SuesquatchRN BSN, RN

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    LTC - when residents deteriorate

    SuesquatchRN replied to Meraki's topic in General Nursing

    You can be independent with ADLs in LTC, generally with dementia/memory issues or a chronic condition that can't be managed at home or in an ALF. It's rare, but we have some. However, we have to...
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    I can't take this nurse anymore!

    SuesquatchRN replied to fuzzywuzzy's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Goodness. I got nuthin', fuzzy. I'm really sorry you have to deal with that
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    LTC - when residents deteriorate

    SuesquatchRN replied to Meraki's topic in General Nursing

    I'm glad you spoke up. And too bad if you offended anyone. You gotta do what you gotta do - get the care plan updated to match her condition so she is mandated to receive the help she needs. Let us...
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    CMS Visit: "Your in my way - My patient is more important than this petty bull"

    SuesquatchRN replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    While I applaud your taking care of your patients I am too askeered of TPTB to speak to them in that way. I certainly would have told them that it was a bad time and that I had patients going south....
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    LTC - when residents deteriorate

    SuesquatchRN replied to Meraki's topic in General Nursing

    We're always short and we have both excellent aides and aides in it for a check. The excellent aides would certainly do the extra care necessary but the lazy ones - no way. If it isn't in the...
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    MDS 3.0 sub-forum

    SuesquatchRN replied to glm777's topic in MDS Coordinator Information

    This board is pretty dead. I can't imagine that a sub-forum is
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    LTC - when residents deteriorate

    SuesquatchRN replied to Meraki's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting. We don't need orders for anything to do with
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    Does anybody know or ever gone thru it?

    SuesquatchRN replied to janetreimundi's topic in General Nursing

    So it is
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    LTC - when residents deteriorate

    SuesquatchRN replied to Meraki's topic in General Nursing

    This. Unless you live in my area where everyone knows or is related to everyone else, in which case you just tell everyone in town including the administrator. There should be a nurse manager on...
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    Does anybody know or ever gone thru it?

    SuesquatchRN replied to janetreimundi's topic in General Nursing

    There's a push to make PTs doctorates but it hasn't come to fruition. Still masters in most places. Do you have a bachelors? You might be abe to bridge right into a program with onw. Otherwise,...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    SuesquatchRN replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I've worked with a
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    Can we get rid of the sugar in nursing?

    SuesquatchRN replied to Nurse Joey's topic in General Nursing

    I manage a 38-bed LTC unit. Every morning I do walking rounds just to see what's going on with the resident. It's a quick visual assessment that lets me know if they have had a change in status that...
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    Aftermath of STATE

    SuesquatchRN replied to blessedmomma247's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    If those are your only tags you work in a stellar
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    Another nurse bites the dust due to facebook

    SuesquatchRN replied to siringe's topic in Nursing News

    I was suspended for a day for a "potential" violation. And I asked the mods to remove my thread here, which contained absolutely no identifiers or PHI. Nor did my FB status but hey, scared is the...
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    mandated?

    SuesquatchRN replied to Leelee2's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    We're rural and agency just isn't - there. We don't mandate so much as if someone calls out at the last minute you stay. Who's gonna walk on their patients? This weekend's schedule had a bunch of...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    SuesquatchRN replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Welcome to nursing, sbelz79.
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    SuesquatchRN replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Fast food employees are, for the most part, unable to find other employment for many reasons. When I lost my six figure job in systems to overseas outsourcing I went to work at JoAnn's cutting fabric...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    SuesquatchRN replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Bingo. I was taught to be responsible and honorable by my parents, as well as the much-touted "critical thinking" skills. One has them or one
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    SuesquatchRN replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    We will have to agree to disagree. This was drummed into me when I was in school to become an LPN, when I became an RN, and now that I am close to the
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    SuesquatchRN replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    We're back to the entire point of this discussion. One can be professional without being "a" professional. And that goes from the kid at Taco Bell to nurses. NO class can teach personal...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    SuesquatchRN replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Maybe documentation has less to do with our lack of professionalism and more to do with unrealistic and unworkable nurse/patient ratios. I commend your enthusiasm, and will be interested in your...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    SuesquatchRN replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I needed all of those for my BSN, except chem and A&P III. And I needed everything but stats for the
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    Why Many nurses are No-Codes

    SuesquatchRN replied to BackfromRetirement's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I have no problem with that. My current ethical dilemma has to do with family members prolonging suffering against the desires of the residents, as stated, because of their own
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    SuesquatchRN replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    A class isn't going to change
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    SuesquatchRN replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Same difference. Mine was "Professional