roxyblueyes

roxyblueyes has 20 years experience and specializes in Geriatrics.

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1. Pushing The Limit For $

   roxyblueyes replied to disney158's topic in MDS

   This is new to our facility, not really to sure of what to expect ( living in New York probably will never be sure ). We ran the gammot of reimbursment " updates" as referred to in many of your comments. It seems like walking a very unsteady tight r...

2. Doing away with side rails?

   roxyblueyes replied to mondkmondk's topic in Geriatric

   The MDS definition on "falls" and " level plain" certainly presents a challenge to the mind - once in desparation we tried using another mattress next to the low bed to allow for more unrestricted space to roll without actually rolling out of bed - d...

3. Doing away with side rails?

   roxyblueyes replied to mondkmondk's topic in Geriatric

   When I started working as a CNA at the facility I am employed by ( quite some time ago mind you ) basically a big portion of residents were physically restrained to " keep them safe". :uhoh21: When it was mandated to do away with these restraints vis...

4. What do you LOVE about LTC/N.H.?

   roxyblueyes replied to Chloe'sinNYNow's topic in Geriatric

   My mother was sick the majority of my childhood and I watched in awe wonderful people being attentive to her as well as my dad and me when she was in and out of hospitals as well as in a nursing home. I have inherited the syndrome she had and have be...

5. Funniest real orders you have seen in a chart?

   roxyblueyes replied to nilepoc's topic in Humor

   A DC order written by NP for an antihistimine read ----- DC with first frost my reply to her prior to taking off order was - Define frost - would that be the first hard frost or the soft dewy kind? No verbal return reply that is quotable.

6. unrealistic family of dying resident

   roxyblueyes replied to maah's topic in Geriatric

   The key word in your statement is "won't let go". It's difficult to let go to the finality of death, also the unknown precession to the final days and the thereafter. There are a miraid of books on the birth experience and next to none on death - pos...

7. unrealistic family of dying resident

   roxyblueyes replied to maah's topic in Geriatric

   The key word in your statement is "won't let go". It's difficult to let go to the finality of death, also the unknown precession to the final days and the thereafter. There are a miraid of books on the birth experience and next to none on death - pos...

8. Family members that run the facility!

   roxyblueyes replied to wefdm21's topic in Geriatric

   I think this latest epidemic of families going from caring for resident to overbearing crazed zealots is a result of the commercialized legal Media ad Bug. You know the one that starts - Do you have a loved one in a nursing home ------- and ends call...