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1. Incentive for aides

   greencatgreencat replied to qajen's topic in LTC Directors

   We have started " Candy Grams" at our facility. These are simply candy canes with a tag attached. They are kept in the DON's office and the staff nurses can request to send one to a CNA in the building. The messages are written by the nurse, usually ...

2. Accuracy with new admissions!!

   greencatgreencat posted a topic in LTC Directors

   Does anyone have any helpful teaching ideas or inservice tools they have used in the past to train nurses on doing new admissions accurately?! We have inserviced and inserviced and nurses still can't get it right. We use an admission checklist, and ...

3. Do I have what it takes?

   greencatgreencat replied to Ilovelucy2's topic in LTC Directors

   The LTC I work in recently had a managment position open. Two outside nurses applied. One had management experience and aresume that was a mile long! The other had no management experience, but sold me with her eagerness to learn . Sometimes having ...

4. New Aide with No Common Sense!

   greencatgreencat replied to jacesmom2's topic in LTC Directors

   I'm not sure what your policy is on probation periods, but it sounds like you've tried training this employee more than once. Transfers would be a big concern for me. You also need to consider your other employees. Is it worth someone getting hurt du...

5. LTC questions

   greencatgreencat replied to matt59's topic in Geriatric

   To help with our med passess, we changed some of the times. Some of our patients want their meds after meals.. so we bumped them to 0900. these types of changes can reduce the number of meds being given in a two hour time frame. It may seem like you'...