catlynLPN

catlynLPN

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  1. How did it come to this?

    catlynLPN replied to Southernurse's topic in General Nursing

    I'm burned out, too. My fire and ambition is gone. I'm ready to quit and I would if I could live on my retirement alottment I will get from the state, but it won't be enough. So I plan 7 more...

  2. cna's doing dressings??

    catlynLPN replied to gt4everpn's topic in General Nursing

    If the aides are doing the dressings, then who is assessing the wound? I would not have left medication at the bedside, while I left the room. Now, what if her b/p was really low and it needed to be...

  3. HIPAA and ROI policies

    catlynLPN replied to miko014's topic in General Nursing

    Where I work, which is akin to a LTC, the people we can give information to, BESIDES the guardian, their names are blocked in a PINK color on the face sheet. If the guardian, or in your case, the...

  4. CNA/LPN/RN transition & nursing homes

    catlynLPN replied to InTheMeantime's topic in General Nursing

    Just throwing in my 2 cents worth, but with you being a single parent it looks like there should be some kind of assistance out there for you to go to school without having to work full time. LPN...

  5. Is there ANY department in nursing that I can avoid cleaning up poo?

    catlynLPN replied to Future-nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Where I work, people tend to smear feces quite often. More than once I've seen the aides at our facility, they are titled LST's, {Life Skills Trainers} have to clean up smeared feces, or clean it off...

  6. what are these people thinking???

    catlynLPN replied to RNmom08's topic in General Nursing

    A co-worker of mine discovered that her lunch came up missing. Come to find out the dental assistant had taken her sandwich and given it to one of the resident's to eat. Just no respect, no concern...

  7. help what would u do?

    catlynLPN replied to Big Smurf2007's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I agree with eldragon. People try to put their work off on me, too, but I do what I'm assigned to do, not what someone else should have done. I was asked to come in early one day and relieve the...

  8. bar coding for med administration

    catlynLPN replied to quizzical315's topic in General Nursing

    We use barcoding where I work. It's a PITA. The pharmacy doesn't barcode all of the medications, which they are supposed to, so we end up having to print barcodes. I have run across barcodes that...

  9. Tell me if this would be legal

    catlynLPN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Ok, here are the circumstances. This is long, so bear with me. We have this computer system where I work to give medications by. Everything {meds} are charted in the computer. This computer still...

  10. Tell me if this would be legal

    catlynLPN replied to catlynLPN's topic in General Nursing

    Ok, thanks to all who replied. I can see now, that it could and should be corrected by the DON, for those med sheets to reflect the truth. I was NOT on dayshift, only time I've worked days is that I...

  11. Tell me if this would be legal

    catlynLPN replied to catlynLPN's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I wasn't asking for advice to FOLLOW....just OPINIONS on the possible legality or illegality of the situation. I REALLY think that someone is going to have to correct it, but I don't know who...

  12. Has this happened to any of you? I'm shocked..

    catlynLPN replied to Kellied1983's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'd like to know who makes up those rules anyway! When I first went to work on my job, years ago, they said I had to be able to lift something like 80-100 lbs. That's ridiculous. A person could injure...

  13. My D.o.n. Is So Unprofessional!!!!

    catlynLPN replied to RNFROMTHEHILL's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Wow! What a witch! Don't you just hate that kind of treatment? I've had that happen to me, too, and it is sooo embarrassing. Why can they not at least pull you in the office behind closed doors???...

  14. two questions

    catlynLPN replied to UtErRnEmt's topic in General Nursing

    They can monitor your emails on your computer at work. If it's anything you don't want anyone to see best thing is not do it at work. Keep it at home. The other part of your question, about the...

  15. How short-staffed is short-staffed?????

    catlynLPN replied to rn4ever?'s topic in General Nursing

    Oh, boy, do I feel your pain in your post. For many years, I worked my job short handed. Things were tough for a long time, a very long time, like for 25 years. But the manager has put in a new...

  16. Love the job, hate the nurses

    catlynLPN replied to *ac*'s topic in General Nursing

    Those type of people are tattletale brown nosers. We used to have two where I work, but they are no longer there. Unfortunately for them, they both died of cancer. One from cancer of the uterus and...

  17. Am being treated poorly

    catlynLPN replied to sharann's topic in General Nursing

    Here's my thoughts. Take a class and learn to speak/understand her language. Then she won't have an edge over you. {Not that I think that is the way Americans should have to do...I don't think that....

  18. Love the job, hate the nurses

    catlynLPN replied to *ac*'s topic in General Nursing

    That makes me wanna scream, too. In my situation where I work, I go into the homes where the people live and find medication carts or cabinets unlocked all the time. But I will NOT not tell on the...

  19. doing rounds on 11-7

    catlynLPN replied to Calgon-take.me.away's topic in General Nursing

    Well, state law says they have to be checked q2hrs for incontinence and turning. The people doing it should be quieter so as to disturb as little as possible. In my state it's illegal to get them up...

  20. Ex smokers

    catlynLPN replied to greatshakes's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I smoked for 18 years, and have been quit for about 10 now. For the last 3-4 years of smoking I stayed sick with bronchitis and had that smokers cough, too. The doctor told me if I didn't quit I...

  21. I don't think I can handle this!

    catlynLPN replied to eldragon's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Quit. Just quit. Isn't your sanity and health more important? How can you help anyone if you're in the looney bin or dead?? I thought I had it bad at my LTC. Mine is nothing compared to

  22. I am thinking abut getting a job at a nursing home (any advice/tips?)...

    catlynLPN replied to raindrop's topic in General Nursing

    The advice that I have is, as an RN don't play favorites, don't get friendly with any of the aides, keep it professional because you're going to have slackers on all 3 shifts. You must discipline the...

  23. What besides the obvious do state inspectors look for in LTC?

    catlynLPN replied to kstec's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Here are some things that I see in the LTC that I work in that are so obvious you'd have to be blind to not see them. Lack of mouth care dirty fingernails filthy refrigerators filthy med carts and on...

  24. backstabbed at work

    catlynLPN replied to NuHappyRN's topic in General Nursing

    She did it, because she's a tattletale and alot of management people like tattletales......that doesn't make what she said about you true....they just like to do this sort of stuff and management...

  25. Don't Smile...You're on Candid Camera

    catlynLPN replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    They are getting ready to install cameras in my facility, in the residences where the people live. There will be a camera in the living room and one in the kitchen, but not one in the room where the...