Buddha

Congradulations! I too left a 6 year LTC job after much abuse. I love my new job, I am sure you will too. It took a few months at my new job to feel like home, but now it feels great. I hear from friends that the abuse at my old job continues, I fe...

As god has only gave you one back to live the rest of your life with, you must protect it at all cost. NEVER transfer alone again if you are in doubt. Believe me it is not worth it for you or your patients. What would have happened had your dropped h...

Hello I am a charge nurse in LTC and have been one for 9 years. Basically, your are a supervisor for the hall or dept assigned, maybe for a facility if a RN is not avaible. I have a hall I am responsile for ( i.e. and making sure the CNA's are co...

The top five in Ohio LTC. 1. EC ASA-well, we gotta have heart 2. colace- for the anal obessed 3. Vioxx- we are a rehab facility aren't we? 4. Remeron- appetite stimulant and anti-depressive a two for one punch 5. Lortab- who wants to wait ...

I admit i have never treated an illegal in LTC. I have treated an elderly people whom were basicaly abandoned in my facility, whom our home was eating the cost of their stay. We would purchase out of our own pockets whatever that person needed, witho...

I live in a little community in central Ohio were we are having an explosion of illegal aliens from Mexico. We as a county are going in the red trying to provide equal support and services to this group. Our legal services have had to make an emerge...

When I applied to my program all I had to do is have my Md perform a physical. I had to have a hepitits titre and a tetnus shot. I still don't see why depression would hold you from getting into a program. Heck most of the nurses i know working are b...

No hiring someone if they had or being treated for depression or whatever is called discrimination. If you can fufill the physical requirements of a postion is all that matters. I say that if i was asked to fill out a Dx or med sheet on an applicatio...

Congradulation on becoming a nurse BTW. THe previous posts are pretty accurate. I started out on 11-7 many years ago but had a fantastic mentor to help me. If your going to be the only nurse in your building on nights I would rethink becoming brok...

I was working 11-7 in an one hundred bed LTC facility at night when I heard a loud thump at the end of a hall. Our facility was X shaped and the nurses station is at the center. The other nurse was on break and since the girls were doing rounds I wa...

My ex-BIL stole a script pad from a doc during a visit for an employment phyisical. He wrote about a dozen scripts for narcs, think it was Percocet and Methadone. He was caught and served three years in prison, my SIL divorced him, and he he now is...

Well girls and guys what do you think about the Blackout of 2003 being blamed on Ohio. I have purposely avoided Jay Leno to keep clear of the jokes. Only in Ohio could we be responsible for all the light going out. Now I know why my eletric Bill is s...

I love LTC. Please leave this in General Please Moderators so my felllow nurses can read it, and it won't be lost in the shuffle, OK. PLEASE. I LOVE LTC! Yes! I admit it. I love older adults who having lived all their lives with their family and the...

As a Nurse I am embarressed by what happened, but wonder what the ratio per Pt/Nurse was and wonder what was the unit manager in charge was doing. Checks and Balances is definently needed here. My sympathy goes out to the familys of both women.

They are two threads started by this same person on AllNurses. As I can symphatize with this poster it does no good to FLAME people whom are trying to help her/him. I agree with Angus,Erin, and the others whom posted replies in a mature manner and di...

BRAVO ANGUS

I work in LTC. I am a LPN who has worked for 9 years here and in diffrent facilities. I have taken phone orders, transcribed orders from transfers,office visits, and have done monthy change-overs. I have even wrote orders for a DNR with another nurse...

We-Rn I totally agree with your post. I LOVE LTC and have no reason to leave it, I just placed my own grandma in mine for needed Rehab to recover from a two week hospital stay. If I coulld take her home believe me I would. Our goal is to be hom...

Well Girls and Guys, We did it again we WON!! I thought we were great even without Clarett. Good for us. Becoming seriously addicted here someone needs to help me. LOL. My seven year old was upset cause Clarett was out but, who needs him. HE...

My Dh loves Osu so much that we have a OSU christmas tree up all year long. I have learned to accept that on Sat during the footaball season that we are homebound. Maurice Clarett needs o shut up and go away. I feel he is a disgrace to all OSU playe...

I love Tubby's pizza in marion, ohio....Omg! I can eat it all week. I love going also to the Poor House in Upper Sandusky.

For just sitting and relaxing I love going to the Marblehead Lighthouse. The camping on the Penninsula is great. Ohio is a great state to live in and visit. I am glad to be a Buckeye!

Thank you for the reply Paula. I will.

Hello All. Just wanted to pick a few good brains. I am having surgery Sept 12 at a major Columbus Ohio Hospital ,but I admit I am scared a bit . Do any of my fantastic nurse friends have any ideas to help get get what i need ro make it thru the...

Where did leg warmers get into a discussion about gross me out stuff? I honsetly say i thought i could handle it all . My most gross out moment occured when i was changing a decub dressing from a patient that went home on her own from another ECF a...