MrsStraty

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1. Resigned Nurse Manager position today...

   MrsStraty replied to MrsStraty's topic in Geriatric

   Oh Thank you thank you! My shoulders have instantly stopped hurting. I feel it was the right decision, although I feel bad for my residents, all of whom I know adore me and think I am the best thing that has happened to the unit.......BUT......you al...

2. Resigned Nurse Manager position today...

   MrsStraty posted a topic in Geriatric

   and boy do I feel 100% relieved! I have been toying with the idea for a few months now. I have been a Clinical Nurse Manager for 9 months now at a LTC and boy does it suck! I am responsible for everything the nurses DONT DO! I have been a nurse for 2...

3. Looking for new daily assignements and care directive tools

   MrsStraty replied to changeseeker's topic in Geriatric

   We use Resident information sheets, which the CNA's get a sheet for their group everyday. They are updated by myself, the unit manager a few times a week. Also on the assignments sheet they jot down the vitals, sign for their showers and weights. The...

4. Getting everyone else to sign their books

   MrsStraty replied to MrsStraty's topic in Geriatric

   There is nursing shortages EVERYWHERE, including the hospital setting. Still, nurses need to be held accountable for not signing their MARS and TARS! I just found one med error where a resident did not receive DILANTIN for a whole month, because it w...

5. Getting everyone else to sign their books

   MrsStraty replied to MrsStraty's topic in Geriatric

   It is not the multiple documentations.......It is signing for meds that you give that I am having the biggest issue with. There are far too many gaps on the MARs and that should not be. If you give the med sign for it. I have worked several different...

6. Getting everyone else to sign their books

   MrsStraty replied to MrsStraty's topic in Geriatric

   Thank you. That sounds great, maybe I'll try that.

7. Getting everyone else to sign their books

   MrsStraty replied to MrsStraty's topic in Geriatric

   Don't laugh....what is micromanagement?

8. Getting everyone else to sign their books

   MrsStraty replied to MrsStraty's topic in Geriatric

   I really want to implement a way to make sure that everyone signs their mars and tars but I'm afraid it will be like stepping on toes of people who have been there for years. I might have to resort to writing people up for med errors, which people w...

9. Need help drawing labs from PICC line

   MrsStraty replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

   Alwats flush PICC lines with 20cc of NS. You flush 10cc with regular central lines. MrsStraty

10. Getting everyone else to sign their books

    MrsStraty posted a topic in Geriatric

    how the heck do you do it? As you know I am on day 5 of my new job as a new unit manager at a LTC facility/Sub Acute Rehab and the biggest issue I see are the gaps. How do you get the nurses who give meds and do treatments and the CNA's to make sure ...

11. New Job as RN Unit Manager

    MrsStraty replied to MrsStraty's topic in Geriatric

    WOW! Thank you Daytonite, what a post, you summed it all up for me and it was great. I have my job description now and you were right on point. Where do I find these seminars for 1st time managers? On how to supervise? MrsStraty

12. New Job as RN Unit Manager

    MrsStraty replied to MrsStraty's topic in Geriatric

    I have worked LTC almost my whole career, which began when I was 18 and I am now 35! I know ALL about LTC and their troubles and how desperate they are, but I also KNOW that LTC facilities need people like myself who actually care about their residen...

13. New Job as RN Unit Manager

    MrsStraty replied to MrsStraty's topic in Geriatric

    That is exactly how I am coming into the job, thinking I can make changes, we will see. I am truely excited and I can't wait to start on Tuesday. I hated the acute care setting and I am just so thrilled to go back to LTC, that is where I belong! Alth...

14. New Job as RN Unit Manager

    MrsStraty replied to MrsStraty's topic in Geriatric

    Yes I heard about the paperowrk thing.....and guess what I LOVE paperwork, I know I'm an oddball! I have worked LTC throughout my whole life, much of it as a CNA, and I left the acute setting to return to my roots, geriatrics. I absolutely LOVE geria...

15. New Job as RN Unit Manager

    MrsStraty posted a topic in Geriatric

    I just accepted a position as an RN Unit Manager in a LTC/Sub Acute Rehab unit. I start next week. I am very excited as this is my 1st management job. I have worked acute care for 3 months and for the first 5 months I have had my license at a LTC fac...