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  1. Full Moon

    I know there's no scientific evidence... which only proves whatever research that was done on it was deeply flawed. My 15 years of experience tell me there's a connection between dementia exacerbations and severity of encephalopathy during full ...
  2. I work in Critical Care, top floor. We have a helicopter pad on top of us. Whenever the helicopter is used, the whole floor gets full of fumes, I guess I'm more sensitive, I'm literally choking the whole time, other employees note the stink but don't...
  3. What's the deal with pain pills?

    I work in a rehab center. We're famous for accepting patients every other single nursing home refused. Mostly drug junkies, alcoholics. I noticed in hospitals they rarely get more than 5-10mg of hydro or oxy. Once they come to a nursing home (or I ...
  4. Ok, a little update. So I did orientation in both nursing home. First one, luxury, very easy. Only 15 pts, most of them take just a few pills. No treatments. But the people their require extra caution as they're rich and my bosses expect you to kiss ...
  5. Oh yes, I will have to! Don't need a 4th job I don't want! My current job is my first one, so I was still inexperienced with interviews, and had that newbie "will not bring up compensation during initial interview" mindset. I guess it didn't work ou...
  6. Thanks everyone for your encouragement. All said true. Also, I think... ok, I got lower rate now, but if I prove myself worthy to them as a potential fulltime employee (which I will work hard to do), I will have another chance at re-negotiating pay l...
  7. I feel guilty for them spending money on me on orientation. And also, I live in a smaller town, we don't have all that many nursing homes, everybody knows everybody, I don't want to get a reputation of someone who gets hired, gets their orientation m...
  8. I work at SNF making $26.25/hr. 12-hour shifts, 3 on 4 off. Flexible schedule (get my vacations when I want them, management very accomodating and I love everyone I work with). But the clientelle is as bad as it gets: homeless, narcs, alcoholics, men...
  9. By some accident, our RCM did the evaluation for pretty much all the stuff 3 days before my one year anniversary. However she told me HR lost? all the evaluations, so she had to redo them for everyone. When asked if this comes with a raise, she repli...
  10. How Many Residents Do You Care For On Your Unit?

    I think the numbers don't mean much without info on patients acuity. I'll take 60 alert and oriented people who only take 1 pill a day, don't have treatments, and are generally stable and independent, than 20 alcoholics, schizophrenics, narcs, psycho...
  11. Hating the med pass

    I'd rather do medpasses than treatments. But then again, I like routine, I find it relaxing.
  12. Want to hear your pet peeves in LTC nursing

    I gave up on treatment carts long ago. Completely useless for anything but skin prep. Can never find anything there. Whatever I leave there is gone the next day, and no replacement. Always go straight into the med room, even for something trivial lik...
  13. Our facility pays $3 more than all the hospitals in our town (starting wage).
  14. While for some it's a no-brainer... more money, status etc... but have any ones of you taken an upper level position (manager, resident care supervisor etc...) and regret it later, possibly going back to pushing cart? In our facility this type of job...
  15. But please, be honest. And by first, I mean the very first of your career. Today I had my first one (I've been working for just a month). One of the aides found the pt dead. She was still warm, but she looked completely dead. I rate my response at 3/...