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Thanks so much for your views!!! I thought I was the only on distressed by the way this is handled. I certainly believe that due to the nature of human errors, that this should be dealt with in a much more positive manner. The write up serves what purpose? I am not an ignorant person and I know I do not go out of my to get into difficulties on my job. However the way my facility handles this, the difficulties seem to be following me. { the absolute worse part of this is that the education person could not do a pass with someone standing over her.......I don't mind being instructedby a peer, but please be able to do it yourself!!!!!} Again, thanks...I will try my best to bring changes in the way this is handled....WISH ME LUCK!!!!!!!

Our facility uses the Education nurse to do med pass audits. The way it is set up is that the med nurse is observed and mistakes are writen in a Plan of Action format. Any nurse who gets the plan of action, must be observed for the second time. If there any furthur mistakes, the nurse is writen up. CAN YOU TELL ME HOW YOUR FACILITY HANDLES MED PASS OBSERVATIONS AND DO YOU THINK IT'S A FAIR WAY TO HANDLE IT? Yes, we also have the pharm come in and do an observation. But the Education nurses' observation is ONGOING and on all three shifts. { this has been going on for about a year now } Thanks for any feed back you can give me!!!!!

I burned out too and now I am 'pool' and I only work 3 days a week. Of course I have no insurance and I get no other benefits along with my pool status BUT I am a much happier human being!!!!

I think the original post here was rather swept under the rug. i too have experienced cnas who sleep...leave the facility for hours at a time.....refuse to do work whether the nurse helps or not.......the list goes on and on { the song that never ends }. Anyway my don at the time althoughgiving lipservice to the nurses as to what they would personnaly be held accountable for....she herself was afraid of the cnas!!!!! the nurses who complained were.....guess? FIRED The only way they got rid of the ring leader cna was when she beamed the don in the back of the head with a coke can! I'll bet tho that the cna involved still has her certificate and is still employed in her field! I think the facilities should take the same action against the certificates as they would take against a license. Don't have a clue what that would involve but I bet the aid would think twice about being an A hole.

Hi guys and gals......you have depressed me terribly!!!!!! I moved to Florida from Indy . In Indy the long term care nurse that has a few years under the belt, starts at 18-20 an hour woth full benefits if u work 32 hours a week. benefits are usally EXSPENSIVE and usually 80/20 insurance. HERE on the other hand the poor nurses have to pay for CEU's and they furthur insult us by paying 15 an hour. I am appaled that some of you are only making 10!!!!!!!!! I made 13.50 an hour, directly out of school. The stress level alone warrants more pay...add on the paperwork,the ass kissing { smile } and Lord help us all we are worth are weight in gold!!!!!!!!!

I've worked night shift for well over 6 years....the only real problem seems to bo the other shift's attitude towards nocs. And of course the attitude of the powers that be. ALL mandantory inservices are held " in the middle of my sleep time"....All nursing dinners or rewards, are held for the first 2 shifts and nocs is left out. Getting used to nocs almost physically injured me....take good vitamins and remember that YOUR sleep comes before phone calls!!! No one wakes me unless it's a life or death matter!!!!

Hey Rileycat.....I just purchased Fin Comforts " VASSA ", found on the net under Happy feet .com.......they are the only shoes that I can bear to wear...and at 260 they ought to be made of gold Or at least have golden laces!!!! However I know they last For years...REALLY. Dillards, the store, here in Southgate mall has the Fin Comforts but I don't think they carry Vassa

I'm not a lwayer but where I'm from you cannot preset anything. If state sees it it's mega fines for the facility and probably the end of your job. Yes I know that there's way too much to be passed at 6 am, that's why we stay in compliance and start passing at 5 am. more and more the day shift puts meds on the night shift , I'm told it's so that THEY can stay in compliance...however, if your'e not in compliance, whether nights or days, your'e still, not in compliance. My old manager, had us time our med pass, daily for a week, and she then informed the powers that be, that we needed more staff. Of course, my old manager was an ANGEL compared to most.

I totally agree that 44 days is HER fault...hmmmmm? I guess this really says something about the staff shortages, eh? I could work every day of the week.I'll guarentee ya something else....the new staffing recomendations are NOT going to improve our situations!!!!!! The mandantory staff " recomendations " are so pitifully LOW now...they'll NEVER catch up to REAL TIME.

hey Chelsea......I've been a nurse for quite some time and I've grown up in the health field, as my dad owns a nursing home. Been there, done that and wore that t shirt!!!! Anyway, I have to say that I love my patients but I don't like my job so well??? A love hate relationship!!! LOL You think long and hard...consider all your options.