sassynurse78

After several weeks of leaving work depressed I am finally asking for advice here. What do you do when family members talk down to you? I am so discouraged that I am seriously considering a change in profession. I guess when I say "talk down" I am pu...

I was just curious as to what other LTC nurses thought about the right to die? I am very supportive of someones rights to die with dignity. However I am quite uncomfortable with a current situation at work. We have a pt. who has a g-tube. Has had for...

I am so obsessed with lists, I write everything down on lined paper starting at the top and then can check off what i have done, what needs done or what to pass on, and I never check off anything until it is taken care of.

Sorry but I had to giggle when I read the first line of your post...mainly because I have encountered so many of these types. The best one was a man who would get the new staff who didn't know better to shave his peri area, telling them we all did th...

I have one I use a lot, but when I first got it I used it along with the manual to make sure it was accurate. It was, I use a brand called Omron. Others I work with do to. I rub a little alcohol gel on the cuff part every couple days just in case but...

I think it is something you should try, although it isn't for everyone. I would suggest walking into a facility you are considering around 6 pm when the chiefs have gone home and the Indians are fending for themselves, just to see if they seem ok-not...

Gosh I wish we had someone to come in! I spend a good portion of my time on the phone begging when someone calls off. If it gets to the point where I can find no one (which is usually the case) Me or whoever is on the unit with the call in is "stuck"...

Money and Greed I think can sum up our health care problems in this country. Although I have always felt this way, I knew it for sure last summer. I started with a headahce and chills, to only get worse and worse. By the time I drug myself to the Dr'...

Well a quick update...I ran into a nurse I had worked with before. She happened to be working at the facility the CNA went to. She asked me why she left my facility and that she was a terrible CNA. The only comment I made was that she needs to be wat...

The facility I worked at recently fired a CNA after many staff members reported what the CNA said to pts. The CNA was making statements such as telling one pt, "The only thing wrong with you is that your psyhco" Answering call lights and telling the ...

Thanks for your comments...my position is exactly what I was unsure of. I am not management therefore truely in a way I do not feel like it is my place to say anything. I know our facility did the right thing by reporting the abuse, although since I ...

I find myself somewhere in the middle here. As a former CNA, I do my best to not be that nurse that does nothing to help out. But now being on the other side I find myself knowing exactly why nurses seem to only pass meds, chart, etc. I can remember ...

Luckily we do not have too much skin problems, and our CNA's can apply any OTC stuff like A&D, Baza etc. I only have a few that need prescription meds and usually I etheir do it myself or tell the CNA's to yell for me when they are ready to turn ...

Although an embarrassing subject, I do beleive that they have the right unless one cannot consent. We had a couple once that would forget to shut the door. That was a totally diffrent issue then! :) A co-worker told me her experience once with a conf...

Wow interesting thread! I too have had so many experiences that it is hard to narrow it down. They have went from scary (a little woman pleading for me not to leave her because three men were there to take her, she died 8 minutes later) to very peace...

Although, I have never worked in Hospice, I have worked with them together to take care of many pts. in the long term care facility I work at. I have always admired the group of Hospice workers we have now. They are non-profit. The group we had in fo...

Yes I beleive that it is the states scope of practice and the facility policy. Our facility IV certified us, but I went to nursing school in another state so I learned there also.

It has to be family members for me...Sometimes I feel like I am taking better care of the families then the pt. What really gets me is when a family calls for this or that and then gives me "I have been on hold for five minutes!!" when I finally get ...

If you hear of any let me know to, I once heard of a school that does this in Louisville, but my many internet searches have turned up nothing.

I love Long Term Care and in no way consider myself "stuck there". I choose to be there. Our geriatric pts. have the same needs as younger ones, and deserve to have good nurses who care for them and do not feel "stuck". However to answer your questio...

I had to do this also. I remember being nervous about what to say, I defiantly did not want to say the wrong thing :chuckle ! I ended writting about an experience I had when I helped someone who was sick and how good it made me feel. Turned out the ...

I really understand. I work in geriatrics and sometimes wonder if this is why I do. My brother spent some time in a childrens hospital and it tore my heart out to go in and see the sick children. There were so many of them still smiling and laughing ...

I was a CNA first so I was pretty much over the blood, vomit, poop etc. fears. However my biggest fear was a strange one. You know how when someone makes a fist and all their veins pop up? Well nothing has ever grossed me out more. People would do th...

My facility only tests employees if they get hurt on the job. I have always wished that they would at least test when someone is hired, then maybe some random testing throughout the year. Although I do feel like what an employee does on their own ti...

I am not a nursing instructor, but I remember similiar situations in clinicals. Although I do find it ridiculous I can see how it happens. I am suprised that the facility has not commented about this. Especially since a lot of pts. get the same med l...