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when do you feel comfortable

I have had my license about a year and a half. I worked every other weekend at an assisted living facility for about 10 months. The facility was extremely short staffed and I didn't feel I could give the quality of care the residents deserved. I am now working at another assisted living facility taking care of a lot of people. I just don't feel like I'm doing a good job. I'm so busy medicating people that I don't have time for anything else. I'm wondering if I bit off more than I can chew becoming a LPN at 53 years old. I feel like I will never be organized enough to do all my responsibilities. I feel like quitting but I wonder if I stick with it if I will adjust. I've been there about a month every other weekend and one day a week. Thanks, Kim

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    It is definitely tough! Some folks can organize themselves, but it takes a lot of time and thought. Unfortunately that is the way it is at many LTC's nowadays, more often than not. I was one of the ones who couldn't get a handle on things, but personally I think the facility was ridiculously at fault for expecting one person to do the jobs of 4 other people's positions, which have been deleted in favor of 'saving money'. Try it a little while, but if it is causing you to compromise your ethics, find another job.

    I don't know if you remember on the Ed Sullivan Show where the guy had more than a dozen spinning plates each on top of a pole and he had to run up and down the line to renew a plate's spin so it wouldn't fall off the pole? That's how I always felt; my plates fell!

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    That's exactly how I feel!!! And yes I remember that guy on the Ed Sullivan show!

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