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WOW! That was mighty powerful and it made me sad too. If I knew how to make one of those videos, I'd use the exact same song only set the pace to Long Term Care showing the old folk lying in bed with...

Don't you just love these people? My NM has a doctorate in nursing, but most of the time she doesn't have a bit of sense and it's always her way or no way. One time I said to her, "Don't you feel...

When my mom was hospitalized with CHF and after receiving IM Lasix, she needed the bed pan so badly and asked the med nurse to hand her the bedpan from her bedside cabinet. The nurse said, "It's not...

Call the "pantie police", they'll know what to do!

:icon_hug: I'm happy for you too. Best wishes!

At our facility on nights, our UM expects 75% of the residents washed dressed and OOB for breakfast by 0645-0700 and are all expected to be fed by the time day shift arrives at 0730. Our census is 60...

:yelclap: THANK YOU! :yelclap:

These are absolutely brilliant! Thank you!

I've always had a fear of vomit. In my 30 years in nursing, it has never gotten any better. My biggest fear is having a noro virus run through my facility. It happened about 4 years ago and I'll tell...

My new pet peeve...people pouring lactulose or any syrupy med over the computer keyboard! When you go to type in your code to log on it looks like this...BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB because the keys stick! I...

Some do get incentive awards if they keep the budget down... nice big fat bonus checks! But to get them for not providing basic comfort needs??? :madface:...

That's criminal!!! :nono: These people should be locked up!:madface: God bless the staff...they are truly angels of mercy! :angel2:

Hmmm, I KNOW we need time clocks at our facility. We just might be the last place on earth who doesn't have them and I know it would solve many of our problems. Too many problems with people leaving...

I sure agree to this. Where is the professionalism?

We had a CNA that would sleep every night, snoring louder than any pt. The supervisor who seek him out to ask him if he could do overtime never saying anything to him about the sleeping. Finally she...

That's why I love the Bar Code medication Administration which is all computerized. We always complained about it, but it really is the best system. The pt's wrist band is scanned to make sure they...

It seems that our facility thinks Jacho wants us to use the kardex and go through each pt, one by one with age, Dx's blah, blah, blah which is absolutely crazy. I can understand doing this in a...

I am very curious on how everyone gives report. DO you all sit with the kardex and read off the names of course, age, diagnosis etc. etc. etc for each resident??? For our 60 residents, this takes us...

This IS funny. The other day after the residents had breakfast, they were sitting in their geri-chairs/w/cs and snoozing. I said to the lady standing next to me, "Look at them all sleeping like...

And you weren't able to explain anything to them? Or they just didn't want to hear it? To me that's just crazy. You should have at least been given a chance to speak; you have that right or don't we...

I have a family and I have kids who are grown now, but for 30 years I've done my share of working the holidays at the same facility. Last year I was off Christmas so this year I'm working it. I...

We have internet access, but it's limited. We have a coworker who karaoke sings on ksolo.com and has a beautiful Luther Vandross type voice. We listened to him on our down time and after a month or...

Exactly my suggestion. When you place your loved one in a nursing home you expect that he/she will receive the care they need. When you get the eyerolling from the DON of all people, that's a red...

Our supervisors aren't allowed to ask, "What's wrong with you?" when you call in sick. If you're sick, you're sick. It's no one's beeswax what's wrong with you. Only calling in with an emergency is...

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