hnwbeachbum

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1. Want to hear your pet peeves in LTC nursing

   hnwbeachbum replied to mondkmondk's topic in Geriatric

   I don't know if it's because I work in a skilled rehab unit in a LTC facility, but I've never seen an order for the neb treatments that reads "while awake". That would be nice. I understand that they need the treatment. Really, I do. I just think the...

2. Want to hear your pet peeves in LTC nursing

   hnwbeachbum replied to mondkmondk's topic in Geriatric

   -Coming in at 7 pm and spending the entire first hour of my shift receiving phone calls from family members wanting to know what happened in therapy that day, and how their family member is doing. Well nothing of concern was reported to me, so I'm go...

3. Moral of the story: Never give IM injections?

   hnwbeachbum replied to hnwbeachbum's topic in Geriatric

   Update, I explained what happened, wrote my statement, making sure to be very clear that the resident was able to move her hands if she wished the entire time, and everything is fine. I was told I need to document better in the future about how I giv...

4. Moral of the story: Never give IM injections?

   hnwbeachbum replied to hnwbeachbum's topic in Geriatric

   Oops. I actually was contacted by the DON earlier that day. I work nights though, so I didn't get the voicemail until 5 pm, after she had left. The supervisor I was talking about was the coworker that told me. She's a fellow LPN who is acting as o...

5. Moral of the story: Never give IM injections?

   hnwbeachbum posted a topic in Geriatric

   So, I'm a little terrified, and would like to vent a little, and maybe get some advice. I was told Friday by a coworker that myself and two other nurses had been accused of assaulting a resident. This poor little woman had breast cancer with mets to ...

6. Is most ltc short staffed?

   hnwbeachbum replied to Nightowl_nurse's topic in Geriatric

   Are there nurse to patient ratio laws in your state? There's none in Tennessee, so why wouldn't the administrators at my facility use the bare minimum staff and use their saved money to upgrade our older building to make it look better to bring more ...

7. Night shift nurse responsibilities

   hnwbeachbum replied to bTRUE's topic in Geriatric

   On my particular unit, there are 33 residents and on nightshift, we currently have one LPN and one CNA for 12 hours. As the LPN, I'm responsible for med pass, any wound dressing changes left over from dayshift, some treatments that were already sched...