Buddha

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1. Was Offered a New Job

   Buddha replied to banditrn's topic in Geriatric

   Congradulations! I too left a 6 year LTC job after much abuse. I love my new job, I am sure you will too. It took a few months at my new job to feel like home, but now it feels great. I hear from friends that the abuse at my old job continues, I fe...

2. I hurt my back already!

   Buddha replied to checkers's topic in General Students

   As god has only gave you one back to live the rest of your life with, you must protect it at all cost. NEVER transfer alone again if you are in doubt. Believe me it is not worth it for you or your patients. What would have happened had your dropped h...

3. What does an LPN charge nurse do in LTC?

   Buddha replied to Limik's topic in Geriatric

   Hello I am a charge nurse in LTC and have been one for 9 years. Basically, your are a supervisor for the hall or dept assigned, maybe for a facility if a RN is not avaible. I have a hall I am responsile for ( i.e. and making sure the CNA's are co...

4. Top 5 medicine to pass in LTC?

   Buddha replied to SoldierMedic's topic in Geriatric

   The top five in Ohio LTC. 1. EC ASA-well, we gotta have heart 2. colace- for the anal obessed 3. Vioxx- we are a rehab facility aren't we? 4. Remeron- appetite stimulant and anti-depressive a two for one punch 5. Lortab- who wants to wait ...

5. we've been having heated - but not yet angry - discussions

   Buddha replied to IowaCindy's topic in General Nursing

   I admit i have never treated an illegal in LTC. I have treated an elderly people whom were basicaly abandoned in my facility, whom our home was eating the cost of their stay. We would purchase out of our own pockets whatever that person needed, witho...

6. we've been having heated - but not yet angry - discussions

   Buddha replied to IowaCindy's topic in General Nursing

   I live in a little community in central Ohio were we are having an explosion of illegal aliens from Mexico. We as a county are going in the red trying to provide equal support and services to this group. Our legal services have had to make an emerge...

7. Can our medical histories be used against us?

   Buddha replied to Nurse Jeni's topic in General Students

   When I applied to my program all I had to do is have my Md perform a physical. I had to have a hepitits titre and a tetnus shot. I still don't see why depression would hold you from getting into a program. Heck most of the nurses i know working are b...

8. Can our medical histories be used against us?

   Buddha replied to Nurse Jeni's topic in General Students

   No hiring someone if they had or being treated for depression or whatever is called discrimination. If you can fufill the physical requirements of a postion is all that matters. I say that if i was asked to fill out a Dx or med sheet on an applicatio...

9. LPN in LTC-night shift

   Buddha replied to shawnalj's topic in General Nursing

   Congradulation on becoming a nurse BTW. THe previous posts are pretty accurate. I started out on 11-7 many years ago but had a fantastic mentor to help me. If your going to be the only nurse in your building on nights I would rethink becoming brok...

10. Ghostly experiences??

    Buddha replied to Erin RN's topic in General Nursing

    I was working 11-7 in an one hundred bed LTC facility at night when I heard a loud thump at the end of a hall. Our facility was X shaped and the nurses station is at the center. The other nurse was on break and since the girls were doing rounds I wa...

11. Scripts

    Buddha replied to ER-RN2's topic in Emergency

    My ex-BIL stole a script pad from a doc during a visit for an employment phyisical. He wrote about a dozen scripts for narcs, think it was Percocet and Methadone. He was caught and served three years in prison, my SIL divorced him, and he he now is...

12. I love LTC.

    Buddha posted a topic in General Nursing

    I love LTC. Please leave this in General Please Moderators so my felllow nurses can read it, and it won't be lost in the shuffle, OK. PLEASE. I LOVE LTC! Yes! I admit it. I love older adults who having lived all their lives with their family and the...

13. nurses failed to adequately examine the patients

    Buddha replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Safety

    As a Nurse I am embarressed by what happened, but wonder what the ratio per Pt/Nurse was and wonder what was the unit manager in charge was doing. Checks and Balances is definently needed here. My sympathy goes out to the familys of both women.

14. Fired for no cause

    Buddha replied to sammy004's topic in General Nursing

    They are two threads started by this same person on AllNurses. As I can symphatize with this poster it does no good to FLAME people whom are trying to help her/him. I agree with Angus,Erin, and the others whom posted replies in a mature manner and di...

15. Fired for no cause

    Buddha replied to sammy004's topic in General Nursing

    BRAVO ANGUS