lacylynnette

lacylynnette specializes in wrangling old folks.

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1. Staff Ratios at Nursing Homes

   lacylynnette replied to pat8585's topic in Geriatric

   Thats a point as well, at my old facility all the other units had med aides except ours, one nurse and one aide for 20 to 30 patients and that was it, I got outta there as soon as I could! Med aides make a big differance....

2. Staff Ratios at Nursing Homes

   lacylynnette replied to pat8585's topic in Geriatric

   At my facility on nights it was up to 34 with 1 cna sometimes. Everyone thinks nights are easy, if they were that easy then they wouldnt have coined the phrase "sundowners" .

3. New Grad entering Skilled Nursing

   lacylynnette replied to beat2beat's topic in Career Support

   I graduated in January as well with my lvn. I was hired on at a skilled unit on rehab before I even took my nclex. Its a tough job and not for everyone. I was big pregnant, and dealt with combative and sometimes violent patients. I'm on maternity lea...