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  1. Family MD charging office fees for renewing RXs

    kstec replied to timpanzee's topic in General Nursing

    I have never heard of anything so stupid in my life. I'm a family practice nurse and I have a hard enough time getting patients to be compliant with there meds and appts, now we go and add a fee to...

  2. Why is it so bad to be an LPN ????

    kstec replied to hair_tie's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Like I've said before if we all were RN, BSN or had our masters, or were nurse practictioners, then who would be left to take care of the patients? I do know some RN, BSN's who love bedside nursing,...

  3. Guilt: Not being able to do it all!!!!!

    kstec replied to kstec's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Well tonight was another one of those nights, where you have two CNA's and me with 35 residents. I went into to cover a resident and noticed she was put into bed with no gown and feces in her diaper....

  4. puching out 'no break'

    kstec replied to hollyberry678's topic in General Nursing

    The LTC facility that I just started working at is very short staffed (not uncommon), but I never get a lunch and I may get 2 minutes to run and have a cigarette twice during my shift. I don't...

  5. Don't like to say I'm an RN. Long...

    kstec replied to MrsCaseyRN's topic in General Nursing

    I am a LPN who works LTC and I know that the job description is pretty much the same there. But saying that I do know when I don't understand the patho of something or just don't know it, I look for...

  6. OMG...32 pts!

    kstec replied to jessiern's topic in General Nursing

    That sounds more like LTC nurse/patient ratio, who are prodominately stable, but a hospital with an ICU!!! Holy cow!!! Talk about unsafe work environment. I'm just getting ready to go work at a LTC...

  7. A little help?

    kstec replied to alliemb222's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    multivimin folic acid vitamin c Digoxin-always check pulse first furosemide colace senna s enalapril keppra neurontin prilosec nexium norco vicodin dilantin cipro keflex R insulin 70/30 insulin...

  8. My Mom the Alcoholic

    kstec replied to Poochee's topic in General Nursing

    As someone else wrote, my mother was an alcoholic, but I buried her 3 and 1/2 years ago. She'd been an alcholic her whole life from as far back as I can remember, somewhere along the way she...

  9. Why I am a LTC nurse

    kstec replied to lovingtheunloved's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    It's sounds like you're right where you a supposed to be. Hollistic nursing is taking care of the whole person, which is what you are doing. As far as skills go, yes a monkey can learn to start an...

  10. I don't want to be a CNA anymore.

    kstec replied to Ms. Nurse Assistant's topic in General Nursing

    I cannot believe some of the negative responses to the original thread person. Maybe some or all of you have worked LTC, maybe even as a CNA, but some of you are just not being nice. LTC is the place...

  11. Weight Loss Medications

    kstec replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

    phentermine 37.5mg 1qd or 1bid, You lose weight and your stomach shrinks so much that when you finish up your 2 months, you have to eat many small meals a day. Also, b12 injections once a week helps...

  12. How do you feel about New Grad RNs in LTC?

    kstec replied to BonnieSc's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I remember in school, the last 6 weeks of clinicals we could either do LTC or find a place that would precept us. We had already done 8 weeks on LTC earlier in school so I decided to do my last 6...

  13. Are most LTC understaffed? Are most nurses in LTC overworked, understaffed?

    kstec replied to Bala Shark's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I want to work where the last thread person works. Today I had 35 residents with 2 CNA's. And no they are no assisted living patients. (3 hoyes, 6 tubefeeders, 6 diabetics, at least 10 feeders,...

  14. med error

    kstec replied to catjeremy3's topic in General Nursing

    Why is phenergan on the

  15. Doctor Practices that Dump Patients

    kstec replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    In the family practice clinic I work in which is affiliated with a hospital will not except any new Medicaid patients. They also discharge patients for being rude, being repeated no-shows and...

  16. med error

    kstec replied to catjeremy3's topic in General Nursing

    Intravenous Use. If necessary, meperidine may be given intravenously, but the injection should be given very slowly, preferably in the form of a diluted solution. Rapid intravenous injection of...

  17. I don't want to be a CNA anymore.

    kstec replied to Ms. Nurse Assistant's topic in General Nursing

    I am a nurse in a LTC facility and let me tell you cooperate works us all like dogs. I usually have 2 CNA's to 35 residents..They are all incontinent, lots of feeders, showers, beds to make, water to...

  18. Options for LPN's?

    kstec replied to dsanto3's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    Depending on where you live is where you'll get to work. In Illinois LPN's can work in nursing homes, homecare, hospice, clinics, plasma center, blood banks, and at some dialysis units like DaVita....

  19. I don't want to be a CNA anymore.

    kstec replied to Ms. Nurse Assistant's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like that facility was out to make a guinea pig out of you. I work LTC as a nurse and I know which CNA's bust their butt and which one do not. The CNA/patient ratio in most places is very...

  20. Denied employment without checking excellent references!!!!

    kstec posted a topic in General Nursing

    :oMy dilemma is that I applied for a prn position as a LPN at a convenient care/occupational medication clinic. I initially had the interview with the HR person on friday1/25/08, who made me take a...

  21. Denied employment without checking excellent references!!!!

    kstec replied to kstec's topic in General Nursing

    The sad part is that prior to working as a nurse, I worked in a pharmacy hospital for 15 years and never experienced such B.S. I'm 36 years old so I'm not naive, but I just thought that the nursing...

  22. Denied employment without checking excellent references!!!!

    kstec replied to kstec's topic in General Nursing

    To all that replied in reference to being a stalker, no I am not. I just don't like in when the right hand doesn't know when the left hand is doing as in this company. When you're a honest,...

  23. Denied employment without checking excellent references!!!!

    kstec replied to kstec's topic in General Nursing

    The odd part about this is that I contacted the manager and she told me that she gave HR the okay to check my references. When I called HR today to talk to someone other than the one that...

  24. Denied employment without checking excellent references!!!!

    kstec replied to kstec's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for all the replys. I noticed that some of you said something about always being nice to people or it may turn and bite you in the butt. I was always nice to this nurse, but she was one of...

  25. I am so tired of bedside nursing!!!

    kstec replied to LadyJRN1's topic in General Nursing

    I have a friend who was a former agency RN, BSN at a long term care facility who eventually became the DON. She didn't last a year due to the drama and demands put on her. After she left the nursing...