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  1. LTC or home health?

    I have the opportunity now to try Home Health as an LPN now that the LTC facility I worked in for 15 years is closing. Just hoping I have made the right decision to decline being transferred to another facility and try something different.
  2. Did I make the wrong call?

    Why would a nursing home that has a hall strictly for COVID positive residents, put an Agency Nurse instead of a Staff Nurse in charge of that particular hall, even with proper PPE? Wouldn't that Agency Nurse be exposing other residents and staff in...
  3. New agency nurse

    The nursing home I work as an LPN is closing its doors next month. I started their many years ago as a CNA and received my license as LPN 11 years ago, at the age of 50+. I have never worked in another facility but this one. I was thinking about Agen...
  4. As an LPN, I can't help but feel like I'm not a "real nurse"

    Hi!! I've been an LPN for 11 years and proud of it! Received my license at a late age of 50+ years. It was a proud moment on that graduation day when my daughter, an RN, was there on stage to give me my pin. I choose not to go for my RN because I am ...
  5. What is it?

    I am an LPN & have never encountered this before. My husband was having a cup of hot tea. He picked up the cup to take a sip and all of a sudden could not swallow it. Just underneath and behind his right ear started to swell up. He said it wa...
  6. I felt I was being attacked

    while taking care of meds, I was talking to the CNA who was passing water to the residents. Both of us heard talking that we did not know from where it was coming. That's when I realized it must be from the intercom and then realized the noise was ...
  7. While setting up some meds @ work in LTC, I heard talking that I thought was coming from the intercom. I then walked over to the phone behind me and leaned over find out it was coming from somewhere in the facility where a phone had not hung up corr...
  8. Why are nurses so angry?

    I also get tired of all the drama and the back biting at work. I work in LTC, started there 5 years ago as a CNA and 2 years ago, became an LPN and loving every minute of it. I wouldn't even think of doing anything else. My record is in good stand...
  9. Genesis Health Care System

    Felt I was treated unfairly at work the other day. Was at the nurse's station taking care of meds at the med cart. An aide and I were talking while she was offering water to some of the residents. Suddenly, we heard some talking that came over the...
  10. Genesis Health Care System

    Anyone out there ever worked for HSI? What is your opinion of them. I do, but no comment. the best one I have ever worked for was Vetters Healthcare, a family owned corp who took good care of their employees which in turn results in wonderful cust...
  11. I need ADVICE!!!

    Three weeks orientation??? Are you serious??? I am a nurse for two years now working in LTC, the same facility where I also worked as a CNA. My first day as charge nurse on the floor in the Alzheimers Unit with 26 residents and two CNAs came after ...
  12. Pressure Ulcer?

    Pt. has what looks like blood blister that covers the entire heel of one foot. Kept wrapped to protect from breaking. Week later, the area is broken open around blood blister. Is it to be staged like a pressure ulcer? The dead skin is still attac...
  13. Try 26 -30 pts and only 2 CNAs, plus being responsible for doing all paperwork for admissions and discharges plus (with another hair growing up the DON and Admins _ _ _ ) they decide to have us do monthly and quarterly assessments (more paperwork) on...
  14. WELCOME to the REAL WORLD OF NURSING!!! Owners of places like the LTC, skilled nursing facilities, etc. only care about the almighty dollar they put in their back pocket. The more residents or patients they can pack in the facility, the more money ...
  15. No advocate in management

    WOW!!! Sounds like the CIRCUS I work in!!! Only I work in LTC. Get this!!... Patient refuses to take shower, which he has the right to refuse. Refuses to go to bed and after it's midnight continues to argue with the staff. Next morning when adm...