NEVER3

NEVER3 specializes in LTC, MED SURG.

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1. 75 residents/3 nurses

   NEVER3 replied to TrickieTam's topic in Geriatric

   We have 45 residents with 2 LPNs, 22 for each with a DON thats always there to help and an RN House Sup, she deals with alot of stuff that we cannot help her with being on the carts. We recently stopped switching sides...so I'm always on my 2 halls i...

2. Are LPN/LVNs a dying breed?

   NEVER3 replied to Trophywife81's topic in LPN/LVN

   I'm not clear on if you are suggesting that I insinuated that I felt like a babysitter...perhaps you were not replying to my post. I was making a reference to the differences in Nursing duties...to which there are many. I never felt like a babysitter...

3. Are LPN/LVNs a dying breed?

   NEVER3 replied to Trophywife81's topic in LPN/LVN

   My encounter with being an LPN on a med surg floor found me & my coworkers answering call bells, giving bed baths, walking pts, feeding some, passing a small amount of meds, making beds...toileting, emptying urinals and bed pans....very sledom wa...

4. Are LPN/LVNs a dying breed?

   NEVER3 replied to Trophywife81's topic in LPN/LVN

   During clinicals at the Hospital, you couldnt tell the RN's from the LPN's on many floors. They worked together, and the RN did any push meds for the LPN & Blood IV's. In this day and age I hope No Nurse is Phased out, lord knows we need every si...

5. In your LTC dining room

   NEVER3 replied to LPN&momof3's topic in General Nursing

   :mad:we also have to go to the dining room as well, we have 4 wings/halls 2 lpns 1 rn sup...only 1 lpn goes to lunch, and the rn sup does breakfast, its for choking, seizures and i&o accuracy is what i was told, i serve soup and the main course a...

6. Tips for Geriatric and LTC Nursing

   NEVER3 replied to handyrn's topic in General Nursing

   my first job was in ltc, i was a nurses aide, over the years became a cna and a pca and a hhca...home health care aide working with people in their homes that had challenges with adls, we did meds and took them to school and dr's appts and cleaned th...

7. Tips for nurses in their first year of nursing

   NEVER3 replied to Brian's topic in New Nurse

   tips...longterm care follow the mars always count your narc drawer correctly double check dosage ie: 1 0r 2 always have your own tx scissors start with the most difficult resident reorder meds asap when low be prepared always for delays never sit at...