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You are not hurting me if you don't take your medicine. I do not get paid by the pill.

A J-tag represents isolated immediate jeopardy to the health and safety of the residents.

We had our annual survey a couple of weeks ago. We got 2 J tags. They came back and today they issued the facility a 30 day notice. We have 30 days to find placement for all of our residents. I am so sad. Who is going to take care of our people? Most of them know no where else. They are going to be so lost.

I start on the 28th. I am nervous about the lab part.

The surgeon requesting "Another One Bites The Dust" to be played during the surgery.

In the past, I have found the Pentel RSVP in retractable at Kroger.

Where I worked recently changed our colors to all purple or all white or a combination. No prints. I own many,many print tops and different colored pants, and I am not going to let them go to waste. I wear them when I am off. I wore a print scrub top and jeans to church this morning.

I am on a weekend program. I work 24 and get paid for 36, but we have to pick up an extra day during the week to be considered full time. I work 10 hours on Friday and 12 Saturday and Sunday. Most of the time I work about every day for the overtime.

This week: 5 10 hour shifts and 2 12 hour shifts.

I work in a LTC facility and have for 16 years. I have a ruptured disc (L5) and also have a bone fragment lodged in a nerve in my left leg. I was diagnosed in 1995. My left leg has some numbness in it. It doesn't stop me from working. If I have pain, I take IBU. I am currently a wound care nurse. Plus I am very overweight and I work anywhere from 40 to 80 hours a week.

My mother always told me, "If you go barefooted while on your period, you will get TB and die. That's what killed Phoebe." Phoebe died in the 40's.

Years ago, I took a day off to take my Yorkie for an ultrasound. I found my own coverage. When I had her put to sleep, they gave a night off (without pay), they gave me flowers and got me another dog for my birthday, two months later.

Speaking of night shift nurse who leaves things undone, last night one of our resident's catheter came out. The night shift nurse said she didn't know how to put a catheter in, since she had only been a nurse for two years.

We had a VA survey team in our LTC facility yesterday. The surveyor touring with our DNS kept me busy for about an hour asking me all kinds of questions. The facility doesn't know how we did on the survey yet. I hope we did ok.

I live in West TN. I have been working at the same LTC facility for almost 16 years. I make 16.06, plus I am a weekend worker. Our facility has Baylor.

I have been reading some old posts about state surveyors. How different does the staff act when they are there? I have worked at the same LTC for 16 years. "State" being the building doesn't bother me, but some of our staff goes wild. They are actually funny to watch. We have people coming out of offices and actually talking to residents. One year, our adminstratior (not our present one) was passing trays in the dining room and one resident asked him who he was cause she said she had never seen him before. I was wondering if this was the norm everywhere.

I have been a LPN at a LTC facility for 16 years, since I got out of school. I have no desire to work anywhere else. There are times I get so frustrated, that I think about quitting, but I hang in there. You grow to love your residents and they love you. They depend on you to take care of them. Do I enjoy it? I would have to say yes.