GeneralDogsbody

If you lift in hospital with a non employee of the hospital and an accident happens then does that not affect the insurance? It certainly would here.

i supervise 2 nurses that i really feel are past their prime. these two nurses are older and have a lot of experience(none of which they would share with a new nurse today ) but i think that 25 years ago, they were just as mean and nasty as they are today. has it occurred to you that 25 years ago these nurses where just like you! one nurse is the rn 11p-7a supervisor ( i dscribe her as "sour and bitter" and the other is a 3-11p direct patitent nurse. i am old enough to be their daughter or granddaughter. and in the past they have been very disrespectful to previous don's and adon's. i have spoken to each about improving patient care, internal and external customer service. these are also long time employees of the company. i do believe that they are valued employees but they are very resistant to change. in 25 years service these nurses have seen and adapted to more radical changes in nursing than the younger generation will see. to survive these changes these nurses must have learned new skills and changed their practice beyond recognition from when they first started. i hold all nurses accountable for their work and in the past they were not held to any standards. old habits are very hard to break but i have to think about quality patient care(which can become poor or lacking when not checked). 25 years ago the standards that nurse were held to in training were exacting! young nurses today, quite rightly, would not put up with the rigorous standards that were expected. today's nurses are much more questioning and analytical. i am very mindful about the nasty nurse types and i want to do what i can to get rid of that stereo type. but are some nurses just past their prime? does anyone work with nurses that are simply just grumpy and nasty all of the time! i am one of the old and grumpy brigade who have watched standards go down because of money and commercialism and lack of a realistic staff to patient ratio and also, i might add, watched younger nurses become just as cynical. how do we help these nurses? are they beyond help? we have begun progressive discipline actions and re education with all nurses. i believe in rewarding those that are a team players. i just don't want the negative attitude to continue to spread. i look forward to your comments i may be past my prime but i try and keep my practice current and pass on what i have learned to the younger generation. we may be past it but handled the correct way we still have a lot to give!

OK go and study, we'll still be here when you've finished!( Mind you I love this site as well,have been known to lurk a whole night!)

That was the place I used to work in:crying2: Until we were taken over by the don't care except for profit brigade.:angryfire

Oh you poor thing!!I feel for you.Demanding ,manipulative patients are a nighmare!!Do what you are doing,document,document,document.Also ,when possible have a witness in the room with you.Is there any use speaking to the relatives about her behavior.Maybe they can help( or not!!) Remember this is only one patient,she will not be there forever.Do you enjoy working there other than her? I expect your NM is probably as worried,re complaints etc.

We have ,in the past ,used bean chairs but I think these are now frowned on as well! We can use a lap strap on a wheelchair but only when the chair is moving!We have call mats but usually by the time you get there they have already fallen! When you think about it 'dragging someone around with the nurses' is as much a restraint to freedom as sitting them in a nice cosy geri-chair!

Do you have anything like the European time directive in the US? This is something we have to sign which states wether we want to work over 40 hours(I think). If people sign this then they can work as much overtime as they can get.However there is a rule that you have to have X number of hours rest between shifts,especially ,for instance,if you come of a night shift then do a late shift the same day.

Gee I would look upon this as a learning opportunity!!I used to love being sent to different wards! I think the only one I didn't like was ENT but then they also had girls there who had miscarried which was very sad.

I've had carers who speak over patients !It makes me sooo mad!No matter how many times you tell them not to (they don't do it when they are with me)I hear them when they are in rooms talking about everything under the sun and not talking to their patient.Worse still are the non-english speaking ones who talk in their own language while attending to someone.I can't think of anything worse to a confused person than to wake up and hear speach that they just don't understand!

There's talk of us getting carers over from the phillipines.Reading these agency 'promises'makes me wonder what these carers are being promised to bring them over.They will be on minimum wage with us and have to support themselves with that.

Does he have a zimmer frame he can hold onto? We have some very tottery olds who have benefited from using zimmers or walkers.

Even though we try,some smells just seem to linger!!We have special powdered stuff that we can sprinkle on the carpets to soak up odours.We also repaint and recarpet each room when that resident departs. The main culprits are the residents who decide to pee in corners in the corridors!!

I work two on ,four off in a cycle.