momrn50

momrn50

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long term care charge nurse single mother of 3 old children

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  1. Pre-pouring meds

    Be honest now...how many LTC nurses out there pre-pour their meds??? You know that anything you can do to save a little time helps. I am 1-11 nurse with 42 residents, 3 CNA's and a 3-9 float who does treatments. I am responsible for all meds, MD cal...
  2. T.O. order

    The facility I work at has about 10 MD's for the 42 residents on our floor. About half of them have no problem with nurses ordering UA's, X-rays, some labs. The other half have to be notified for everything even down to a single tylenol for a heada...
  3. Maximum patient load

    Just wondering if anyone out there knows if there is a maximum number of patients that one nurse can care for. Am working LTC in West Virginia and due to opening of a new wing at our facility, I will have 37 residents to care for along with 3 CNA's....
  4. New pacemaker

    Hi all...just a few questions for anyone who knows about pacemakers...I work long term care and have seen them on several of our residents, but low and behold, after passing out several times and having numerous tests run, I was diagnosed with sick s...
  5. Ghostly experiences??

    Little old lady at a LTC facility i worked for, precious little thing, kept telling us her husband was coming after her. He had died about 3 years before. I went to check on her one night and she was looking up at the ceiling with a big smile on her...
  6. Abuse Towards Nurses...

    Also work in LTC, had a lady who was constantly on the light for nothing, racial and sexual slurs, went limp on transfers and told the CNA's, "I hope you break your back." Threw things into her roommates bed, on the floor , on the walls. Bit, hit, s...
  7. Dnr

    Once again I found myself doing CPR on a 90 year old woman whose family wanted mother kept alive "no matter what". The poor lady had advanced Alzheimer's, didn't respond to verbal, basically just sat in her chair and slept. The MD had talked to the...
  8. WARNING!! Discretionary subject matter!

    I worked at a LTC facility that had an elderly married couple as residents. Mr. T was 88, Mrs. T was 86. It was common knowledge that you did not go into their room between 2:30 and 3:00 in the afternoon. That was just fine with me, but at 3:05, t...
  9. Just had an emotional breakdown at work.

    Melt downs?? You bet!!! Most recent one, 3 admissions and a transfer from another floor, 5 deaths in 4 days, 2 irate family members who want to know what happened to mother's pink nightgown, an MD who wouldn't talk to a certain nurse, but waited til...
  10. Eden Alternative

    the facility I work for has recently started Edenizing...we have 4 totally annoying birds and a cat that about half our residents claim they're allergic to...also one family called in state to investigate the cat....sounds like the Eden people are ol...
  11. which shift is busier?

    I work steady 3-11 in a LTC facility. Just noticed that the 1st of the month, all the dayturn treatments were put on afternoon turn along with all the 11-7 catheter changes. When I asked the DON why this was done, she said it was because dayturn wa...
  12. responsibility

    Can anyone tell me if an LPN is put in the charge position over an RN, and something goes wrong, is the RN held responsible even though the LPN was in charge? This situation came up at work a couple days ago, resulting in the RN quitting her job. T...
  13. heart murmur

    My 25 year old daughter is 3 months pregnant with my first grandchild. Had a physical today and was told she had a I-II/VI systolic heart murmur. I'm in LTC and that's a whole different set of cardiac situations. Have been looking on the web for e...
  14. HIPAA....the nightmare....

    I work LTC, had a lady go out on dayturn for outpatient surgery, at 9:30 last night she wasn't back from the hospital so i called patient information and was connected to a room, but no one answered the phone, so i asked to be connected to the nurses...
  15. Is 32 too old to start nursing school?

    Go for it Hon!!! I was 40 with 3 kids under 10 and I did it..God bless and good luck!!