We do not have "mandatory" flu vaccines at my work but they do offer and encourage them. If the nurse or aid chooses to refuse the vaccine they must wear a mask while on shift throughout the flu season. That seems like a more than reasonable compromi...
Wow that is sad. I wonder if this lady has something like that going on. I actually feel bad for her. I can't begin to imagine what it is like to be the way she is making one enemy after the other burning one bridge after the other. She had NO idea t...
I am a rehab nurse. In our facility we are suppose to have 2 nurses on my unit for both first and second shift due to the high acuity of these patients. Unfortunately more frequently I do not have a partner. I have been on my unit several years and...
I get "pulled" to work as an aid too. Where I work though it is hardly "fair" and certainly not very smart how they decide "who" is getting pulled. (It is ALWAYS me if I am there that day. If I am ALREADY pulled and they need ANOTHER nurse to work a...
I most certainly do document everything he is saying and doing. Sending him out is useless. They give him a shot of IM haldol and send him right back. They "can't" admit him. No other facility will take him (or has room for him or whatever). He is v...
What is the responsibility of a Nursing home/ rehab facility to protect staff from sexual harassment by a patient if the patient is also bipolar with dementia involved? I can no longer take the abuse and asked that this patient either be moved to an...
I am so sorry this happened to you. I am glad to hear you are doing better. I have just very recently been pondering this type situation and the effects it has on not only the individual staff in an incident but the staff surrounding that person.Thin...
Is it possible that the part time job will eventually go full time? Rather than pick up any extra hours where you are at maybe you could work both jobs to get your foot in the door and as soon as its available switch to full time at the better posit...
Are you sure the license number wasn't also available when you checked with the quick view thing? Mine was immediately assigned. Check your nurse registry website and see if you aren't on there to get the number.
Maremma replied to downsouthlaff's topic in LPN/LVN
You know when I was in my LPN program every single one of my instructors had said that when the time comes that they or a loved one would need an RN they want one that worked as an LPN first. They said hands down they make better rounded nurses. You...
Maremma replied to JLL41183RN's topic in Geriatric
Wow, your situation is similar to one of our RN supervisors at our facility, except we only have one RN super on the second shift at a time. She was an ER RN for years and now works the 12 hour shifts on the weekends and fills in the one day off duri...
Wow, we aren't allowed to have ANY side rails. Beds cannot be against the walls. We are no longer even aloud to have bed or chair alarms! EVERYTHING is a restraint in our facility. They have cut us off at the knees really so most of our fall risks j...
Well Holy Smokes! Wow I can't even imagine the nerve it took for them to pull that! I sure hope I never wind up as a patient on their floor! I am so sorry that happened to you and I sure hope they get what they deserve for pulling that!
I understand your frustration and desperation but trust me when I tell you that you are better off NOT working that job and still having your license to get another job with than to have gotten that job then lost your license because of it. The first...
Well congratulations becoming a new nurse! I am not a very old nurse myself. I know how you are feeling. I promise you will pick up speed. The most important thing to focus on is accuracy. Speed comes with time. Indeed please do ask for more time i...