mondkmondk

mondkmondk has 17 years experience and specializes in Geriatrics.

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1. An RN friend being set up at her job, are even threatening her license; need advice

   mondkmondk replied to mondkmondk's topic in General Nursing

   A psychiatric nurse told me that Ambien definitely comes up as a benzo on a urine drug screen. I know it is a sedative/hypnotic, but other people have told me that too. When I said she passed her...

2. An RN friend being set up at her job, are even threatening her license; need advice

   mondkmondk replied to mondkmondk's topic in General Nursing

   Ugh. In response to the meds being their business question, most health care facilities in our area do a drug test upon hire and random ones they feel as necessary. I know Ambien and Xanax would...

3. An RN friend being set up at her job, are even threatening her license; need advice

   mondkmondk replied to mondkmondk's topic in General Nursing

   Well, I know she takes Ambien CR and they've given her static over that in the past. I think the place she works wants healthy hearty nurses on NO meds at all. I know another nurse who used to work...

4. An RN friend being set up at her job, are even threatening her license; need advice

   mondkmondk replied to mondkmondk's topic in General Nursing

   I just got off the phone with her; she is already notifying an atty who is a friend of her parents'. She says she has never had any action taken against her license of over 20 years and cannot...

5. An RN friend being set up at her job, are even threatening her license; need advice

   mondkmondk posted a topic in General Nursing

   I have a friend who is an RN who just got out of a psychiatric hospital. She has problems sleeping and today was supposed to work and did try to go to work although she was very groggy. She tried to...

6. Sex offenders

   mondkmondk replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in Geriatric, LTC

   One facility I worked in a couple years ago had a sex offender as a resident whose crime was molestation of female children...his own granddaughter being just one of his victims at the age of 6. He...

7. Advice regarding termination

   mondkmondk replied to surfnbeagle's topic in Geriatric, LTC

   Ditto what CapeCod said in our state too (Missouri). One facility fired me for excessive abscences. I did put on the next application that I was fired, but never asked why. Claiming you were...

8. Want to hear your pet peeves in LTC nursing

   mondkmondk replied to mondkmondk's topic in Geriatric, LTC

   The DON that used to be a staff floor nurse that when she was a floor nurse, used to cut up with you and joke and laugh and was a great person to be around. But once she got "DON" behind her name,...

9. should I complaint?

   mondkmondk replied to pretty70's topic in Geriatric, LTC

   I wouldn't complain. The staffing sounds adequate to me. 3 CNA's and a nurse to 30 residents? That is approx. 7 residents to each staff person. That for LTC is really not bad. Anxious to hear...

10. Student nurses do the darndest things

    mondkmondk replied to NurseNinaFla's topic in General Nursing

    I had my RN clinicals at a big teaching hospital notorious for the nurses playing practical jokes on the students. My patient was just out of OR for a hip replacement and was cold. The only blanket...

11. Very disappointed in treatment by fellow co-workers

    mondkmondk posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I was placed on a wing last night that I had never worked before. 45 residents. I told my boss I wasn't comfortable working without at least one shift of orientation. I don't even know where half...

12. Worried about a couple fellow co-workers and what this may mean for the rest of us

    mondkmondk replied to mondkmondk's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Well, I hate gossip/rumors etc. so I'm going to let this drop. If the nurses in question want me to know, they will surely tell me...or tell my hubby since he works with them. I was just worried...

13. Share your story: How did you land your first nursing job?

    mondkmondk replied to KeepItReal21's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I took a CNA class when I was a senior in high school and worked in a LTC facility while going to LPN school. I stayed on there after graduating and worked several years as an LPN before I went...

14. Selecting malpractice insurance provider

    mondkmondk posted a topic in General Nursing

    Was interested in hearing how much liability amount you get...and who is the provider? I used to have this back when I was full time through NSO I think it was but when I went prn I let it lapse....

15. Worried about a couple fellow co-workers and what this may mean for the rest of us

    mondkmondk replied to mondkmondk's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I never worked the wing the patient was on, but she was on my wing upon initial admission for about a week. I don't think back then that she was a DNR, but that very well could've changed. My hubby...