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Hi all. I would appreciate any tips in this area. I have been a RN in 2 LTC facilities. Our local hospital is having ad after ad for RNs. I interviewed 2 weeks ago and have never heard back...not even the no thank you letter. I feel as if my e...

I work in our hospitals snf unit, we hold 18 bed and had 15 pts this am with 2 admits expected, 4 hoyers pts and 2 coming were also. Mondays always suck, always. Our clinical leader/charge is excellent, but extremely anal and nasty on Mondays--wond...

:roll :roll The only reason I got the rn was because my campus is busy from the discharges from the main campus which is currently flexing people like crazy with low census. :roll :roll I still am amazed, they cooperated together their lunch brea...

A side off your original topic, but curious. I currently had a patient about 25 days out of a AAA with an epidural that the end of all resulted in paraplegia and on to renal failure currently on dialysis. Testing is indicating no 'found' reason for...

Our policy is that only nongroshong or the unusal from other facilities that are not groshongs are flushed with heparin bid and/or after an infusion or blood drawl. Groshong piccs are flushed with 10cc ns bid for unused ports, always after infusions...

No way would I bring it home, no compensation for that. SmilinBlueEyes, I love this quote from Chris Rock, it is great: "You KNOW the world has gone crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest basketball pla...

The teen mother had many issues and rooming in wasn't going to solve it. Unfortuantely she wasn't open to your teaching and the baby suffered for it. As rooming in being manadtory, well, thank god it wasn't with my 5. I kept all of my babies al...

MEMEMEME. What a great chance to increase my knowledge. I worked ltc for about 5 years and went to our hospitals snf unit 15 months ago. I am the mds coordinator in title, although things are quit different here than ltc with this title. We are a...

Well, it is pleasant to know that my last 80 hours plus whatever overtime I've lost track of in the last 11 days running in circles providing care and teaching for my patients and their ridiculous families was for not. What the heck was I doing t...

I think I'm just looking for a little imput from those with different perspectives. My mom just turned 54 2 weeks ago. Last July was dx with cervical ca stage3A, extremely virulent form. Complete hysterectomy performed without complications. Then...

I'll try to keep my rather long winded self short here. I work in our hospitals skilled unit. I work the floor 7-3:30 and then do MDS until 5:30. I had MDS stuff left over uncompleted yesterday so I needed to get there to get it done today. I hav...

Fergus, thanks. We have the same policy on our ivs. Just ticked me off today when I over and over go out of my way doing things when I have my office days or on my office time do things to help and it gets to be expected of me instead of some appre...

YYEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!! Congratulations!!!

Hi Tinker, Just wanted to tell you congratulations on your license and new job. You will survive and live to tell about tomorrow. Your memory will provide information at odd times. My best advice is remember they know you are a new grad. They expe...

Prayers and hugs to you and your family.

I'm disgusted. I've always been prochoice with early pregnancies believing I had the right to choose my future, not the government. In all honesty I had stayed away from this topic many times because it makes me physically sick to imagine this occu...

I work at our hospitals skilled unit, visiting hours are supposed to be 1100-1900. I have found a few things that have aided this problem. We now have scheduled therapy times and pts have the times posted each night for the next day. When I approa...

I do 4 10's. I work 07-1530 on the floor and then 1530-1730 in the office. Much better than 12's of any kind. If I running late I just don't get my office work completed and my NM works on some on my days off. I get the benefit of leaving on time...

Good Job!! I'm on day 6. I've never made it past day 5 so that was a great thing for me. Yesterday was really difficult for my coping and I had a 82 year COPDer (doll of a gal) who had quit in Dec after 65 years. That was what go me thru the da...

I wore one everyday, except for Holloween for 3 years in a ltc facility. This was 1997-2000. All floor nurses were required too. But, of course, noc nurses Never did, weekends depended on the supervisor. If you were a day shift nurse, watch out...

this would be so typical and easily believed of Dubya.......hahaha

darvocet and lortab together??? does that make sense to anyone else?? i guess i've seen some wierd combinations, but never this together. I hope the pain improves. Watch those acetaminophen doses, and don't forget stomach irritation throwing that...

My first ltc orientation lasted 3 days and I had 38 residents with 2 cnas a 1 bath aide. This was a new grad a year after school ended before I decided to go make that education work for me. After about 3 weeks I would pass those pills within 2 hou...

At a former employeer we had an lpn supervisor. This was a 340 bed ltc/snf facilty. This gal was chosen because she knew her business way more than the most rns on staff....but she did just recently obtain her rn. Regardless, she was able to super...

I just started my position in July, hands on training and self educating. I spent over 4 years in LTC and just couldn't take it anymore....not the residents, the whole lack of staff, support, pay etc. So, I applied at our hospitals skilled nursing ...