RoxieRN0511

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1. Discouraged with LTC. Advice?

   RoxieRN0511 replied to RoxieRN0511's topic in Geriatric

   Thank you soooo much for reassuring me!!! I was feeling so inadequate but I was just trying to be safe. The DON said it takes her 4 hours to do that morning med pass... Yet somehow after 4 shifts on that hall and less than 2 months of nursing I'm sup...

2. Discouraged with LTC. Advice?

   RoxieRN0511 posted a topic in Geriatric

   So I just got my license in January (graduated in December). The facility I'm working at has a long term care hall and a shorter term/more acute hall. I oriented on the long term hall for 3 shifts.. With a nurse who then got fired. I had never worked...

3. Discouraged with Orientation

   RoxieRN0511 replied to RoxieRN0511's topic in New Nurse

   I totally agree. The aides are priceless and super important and I do everything I can to help them. I just can't believe the way the NURSES are "orienting" me. I'm going back tonight and I am not going to take that crap. There's a person who has alr...

4. Discouraged with Orientation

   RoxieRN0511 posted a topic in New Nurse

   I graduated, passed NCLEX, and landed a job in a LTC/SNF. I was so excited - and even though the first day was ROUGH... 30:1 patient ratio with 3 aides who were MIA most of the time... I was feeling okay. I had the same preceptor on that hall for 3...