuff, too. The sign on bonus sounds great, but the majority of people who come on through that stay around long enough to get their bonus and then move on to the next one. - and they've sta...

9. staffing

   SYDNEY replied to SYDNEY's topic in Geriatric

   [i am curious as to what other facilities staff. We have mandatory overtime but.....Our minimum staffing for nurses is 3 for days, and 2 for evening and nights. We have twice your resident count. There have been 7 nurses on days with 17 CNA's, not...

10. staffing

    SYDNEY posted a topic in Geriatric

    Well, the heat is off, state is gone, and we passed survey. So much for the good ol' days. As soon as they exited the building and adm. was assured that we'd passed, the cut backs began. With adequate staffing, we've had no incident reports, no...

11. nurse aides rules

    SYDNEY replied to reylem's topic in Geriatric

    Well, some are good nurses without being good leaders. It accomplishes nothing to demoralize your staff or make yourself their enemy. If you get down to it, in long term care, we're all "butt wipers", but there's a whole lot more that both nurses A...

12. nurse aides rules

    SYDNEY replied to reylem's topic in Geriatric

    Due to the lack of time while in-facility to sit down and explain rationals, I use my hobby (the computer) to put together mini-inservices for the cna's that I work with. I type up whatever issue needs addressed, the "right way" to do it, and the ra...

13. disapline solutions/suggestions

    SYDNEY replied to netrn's topic in Geriatric

    I think most facilities face the same issue, its just a matter of how management chooses to handle it. When you're short staffed to begin with, the last thing they want to do is let people go. Unfortunately to those of us working the floor, such pe...