TiredRN-momto4

TiredRN-momto4 has 5 years experience and specializes in Hospital (neuro floor), home health.

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1. What kind of staffing do you have?

   TiredRN-momto4 posted a topic in LTC Directors

   Just curious as to what kind of staffing you all have in your LTC facilities. I'm a new ADON in a facility with 65 residents. 15 of them are in a secure, locked unit. This is how we are currently staffed: 2 LVNs on the floor each shift. One takes ...

2. Need advice: walking into a train-wreck?

   TiredRN-momto4 replied to TiredRN-momto4's topic in LTC Directors

   Thanks for the info :) After talking to the regional nurse about the training I would receive, I decided to take the job and started today. Wouldn't you know it, state came in TODAY on a complaint...grrrr. It has actually gone OK, and the only thin...

3. Need advice: walking into a train-wreck?

   TiredRN-momto4 replied to TiredRN-momto4's topic in LTC Directors

   Thank you so much for your response. This is what I assumed as well, but was told differently by the outgoing ADON. She told me that if I took this job, my license was immediately at risk due to the way things have been left. It doesn't make sense ...

4. Need advice: walking into a train-wreck?

   TiredRN-momto4 replied to TiredRN-momto4's topic in LTC Directors

   I've thought about that too, CapeCod. This facility is in a little town, where the applicant pool is pretty small. I think there were only 2 applicants for the DON position, and I don't think either applicant had LTC experience. There are 2 large ...

5. Need advice: walking into a train-wreck?

   TiredRN-momto4 posted a topic in LTC Directors

   I was recently offered a position as ADON in the LTC facility I've been working at for 2 months. Prior to coming to this facility, I had no LTC experience, as I had worked both in the home health field and in the hospital. I really want to take thi...