mondk

Latest Activity

1. Ques. about presetting up of meds

   mondk replied to mondk's topic in Geriatric

   Night Owl: yes, that was the tray thingie I was referring to. The only meds I preset up now are my narcs since I can't leave my cart to go back to the med room and get them between each res; we have a lot of res. that get them on sched. at 0600. I...

2. Ques. about presetting up of meds

   mondk replied to mondk's topic in Geriatric

   Actually, I was referring to the geriatric setting in a non-skilled long term care facility. I know in our state we used to be able to do this at one time as long as we had these little cardboard cards with the med names and res. names and dosages o...

3. care plans: time management

   mondk replied to freddy's topic in Geriatric

   Freddy: I used to be an MDS/CPC in a 60 bed facility with 12 Medicare beds as well. Our computer was ancient (Windows 3.1) so I handwrote all of our CP's. I only had 3 days to do all this plus have the meetings with the families etc. Needless to ...

4. staff developers

   mondk replied to jwa's topic in Geriatric

   Hey all. I've worked in 3 different facilities and this is what has worked. One facility I worked in had an inservice each payday and couldn't pick up your check til after the inservice. The facility I work in now, has an excellent plan. They adv...

5. Ques. about presetting up of meds

   mondk posted a topic in Geriatric

   Hey all. I'm an RN who works the night shift at a 60 bed LTC facility. Of course, I'm the only nurse there during those hours and have a 22 bed RCF to oversee as well. I don't have many 0600 meds, but that seems to be the worst time for my shift. ...

6. funny pharmacists

   mondk posted a topic in Humor

   As an evening staff nurse in a long term care facility, one of our jobs is to check in meds that we receive from the pharmacy. While checking them in one eve., I noticed a long plastic package containing birth control pills with an unrecognizable na...