Nikki69

Nikki69 has 6 years experience and specializes in LTC.

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1. long term care facilities..computerized charting yet?

   Nikki69 replied to thekid's topic in Geriatric

   Where I work the CNA's use a computer system called Care Tracker. No more paper for them but the nurses are still writing a book every day. Our social worker has a very frustrating job when it comes to matching up the behaviors that the CNA's chart o...

2. ATTN: Becoming a Medical Assistant=Waste of Time

   Nikki69 replied to msnjie4RN's topic in General Nursing

   My sister almost went to school to be a MA. I'm so relieved she didn't. I am a staffing coordinator at a LTC facility and I have had several Medical Assistants apply for anything they can get. I always have to turn them down because they are not cert...

3. Charge Nurse did CNA work. Learned A LOT.

   Nikki69 replied to arelle68's topic in Geriatric

   StarNurse: You are communicating with Your Assistants. Good Job!

4. Morale of the Nursing Home

   Nikki69 posted a topic in Geriatric

   Hi Everyone. I'd like some advice and/or input about what I can do to try to raise the morale in my LTC facility. I work in a non-union 114 bed nursing home. I worked at the same facility as a CNA for four years, and now I do scheduling for the nurs...

5. No more mandatory overtime.....

   Nikki69 replied to CathyLew's topic in General Nursing

   Agreed. Or at least hire the ones that want to come to work.

6. No more mandatory overtime.....

   Nikki69 replied to CathyLew's topic in General Nursing

   UH-OH. NOW WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO? Do you think they will use agency to cover open shifts? I hope people don't lose their hours because of refusing mandation! We got tired of the mandation at our facility a couple years ago. It just wasn't fair or...

7. Charge Nurse did CNA work. Learned A LOT.

   Nikki69 replied to arelle68's topic in Geriatric

   I was a CNA for about 4 years before I was asked to take the job as Staffing Coordinator. I make the nurse's and CNA's schedules, and assign where they work every day(among loads of other things). When I have nurse's constantly complaining to me abou...

8. Behaviors and Call Lights! Help!

   Nikki69 replied to carolbear's topic in Geriatric

   Carol, I know EXACTLY what you are talking about. I read your post and had to look at your name and location because I also have that resident. I am one of the CNA's that get the short end of the stick when it comes to one particular resident. She...

9. Cutting Off Air Supply!

   Nikki69 replied to Nikki69's topic in General Nursing

   I don't know about any of yours, but my fiance is the hardest person to get to the doctor. Must be a man thing. He wont go unless he feels like he's going to die i swear. So no, he has not been to the doc. I'm just trying to investigate, not look...

10. Cutting Off Air Supply!

    Nikki69 replied to Nikki69's topic in General Nursing

    what is anaphylaxis? i am only a CNA right now and my knowledge is limited. Like I said before though, we don't know what triggers it.

11. Cutting Off Air Supply!

    Nikki69 posted a topic in General Nursing

    First of all, I don't know what the little thing in the back of your throat that hangs down is called. But anyways, my fiance's keeps swelling up to the point that it touches the sides of his throat and when he blows out a breath, it slaps back up a...

12. Native Healing

    Nikki69 replied to nativehealer's topic in Holistic

    This is very interesting. I've always been "into" these kinds of things. Before I had my first son, I had just started to do some meditation and yoga, and really study what it's all about. Then, I got so busy with family and work that I kind of pu...

13. I think my son had night terrors last night...HELP!

    Nikki69 replied to dreamBIG's topic in Pediatric

    my 3 year old just started having these also. i didn't know if i should call them night terrors or not. but he just starts screaming and crying, sometimes saying no, no, no. his eyes are closed and when you try to wake him up he gets more upset an...

14. Can U Read This?

    Nikki69 posted a topic in Psychiatric

    i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is t...

15. Mary's Rhyme

    Nikki69 posted a topic in Geriatric

    I have a certain lady resident who has a rhyme for everything. Like when I whistle, she says: "whistlin' girl and a crowin' hen, always comes to some bad end", or "goodness gracious caught a skunk. goodness gracious, how he stunk. Recently, while ...