kieta2006

I read your info and just have to say sometimes you just can't help feeling so threaten by such info we 7cmt's have been there for 10yrs or more we all really love what we do and care about the residents here with in the last 7yrs we have had 6 supervisor (LPN's) come through were i work at its just that we do so much and feel that the company just dont look at that part you just would not believe my employee i work with we fill in for each other our attendance is excellent no girl calls on the weekends plus its only one person on the weekend the last two shifts i would say out of a year most of the girls only call of none at all during the year. thank for you info kieta2006

Wow this post came just in time need opinons i work in a RCF that holds 40 residents but now only have 27 i'm a we have 7 medications tech im one of them we do alot of paper work, wash res. cloths, now will start giving baths to residents,state only required us to have a nurse for only 8hr for the whole week not every day just to go over the paper work and to sgn off on orders i just feel were being overworked but now they are coming up with and almost miss has anyone heard of that out there is an med error and you are to write yourself up because you almost for got a medicine or took something back at the last minute i think this is crazy due to your resident got the right amount of medicine they needed PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THAT OR HEARD OF THIS ALMOST MISS BEING A WRITE UP

I for one truely agree that nurses are not being use as they should be im a med tech in a RCF they have us doing so much office work its not funny. I heard they only came up with med techs to down size which i believe is a mistake due to we are not only doing office work which includes Faxing dr orders ,admission,filing,charting, write uplabs,mail,change overs,make sure dr signs all papers,insulin shots, make beds, tedhose,vital signs,pass meds, asst. residents been at my job for about 13yrs now have seen so much changes going on it look like every day its something new their not looking @ the big pic which is the passing out the right medication over us is a very important job

KUdo's to u go girl there are always pro's and cons but the most i would say is the lifting so now im a medication tech which i love so much better my dream was to pass medications but now as i get older my dreams seem to change or maybe just getting burnt out been in this field since high school

Hi i work in a Asst.living for a non-profit organzation for Lutheran senior service in MO. and we have the same problems with all the med pass,admissions,recaps,3months H&P's,lab reqs.,and now they want us to pick up a whole new positions in laundry and told the people in laundry that they are not needed anymore.The nurses there are only CMT's we are very unhappy we talk to the upper superviser and they told us if we dont like it we can always move on.It 7 CMT's and 1LPN all the cmt's has been there 6yrs and longer and don't wan to move on is there anything we can do to fight this we start JANUARY we tried EEOC,Labor board, but they wantmess with them so i know what u mean when u say were over worked with no pay. We have 40 resdent and 117 people in independent living

Hi. im a Medication Tech. and i live in Missour in a rcf1 we do quit a bit of the nurse work in stead of just medicine which i don't think is fair we even have a CMA doing the same thing we do this is very upsetting to because i think our jobs is on the line do to we do admissions, readmits,put orders on the charts, d/c orders in patients charts,do labs orders,call and faxs for the 3 months DR's signatures,nurse notes,monthly vitals in charts.

HI BOULER GIRL Im a Med Tech to an we are feeling the same as you first name basics with the pharmacy,writing nurses notes in charts,faxes,we even do new admissions coming in.We have 40 people on our unit we check on independent living if someone has to go to the hospital.