snoogans

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1. psych pt in ltc facility

   snoogans replied to ktwlpn's topic in Psychiatric

   Some of my LTC bipolar are very manipulating. Until you figure out for yourself what this person is all about... listen to the other staff and take all into consideration and make your own nursing judgement. One of my ladies was forever accusing o...

2. Teeth Grinding

   snoogans replied to KlareRN's topic in Geriatric

   Is the teeth grinding a s/e of psycotrophic meds?

3. CNA Patient Ratios?

   snoogans replied to StacyC417's topic in Geriatric

   Idealy for my unit, census is 24, 4 aides and nurse for both days and eves, with extra eve person helping out elswhere. Today I had four and was able to get so much extra work done I haven't had time for I even got a break. Residents were well car...

4. DNR's

   snoogans replied to ajaxgirl's topic in Geriatric

   the vast majority of nurses at my LTC facility are all for DNR so we are reviewing them on a fairly regular basis, esp quartly with care planning. The floor nurses that actully know the resident do the carplans so we know what is going on. some of ...

5. Favorite shift to work

   snoogans replied to Kayzee's topic in Geriatric

   Love second, I am a eve person. I work days because I have two young kids in school. i would never see them. Drag myself and kids out of bed every mornig at the very last min, go to work with very wet hair that I comb after dropping the kids of at ...

6. Speaking of Breaks

   snoogans replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

   Break???? what is that anyway. any time I try to take one, I am called back on the unit, for something that could have waited 15 min more. I had a family member yell at me because I was in the bathroom and wasn't readily availble to them to answer...

7. Stealing drugs!! what's your opinion?????

   snoogans replied to mystc42's topic in General Nursing

   Whoops, forgot to mention, in our back up emergency drug kit, anitbiotics and diflucan were always missing.

8. Stealing drugs!! what's your opinion?????

   snoogans replied to mystc42's topic in General Nursing

   If someone is an addict and stealing/diverting narcotics to feed their habit they are not thinking of the concequesces (sorry kaint spele gud) of their actions, only getting their fix. I worked with a nurse who had conditions on his licence from pa...

9. Necessary to believe in God?

   snoogans replied to Eddye's topic in General Nursing

   what thirdshiftguy said.

10. slacking co-worker

    snoogans replied to InAPickle's topic in General Nursing

    You are so right Rapheal

11. Wasting Procedures

    snoogans replied to JMH's topic in General Nursing

    In our LTC facility pills are disolved and flushed, injectables are squirted into a cup of water, and flushed, patches are cut up and put in sharps container, liquids are poured into a cup of water and flushed. All witnessed by the DON or her design...

12. slacking co-worker

    snoogans replied to InAPickle's topic in General Nursing

    Has she always been like this? If not something could be wrong outside of work. The nurse that works on my unit on my days off takes all day to do am meds, she isn't capable of doing much else. She may seem to be a slacker. but for her to make ph...

13. Senior CNA's on your unit?

    snoogans replied to KLS's topic in General Nursing

    We tried this in our facility. Never worked. No one knew who was boss. The lead aids suddenly began deligating what was not theirs to deligate

14. spooky spooky spooky

    snoogans replied to babynurselsa's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing home I onced worked at the call lights were always crazy. One would ring others would go off. One of the patients was in the hopital. One day all the lights lit up. Couldn't tell who was ringing. When we finally found the light, it was i...

15. Going toe-to-toe with a physician.

    snoogans replied to ceecel.dee's topic in General Nursing

    In long term care the doc visits are few and far between, often they only ask how the pt is doing and only take a quick look at them from the doorway. The vast majority of problems are taken care of over the phone, more often then updating the md o...