Cmariehart

I'm sure I'll get it for this so here I go: Halloween is my fave holiday out of all of them!!!!! When I worked @ the nursing home I decorated the unit and dressed up... Every year I was something different... The patients and the families loved ...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!! This is my fave holiday out of all of them.... However this year I'm not dressing up... I'm not going to any Halloween parties. I have ordered a pizza and wings and getting ready to watch Ghost Hunters LIVE on SyFy!!!!

def. wear something under your scrubs.. ALWAYS leave an extra pair in your car.. You will need them one day I promise! white, tan or nude colors work the best under white scrubs!!!

I haven't posted in a long long time. I started out as a new LPN 5 years ago. My 1st job was in a LTC facility. I loved my job when I started.. We had staff and equipment and life was good... Then after my first year they left me on a 40 bed uni...

You guys thank you so much!!!!!!!!!! I def needed some encouragement!!! YOU guys are the best and you all totally ROCK!!!!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!! :redpinkhe

I can still pay my bills... It was only a 50 cent pay cut when I moved from LTC to the MD's office... I still have the option for overtime at the MD's office too!

This happened tonight... Hope it puts a smile on your face... The night started out, its usual way (falling apart) I started the med pass and right before dinner I realized that a group of our female residents had gathered in front of the solarium...

Are you kidding me??? This can be said about any job, anywhere in the world. There are bad seeds everywhere and there are more good than bad...

Maybe I a, truely an idiot tonight.... But do we still have a chatroom and how do you get there now.... Thanks guys... It's been a long night

thanks guys i thought i was going crazy

The last couple of days have been rough so please forgive me!!!!! Just some stupid things we were talking about tonight: we were talking about one of our residents that passed away a while ago-- he looked like the Little Ceasar's pizza guy, one nigh...

To all you fabulous Mom's out there HAPPY MOTHER"S DAY!!!!!!!!! Have a terrific day filled with lots of love and presents Cmarie :redbeathe :bowingpur

Not really sure how to word this, so please stick with me, this is a little weird... I work in a LTC and that was this little old lady that I used to take care of when I was a PCN. For the last 6 months I've done nothing but the med pass and once in...

Last night I wasn't on my unit. I was hipped around to help out some other units and had it out with a very lazy orderly. I pretty much told him to get off his butt and do some work, apparently he didn't like that very much! I also went a complain...

Not sure if this counts but what the heck, I'm half way towards getting married. Met fiancee while I was about half way through school to be an LPN and he pushed me to finish it.. Now he's pushing me to go get my RN... He's pretty good about me mak...

I'm feeling pretty low everybody... I've called in sick for the past 2 days--- but I'm actually really sick... I can't get in too see my PCP for another 2 weeks and was told over the phone by him to ride it out, get rest drink fluids and take tyle...

I went to work today-- which they gave me a hard time about.. They wanted me to do a double shift-- and I said no because I'm still not 100% but I went in even though I'm still stuffed up and coughing.. I wore a face mask all night for that reaso...

How about this one: "Comfort care" is does not mean assisted suicide and I will not give dear old "whoever" an extra dose of roxanol just so you can hurry up and get out of here. Yes someone will know... I will know...

Pet peeve 1: When the day shift nurses want OT 3-11 nurses get bumped off their unit and sent else where... And then they call us and ask us how do you do this to so and so... And then think they're gonna leave by 8 or 9pm and call us back to count ...

I need to get this off my chest so to speak... It's been bugging me all weekend.. here's what happened. Here's the background, pt has cancer and has radiation 4 days a week and has marks from the radiation. Patient is also on routine pain meds. va...

Here's an update so far for you guys. When I came back from my dinner break last night one of my CNA's came up to me and said pt X's daughter is here and wants to see her chart. So I went out and talked to the daughter. (I did have a really good b...

This is in LTC. What makes it worse is that 2 family members are nurses. I just don't know what to do anymore.... The families dictate everything on this unit... I have 6 families now that only want their "mom" or "dad" on this med but don't g...

A pt's family came in on day shift and demanded to know the name of the person that had taken the time to care for the mom the last couple of days because she was soooooo happy about the care... Well the family was there when my shift came in this ...

All right here's my 2 cents on MRSA patients. I work in LTC. We have had over the past year 4 MRSA patients. We now have 3, 1- it depends on where the MRSA is! a- one res has it in his wounds- gown and glove up b- 2nd res has it in wou...

You know it's a bad night when... You leave an hour late and as you walk out the back door you see a hearse with the back door open on it....