Does anyone love their LTC facility besides me?

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Specializes in Geriatrics.

I worked as a CNA 5 years, then became an LPN 14 years ago. Same facility- I LOVE it! WE are occasionally short staffed, not often. I live/work in a small town. I can go to the grocery store and see relatives of my residents, and we stop and chat. I have attended funerals of residents. I receive xmas cards from families whose loved one i took care of passed away 8 years ago. There is no place else I would rather work. I am starting to wonder if the 120 bed facility where i work is the "exception"? My CNA's are the best- there are a few "bad apples" but most of them are awesome! There is the same"political" crap between management and staff, but somehow it works out! So many nurses "frown" upon LTC nurses, I have gained so much experience overthe years. I have heard so many horror stories about LTC that I am left wondering- what the heck is going on? Dont get me wrong- I have my days where I would rather work at wal mart than be a nurse, but they are far and few between! So I guess my question is- am I the only one who loves there facility- not just there job?

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Specializes in Mental and Behavioral Health.

My facility is beautiful. My residents are wonderful. Staff is excellent. I'm not in love with the corporation that runs the place. They're tight. They ride us pretty hard about anything that might cause a couple of pennies to squeak out of their pocket. Sometimes I think they're evil, but they're probably just trying to stay in business in a really tough economy. If I don't love them, I still appreciate them for giving me a job, and for having a job to give me.

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Specializes in LTC/Behavioral/ Hospice.

Can't say I love my facility. It's been through so much turmoil in the last 2 years since I've been there. We are on our 3rd DON since then, and my unit is on it's 3rd Unit Manager since then. I do love the residents and most days I love my job.

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I have read on several different posts, that someone would rather work at WalMart. Let me tell any and all, who even entertian this thought for real or for the sake of being sarcastic. Walmart is the beast. Walmart has a turnover rate of 79% Why, because the Mgmt of Wally World needs this in order to save money. WM. Made $300,000,000,000 in revenue in 2005 (not sure about 06,07,08,09) The average salary of a WM employee (non mgt.), according to them, $9.50.

Now, assume that one starts off at $7.25 (the minimum wage 2009) It would take a WM employee 6 years at a .40 cent raise per year to make $9.50, This is not only laughable but, totally insane and criminal of the Corp., (taking into consideration the amount of revenue the co. brings in every year).

Secondly the Asst. Mgrs. in every store are given a quota they must meet every single month. That quota is, to write 1 to 3 employees up for something every month. This ensures that they one, are doing their jobs as asst. mgrs and 2, it starts the ball rolling to bing in a new employee at a lower cost to the company. If everyone in their departments are doing their jobs and following the rules, they still have to find someone to write up. (read btw the lines)

If you are smarter than the Asst. Mgrs. Watch out! You will have a target on your back and you will not last long in any store.

Walmart for the most part hires their Asst. Mgt. team from within and sends them to a 12 week school to learn how to be an asst. mgr. This also insures that the person who is chosen has no bargining power when negotiating for salary. Wally World already knows what you make. So they hire you for the asst. mgr position and give you $32,000 to start off, one must work no less than 60 hours a week the first year and one can be moved to any store in the country, no questions asked (albiet they do pay for the move). Some say by the year 2050, that 1 and 5 people will work at Wally World or know someone who has worked at Wally World.

If you shop there, have you noticed that the prices have risen a bit. WM knew the minimum wage was going up, so they started raising their prices, piece by piece, over the last year to compensate.

It is said that if Walmart raised their prices by .01 cent on every single product they could afford to give every single employee a $1.00 raise (1 million employees) do you think that any employee of WM got a $1.00 raise on their paycheck when the minimum wage increased? Hell no.

Please, if you hate nursing that bad, get out and do something commenserate (sp) with your education. Don't even kid about working there, it may just happen, then you will REALLY be in a world of %$%&

You have been ForeWarned.

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I LOVE LTC! I wouldn't work in a hospital, too much going on with too many different people all the time, I prefer the slower pace of a nursing home. Some nurses think that LTC is for 'losers', the attitude seems to be "why are you working in a nursing home if you're any good?". But some of us don't WANT the adrenaline-rush of an ER, or the "learning opportunities" in med-surg...

You have to have a different, but very important, set of skills to work in a nursing home. You also have to have very different people-skills...residents don't care so much if you aren't a 'super-nurse', they care more about whether you can take a few minutes out of your busy day to chat with them, maybe take them out for a smoke (if they do), or take them down to the Bingo game when the CNA's are too busy. Little things like remembering that Mrs. Smith doesn't like tuna salad, and ordering her a burger for dinner instead without having to be asked often go a lot farther then the more technical skills involved in hospital nursing...

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