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Perfect example today: At lunch break and I had went ten minutes late. An RN comes into the break room and says that we need to start going to breaks on time and return on time so that everyone is in the dining room to pass trays. OK that's fair but, I was performing resident care and that made me late to break, whatever. So at lunch while there are members needing fed where is the RN? down the hall putting away clothes...while a member directly behind her is saying somebody help me! My butt hurts and I want to go to bed! Did she put that man to bed? Nope Did she come help feed in the dining room? Nope.

If she says that at all her interviews she goes on I bet she's still looking for a job.

I think working as a CNA prior to becoming a nurse makes you a better nurse. You know what the job of CNA is like because you've experienced it. These nurses know it's not beneath them to change an attend, help someone to the bathroom, or answer a call light. Besides, isn't it neglectful for a nurse to leave a pt. who asks for help to the restroom in order to find a CNA to take them?

Well someone either listened to what I was saying or actually assessed him themselves. His x-ray showed a major dislocation. Taken to ER. What I find surprising is that everyone kept saying, well the x-ray from the hospital showed it was in place. That x-ray was from when he fell, like a week ago. Anything could happen in that amount of time. I don't understand why no one wanted to go and actually assess him. It wasn't hard to tell that his knees didn't line up and one leg was shorter than the other.

he had surgery after the first fall but I don't know if it was a total hip replacement or hemiarthroplasty. When he fell the second time the affected hip was dislocated. What I'm wondering is, following a hip surgery do most patients have equal or unequal leg lengths?

So how did John react when you told him he had the wrong patient and the wrong dosage? During clinical we did an observation in ICU and the nurse that I was following asked me to give our pt. the oral meds that she had pulled and checked against the MAR. I said I would but I'd like to check them for myself, so when I did I found that there was an extra dosage of Amiodarone included in what she had handed me. I gave her back the meds and told her about the extra pill. She said oh I thought the order read two Amiodarone. It read one ...mg Amiodarone twice daily. Can you imagine what could have happened if I would have given those meds without checking them first? It would have been a good thing the patient was already in ICU!

Hi, I'm a recent nursing graduate waiting for my ATT to arrive. I'm currently working as an aide and have concerns about a pt. Recently a pt. fell and fractured a hip, then a few days later fell again and dislocated the same hip. Pt. was sent to the hospital, treatment was a closed reduction. X-ray's verified correct placement. The patient's affected leg is at least one inch shorter than the other and complains of pain. He had minimal complaints of pain prior to second fall and was able to stand with little assistance. Now he is difficult to transfer even with the assist of two. I told the RN caring for him about my concerns and she looked at his leg. She said that it wasn't abnormally rotated and that the x-ray confirmed placement. I also asked my supervisor about the leg length discrepancy. She told me that most patients with hip fracture repairs will have leg lengths different from each other. I'm wondering if this is true. It seems to me that corrected alignment should make the legs equal lengths. Does anyone know about hip fracture repairs?