yadda_yadda_yadda LPN, LVN

Thank you for your reply--I know that this was a very odd / atypical question. I appreciate the insight. =)

Serious question to all male caregivers/ nurses. I'm a "mom"--my son (caregiver/ in nursing school) came home from work telling me about an unusual event at work. A male RN told him that he, "used a special cocktail" for pericare on male patient...

I have been an LVN/LPN since 1993, with vast experience in geriatrics. Last week, 3/31/2020, I started a new role as "the lead nurse" over an assisted living facility. One Day #3, I had cause to check on a resident as part of alert charting & "sk...

Wow--a bit presumptuous in regard to your statement, "Maybe you aren't really the right person to take the reigns of any facility" So sad that those comments are made within health-care. Good luck to YOU ❤️

@ChickenHealer-- Good to finally hear from a recipient that a symptom tracker/ diary IS being done. I'm not a conspiracy theorist by ANY means...but the dangerous deceit I experienced with receiving the MDCK version of a flu shot does make me th...

Most educated people (nurses or not) are opting out because this is NOT a vaccine, in the sense that we know vaccines to be...It is a Phase 1a product...this is a CLINICAL TRIAL. What alarms me, is that no AE tracking from one patient to another...

Thank all of y'all for your insight & supportive views. Yesterday / the day after this gentleman returned to the community from a 5-day hospital stay, Hospice care had been initiated. The assigned RN came out to assess and measure this wound "off...

NOTHING was documented...NOTHING...I had 2 skin sheets, saying, "Please check xyz...it is getting bigger" (which indicated (to me) that someone had seen/documented some sort of care...nope. The ED has a blank look on her face...is acting clueless as ...

Wow! A topic I can really contribute to! I live in WA State..Had left a long-term gero-psych position & took some 'me time' before jumping back in to finding a job...Interview #1 - Advertised as a Clinic LPN position...Bait & Switch @ the int...

Being floated can definitely freak you out; however, we all have to take a deep breath and remember that we work for the company...not the unit/ hallway/wing, whatever. I agree that being floated away from your team is unsettling, but it broadens you...

Oh, my goodness! Y'all are just baby nurses...you are NOT incompetent. You are BRAND NEW. Give yourselves a break. I've been a LVN/LPN since 1993...and remember feeling like the new kid on the block...BUT...now is the time to take all of the areas wh...

My primary concern/question is bold & underlined below: I work in LTC in WA...outside of the Seattle area. Recently, it was discovered that a Resident Care Manager had been diverting liquid morphine..to herself...for years. This was discovered wh...

SO true! We've got a supervisor that has a select % of the staff as 'FaceBook friends', and actually talks about this in front of the others...and wonders why the morale is as it is. The 'friends', of course, can do no wrong.

I:heartbeat these stories! My boys are now almost 24 & 21. When I was expecting my youngest, his brother was only 3 years old. He had the whole collection of questions, like all of these stories mention..and actually thought we could 'go pick ou...

I couldn't help but to post---this very thing happened to me in 1992 as a student. We were told to line the wall of the ER room & watch only.---The physician running the code did his "YOU..come here" gesture, which my instructor OK'd. He put me r...

As a young child, my Mom always told me that I was 'easily amused'....good to see that 40+ years later, I still am.

Have your ward clerk or Central Supply person order you some "G-Tube Decloggers". Seriously---that's what they're called...they're long, flexible 'probes' that you insert into the lumen of the G-Tube to "Roto-Rooter" the clog loose. They're AWESOME--...

I have to second the "are the meds timed so it's at least do-able" question. Also-it's not just going to be medications...You'll have your treatments, skin assessments, the inevitable falls & incidents, and likely at LEAST 1 meal where you'll hav...

I haven't posted many times here, but always receive support & wise advice when I do..so here goes: I work LTC on the Pacific Coast..and work @ a place where nurses aides are allowed to carry on conversations that are "un-lady-like" while providi...

Limey-- (((( hugs )))) Sounds like we may be coworkers & not even know it. Thank you for your support.--- I wish you the same good luck & blessings. (( hugs ))

Good morning, allnurses! I went to sleep last night when my thread had generated 5 replies...eyes swollen from crying...headache-also from the crying. My husband of 10 years listened attentively through every painful detail of yesterday. After hearin...

Hindsight is 20/20...how I wish I'd interviewed HER.

Hmmm...My nurses aides attend to most of the odors you mention in your original post. I've been a nurse since 1993 because I truly love people. While working alongside other amazing nurses & nurses aides, I make a difference...& I love the ...

AimeeJoRN, the pharmacy tested the bottles left behind--they tested positive for WATER. The suffering residents received WATER. It's just a disgrace to the profession that some white-washed law allows impaired nurses to return to work alongside those...

I can't believe no one responded to my inquiry. The morphine swilling supervisor returns to work tomorrow..and despite many considering drug diversion a "disease", it's a sign of something far,far worse. Its theft, its lying to yourself, your coworke...