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  1. I have only been a nurse a couple of months and work in a LTC home. I've had basicly no training there, but hey, I can pass meds like crazy. I absolutely dont know what I am to expect from the CNA's....
  2. In short, I was orienting for a week as a new LPN at a LTC home. On day one, a certain pt's AHR was only 50 so I held his Dig. On day two, I noticed that the MAR and the doctors order called for...
  3. I don't work in a hospital, the MI pts I see live in the community and walk in to our center, kind of like a doctors office. Or we use our vehicles to transport them ourselves. Our pts are the same...
  4. After sitting for almost an hour using a sharpie to black out names on pharmacy bottles, I'm wondering if there is a better way to dispose of patients medicine bottles with their names on them. Where...
  5. I've only been a nurse a couple of months and took a job in LTC, hence I'm a "charge nurse". My nursing school was excellent but we werent taught ANY leadership skills. I'm not assertive, and I'm...
  6. I was wondering what area of nursing tends to have the happiest nurses? Surely there's been a study on it? And in contrast, I wonder what area of nursing tends to hold the most unhappy...
  7. I am assuming I was just offered a job, pending background check and drug screening. That's what a background and urine usually mean, I hear. Both checks will be fine, but two of the meds I take are...
  8. Well, the person who hired me actually IS the person doing the urine collecting. I don't know why I'm embarrased, I guess because it's proof I'm not as awesome as I appear to be. hahaha But I really...
  9. I had another question that is bothering me to no end. I have been "orienting" at the LTC home and have been pretty much passing meds on my own. There is a situation where one day, I had to hold a...
  10. In short, I'm a new nurse and just had to stay up all night to work. Anytime in my life, staying up all night or not getting more than a few hours sleep, I am so sick and it takes the whole next day...
  11. my biggest problem is how do I tell a crazy lazy psycho CNA that she needs to prioritize, she cant be leaving the floor all the time, she needs to not up the O2, she ... oh hell, I jsut dont know how...
  12. I have talked to two different people in the DONS. Ya think anything has happened? Nope. And I had no idea we could write up CNA's. Now, I just need to "grow some" and do it. Oh, I finished the shift...
  13. The thing with calling off, every single day for the past few weeks, SOMEONE is mandated on a shift. Then they call off or quit. Hence, a cycle. Because the call off isnt in due time, agency doesnt...
  14. Just wanted to add that I have done doubles and such before w/o any difficulty, I can work sun up to sun down and be just fine ....but forcing myself to stay awake all night when my body is used to a...
  15. I'm a brand new nurse and I keep reading and hearing things like "I'm not going to work in a place that's going to make me lose my license" Also, how can what the CNA's do affect my license? I've been...
  16. What/How do I delegate to the CNA?

    I get along great with them, I'm just not used to being "in charge" of anything. And I have no idea what to expect from them. But as for getting to know everyone, we all get along great for the most...
  17. I'm a new grad who just starting working at a LTC home and first let me say, I love my job so far. There is alot that I was taught in school that isn't done at the facility and it bothers me to not...
  18. After taking the NCLEX PN, I was positive i failed. Nothing on there made sense to me, I felt as if the questions were written in Greek. Thank you to everyone who encouraged me! It really helped...
  19. I absolutely do not mean to sound cold, but I have just started working in LTC and most of it is a very long med pass. While doing the med pass, I have found that alot of time is "wasted" (I really...
  20. I know that MRSA in the sputum is a contact or droplet precaution. Either way, here is my problem. In this LTC facility, we admitted someone who is + sputum for MRSA. There are no precautions being...
  21. Concerns about routines

    I'm new too, and working at a LTC home. My "orientation" consisted of taking on the med pass for whatever nurse I was with that day. A few days before I was put out on my own, another nurse did show...
  22. Why am I not using ANY precautions with MRSA?

    I do know that the dx of MRSA is recent, as in the day before coming to our facility. As for being colonized...I didn't check or know how to check on that. I got all the discharge papers from the...
  23. need answers about working during clinicals...

    i wasn't able to handle work and school because i don't have family to rely on to help with the kids, so i was able to get help from the state. it was a *****, and it felt like i was going insane with...
  24. How do you not get caught up with long winded patients?

    Thank you for the really helpful replies. I am such a "nice" person who never wants to hurt anyones feelings, so it really is going to be a challenge for me to kinda cut someone off...I just have to...
  25. first let me say that i have always been very good at test taking and school work. i made it through a tough lpn program here and rarely had to study. so, of course i felt ready for the nclex today....