southernbeegirl BSN, RN

All these threads about staffing ratios are driving me nuts! I have worked LTC for 16 years now. Staffing is what it is people. It is not going to change or get better. It is what it is. The decision you need to make is "Do I want to work in LTC...

Honestly, I don't care to give them their pills either. It's the manipulation you have to deal with leading up to their med time that drives me nuts! They always have that behavior, never fail. They lie, say you didn't give it, try to manipulate y...

I told yall about my husband because I did see some talking about how patients were sleeping. that was all. How he was treated is for another thread someday. But it was one of the reasons i became a nurse. I shouldn't have said anything on this ...

I also want to say something but am NOT preaching or trying to ruin a vent thread, k? I have posted about this before I think. My first husband lived in horrible pain. He had porphyria and would be in the hospital for 2-3 months at a time sometimes...

I always just give what is ordered. I'm so tired of drug seekers too. The patients in LTC are getting younger and younger. When we see a young person (40s, 50s) on the admit list, we all dread it because it seems they are the ones that always have...

No, there is not a difference. I am a drug addict in recovery, almost 8 years now. I also suffer from chronic back pain that is, at time, almost crippling. I have struggled, with my doctor, to find a pain regimen that works for me that is the lea...

Hi guys! I have worked in LTC for 16 yrs. I have listened to ER nurses, EMTs, paramedics talk about "nursing home" nurses. I have worked hard to develop a good working relationship with the on call docs that my facility uses, the local EMS and ER ...

great replies guys, thanks!

I'm kind of shy

did you think all the extra "!" would help us answer this?

How do you help yourself? Just do it. Stop wallowing in self pity and put one foot in front of the other. Not to be crash but how are we supposed to know how to help you if you can't help yourself?

I'm staging a site wide intervention for you people. Your cowbell addiction is taking over!

I would go with the pink ones. The purple ones kinda make your butt look big, becky:smokin:

Ooh this list is great! I am so stealing it. Thanks again!

We have no choice about our "handwritten" orders. Although hospitals are completely online, SNFs are not. When we get an admission, the entire process much be handwritten by us. A normal SNF admit takes 2 hours minimum to complete and it is all ha...

Thank you guys so much for all the replies! I have shared much of this with my coworkers. I think we are doing a much better job. As for the poster that stated something about us sending dying, DNR patients to the ER. Please believe you me...it is...

Stat Banana.

I just wish it was a joke. I really did dry my cat in the dryer. Not on purpose but still he got in there. I was doing laundry and how he did it I will never know, but he jumped in the dryer without me realizing it. About 10 minutes later I start...

During nursing school I called in once because i had dried my cat in the dryer the night before and had to take him to the vet. My instructor was like "you did WHAT?". I don't think they believed me so I had my vet write me a note, lol. (thankfull...

:rolleyes:

I took my littlest stepson to get football cleats a few weeks ago. The guy helping us told him which shoes he needed, telling him "I could tell my watching you walk you have a low arch". He told me how people think he is weird because that is the f...

I have a patient with a daughter that is convinced she can tell when her potassium levels are low just by looking at her despite showing no s/s. The woman has no h/o of hypokalemia at all but the daughter is convinced she can tell this. We have had...

So you think our smoking policy is unfair?? Good God! Three times a day I have to pull my, allready stressed from too many patients,staff off the floor to take your whining self out to smoke. You are lucky we have allow smoking in our facility. M...

Wow. some of the egos in nursing are HUGE.

I have worked weekends for 7 years. I work Fri - Sat. I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!