Assisted Living Center

Specialties Geriatric

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Specializes in hospital/physicians office/long term car.

I am currently working at a alf that has been open about 1 month. Brand new beautiful facility! My question is what kind of activities do you do with the residents? What meds are in lock up? Everything seems so murky compared to waht I was used to in nursing home setting. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. We do have medication assistants, we have an LPN and a CNA on the shift right now, we have about 16 independant and 6 assisted in the facility. What jobs are you responsible for? Do you have dietary and housekeeping on 2nd shift? All kinds of questions!! Thanks everyone!

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I am in ALF, we have all meds in locked room, narcs double locked, no meds in apartments. We have 3 care staff for 24 residents. One care staff in memory care, one care staff on AL, and one med tech...this goes for first and second shift. Third shift we have one staff for each part.

activities are weak, about to change hopefully. we have lots of managers however.

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Specializes in hospital/physicians office/long term car.

I am surprised that I only received 1 reply to this question. Do you think there are just not that many alf nurses out there?

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In our community we have one nurse, and she has been on leave since Dec. I think that nurses aren't as needed as they are in SNFs.

PS. I'm not a nurse, I'm the med tech.

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Specializes in hospital/physicians office/long term car.

We have 24 hour nursing on duty, not on call but actually in the building. I don't know how common this is but in our town none of the other alf have it. We don't have any med techs, only LPN's can give the medications. Thanks for your reply!

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Hi, Generally all the assisted living home provides skilled nursing, physical, occupational and speech-language therapy, home health aide services, and medical social services to community wellness and adult day health programs etc,

This are all about health.

Thanks

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Home Health.

I work at an ALF in Vermont that includes a level 3 residential care center. It has about 100 independent residents and 30 res. care residents. There are 4 RNs, 10 LPNs, a handful of LNAs, and a lot of unlicensed caregivers between 4 buildings. I'm currently training on meds. I work evenings, with a charge LPN and 4 or 5 caregivers.

The med cart is kept in a supply room that doubles as a wellness clinic 2 days a week. Narcs are kept in a locked drawer. Anyone who has med techtraining can give meds, including narcotics. Res. care patients who have shown that they can self-administer their meds are allowed to do that, but we still have to sign off on it.

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Specializes in Gerontology/Home Health CM, OB, ICU, MS.
activities are weak, about to change hopefully. we have lots of managers however.
:D aint that the truth :banghead:
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