Candyheart

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1. Do family members know how annoying they can be?

   Candyheart replied to Ling07's topic in Geriatric

   I just take the time. I get in trouble with administration sometimes, but my residents love me. Its the most impotant thing I do at work, the minutes I take to rub a back or listen to some poor scared to death elder the first night in a facility. Its...

2. Tonight I was literally pooped upon

   Candyheart replied to SuesquatchRN's topic in Geriatric

   One evening on the memory care unit, one of our aphasic residents, a very "good friend" of mine. walked up to me and offered me 2 perfectly formed "logs" in her hand. I quickly grabbed a tissue, took them from her, thanked her, and put them in the to...

3. LPNs called to come in and work as Aides? Is this common?

   Candyheart replied to lisaannjamRN's topic in Geriatric

   I work as a nurse on the "memory care" unit. On the am shift there is 1 TMA, 1 nurse, and 4 aides. On the pm, 1 nurse, 1TMA, 3aides. Noc, 1nurse, 2 aides. There are 36 residents. The nurses are LPNs or RNs. I help the aides as much as I can, I feed r...

4. I hate being a LPN in LTC. The horror!

   Candyheart replied to Plagueis's topic in Geriatric

   The common idea in this thread seems to me is that nursing is a lot of hard work, rife with libilty, highly regulated and filled with residents,coworkers, administration. Geeze, can't figure why a new nurse has stress. Also happens at the hospital, w...

5. Control of controlled medications

   Candyheart replied to SolaireSolstice's topic in Geriatric

   Of course the administration doesn't care, they don't have to count it or get in trouble if the count is off. If the drawer gets to difficult to count, people will quit counting it, it will be off and some poor new by the book nurse will count it fin...

6. Do family members know how annoying they can be?

   Candyheart replied to Ling07's topic in Geriatric

   I think one of the reasons there can be conflict between family and staff is that our perceptions are not colored by emotion. Their dying family member is not starving and do not need IV fluid. Bodies that are dying don't need those things. They need...

7. Lazy Aides I have worked with..and my answer to it

   Candyheart replied to KarynicaRN's topic in General Nursing

   I work as an LPN in LTC. I work every shift and I have worked with a lot of CNAs. At my facility the nurse is the direct supervisor over the CNAs. I depend on them for info reguarding patient status etc. That being said, the good ones can save your s...

8. Help! narcotic key turnovers

   Candyheart replied to ez2000's topic in Geriatric

   Its not only the narcs you are responsible for, you are also the only nurses for those units. How can you accomplish any work on your unit? And as was mentioned, how about report? These nurses need to deal with their time problems without you. It wou...

9. What do you think about universal workers in LTC?

   Candyheart replied to Moogie's topic in Geriatric

   It sounds to me like another attempt to cut staffing costs by making everyone do everything. If an aide want to work in dietary, they need to be hired in dietary and put their time in the kitchen, not take time away from their resident care. This is ...

10. Anti-psychotics and geriatrics

    Candyheart replied to michael79's topic in Geriatric

    Thanks for the Depakote idea. Maybe it will work better than Serequel for some agitated behavior. One of the things I have noticed is that one day the resident gets their med and doesn't slow down a bit, just as wild as ever. The next day, same med k...

11. Background Check ran on Dementia Resident

    Candyheart replied to yadda_yadda_yadda's topic in General Nursing

    She did this at work? I can't believe she would think this would be helpful in any way. If you found out he was a terrible person, would it help in his care? Your job as a nurse is to care for someone, not to judge them. I think if the family found o...

12. very nervous: Narc missing!!

    Candyheart replied to Ms.RN's topic in Geriatric

    I agree with all the previous posts esp. the signing the receipt from the pharmacy. Also keep in mind that even though this is the first time you've been through this, the administration has been through this sort of thing many times. Just be sure yo...

13. Doing away with side rails?

    Candyheart replied to mondkmondk's topic in Geriatric

    In our facility side rails have to be ordered, and signed by the resident or POA. We had a very restless and relentless resident that would not stay in bed, even though he said he was tired. He has two mats ,one on each side of his bed. The P.M. nurs...

14. I hate nursing

    Candyheart replied to prettylittlenurse2b's topic in General Students

    Well, you've heard from alot of nurses and students. I think the bottom line is, will your attitude poison your patients. Can you put yourself in their place, scared ,or in pain ,maybe disfigured or in a body that doesn't function and is out of contr...

15. Do Nurses Eat Their Young?

    Candyheart replied to Brian's topic in Relations

    It's true that some nurses are mean and demeaning to new nurses. One of the ways I dealt with them criticizing me was to admit that I wasn't very experienced and could you show me the "right" way to do it. Or, "You must have a short cut you"ve learne...