sweetsleep28

sweetsleep28 has 3 years experience and specializes in LTC, Rehab.

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1. Family Member admitted to my LTC

   sweetsleep28 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Sorry if this has been asked before, I looked around but could not find anything previously discussed on this situation. My Uncle was admitted to the LTCF that I work at. I had not seen him in 5+ years prior to him being admitted. Too make a long sto...

2. How many Hours per Week do you work

   sweetsleep28 replied to pat8585's topic in General Nursing

   Holy Moley! I feel you on that one. I'm expected to do about 12 hours of work in 8. If I'm only an hour late getting done, it's been a good day! -Scheduled for 40, but usually closer to 52-54. P.s. Afternoon shift loves to call off and poo poo on d...

3. Being a Preceptor

   sweetsleep28 posted a topic in General Nursing

   So, I've become a preceptor at my facility. The past week I have had a GPN with me. She's very emotional. It seems that every little thing makes her cry! She thinks that she should know everything already, and becomes terribly upset when an issue ari...

4. Preceptorship

   sweetsleep28 posted a topic in LPN/LVN

   I'm the 3-11 LPN on a highly acute skilled wing of the LTC that I work for. Yesterday I went to work and was told that I was to be a preceptor for a new graduate LPN who hasn't taken her boards. I know that we all had to start somewhere and being cho...

5. Genesis Health Care System

   sweetsleep28 posted a topic in Geriatric

   I was offered a Restorative LPN job at a Genesis facility. Anyone have experience with this company? I've had mixed responses to this question.

6. How dare you!

   sweetsleep28 replied to sweetsleep28's topic in General Nursing

   It's by no means an every day occurrence and I am in no way asking someone to make an excuse for me. I thought I was doing the right thing by not leaving 3 nurses alone on a unit that they had never worked before.

7. How dare you!

   sweetsleep28 replied to sweetsleep28's topic in General Nursing

   It's not even so much the fact that she was snippy about me not taking a lunch, but that she was spoke to me in a not so professional way in front of the two orientees. I do have another job lined up in my haste and frustration last night I see I di...

8. How dare you!

   sweetsleep28 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Tonight I worked my tail off. I had two people that I was suppose to orientating, plus I was helping out the agency LPN who graduated in September and thought taking a job with an agency would be a good idea for her FIRST job. So on top of trying t...

9. LTC, SKILLED almost impossible to get things done

   sweetsleep28 replied to 9livesRN's topic in Geriatric

   You have just described every single shift I work at my current job. Tonight in a span of about 30 minutes I broke up a literal fist fight between a demented man and a LOL, managed to cover myself in Jevity tube feed because in my rush I opened the c...

10. Don't know if I can keep doing it.

    sweetsleep28 posted a topic in General Nursing

    At my new facility I am almost always on the Skilled Unit. With all the Alert and Oriented, walkie talkies, short term IV ATBs,Wound vacs, with a few demented LOLs and former marine who likes to beat up the CNAs thrown in for good measure. I don't st...

11. Omnicare Pharmacy-discuss

    sweetsleep28 replied to ktwlpn's topic in Geriatric

    Here's a good one. They have a contract with a local cab company to deliver STAT orders from a local pharmacy to the facility. I had cab driver show up reeking of booze and an illegal substance with a bag containing a bottle of Vicodin! The C2 script...

12. Don't Know What I've Got Myself Into

    sweetsleep28 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm almost a month in to this new job. Tonight I check the assignemnt paper and there XYZ RN in parenthesis next to my name? What?!? I have to be reading something wrong. How in the heck am I orientating someone, this has to be a mistake. The RN sup...

13. Med error? help im going to loose ky mind thinking about this!!!!!!

    sweetsleep28 replied to avenellpn82's topic in General Nursing

    The dr at my old facility loved to prescribe Rocephin 1gm IM for 3 days. The vials we had came with 1 gram of Rocephin to which the nurses at my old facility including myself reconstituted with 1.1 of lidocaine in a 3ml syringe. Any chance you are wo...

14. New Job Is Pushing My Buttons

    sweetsleep28 posted a topic in Geriatric

    So I'm two weeks into my new job at LTC facility. I got about a solid 5 days of orientation, which is good considering most LTC orientations before I was thrown to the wolves. But alas that's how it goes most of time. Anyways: Tonight I was floated t...

15. Narc count is driving me nuts!!

    sweetsleep28 posted a topic in General Nursing

    So I recently started a new job and I really like it. The only thing that is driving me bonkers is the way they do their narc counts. Instead of having blister packs that you just pop the med out of, they have boxes upon boxes of individually package...