NuggetRN

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1. 10 Worst Employee Excuses For Missing Work

   NuggetRN replied to sharpeimom's topic in Humor

   We had a CNA once make a call on her personal cell phone while in a resident's room (witnessed by another CNA) to someone telling them to call the facility.... five minutes later after answering this call she runs screaming to the front of the buildi...

2. med cart keys

   NuggetRN replied to wakitese's topic in Geriatric

   I have locked my keys in my med cart once, on third shift, nobody but me in the building. Gah, texted another nurse and she told me how to get into the supervisors office to get the spare keys... which involved an interesting sort of scavenger hunt f...

3. Does anybody else feel guilty about calling off?

   NuggetRN replied to Codeblue1982's topic in Relations

   My husband gives me crap too, he doesn't think anything about calling off (not that he does it very often). I have to remind him that my calling off will possibly ruin the night of 5-6 other people. I have called off before but it has been for pretty...

4. Puppy and nursing school?

   NuggetRN replied to arightnurse3465's topic in General Students

   My dog birthed six puppies which I helped care for during nursing school! Of course I still lived with my mom so that helped. Then I moved out with two of them three months later, and got married in the middle of a semester. But I am also a little bi...

5. Oxygen in dying patients.

   NuggetRN replied to nurseintraining1o1's topic in Medications

   I was literally just having this conversation with the parent of one of my homecare clients. This is a comfort measure that will not prolong the patient's life

6. Some Insight Please...

   NuggetRN replied to NuggetRN's topic in LTC Directors

   Thank you guys for your encouragement... I am going to apply for the job this weekend/working on it a little bit right now. I have been ridiculously busy these last few weeks. I worked last night and I waited around for some time because I wanted to ...

7. Some Insight Please...

   NuggetRN replied to NuggetRN's topic in LTC Directors

   You are right, it is very business oriented. The ED basically runs the entire facility. There would be a nursing director under me to handle the bulk of the nursing matters, then floor nurses who pass meds, do treatments, etc... The ED would also ove...

8. Some Insight Please...

   NuggetRN posted a topic in LTC Directors

   I have been asked by my fellow nurses to apply for a position at our assisted living community as the executive director. Our current ED left suddenly last week to take a job at another community within the same company. There is a stand in director ...