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I worked at shoreline...it is really nice there and I only had a max of 10 patients to care for at one time on 3-11 or 11-7 shift. Nurses are pretty happy but short staffed which is why I was called in to assist. I worked med/surg and would do it again in a heartbeat. The town is great and the hospital overlooks C.C. bay which is gorgeous. Dolphins like to play out in the bay. Movie stars work there,Pearl Harbor was filmed there and Ben Afleck was jogging on the bay front. Lots of things to do there. Try it

Boy do I know how that day went for you! This was an everyday occurence in Worthington,Ohio at the assisted living facility I worked for. The 3rd floor is Alzheimers and there were days when the chain reaction was endless. I was the ONLY nurse on the floor and after 8p I was responsible for the building next door as well that housed advanced Alzheimers residents. This tallied to 90 residents at one time.(unsure of the patient-nurse ratio in Ohio) A dementia res. and his wife roomed together on the 3rd floor and he accused me and others of not giving his wife her pills. Half the time he was in his room and she was wandering the halls so he didn't always see us give her the crushed pills . YET..he would call his son and tell him that he wasn't being treated right and he made numerous complaints that I wasn't spending enough time with him. Fact is, he was actually allowed to take his own meds,we just handed them to him.(With the time limit on a med pass I couldn't just stop and CHAT when he wanted and he found this offensive and threatened to have me fired. )I felt I was doing something wrong because he would often put them in his pocket and take them to his room. On numerous occassions the executive director would say *if you can't get them to take their pills let me know* I would let her know and she would take the pills from me and attempt to give them herself. Now, this woman has NO medical background and intimidated me into giving her the meds to give the residents. If I ever told her anything that would correct her if she were wrong about a res. medical condition I could expect a write-up soon thereafter! In the end, I was terminated. I was told to give the care managers the pills and let them try to give the meds,once again, the executive director told me to do this. The care managers in this facility aren't even state tested CNA's they are people who walk in off the street and decide they want to work in long term care! I have been a nurse for 14 years yet I was terminated for trying to do my job correctly! I could go on but I better not..Thanks for helping out!

I worked there a few years ago as a travel nurse even though I actually lived in Corpus Christi. I loved it!!! I miss Texas and sometimes wish I was still there instead of here in Ohio where the jobs aren't as available as they are there. Good Luck!

I totally understand your feelings,I too have gone through the same things you have. I even went so far as to find maggots in a patients dressing after the hospice nurse who came to the facility said she had changed the woman's dressings the day before! In the past month I was terminated for charges that were untrue and yet I was the ONLY nurse in the facility taking care of up 90 patients! There would be 2 emergencies at one time and I had to CHOOSE who would be cared for first. I had NO HELP and yet I was terminated for not doing my job???? In the 9 months I was there I never *lost* a patient and the meds were done as was the treatments.I forgot to sign off 2 meds that I gave and they said I had to sign the MAR 2 weeks later yet on my termination papers they stated I had NUMEROUS errors. I had 2,other nurses had up 47 errors! But I was the one they terminated.The other nurses had a second nurse to help them,I didn't! Hang in there and look elsewhere for somthing smaller,it builds confidence when you succeed and build your way up to the bigger jobs.

Oh let me top that one! For 14 years I have worked all across this country as an LPN and gave all I could to the profession,which covers *petting* families who go over your head if they hear from their alzheimer's diagnosed father that you forgot to give him his pills! At 53 I was fired from a job I had been on for 9 months,a *fellow nurse* believed this patient and went behind my back and wrote me up. The director believed HER and in the end I was terminated! There were other trumped up charges against me as well,I supposedly left pills in a patients room that didn't belong to him.After checking the MAR,my pay stub and my schedule I found that I hadn't even worked that day!So Yes ,I am stressed,now I have no job and 2 vehicle payments to make because someone who was only in the field 3 years saw fit to discredit me. My attorney is working on this and it's sad that after 14 years of dedication to the ones who needed me I am thrown away as if I were disposable!