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I just take the time. I get in trouble with administration sometimes, but my residents love me. Its the most impotant thing I do at work, the minutes I take to rub a back or listen to some poor...

One evening on the memory care unit, one of our aphasic residents, a very "good friend" of mine. walked up to me and offered me 2 perfectly formed "logs" in her hand. I quickly grabbed a tissue, took...

I work as a nurse on the "memory care" unit. On the am shift there is 1 TMA, 1 nurse, and 4 aides. On the pm, 1 nurse, 1TMA, 3aides. Noc, 1nurse, 2 aides. There are 36 residents. The nurses are LPNs...

The common idea in this thread seems to me is that nursing is a lot of hard work, rife with libilty, highly regulated and filled with residents,coworkers, administration. Geeze, can't figure why a...

Of course the administration doesn't care, they don't have to count it or get in trouble if the count is off. If the drawer gets to difficult to count, people will quit counting it, it will be off...

I think one of the reasons there can be conflict between family and staff is that our perceptions are not colored by emotion. Their dying family member is not starving and do not need IV fluid....

I work as an LPN in LTC. I work every shift and I have worked with a lot of CNAs. At my facility the nurse is the direct supervisor over the CNAs. I depend on them for info reguarding patient status...

Its not only the narcs you are responsible for, you are also the only nurses for those units. How can you accomplish any work on your unit? And as was mentioned, how about report? These nurses need...

It sounds to me like another attempt to cut staffing costs by making everyone do everything. If an aide want to work in dietary, they need to be hired in dietary and put their time in the kitchen,...

Thanks for the Depakote idea. Maybe it will work better than Serequel for some agitated behavior. One of the things I have noticed is that one day the resident gets their med and doesn't slow down a...

She did this at work? I can't believe she would think this would be helpful in any way. If you found out he was a terrible person, would it help in his care? Your job as a nurse is to care for...

I agree with all the previous posts esp. the signing the receipt from the pharmacy. Also keep in mind that even though this is the first time you've been through this, the administration has been...

In our facility side rails have to be ordered, and signed by the resident or POA. We had a very restless and relentless resident that would not stay in bed, even though he said he was tired. He has...

Well, you've heard from alot of nurses and students. I think the bottom line is, will your attitude poison your patients. Can you put yourself in their place, scared ,or in pain ,maybe disfigured or...

It's true that some nurses are mean and demeaning to new nurses. One of the ways I dealt with them criticizing me was to admit that I wasn't very experienced and could you show me the "right" way to...

I laughed until tears came. What a great profession we are in! Your collegue Rachel seems to be very talented and handy to have around. Thank you for sharing, and thank Rachel.

I've been a LPN in a LTC for about six months. The heaviest med pass is in the morning. Its not uncommon for a resident to have ten meds at 0800. You will have between 20-30 residents. Also many...

I've been reading the other opinions and I have to tell you, those nurses that caused you all that trouble are the nurses you are going to be working with all the time. Lazy nurses, "territorial"...

1. What or who is NAR That is what we call our nurses aides in my facility. I love the ones on our women's memory care unit. We work together to make the residents as comfortable and secure as we...

I too am a LPN in a "memory care" unit. I think the most help I recieved when I started came from the NARs. It takes a very special type of person to give cares to these people, because often they...

I was 47 when I went back to school. It was hard, I'm not going to lie. Things have changed alot since I was in school. But now I have a job in long term care that I love. I feel I make a difference...

I am happy to be an LPN. I feel I do many of the same duties the RN's in my facility do. The clinical directors of some of the units are LPN's There are good LPN' and not so good, the same as RN's...

I was also a "mature" student. I was also self employed for many years. It has helped me and hurt me at work, because I'm self confident, people assume I know what I'm doing whem actually I'm just...

I recently graduated and am at my first job. My experience at school with my clinical instructors really helped me when I started working. My clinical instructors (most of them) were nitpicking,trap...

On our memory care unit, there are no tube feedings. When a person has progressed in their disease to the point they stop eating altogether, they pass on. A NP once called it a "celetial discharge"...