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I detest people when they choose to ignore ADD or ADHD, simply because it is not an obvious disability to their eyes. Such people wouldn't think of depriving a quadriplegic of a wheelchair, but they would deny people with ADD/ADHD meds and/or reason...

Charting and vitals on medicare patients every shift should be a BIG RED FLAG.

I swear by TED hose. They make your legs feel great even for days after you've worn them!

Never chart when off the clock. I read of one instance in which a RN had her license suspended by the state nursing board for doing so. The executive director said it a thousand times, if she said it once; "it's doable on paper",,,interpretation; she...

Every LTC facility gets paid the same as every other LTC facility by Medicare. Just looking at the condition of the facilities and its employees should tell you a LOT.

Sounds like Piscesgirl was orienting at PMC. I went through the same thing. Sounds like some hospitals are just all about the bean counters. The bottom line is that you can refuse to take on the full responsibility of the patient load. You know, l...

We nurses were just discussing this very thing the other day. Dr. comes in and spends 3.4 minutes with each patient, doesn't even look up from his clipboard to examine physical sites being pointed out by patients and nurses, mumbles orders (afterall,...

There's one in Kansas City and the night staffing is 1 RN to 40 patients on skilled nursing. I wonder if that's even legal in Kansas. If anyone has the answer, please respond. It's sister facility in Granview, Missouri has a much better reputation.

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Not only can you become a CNA at a certain point in your nursing school in the State of Kansas, you can also sit for the exam to become a CMA (pass some meds) once you pass a particular point in nursing school. Your school or your State Board of Nur...

I've been called everything from a CNA to a RN,,but these days my patients think I'm their very own concierge.

I heard about this color transparency therapy for ADHD about a decade ago. I was very skeptical at first, having dyslexia and ADHD, but surprised when a pink filter worked wonders for me! Some things work better for some people than others, but it wo...

I commiserate with you about the financial aid office. They are the worst! One year they sent out over 3000 letters to students and former students telling them that their grades made them academically ineligible for financial aid. I knew it was a mi...

Some acute care/skilled and LTC facilities use CMAs or med aides to dispense some meds, take vital signs, and do finger sticks. LPNs with IV certification are more desirable in those facilities at times, only because they have a broader scope of prac...

Been there and done that! At a certain skilled and acute care nursing facility in Kansas City, KS, anyone who actually does their job gets brow beaten and their hours cut if they work overtime charting so the facility can get paid by Medicare. Emplo...

EEOC enforces complaints against institutions for age discrimination. If we don't report it, nothing will change. US EEOC Home Page

Sounds like you may have grounds to file a complaint for age discrimination with the US EEOC Home Page It could mean that you all get back pay, your jobs back (if you want them) and protections against future retaliation and job loss.

US Dept of Health and Human Services offers this Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program, that you can work off nursing school funding by working in facilities; http://www.hrsa.gov/loanscholarships/repayment/nursing/ I don't know of any program in K...

You wouldn't want me having a BLUE LIGHT! I already drive like I'm on my way to a fire!

I heard a few of my prior nursing instructors say that ADN/RNs only make about a dollar less than BSN/RNs, but that's not been my real life experience. A BSN/RN also opens up many more employment opportunities than ADNs. To my knowledge, only the Arm...

I was lucky to have 5 patients per shift! I normally had 6 and was up to bat for any new admits. Early on in my preceptorship, learning period, I had 7. You can't learn anything with that many patients. I've known many other new nurses who have had ...

First, I'm going to validate that "nurses eat their young". Horizontal violence is a fact of nursing life. Not all nurses engage in eating young nurse, but enough do. That statement should not be a problem if you don't happen to be a nurse who eats y...

I'm with you! Document, document, document, No opinions, just the facts.

We work 12 hr shifts, 7-7, which means we are there at 6:15 to prepare to take report, and we leave between 7:15-7:30,,sometimes later to finish paperwork off the clock. If I take 6 patients at the beginning of shift it usually means I won't have to ...

According to the NCLEX-RN review books, if you get the 265 questions, the very last one is the determiner as to whether you passed or not, because half of your answers have been correct (above the line) and half have been wrong (below the line). Do y...